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
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
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