Borgerhout: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
Fgedeckers (talk | contribs) No edit summary Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit |
Fgedeckers (talk | contribs) No edit summary Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit |
||
Line 15: | Line 15: | ||
| subdivision_name3 = [[Antwerp]] |
| subdivision_name3 = [[Antwerp]] |
||
}} |
}} |
||
Borgerhout is the smallest [[districts of Antwerp|district]] of [[Antwerp]]. The district houses 45.948 inhabitants (1 january 2013). |
|||
== People from Borgerhout == |
== People from Borgerhout == |
Revision as of 15:23, 24 September 2017
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Dutch. (October 2012) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
Borgerhout | |
---|---|
Country | Belgium |
Region | Flanders |
Province | Antwerp |
Municipality | Antwerp |
Borgerhout is the smallest district of Antwerp. The district houses 45.948 inhabitants (1 january 2013).
People from Borgerhout
Born in Borgerhout
- Bachir Boumaaza (born 1980), known by his pseudonym Athene, gaming social activist and internet personality
- Guillaume Geefs (1805-1883), sculptor
- Floris Jespers (1889-1965), painter
- Nahima Lanjri (born 1968), politician
- Paul Lebeau (1908-1982), academic
- Sister Leontine (1923-2012), pioneer of palliative care[1]
- Milow (Jonathan Vandenbroeck) (born 1981), singer-songwriter
- André Nelis (1935-2012), sailor
- Joris Note (born 1949), writer
- Stan Ockers (1920-1956), cyclist
- Hugues C. Pernath (1931-1975), poet
- Maria Rosseels (1916-2005), journalist and actor
- Michel Seuphor (1901-1999), artist
- Robert Van Straelen (born 1934), economist
- Thomas Vinçotte (1850-1925), sculptor
- Eddy Wauters (born 1933), soccer player
(Former) inhabitants of Borgerhout
- Tom De Cock (born 1983), writer and radio–dj
- Saskia De Coster (born 1976), writer
- Bart Martens (born 1969), politician and a member of the SP.A
- Alfred Ost, (1884-1945), artist
- Anne Provoost (born 1964), writer
- Wouter Van Besien (born 1972), politician, chairman of the ecologist party Groen!
- Tom Van Laere (born 1974), musician
- Erik Van Looy (born 1962), film director
- Rik Van Steenbergen (1924-2003), racing cyclist
- Carl Verbraeken (born 1950), president of the Union of Belgian Composers
Gallery
-
Borgerhout: "districtshuis"
-
Town hall until 1890
-
Reuskens of Borgerhout
References
- ^ "Geschiedenis". www.gza.be. Retrieved 2016-08-28.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Borgerhout.
51°12′N 04°26′E / 51.200°N 4.433°E