Belgian Prime Ministers

This list is comprised of the Prime Ministers of Belgium. The position originated in 1831 when Belgium became a constitutional monarchy. The Prime Minister (Dutch Eerste minister, French Premier ministre) is the head of the government, but the head of state is the King or Queen of the Belgians, who has mostly ceremonial powers.
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NameYears
Étienne Constantin de Gerlache1831
Joseph Lebeau1831; 1840-1841
Felix de Muelenaere1831-1832
Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella1832-1834
Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt1834-1840; 1846-1847; 1871-1874
Jean-Baptiste Nothomb1841-1845
Sylvain Van de Weyer1845-1846
Charles Rogier1847-1852; 1857-1868
Henri de Brouckère1852-1855
Pierre de Decker1855-1857
Walthère Frère-Orban1868-1870; 1878-1884
Jules d'Anethan1870-1871
Jules Malou1874-1878; 1884
Auguste Marie François Beernaert1884-1894
Jules de Burlet1894-1896
Paul de Smet de Naeyer1896-1899; 1899-1907
Jules Vandenpeereboom1899
Jules de Trooz1907
Frans Schollaert1908-1911
Charles de Broqueville1911-1918; 1932-1934
Gérard Cooreman1918
Léon Delacroix1918-1920
Henri Carton de Wiart1920-1921
Georges Theunis1921-1925; 1934-1935
Aloys Van de Vyvere1925
Prosper Poullet1925-1926
Henri Jaspar1926-1931
Jules Renkin1931-1932
Paul van Zeeland1935-1937
Paul-Émile Janson1937-1938
Paul-Henri Spaak1938-1939; 1946; 1947-1949
Hubert Pierlot1939-1945
Achille Van Acker1945-1946; 1946; 1954-1958
Camille Huysmans1946-1947
Gaston Eyskens1949-1950; 1958-1961; 1968-1973
Jean Duvieusart1950
Joseph Pholien1950-1952
Jean Van Houtte1952-1954
Théo Lefèvre1961-1965
Pierre Harmel1965-1966
Paul Vanden Boeynants1966-1968; 1978-1979
Edmond Leburton1973-1974
Leo Tindemans1974-1978
Wilfried Martens1979-1981; 1981-1992
Mark Eyskens1981
Jean-Luc Dehaene1992-1999
Guy Verhofstadt1999-2008
Yves Leterme2008; 2009-2011
Herman Van Rompuy2008-2009
Elio Di Rupo2011-2014
Charles Michel2014-2019
Sophie Wilmès2019-2020
Alexander De Croo2020-