Famous People From Zeelandic Flanders
- Lodewijk van den Berg, astronaut
- Willem Beukelszoon, inventor of gibbing
- Herman den Blijker, chef cook
- Richard Bukacki, professional cyclist
- Emile Buysse, author
- Honoré Colsen, politician
- Johan Hendrik van Dale, lexicographer
- Dick Dees, politician
- Jan Gerard van Deinse, politician
- Frans Dieleman, geographer
- Jan Eekhout, author
- Thea Fierens, politician
- Omer Gielliet, woodcutter and priest
- Jacques Hamelink, author and poet
- Willem van Hanegem, soccer player and coach
- Sergio Herman, chef cook and co-owner of restaurant "Oud Sluis"
- Ate de Jong, director
- Annabel Kosten, swimmer
- Jan Kuipers, author
- Gert de Meijer, musician
- José de Meijer, politician
- Guido Metsers, sculptor and painter
- Hugo Metsers II, actor
- Theo Middelkamp, professional cyclist
- Jacques de Milliano, physician and co-founder and chairman of Artsen zonder Grenzen in the Netherlands
- Marie Cécile Moerdijk, singer and author
- Jos de Mul, scholar philosophy
- Roelof Nelissen, politician and banker
- Jos de Putter, director
- George van Renesse, pianist and musical conductor
- Jan III van Renesse, strategist and leader of the Flemish troops during the de Guldensporenslag
- Sandra Roelofs, First lady of Georgia (spouse of president Micheil Saakasjvili)
- Franciscus Maria Amandus van Schaeck Mathon, Catholic statesman
- Paul Tingen, schrijver, journalist, musician
- Kees Torn, comedian
- Ad Verbrugge, philosopher
- Annelies Verstand-Bogaert, politician
- Herman Wijffels, Dutch administrator of the World Bank in Washington
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“Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)
“No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius—a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)
“If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.”
—John McCrae (1872–1918)