reject being considered as Walloon and – with their community executive leader Karl-Heinz Lambertz want to remain a federating unit, and to have all the powers of the Belgian Regions and Communities. Even if they do not want them absolutely and immediately (10 July 2008, official speech for the Flanders' national holiday). Walloon diaspora Département des Ardennes Quebec and other parts of Canada United Kingdom South Africa Wisconsin: it is estimated that between 5,000 and 7,500 Brabantines and Hesbignons answered the call of the New World from 1852 to 1856. Algoma, Brussels, Casco, Forestville, Green Bay, Kewaunee, Luxemburg, Namur, Sturgeon Bay (Françoise L'Empereur found 700 Walloon family names in the phone books of these towns) Sweden Italy Walloon culture The Manifesto for Walloon culture in 1983 was a major event of the History of Wallonia quoted in the important books about the region's history. Famous Walloons This list includes people from the region before it became known as Wallonia. Zénon Bacq (1903–1983), inventor Michael Baius (1513–1589), theologian of the Baianism. Gilles Binchois (–1460), Franco-Flemish composer. Jules Bordet (1870–1961), recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1919) Godfroid de Bouillon (ca.1060–1100), leader of the First Crusade and first European King of Jerusalem. Robert Campin (ca.1375–1444), painter Raoul Cauvin (born 1938), comics author Johannes Ciconia (ca.1370–1412), Ars nova composer François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt (1733–1798) Walloon Habsburg soldier in the Seven Years' War. Dardenne brothers, Jean-Peirre Dardenne (born 1951), Luc Dardenne (born 1954) Jacques Daret (ca.1404 – ca.1470), Flemish painter Nicolas Defrêcheux (1825–1874), poet in the Walloon language Léon Degrelle (1906–1994), Belgian Rexist politician, leader of Waffen SS Walloon contingent Philip Delano (1603–1681/82), early American colonist and progenitor of the Delano family Paul Delvaux, (1897–1994) a Belgian surrealist painter Louis Dewis, (1872–1946) pseudonym for the Post-Impressionist painter Louis Dewachter, Alice D'Hermanoy, (1885 — after 1932), soprano with the Chicago Civic Opera in the 1920s Elio Di Rupo, (born 1951) the first Belgian Prime Minister of non-Belgian descent Guillaume Dufay, (ca.1397 – 1474) Franco-Flemish composer Édouard Empain, (1852–1929), a wealthy engineer and entrepreneur; built the Paris Métro Jessé de Forest, (1576–1624) Walloon settler, colonised New Netherland and New York City. César Franck, (1822–1890) a Romantic composer, pianist and organist. Louis Gallait (1810–1887) a Belgian painter. Louis De Geer, (1587–1652) merchant, industrialist and slave trader Zénobe Gramme (1826–1901), inventor of the Gramme machine André Grétry (ca.1741–1813), composer. Louis