The Most Famous
ASTRONAUTS from Belgium
This page contains a list of the greatest Belgian Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 556 Astronauts, 2 of which were born in Belgium. This makes Belgium the birth place of the 18th most number of Astronauts behind Bulgaria, and Vietnam.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Belgian Astronauts of all time. This list of famous Belgian Astronauts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Dirk Frimout (b. 1941)
With an HPI of 52.66, Dirk Frimout is the most famous Belgian Astronaut. His biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.
Dirk Dries David Damiaan, Viscount Frimout (born 21 March 1941 in Poperinge, Belgium) is an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency. He flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-45 as a payload specialist, making him the first Belgian in space.
2. Frank De Winne (b. 1961)
With an HPI of 47.32, Frank De Winne is the 2nd most famous Belgian Astronaut. His biography has been translated into 31 different languages.
Frank, Viscount De Winne (born 25 April 1961, in Ledeberg, Belgium) is a Belgian Air Component officer and an ESA astronaut. He is Belgium's second person in space (after Dirk Frimout). He was the first ESA astronaut to command a space mission when he served as commander of ISS Expedition 21. ESA astronaut de Winne serves currently as Head of the European Astronaut Centre of the European Space Agency in Cologne/Germany (Köln).
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Belgian astronauts born between 1941 and 1961. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Belgian astronauts include Dirk Frimout, and Frank De Winne.
