It is named after Pol Swings, a Belgian astronomer.

Paul Ledoux (August 8, 1914 - 1988) was a Belgian astronomer.

Professor Marcel Minnaert, the eminent Belgian astronomer, wrote in 1963:

It is named after Marcel Le Roux, a Belgian amateur astronomer.

It is named after Claude Doom, a Belgian amateur astronomer.

It is named after Luc Vanhoeck, a Belgian amateur astronomer.

Jean Meeus (born 1928) is a Belgian astronomer specializing in celestial mechanics.

Quetelet was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist.

François J. Terby (1846 - 1911) was a Belgian astronomer.

It is named after Frank Tamsin, a Belgian amateur astronomer.