Midnight in Belgium

— CASTING — Stromae ~ singer-songwriter Marie Gillain ~ actress Arno Hintjens ~ singer-songwriter Pierre Paul Rubens ~ painter Bouli Lanners ~ actor-director Virginie Efira ~ actress Natacha Régnier ~ actress André Bialek ~ musician Sandra Kim ~ singer Amélie Nothomb ~ writer Azrael - peyo ~ author-cartoonist Claude Semal ~ actor-singer-songwriter Laurence Warin ~ actress Jan Bucquoy ~ visual artist-director Wim Delvoye ~ plastic artist Bill - Jean Roba ~ author-cartoonist Snowy - Hergé ~ author-cartoonist Rantanplan - morris ~ author-cartoonist Jr semal ~ schoolboy Intellectual Smurf - peyo ~ author-cartoonist Prankster Smurf - peyo ~ author-cartoonist Marcel Broodthaers ~ visual artist George Simenon ~ writer Cécile de France ~ actress Philippe Catherine ~ composer-guitarist Jacques Brel ~ singer-songwriter Salvatore Adamo ~ singer-songwriter Jean-Claude Van Damme ~ actor Toots Thielemans ~ composer-harmonica player Olivier Gourmet ~ actor Benoît Poelvoorde ~ actor Philippe Geluck ~ author-cartoonist-TV & radio host Yolande Moreau ~ director-actress Marouane Fellaini ~ footballer René magritte ~ painter Manneken-Pis ~ symbol of independence of mind The yellow mark - Edgar P. Jacobs ~ author-designer Gerardus Mercator ~ mathematician-geographer Jean-Michel Folon ~ watercolorist-sculptor Goofing Smurf - peyo ~ cartoonist Marsupilamy - André Franquin ~ author-cartoonist Smurfette - peyo ~ author-cartoonist Adolphe Sax ~ musical instrument maker Noa Moon ~ singer-songwriter Erika Cool ~ porn actress Stany Falcone ~ porn actor Elvis Pompilio ~ milliner-hatter Didier Odieu ~ singer-songwriter Bruce Ellison ~ actor-singer David Linx ~ singer-songwriter Tom Barman ~ singer-songwriter-director Marie Daulne ~ singer-songwriter BJ Scott ~ singer-songwriter Fabrizio Rongione ~ actor Luc Dardenne ~ director-producer Jean-Pierre Dardenne ~ director-producer Jérémie Renier ~ actor Émilie Dequenne ~ actress Raymond Devos ~ humorist Kim Clijsters ~ tenniswoman Stéphane De Groodt ~ actor-TV host-author Marc Wilmots ~ footballer-coach Enzo Scifo ~ footballer Maurane ~ singer Tintin - Hergé ~ author-cartoonist Justine Henin ~ tenniswoman Archibald Haddock - Hergé ~ author-cartoonist Sister Smile ~ nun-singer Le Grand Jojo ~ singer-songwriter Sister Emmanuelle ~ nun Gille de Binche ~ folk-revolutionary character Will Tura ~ singer-guitarist Viktor Lazlo ~ singer-actress-novelist Marc A. Huyghens ~ singer-songwriter Marc Moulin ~ singer-songwriter-host-columnist Lara Fabian ~ singer-songwriter Eddy Wally ~ singer Fabienne Vande Meerssche ~ journalist-presenter Jacques-Ivan Duchesne ~ singer-songwriter Stéphane Steeman ~ humorist Picha ~ cartoonist-director Romelu Lukaku ~ footballer Joëlle Scoriels ~ TV host Pierre Alechinsky ~ engraver-painter Guy Peellaert ~ image maker James Ensor ~ painter Jan Fabre ~ visual artist-choreographer-director Luc Tuymans ~ painter Jacques Bredael ~ journalist-presenter Jules Bordet ~ immunologist-microbiologist-Nobel Prize Serge Reding ~ weightlifter The cat - Philippe Geluck ~ author-cartoonist ... Front 242 ~ music group Edgard Gunzig ~ physicist-cosmologist Benni b ~ rapper Lucky Luke - morris ~ cartoonist Lambic - Willy Vandersteen ~ author-cartoonist Perry Rose ~ singer-songwriter Patrick Haemers ~ criminal Pascal Duquenne ~ actor Michèle Anne De Mey ~ dancer-choreographer Jeff Bodart ~ singer-songwriter Panamarenko ~ plastic artist-inventor Gilles Verlant ~ journalist-host Daan ~ singer-songwriter-actor Zorglub - André Franquin ~ author-cartoonist Zénobe Gramme ~ electrician-inventor Ernest Solvay ~ chemist-industrial-patron Ozark Henry ~ singer-songwriter Gerard Mortier ~ opera director Gabrielle Petit ~ resistant Chantal Akerman ~ director Virginie Hocq ~ actress-humorist Ilya Prigogine ~ physicist-chemist-Nobel Prize Christian de duve ~ doctor-biochemist-Nobel Prize Maurice Grevisse ~ grammarian Tatayet - Michel Dejeneffe ~ puppeteer-ventriloquist Marsupilami - André Franquin ~ author-cartoonist Raymond Goethals ~ football coach Danny Klein ~ singer Frédéric Jannin ~ cartoonist-humorist-musician Stefan Liberski ~ director-writer-humorist Julos Beaucarne ~ storyteller-poet-writer-singer Puggy ~ music group Jacques Duvall ~ singer-songwriter Khadja Nin ~ singer Hadja Lahbib ~ director-journalist-TV presenter Victor Horta ~ architect Félicien Rops ~ painter-engraver Lou Deprijck ~ singer-songwriter-producer Plastic Bertrand ~ singer Urbanus ~ singer-actor Eugène Ysaÿe ~ violinist-composer-conductor Eddy Merckx ~ cyclist Jan Van Eyck ~ painter Jaco Van Dormael ~ director Alain Platel ~ choreographer-director Léon Spilliaert ~ painter Toone - José Géal ~ puppeteer Jacky Ickx ~ racing driver Malvira - Patrick Chaboud ~ puppeteer Lio ~ pop singer Axel Red ~ pop singer Noël Godin ~ anarcho-humorous entarteur-agitator Pipou ~ percussionist-composer José van Dam ~ baritone-bass singer Gérard Corbiau ~ director Francois Damiens ~ actor Annie Cordy ~ singer Maurice Carême ~ writer-poet Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker ~ dancer-choreographer Machiavelli ~ rock music group Paul Delvaux ~ painter Roberto ~ rocker Maurice Maeterlinck ~ Nobel Prize Writer Pascal Bernier ~ plastic artist Ann Demeulemeester ~ stylist Olivier Strelli ~ stylist Dries van Noten ~ stylist Pierre Rapsat ~ singer-songwriter Jo Dekmine ~ theater director Jean-Luc Fonck ~ singer-poet-humorist Michel de Ghelderode ~ author-chronicler-letter-writer François Schuiten ~ designer-scenographer André Grétry ~ composer Henri Pousseur ~ composer Pierre Marcolini ~ chocolate maker Ghinzu ~ music group Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui ~ dancer-choreographer Dirk Frimout ~ astronaut ​Les Belges célèbres manquant dans cette fresque préfèrent manger des frites à midi et sont donc absent. The famous Belgians missing in this fresco prefer to eat belgian fries at midday and are therefore absent.