Belgian Australians

Belgian Australians (Dutch: Belgische Australiërs) (French: Australiens Belges) are Australian citizens of Belgian ancestry or Belgian-born people who reside in Australia.

Belgian Australians

This is a list of notable Belgian Australians and their descendants.

• Ted Baillieu, Liberal Party of Australia Premier of Victoria (2010–2013) and Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Electoral district of Hawthorn since 1999
• William Baillieu, philanthropist, businessman and parliamentarian
• Mathias Cormann, Secretary General, OECD. Former Liberal Senator for Western Australia and Australian Minister for Finance between 2013 and 2020.
• Wouter De Backer (Gotye), ARIA Award-winning singer-songwriter.
• Chantale Delrue, visual artist, member of Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women
• Nicolas Hyeronimus (1808–1860), pioneering innkeeper, merchant, pastoralist and politician in colonial New South Wales, Australia; member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as inaugural member for the electoral district of Wellington
• Karel Axel Lodewycks, author and Chief Librarian of the Melbourne University Library
• Pierre Ryckmans, Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney
• Bradley Wiggins, born in Belgium to an Australian father

See also

• Belgians
• French Australians
• Dutch Australians
• German Australians
• European Australians

References

Further reading

• K.A.Lodewycks (1988), "Belgians", in James Jupp(ed.) (1988), The Australian People. An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins, North Ryde, NSW, Angus and Robertson, Pages 284–285. ISBN 0-207-15427-9
• K.A.Lodewycks (1988), The Belgians in Australia, Bowen Hills, Queensland, Boolarong Publications. ISBN 0-86439-057-2
• K.A.Lodewycks (2001), "Belgians", in James Jupp (ed.) (2001), The Australian People. An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins, Revised edition, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, Pages 185–186. ISBN 0-521-80789-1

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