WJonkheer Henri Ghislain Joseph Marie Hyacinthe de Brouckère was a Belgian nobleman and liberal politician. Born in Bruges, he was a magistrate, and a professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. His brother Charles was mayor of Brussels.
WConstant Guillaume Van Crombrugghe was a Flemish canon and founder of several religious orders: Josephites or Fathers Jozefieten (1817) and Subsidiaries of the Sisters of Mary and Joseph. The latter congregation was founded in 1838 split in the Ladies of Mary and the Sisters of St. Jozef of Jozefienen. He also founded The Daughters of Mary and Joseph which founded Coloma Convent Girl's School in 1869 and is still attended by students in Croydon, England.
WJonkheer Charles Joseph Marie Ghislain de Brouckère was a Belgian nobleman and liberal politician.
WÉtienne Constantin, Baron de Gerlache was a lawyer and politician in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, and later became in 1831 the first Prime Minister of the newly founded Belgian state.
WDésiré de Haerne was a Catholic priest, who was one of the signers of the Belgian constitution. He also founded the St John's Catholic School for the Deaf, which today is located in Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, and he was for a time director of the Royal Institution for Deaf in Brussels, Belgium.
WFerdinand de Meeûs (1798–1861) was a Belgian banker, businessman and politician.
WLouis de Potter, was a Belgian journalist, revolutionary, politician and writer. Out of the more than 100 books and pamphlets, one of the most notable works was his famous Letter to my Fellow Citizens in which he promoted democracy, universal electoral rights and the unity among Belgian liberals and Catholics. As one of the heroes of the Belgian Revolution, he proclaimed the independence of Belgium from the Netherlands, and inaugurated the first Belgian parliamentary assembly, on behalf of the outgoing Belgian provisional government.
WHenri-Eugene-Marie Defacqz was a Belgian liberal politician and a magistrate.
WPaul Devaux was a liberal Belgian politician, deeply involved in the unionist movement.
WAlexandre Joseph Célestin Gendebien was a lawyer in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and later Belgium, where he also became minister of Justice.
WCount Charles Aimé Joseph Le Hon was a Belgian liberal politician.
WJean Louis Joseph Lebeau was a Belgian liberal statesman, the Prime Minister of Belgium on two occasions.
WCharles Augustin Baron Liedts was a Belgian liberal politician.
WPhilippe Félix Balthasar Otto Ghislain, Count de Merode, known as Félix de Merode, was a Belgian politician.
WCharles Gérard Emmanuel Metz was a Luxembourgian politician, journalist, and lawyer. He was a prominent pro-Belgian in the Belgian Revolution, serving in the Belgian national legislature, before entering the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg, of which he was the first President, from 1848 to 1853.
WJean-Baptiste, Baron Nothomb was a Belgian statesman and diplomat, who served as the Prime Minister of Belgium from 1841 to 1845.
WJoseph-Jean Raikem or Jean-Joseph Raikem was a Roman Catholic Belgian politician, member of the National Congress of Belgium, president of the Chamber of Representatives, magistrate and historian.
WCount François Xavier Jean-Marie de Robiano was a Belgian politician and art collector. He was the first governor of the province of Antwerp after the independence of Belgium in 1830.
WCharles Latour Rogier was a Belgian liberal statesman and a leader in the Belgian Revolution of 1830. He became Prime Minister of Belgium on two occasions: from 1847 to 1852, and again from 1857 to 1868.
WNicolas-Jean Rouppe was a Belgian liberal politician. He was the first burgomaster of Brussels after the Belgian independence in 1830.
WCharles-Mathias Simons was a Luxembourg politician and jurist. He was the third Prime Minister of Luxembourg, serving for seven years, from 1853 until 1860.
WGoswin Joseph Augustin, Baron de Stassart was a Dutch-Belgian politician.
WÉrasme-Louis, Baron Surlet de Chokier, born in Liège, was a Belgian politician and, before the accession of Leopold I to the Belgian throne, was the first Regent of Belgium.
WBarthélemy Théodore, Count de Theux de Meylandt was a Belgian Roman Catholic politician who served as Prime Minister of Belgium three times. His family de Theux de Meylandt et Montjardin originated in Theux in 1341.
WJean Ignace Thienpont (1774–1863) was a member of the National Congress of Belgium and of the Chamber of Representatives for the constituency of Oudenaarde.
WJean-Sylvain Van de Weyer was a Belgian politician who served as the Belgian Minister at the Court of St. James's, effectively the ambassador to the United Kingdom, and briefly, as the Prime Minister of Belgium, all under King Leopold I.
WViscount Charles Ghislain Guillaume Vilain XIIII was a Belgian politician, serving as governor of East Flanders, Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium.
WGuillaume-Hippolyte Van Volxem was a Belgian lawyer and liberal politician.