Editing Mons, Belgium (section)

== People born in Mons ==
{{Main category|People from Mons, Belgium}}
[[File:Francois joseph fetis.jpg|thumb|Francois-Joseph Fetis]]

* [[Gilles Binchois]], composer (({{circa|1400}} – 1460); birth in Mons is uncertain)<ref name="Grove">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Fallows |first=David |author-link=David Fallows |year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Binchois [Binchoys], Gilles de Bins [Binch, Binche] dit |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.03094 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000003094 |access-date=4 March 2024 |archive-date=8 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220508081849/https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000003094 |url-status=live }} {{Grove Music subscription }}</ref>
* [[Guido de Bres]], theologian (1522 to 31 May 1567)
* [[Jacques du Broeucq]], painter and architect (16th century, birth in Mons is uncertain)
* [[François-Joseph Fétis]], musicologist and critic (1784–1871)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Ellis |first1=Katharine |author-link1=Katharine Ellis |last2=Wangermée |first2=Robert |year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Fétis, François-Joseph |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.60000200743 |isbn=9781561592630 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-60000200743 |access-date=4 March 2024 |archive-date=27 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127032836/https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-60000200743 |url-status=live }} {{Grove Music subscription }}</ref>
* [[Giuseppe Grisoni]], painter and sculptor (17th century)
* [[François-Philippe de Haussy]], first governor of the [[National Bank of Belgium]] (18th century)
* [[Orlando di Lasso]], composer (1532–1594)<ref name="Grove"/>
* [[Eugène Lafont]], [[Society of Jesus|S.J.]], [[Jesuit]] missionary to India, educator and leading figure in the field of science in that nation
* [[Émile Motte]], painter (19th century)
* [[Davide Moscardelli]], Italian Footballer
* [[Nicolas Neufchatel]], painter (16th century)
* [[Charles Plisnier]], Walloon writer, [[Prix Goncourt]] and [[Walloon movement|Walloon movement activist]]
* [[Jan Provoost]], painter (15th-16th century)
* [[Paul Émile de Puydt]], botanist, economist, and writer (19th century)
* [[Vincent Rousseau]], long-distance athlete
* [[Marie Vuillemin]], member of the [[Bonnot Gang]]
* [[Jean Yeuwain]], writer (16th - 17th century)