Famous Inhabitants
- Jancko Douwama, a Frisian nobleman who fought to free Friesland from Saxon rule, was imprisoned by the Emperor Charles V in Vilvoorde castle from 1523 until his death in 1533
- Johann Esch and Heinrich Voes (d. 1523), shortly before becoming the first Lutherans executed by the Roman Catholic Church, were imprisoned in Vilvoorde in 1523
- William Tyndale (1494–1536), English scholar and Bible translator, was strangled and burnt in Vilvoorde, on October 6, 1536, the traditional date, after having been charged with heresy
- Jean-François Portaels, orientalist painter (1818–1895)
- Jean-Luc Dehaene (b. 1940), former Belgian Prime Minister and vice-chair of the Convention on the Future of Europe
- Danny Devos (b. 1959), artist working in body art and performance art
- Francis Heylighen (b. 1960), scientist researching complex systems
- Pascal Duquenne (b. 1970), actor
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or inhabitants:
“Marrying any man is risky. Marrying a famous man is kissing catastrophe.”
—John Colton (1886–1946)
“While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognita to them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)