| François Roelants du Vivier | |
| Office: | Senator |
| Term Start: | 2000 |
| Term End: | June 2009 |
| Office2: | Member of the European Parliament |
| Term Start2: | 1984 |
| Term End2: | 1989 |
| Birth Place: | Etterbeek |
| Nationality: | Belgian |
| Party: | Francophone Democratic Federalists (FDF) |
| Otherparty: | Ecolo |
| Residence: | Brussels |
| Website: | www.roelantsduvivier.be |
François Marie Gabriel André Charles-Ferdinand Roelants du Vivier (born 5 November 1947) is a Belgian politician and a member of Ecolo and later the FDF (Francophone Democratic Federalists).
He is part of the political family Nothomb; his grandfather is Pierre Nothomb and his ancestors include Jean-Baptiste Nothomb, who helped draft the Belgian Constitution and served as Prime Minister.[1]
Roelants du Vivier started his career in Ecolo, and was a Member of the European Parliament elected in 1984 and serving until 1989.
In 1988 he started the Europe-Régions-Environnement (ERE) movement after leaving Ecolo. In 1993, he announced that he would found a new party, a Belgian equivalent of the French Génération Écologie and the German Realos inside the German Greens.[2] Under the electoral alliance FDF-ERE, he was elected to the Brussels Parliament in the 1989 elections. He was re-elected 1995, 1999 and 2004. From 2000 until 2009 he also served in the Parliament of the French Community and the Senate as community senator.[3]
From 1994 until 2000 he was also municipal councillor in Uccle.