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Many towns and cities across the United States bear the names of their counterparts in Belgium: Liège, Charleroi, Ghent, Antwerp, Namur, Rosiere and Brussels. [citation needed] Wisconsin and Michigan have the United States's largest Belgian American settlement, located in portions of Brown, Kewaunee and Door counties adjacent to Green Bay.
This is a list of notable Belgian-Americans.However, the term Belgian-American is here used in a very liberal way: It includes not only Americans of Belgian descent and Belgians who took American citizenship (Belgian-Americans in the strictest sense), but also Americans born in Belgium, Belgians born in the USA, Belgians who lived for a considerable period of time in the United States and vice ...
A number of Belgian names are found clustered in the Green Bay area of northeastern Wisconsin. This reflects the high concentration of Belgian immigrants in that area. Ellis County, Kansas was the destination of a group of Volga Germans who moved there in the 1870s. Their settlements were mostly given the names of the villages they left behind ...
This category page lists notable citizens of the United States of Belgian ethnic or national origin or descent, whether partial or full. Wikimedia Commons has media related to American people of Belgian descent .
Pages in category "Belgian people of American descent" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
American people of Belgian descent (4 C, 85 P) C. Canadian people of Belgian descent (3 C, 28 P) Costa Rican people of Belgian descent (1 P) D. Dominican Republic ...
Rosemary Clooney (1928–2002), American jazz and Hollywood musicals singer and actress, descended from the Koch family of Alsace-Lorraine. [133] Olivia Colman (1974–), English actress, descended from Anne Foissin of Paris. [134] [135] Alice Cooper (real name Vincent Damon Furnier) (1948–), American heavy metal singer and born-again Christian.
Pages in category "American families of Belgian ancestry" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Delano family