Baron Charles-Ferdinand Nicolas Marie Pierre Nothomb (3 May 1936 – 19 April 2023) was a Belgian politician.
He was descended from Jean-Baptiste Nothomb, who served as Prime Minister of Belgium in the 1840s.
He was an uncle of the diplomat Baron Patrick Nothomb and the politician François Roelants du Vivier and a great-uncle of the writers Juliette and Amélie Nothomb.
[1] Having obtained degrees in law (1957) and economic sciences (1958), Nothomb was a teacher and researcher at the Catholic University of Louvain and other higher education establishments, and was also involved in the Christian Social Party youth movement.
Upon his retirement from the Chamber in 1995, Nothomb served a four-year term in the Senate (1995−1999) and was again president of the Humanist Democratic Centre party from 1996 to 1999.