WJoanna Courtmans, born Joanna-Desideria Berchmans, was a Flemish writer.
WMaria Doolaeghe was a Flemish writer.
WVirginie (Marie) Loveling was a Flemish author of poetry, novels, essays and children's stories. She also wrote under the pseudonym W. E. C. Walter.
WEdmond Picard was a Belgian jurist and writer. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.
Frédéric Auguste Ferdinand Thomas de Reiffenberg was a baron, Belgian writer, historian-medievalist, and linguist. He was also a member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium, as well as a member of the Academic Senate and professor at the State University of Leuven.
WFanny Zampini Salazar was a Belgian-born Italian writer, editor, and lecturer. Salazar was the writer of a large number of works dealing with many issues connected with the progress made by Italy. On numerous occasions she lectured on such subjects in England and in the United States. She was also the editor of Rassegna Femminile.
WStijn Streuvels, born Franciscus (Frank) Petrus Maria Lateur, was a Belgian writer.
WFrans Jozef Peter van den Branden was a Belgian writer, most notable for co-authoring Biographisch woordenboek der Noord- en Zuidnederlandsche letterkunde with Johannes Godefridus Frederiks, a biographical dictionary of writers from the Netherlands and Southern Netherlands.
Antoon-Jozef Witteryck was a publisher and instructor from Belgium, one of the first Esperantists in this countryside.