Editing Ypres (section)

==Notable people==
*[[William of Ypres]], a commander of Flemish mercenaries in England who was reckoned among the more able of the military commanders fighting for [[Stephen of England|King Stephen of England]] in his [[The Anarchy|19-year civil war]] with the [[Empress Matilda]].
*[[Jacob Clemens non Papa]] (c. 1510–1556), [[Renaissance]] composer
*[[Georg Robin]] (1522–1595), architect
*[[Cornelius Jansen]] (1585–1638), bishop of Ypres and father of the [[Jansenism]] movement
*[[Jan Thomas van Ieperen]] (1617–1673), Baroque painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He was first active in Antwerp, where he worked in the workshop of Rubens, and later became court painter at the Habsburg court in Vienna.
*[[Clementine Lynch]] (1754– 1799), Abbess of the Ypres Benedictine convent during the French Revolution.
*[[Jules Malou]] (1810–1886), politician, [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] from 1871 to 1878 and in 1884
*{{Ill|Alphonse Vandenpeereboom|nl}} (1812–1884), politician and minister
*{{Ill|Albert Nyssens|nl}} (1855–1901) Minister of Industry and Labour, lawyer and university professor
*[[Julien Nyssens]] (1859–1910) engineer and builder of [[Zeebrugge]] harbour
*[[Albert Devèze]] (1881–1959), politician and minister
*[[Camille Durutte]] (1803–1881), music theorist
*[[Edward Phillips (cricketer, born 1883)|Edward Phillips]] (1883–1915), cricketer
*{{Ill|Paul Sobry|nl}} (1895–1954), university professor
*[[Simona Noorenbergh]] (1907–1990), nun, social worker, co-founder of [[Fane, Papua New Guinea|Fane]], Papua New Guinea
*[[John French, 1st Earl of Ypres]]
*[[Antoon Verschoot]] (1925–2017), chief bugler from 1954 to 2015 for the daily Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate
*[[Walter Fiers]] (1931–2019), molecular biologist
*[[Marc Vervenne]] (born 1949), dean emeritus of Leuven University
*Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie, founders of the speech technology company [[Lernout & Hauspie]]
*[[Henk Lauwers]] (born 1956), classical baritone singer
*[[Catherine Verfaillie]] (born 1957), MD and stem cell pioneer
*[[Nicholas Lens]] (born 1957), opera composer
*[[Edouard Vermeulen]] (born 1957), fashion designer
*[[Renaat Landuyt]] (born 1959), politician and Belgian minister
*[[Erik Vermeulen]] (born 1959), jazz pianist
*[[David Saelens]] (born 1975), racing driver
*[[Isaac Delahaye]] (born 1982), lead guitarist of [[Epica (band)|Epica]]
*[[Emma Meesseman]] (born 1993), professional basketball player