Ghent University Admitted Student Profiles & Alumni

Corneille Heymans

Nobel Prize in Medicine (respiratory physiology)

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Maurice Maeterlinck

Nobel Prize in Literature

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Leo Baekeland

Chemist; invented Bakelite

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Robert Cailliau

Co-inventor of the World Wide Web

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Dirk Frimout

First Belgian astronaut

Engineer, PhD

1963, 1970

Peter Piot

Epidemiologist; roles in United Nations

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Jacques Rogge

Former President of the IOC

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Joseph Plateau

Physicist/mathematician; persistence of vision studies

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Guy Verhofstadt

Former Prime Minister of Belgium

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Jozef Schell

Molecular biologist, biotechnology pioneer

PhD?

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Marc Van Montagu

Pioneer in plant biotechnology

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Swen Vincke

Founder of video game developer Larian Studios (“Divinity” series, Baldur’s Gate 3)

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Marguerite Legot

First female government minister in Belgium

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Hélène Mallebrancke

First female civil engineer from Ghent; WWII Resistance

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Bertha De Vriese

First woman to enroll and graduate as a physician at Ghent

MD (or equivalent)

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Marc Coucke

Billionaire entrepreneur; founder of Omega Pharma

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Robert de Decker

Former Prime Minister of Belgium

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Dries Buytaert

Creator of Drupal (major content management software)

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Frank Verstraete

Quantum physicist; pioneered tensor networks in quantum many-body physics

PhD

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Vera Dua

Green Party politician; agricultural engineer and PhD

MS (Agri Science), PhD (Agri Science)

1975, 1986?