Ghent, Belgium
Ghent University Alumni
International Students
14
% of international students in the university
6800
Total International Students in the university
A relaxed lineup featuring Nobel laureates, inventors, leaders, artists, and grassroots pioneers:
Alumni Name |
Notable Achievement / Famous For |
Degree |
Graduating Year |
---|---|---|---|
Corneille Heymans |
Nobel Prize in Medicine (respiratory physiology) |
N/A |
N/A |
Maurice Maeterlinck |
Nobel Prize in Literature |
N/A |
N/A |
Leo Baekeland |
Chemist; invented Bakelite |
N/A |
N/A |
Robert Cailliau |
Co-inventor of the World Wide Web |
N/A |
N/A |
Dirk Frimout |
First Belgian astronaut |
Engineer, PhD |
1963, 1970 |
Peter Piot |
Epidemiologist; roles in United Nations |
N/A |
N/A |
Jacques Rogge |
Former President of the IOC |
N/A |
N/A |
Joseph Plateau |
Physicist/mathematician; persistence of vision studies |
N/A |
N/A |
Guy Verhofstadt |
Former Prime Minister of Belgium |
N/A |
N/A |
Jozef Schell |
Molecular biologist, biotechnology pioneer |
PhD? |
N/A |
Marc Van Montagu |
Pioneer in plant biotechnology |
N/A |
N/A |
Swen Vincke |
Founder of video game developer Larian Studios (“Divinity” series, Baldur’s Gate 3) |
N/A |
N/A |
Marguerite Legot |
First female government minister in Belgium |
N/A |
N/A |
Hélène Mallebrancke |
First female civil engineer from Ghent; WWII Resistance |
N/A |
N/A |
Bertha De Vriese |
First woman to enroll and graduate as a physician at Ghent |
MD (or equivalent) |
N/A |
Marc Coucke |
Billionaire entrepreneur; founder of Omega Pharma |
N/A |
N/A |
Robert de Decker |
Former Prime Minister of Belgium |
N/A |
N/A |
Dries Buytaert |
Creator of Drupal (major content management software) |
N/A |
N/A |
Frank Verstraete |
Quantum physicist; pioneered tensor networks in quantum many-body physics |
PhD |
N/A |
Vera Dua |
Green Party politician; agricultural engineer and PhD |
MS (Agri Science), PhD (Agri Science) |
1975, 1986? |
Students
Profiles that got Into Ghent University
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