Editing Leuven (section)

===Lived in Leuven===
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*[[Jean Baptiste Abbeloos]], [[oriental studies|orientalist]] and rector of the University of Leuven (1836–1906)
*[[Pope Adrian VI|Adrian VI]], pope and theologian (1459–1523)
*[[Michel Baius]], theologian (1513–1589)
*[[Johannes Basius]], agent and advisor of [[William the Silent|William of Orange]] (1540–1596)
*[[Dirk Bouts]], painter (c. 1410/20–1475)
*[[Eustace Chapuys]], [[Imperial ambassadors to England|Imperial ambassador to England]] (1489–1556)
*[[Christian de Duve]], [[cytologist]] and [[biochemist]], recipient of the 1974 [[Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine]] (b. 1917)
*[[Desiderius Erasmus]], [[Humanism|humanist]] and theologian (1466–1536)
*[[Matthias Vanden Gheyn]], composer, [[organist]], [[carillonist]] (1721–1785)
*Joseph Heremans, professor, Immunologist, discovered IgA and coined the term ''Immunoglobulins '' (1927–1975)
*[[Cornelius Jansen]], father of [[Jansenism]] (1585–1638)
*[[Jean-Baptiste Janssens]], philosophy teacher, [[Superior General of the Society of Jesus]] (1889–1964)
*[[Abdul Qadeer Khan]], metallurgical engineer (1935-2021)
*[[Matheus de Layens]], architect (d.1483)
*[[Georges Lemaître]], astronomer (1894–1966), notable for proposing the [[Big Bang]] theory for the origin of the [[universe]], dubbed by him as "hypothesis of the [[primeval atom]]" or the "Cosmic Egg".
*[[Ron Lewis (basketball)|Ron Lewis]], basketball player (b. 1984)
*[[Margaret of Louvain]], servant, Catholic saint (1207–1225)
*[[Justus Lipsius]], [[philologist]] and humanist (1547–1606)
*[[Gerardus Mercator]], cartographer (1512–1594)
*[[Mícheál Ó Cléirigh]], Irish [[chronicler]] (1590–1643)
*[[Daniël Theys]], expressive artist and glassmaker (b. 1953)
*[[Jan Van der Roost]], composer (b. 1956)
*[[Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen]], painter (1728–1811) 
*[[Philip Verheyen]], surgeon and [[Rector (academia)|rector]] of the [[Old University of Leuven|University of Leuven]] (1648–1711)
*[[Andreas Vesalius]], anatomist, physician (1514–1564)
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