List of West European Jews - Belgium

Belgium

  • Chantal Akerman, director-screenwriter
  • Saul Akkemay, publicist-journalist
  • Zora Arkus-Duntov, father of the Chevrolet Corvette (Belgian-born)
  • Gérard Blitz, Olympic water polo medallist, co-founder of Club Med
  • Leopold Flam, philosopher
  • Louis Franck, politician
  • Diane von Furstenberg, fashion designer
  • Jean Gol, politician
  • Nico Gunzburg, professor
  • Camille Gutt, finance minister; head of the International Monetary Fund
  • Paul Hymans, liberal leader; president of the League of Nations
  • René Kalisky, writer
  • George Koltanowski, chess player
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss, anthropologist (Belgian-born; atheist of Jewish descent)
  • Alfred Lowenstein, financier (Jewish mother)
  • Ernest Mandel, marxist theorist
  • Bob Mendes, writer (Jewish father)
  • Ralph Miliband, political scientist
  • Chaim Perelman, philosopher (Polish-born)
  • Ilya Prigogine, chemist (Russian-born), Nobel Prize (1977)
  • Henry Spira, animal rights activist
  • Elias M. Stein, mathematician (Belgian-born)
  • Marc Schlomo Jizchak Stern, Orthodox rabbi, cantor (de)
  • Gilbert Stork, chemist
  • Olivier Strelli, fashion designer
  • Samy Szlingerbaum, film director, writer, and actor
  • Guy Lee Thys, film director (Jewish mother)
  • Raymond van het Groenewoud, singer-songwriter (Jewish mother)
  • Sandra Wasserman, tennis player

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