Editing Walloons (section)

=== Politics and military ===
[[File:Godfroy.jpg|thumb|140px|Godfrey of Bouillon, 1330]]
[[File:Di Rupo cropped.jpg|thumb|140px|Elio Di Rupo, 2012]]
[[File:Peter Minuit (Minnewit) old portrait.jpg|thumb|140px|Peter Minuit]]
* [[Godfrey of Bouillon|Godfroid de Bouillon]] (ca.1060–1100), leader of the [[First Crusade]] and first European [[Kingdom of Jerusalem|King of Jerusalem]].<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Godfrey of Bouillon |volume= 12 |last= Barker |first= Ernest |author-link= Ernest Barker | pages = 172&ndash;173 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt]] (1733–1798) Walloon [[Habsburg monarchy|Habsburg]] soldier in the [[Seven Years' War]].<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Clerfayt, François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of |volume= 6 | page = 496 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Léon Degrelle]] (1906–1994), Belgian Rexist politician, leader of Waffen SS Walloon contingent
* [[Elio Di Rupo]], (born 1951) the first Belgian Prime Minister of non-Belgian descent
* [[Jessé de Forest]], (1576–1624) Walloon settler, colonised [[New Netherland]] and [[New York City]]
* [[Charles Michel]] (born 1975), prime minister of Belgium (2014–2019) and president of the European Council since 2019
* [[Peter Minuit|Pierre Minuit]] (1580–1638), purchased the island of Manhattan from the Native Americans for 60 guilders and founded what would become [[New York City]]
* [[André Renard]] (1911–1962), syndicalist, leader of the longest general strike in Belgium
* [[Jean Rey (politician)|Jean Rey]] (1902–1983), second President of the European Commission
* [[Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly]] (1559–1632), Catholic League commander in the Thirty Years' War.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Tilly, Johann Tzerclaes, Count of |volume= 26 | pages = 976&ndash;977 |short= 1}}</ref>