Important persons in your country.

Alain De Vos · 2026-03-19T15:44:49+0000

Here Belgium.
And by coincidence 3 priests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Damien

Against social injustice,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Daens

Solving Einsteins-equations , expansion of universe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lemaître

Which are yours in your country ?

Beastie · 2026-03-19T15:51:34+0000

You forgot Antoine-Joseph (Adolphe) Sax. Music would be poorer without the saxophone.

Maybe Jean-Claude Van Damme deserves an honorable mention too.

bgavin · 2026-03-19T15:52:58+0000

Riley Gaines comes to mind.

AlfredoLlaquet · 2026-03-19T16:02:21+0000

Alex Palou

The Official Site of IndyCar News, Drivers, Schedule & Shop | IndyCar.com

www.indycar.com

ROSALÍA : LUX

www.rosalia.com

Ferran Adrià - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Lamine Yamal - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Marc Márquez - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Felipe VI - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Carlos Alcaraz - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

SirDice · 2026-03-19T16:38:23+0000

Currently living, or can they be dead? Because there's a really, really long list of important Dutch scientists and explorers.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (microscope) for example.
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (Erasmus of Rotterdam)
Abel Tasman
Peter Stuyvesant

Johannes de Graaff (Important for the history of the USA, see the first salute)

Or a bit more modern
Lou Ottens Inventor of the cassette tape, also helped with the development of the compact disc.

Alain De Vos · 2026-03-19T16:47:47+0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Huygens

SirDice · 2026-03-19T16:52:29+0000

Yeah, I can probably list a hundred important Dutch figures.

blackbird9 · 2026-03-19T17:17:08+0000

Just a few off the top of my head.

George Boole - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Charles Babbage - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Ada Lovelace - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Alan Turing - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Tommy Flowers - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Maurice Wilkes - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Clive Sinclair - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Sophie Wilson - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Steve Furber - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Tim Berners-Lee - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

mer · 2026-03-19T17:20:22+0000

"In" or "from"?
If "in" (living or dead), Nikola Tesla, Werner Von Braunn and the rest of the Manhattan Project.
And if living? My wife. Maybe not important on a Global scale but pretty darn important to em

Alain De Vos · 2026-03-19T17:31:18+0000

Wife , tried , did my best , never found. Never will. But hey , can be important on the larger scale of things.
About Manhatten,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer
Very nice movie.

AlfredoLlaquet · 2026-03-19T17:40:04+0000

If I were to list important historical figures from Spain and the earlier Iberian Peninsula... Well, I'll list my favorite one:

Seneca the Younger - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Previously I listed some living world-renowned Spaniards from the top of my ignorance.

Alain De Vos · 2026-03-19T17:45:00+0000

Living with "NERO", not the easiest of persons.

MG · 2026-03-19T17:45:55+0000

Mark Rutte. NATO frontman. I wish I was French now. Macron is a boss.
(Damn myself. I said UN frontman)

SirDice · 2026-03-19T17:48:05+0000

MG said:
Mark Rutte. UN frontman.

NATO, not UN.

MG · 2026-03-19T17:51:27+0000

SirDice said:
NATO, not UN.

Yeah, I had a double scotch.

eternal_noob · 2026-03-19T17:51:55+0000

I am the most important person in my country. Without me, I wouldn't even be able to post anything here.

Alain De Vos · 2026-03-19T18:05:21+0000

This is philosophical one, I must retain.

fahrenheit · 2026-03-19T18:11:09+0000

Okay, from the top of my head:

Vasco da Gama (Naval route to India)
Fernando Magalhães (Ferdinand Magellan, first circunavigation of world, shared with Juan Sebastián Elcano)
Dom Afonso Henriques (First King of Portugal)
Salgueiro Maia (Carnation revolution figure)
António Guterres (Current UN General Secretary)
José Saramago (Literature Nobel Prize)

Alain De Vos · 2026-03-19T18:33:26+0000

Long way
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Descobrimentos_e_explorações_portuguesesV2.png

elephant · 2026-03-19T18:52:50+0000

SirDice said:
Yeah, I can probably list a hundred important Dutch figures.

Is DutchDaemon on the list?

Alain De Vos · 2026-03-19T19:48:45+0000

Crivens not ? But then these dutchman they drink "botermelk" the morning.

SirDice · 2026-03-19T21:41:29+0000

MG said:
I had a double scotch.

Cheers. That said, Eelco van Kleffens was the UN president in 1954. Thought we had more, but there's only ever been one. Accidentally learned some Dutch history today

Alain De Vos said:
Crivens not ?

Crivens isn't Dutch.

Alain De Vos said:
But then these dutchman they drink "botermelk" the morning.

I resolutely dislike karnemelk, it is revolting.

Anyway, another important Dutch figure, certainly shaped how the Netherlands looks today, Cornelis Lely.

elephant · 2026-03-19T23:35:14+0000

SirDice said:
I resolutely dislike karnemelk, it is revolting.

It's good for some things like buttermilk biscuits or buttermilk pancakes. The Belgians probably make buttermilk waffles.

Here's a very interesting historical figure - for Mexico and Texas.

Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón, often known as Santa Anna.

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