
Paul-Marie Boulanger is a Belgian sociologist active in the study of sustainable development and consumption.

François Houtart was a Belgian marxist sociologist and Catholic priest.

Paul Jorion is by training an anthropologist, sociologist with a special interest in the cognitive sciences. He has also written seven books on capitalist economics.

Victor Martin was a Belgian academic sociologist, known for his involvement with the Belgian Resistance during World War II.

Armand Mattelart is a Belgian sociologist and well known as a Leftist French scholar. His work deals with media, culture and communication, specially in their historical and international dimensions.

Gautier Pirotte is a Belgian sociologist, PhD holder, and professor of socio-anthropology at the University of Liège. His research focuses on development cooperation, international solidarity, and theories and organizations of civil society.

Geoffrey Pleyers is an F.R.S.–FNRS researcher and professor of sociology at Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium., and a researcher at the Collège d'Etudes Mondiales (Paris) where he chairs the program "Social Movements in the Global Age". He is the author of the book "Alter-Globalization. Becoming Actors in the Global Age" .

Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet FRSFor FRSE was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist who founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences. His name is sometimes spelled with an accent as Quételet.

Marc Tarabella is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the French Community of Belgium with the Parti Socialiste, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.