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Belgian Australians are Australian citizens of Belgian ancestry or Belgian-born people who reside in Australia.

Notable Belgian Australians

This is a list of notable Belgian Australians and their descendants.

  • Ted Baillieu, Liberal Party of Australia Premier of Victoria (2010-2013) and Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Electoral district of Hawthorn since 1999
  • William Lawrence Baillieu, philanthropist, businessman and parliamentarian
  • Mathias Cormann, Liberal Senator for Western Australia since 2007 and Australian Minister for Finance since 2013
  • Wouter De Backer (Gotye), ARIA Award-winning singer-songwriter.
  • Chantale Delrue, visual artist, member of Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women
  • Nicolas Hyeronimus (1808-1860), pioneering innkeeper, merchant, pastoralist and politician in colonial New South Wales, Australia; member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as inaugural member for the electoral district of Wellington
  • Karel Axel Lodewycks, author and Chief Librarian of the Melbourne University Library
  • Pierre Ryckmans, Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney
  • Bradley Wiggins, born in Belgium to an Australian father
  • Michael Lakhdar
  • Waleed Ali
  • Dave Moorkens (Belgian waffle-ologoist)
  • References

    Belgian Australians Wikipedia