Belgian blind people

Kurt Van Raefelghem is a Paralympian athlete from Belgium competing mainly in category P13 pentathlon events.

Marianne Van Brussel is a Paralympian athlete from Belgium competing mainly in category F10-11 throwing events.
Marianne competed in the 1996 Summer Paralympics in all three throws winning a gold medal in the F10-11 javelin competition.

Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf ɑ̃twan fɛʁdinɑ̃ plato]; 14 October 1801 – 15 September 1883) was a Belgian physicist and mathematician. He was one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image. To do this, he used counterrotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regularly spaced slits in the other. He called this device of 1832 the phenakistiscope.