Famous Inhabitants
Further information: Category:People from Turnhout- Philippus Jacobus Brepols, founder of Brepols
- Pieter Corbeels, printer and a leader of the Boerenkrijg
- Filip Daems, footballer (b. 1978)
- Bart Dockx, professional cyclist for UCI ProTeam Predictor-Lotto
- Didier de Chaffoy de Courcelles (b. 1953), scientist and businessman
- François du Four, printer and mayor.
- Paul Geerts, comics artist, successor of Willy Vandersteen as artist and author for the Spike and Suzy comics (b. 1937)
- Joris Hendrickx, 2009 Sidecarcross world champion
- Constant Janssen, father of Paul Janssen and founder of the N.V. Producten Richter.
- Paul Janssen, pharmacologist, founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica (1926-2003)
- Flor Joosen (b. Turnhout, 1952) businessman, well known for his caviar business.
- Micha Marah, singer, Eurovision representant in 1979 (b. 1953)
- Aloïs Michielsen, born in Turnhout, chairman of the board and former CEO of Solvay
- Jozef Simons, writer (Oelegem 1888 - Turnhout 1948)
- Lieve Slegers, long-distance runner (b. 1965)
- Jan Renier Snieders, physician and writer (1812-1888)
- Paul Stoffels, co-founder of Tibotec and Virco
- Jozef van Hoeck, writer (Turnhout 1922- Jette 1996)
- Cornelis Verdonck, composer of the late Renaissance (1563-1625)
- Chika Unigwe, writer
- Hans Van Alphen, decathlete, 4th place in the London 2012 Olympics.
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