The University of Ghent (Dutch: Universiteit Race ), in the past Rijksuniversiteit Race (RUG), is a Université of language Dutch E established with Ghent in Belgium.

Doctor Honoris Causa

• Woodrow Wilson (1919)

• Pieter Zeeman (1925)
• Erwin Schrödinger (1939)
• Bob Geldof (1986)
• Douwe Breimer (1990)
• Dirk Frimout (1992)
• Sir David Attenborough (1997)
• Frans van Vught (1999)
• Karel Van Miert (2000)
• Jan Hoet (2001)
• Jacques Rogge (2002)
• Kofi Annan (2003)
• William Peacock (2004)
• Desmond Tutu (2005)
• Robert Fisk (2006)

Alumni famous

• Leo Apostel, philosopher
• Leo Baekeland, chemist
• Wim Blockmans, historian
• Thierry Bogaert, founder of DevGen
• Marc Bossuyt, judge, professor
• Robert Cailliau, inventor of the World Wide Web
• Marc Coucke, cofounder of Omega Pharma
• Franz Cumont, historian
• Els De Bens, philologist specialist in the media.
• Paul Fredericq, historian
• Proud Walters, molecular biologist
• Dirk Frimout, physicist, astronaut
• Joseph Guislain, physiologist and psychiâtre
• Paul Jansen, pharmacologist
• Jacques-Joseph Haus, lawyer
• Philippe Herreweghe, doctor, psychiâtre, leader
• Crow Heymans, physiologist (Nobel Prize)
• François Laurent, lawyer
• Yves Leterme, statesman
• Julius Mac Leod, botanist
• Paul Mansion, mathematician
• Gerald Mortar, artistic director
• Peter Piot, doctor, assistant of the General secretary of the United Nations
• Henri Pirenne, historian
• Joseph Plate, physicist
• Adolphe Quetelet, statistician
• Godfried-Willem Raes, type-setter
• Jacques Rogge, doctor, president of the International Olympic committee
• Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, statesman
• Jozef Schell, molecular biologist
• Henry van of Velde, architect
• Marc Van Montagu, biotechnician
• Desired van Monckhoven, physicist
• Jules Van Praet, statesman
• Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium
• Etienne Vermeersch, philosopher
• August Vermeylen, author, historian and statesman
• Ovide Decroly, pedagog

External bond

• Official site