Editing Turnhout (section)

==Notable residents==
{{Further|:Category:People from Turnhout}}
[[File:Filip Daems.jpg|140px|thumb|Filip Daems]]
[[File:2018 EC Loena Hendrickx 2018-01-20 21-17-05 (4).jpg|140px|thumb|Loena Hendrickx]]
[[File:Beerse Statue Paul Janssen 070225.JPG|140px|thumb|Paul Janssen]]
* [[Marc de Bonte]], kickboxer (born 1990)
* [[Philippus Jacobus Brepols]], founder of [[Brepols]] (1778–1845) 
* [[Sven Breugelmans]], motocross world champion (born 1979)
* [[Pieter Corbeels]], printer and a leader of the ''Boerenkrijg'' (1755–1799)
* [[Filip Daems]], footballer (born 1978)
* [[Koen De Bouw]], actor (born 1964)
* [[Bart Dockx]], professional cyclist for [[UCI ProTeam]] [[Predictor-Lotto]] (born 1981)
* [[Didier de Chaffoy de Courcelles]], scientist and businessman (born 1952)
* [[François du Four]], printer and mayor (1871–1945)
* [[Paul Geerts]], comics artist, successor of [[Willy Vandersteen]] as artist and author for the [[Spike and Suzy]] comics (born 1937)
* [[Gaspar Gevartius]], jurisconsult of Antwerp and philologist (1593–1666)
* [[Joris Hendrickx]], [[2009 Sidecarcross world championship|2009 Sidecarcross world champion]] (born 1983)
* [[Loena Hendrickx]], figure skater (born 1999)
* [[Marcel Hendrickx]], politician and former Mayor (1935–2020)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/detail_marcel-hendrickx-l-ancien-bourgmestre-de-turnhout-est-decede-a-l-age-de-85-ans?id=10618204|title=Marcel Hendrickx, l'ancien bourgmestre de Turnhout est décédé à l'âge de 85 ans|date=27 October 2020|work=RTBF|language=French}}</ref>
* [[Constant Janssen]], father of Paul Janssen and founder of the ''N.V. Producten Richter'' (1895–1970)
* [[Paul Janssen]], pharmacologist, founder of [[Janssen Pharmaceutica]] (1926–2003)
* [[Flor Joosen]], businessman, well known for his [[caviar]] business (born 1952) 
* [[Micha Marah]], singer, Eurovision representative in 1979 (born 1953)
* [[Aloïs Michielsen]], chairman of the board and former CEO of [[Solvay (company)|Solvay]] (born 1942)
* Cornelis Oomius, Calvinist preacher (c. 1576–1653), father of Calvinist theologian [[Simon Oomius]] (1630–1706)<ref>{{cite web |title=Cornelis Simonsz. Oomius |url=http://www.vondel.humanities.uva.nl/ecartico/persons/50778 |publisher=University of Amsterdam |access-date=11 December 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20211211203306/http://www.vondel.humanities.uva.nl/ecartico/persons/50778 |archive-date=11 December 2021 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Greet Minnen]], tennis player (born 1997)
* [[Hendrik Peeters]], sculptor (1815–1869)
* [[Jozef Simons]], writer (1888–1948)
* [[Lieve Slegers]], long-distance runner (born 1965)
* [[Jan Renier Snieders]], physician and writer (1812–1888)
* [[Paul Stoffels]], co-founder of [[Tibotec]] and [[Virco]] (born 1962)
* [[Chika Unigwe]], writer (born 1974)
* [[Hans Van Alphen]], decathlete, 4th place in the [[London 2012 Olympics]] (born 1982)
* Maijcken Van Bracht, wife of [[Jan van de Velde the Elder]] and mother of [[Jan van de Velde]] (1620–1662)<ref>{{cite web |title=Maijcken van Bracht |url=http://www.vondel.humanities.uva.nl/ecartico/persons/11172 |publisher=University of Amsterdam |access-date=11 December 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20211211172114/http://www.vondel.humanities.uva.nl/ecartico/persons/11172 |archive-date=11 December 2021 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Albert Van Dyck]], painter (1902–1951)
* [[Geert van Turnhout]], composer (c. 1520–1580)
* [[Jan van Turnhout]], composer (c. 1545–1618)
* [[Cornelis Verdonck]], composer of the late [[Renaissance]] (1563–1625)
* [[Frans Vermeyen]], footballer (born 1943)