List of eponymous roads in Brussels

The following is a partial list of eponymous roads in Brussels – that is, roads named after people – with notes on the link between the road and the person.

Roads and streets

French name	Municipality	Named after	Comments	Coordinates
		Albert I of Belgium	King of the Belgians, from 1909 until his death in 1934.	{{coord\|region:BE-BRU
Boulevard Anspach	City of Brussels	Jules Anspach	Mayor of the City of Brussels, from 1863 until his death in 1879.
Rue Belliard	City of Brussels	Augustin Daniel Belliard	French general.
	City of Brussels	Wouter van der Noot	Murderd his cousin Joris in 1304 and was possibly killed in revenge by his blood relatives in 1305, on the steps of the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula.
		Georges Brugmann	Belgian financier and philanthropist.
		Charles V	Holy Roman Emperor, from 1519 until 1556.
	City of Brussels	{{Interlanguage link\|Antoine Dansaert\|fr	nl\|}}	Belgian politician.
	Uccle	Louis Defré	Mayor of Uccle, from 1864 until 1872.
		Paul de Smet de Naeyer	Prime Minister of Belgium, from 1896 to January 1899 and again from August 1899 to 1907.
Avenue Fonsny	Saint-Gilles	Jean-Toussaint Fonsny	Mayor of Saint-Gilles, from 1861 to 1870 and again from 1872 to 1881.
Rue Victor Hugo	Schaerbeek	Victor Hugo	French writer who lived in exile in the city from of 1851 to 1870.
Boulevard Émile Jacqmain	City of Brussels	{{Interlanguage link\|Émile Jacqmain\|fr	nl\|}}	Belgian politician.
Boulevard Maurice Lemonnier	City of Brussels	Maurice Lemonnier	Acting Mayor of the City of Brussels, from 1914 to 1917 and again from October to November 1918.
Boulevard Léopold II		Leopold II of Belgium	King of the Belgians, from 1865 until his death in 1909.
Avenue Louise		Queen Louise of Belgium & Princess Louise of Belgium	It is named in honour of both Queen Louise, the first Queen of the Belgians and wife of King Leopold I, and Princess Louise, King Leopold II's eldest daughter.
	Molenbeek-Saint-Jean	{{Interlanguage link\|Edmond Machtens\|fr	nl\|}}	Mayor of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, from 1939 until his death in 1978.
Boulevard Adolphe Max	City of Brussels	Adolphe Max	Mayor of the City of Brussels, from 1909 until his death in 1939.
	Schaerbeek	{{Interlanguage link\|Auguste Reyers\|fr	nl\|}}	Belgian military officer and politician.
Avenue Franklin Roosevelt	City of Brussels	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	President of the United States, from 1933 until his death in 1945.
		Brand Whitlock	First Ambassador of the United States to Belgium, from 1914 until 1921.

Squares

French name	Municipality	Named after	Comments
	City of Brussels	Ambiorix	Prince of the Eburones and leader of the resistance against Julius Caesar.
Place Anneessens	City of Brussels	Frans Anneessens	Dean of the Nation of St. Christopher (one of the Guilds of Brussels), who was beheaded on the Grand-Place/Grote Markt during a period of uprisings within the Austrian Netherlands.
Place de Brouckère	City of Brussels	Charles de Brouckère	Mayor of the City of Brussels, from 1848 until his death in 1860.
Place Charles Rogier	Saint-Josse-ten-Noode	Charles Rogier	Prime minister of Belgium, from 1847 to 1852 and again from 1857 to 1868.

"Not a defining characteristic, and not even a correct article title (eponymous doesn't just mean "named after people", and most roads are named after something). Even just a list of "roads in Brussels named after people" would be a very long list of otherwise unrelated streets. Topic doesn't seem..." Read more

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