Belgian Australian

A Belgian Australian is an Australian citizen of Belgian descent or a Belgian-born person who resides in Australia.

Notable 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.^[1]
• William Lawrence Baillieu, Philanthropist, businessman and parliamentarian.^[2][3]
• Mathias Cormann, Liberal Party of Australia Senator from Western Australia since 2007.^[4]
• Wouter De Backer (Gotye). ARIA Award-winning singer-songwriter.
• Bradley Wiggins, Born in Belgium to an Australian father.
• Chantale Delrue. Visual artist. Inducted to membership of Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women.^[5][6]
• Nicolas Hyeronimus, (1808-1860) was a 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.^[7]
• Pierre Ryckmans, Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney.

See also

• Belgians
• French Australian
• Dutch Australian
• German Australian

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