Famous People with Name Annemarie

Annemarie Werner-Hansen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Annemarie Werner-Hansen: was a Danish sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid 1960s. Competing two Summer Olympics, she earned her best finish of fourth in the K-1 500 m event at Rome in 1960.

Annemarie Sanders-Keijzer            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Annemarie Sanders-Keijzer: is an equestrian from The Netherlands, who won the silver medal in the Team Dressage Event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. She did so alongside Tineke Bartels, Ellen Bontje, and Anky van Grunsven. In the individual competition Sanders finished in 40th position. She competed in three Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 1984.

Annemarie Jorritsma-Lebbink            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Annemarie Jorritsma-Lebbink: is a Dutch politician.

Annemarie "Mirl" Buchner(-Fischer)            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Annemarie "Mirl" Buchner(-Fischer): is a German former Alpine skier. At the 1952 Olympics in Oslo Buchner was silver medalist in the downhill, and bronze medalist in the slalom and in the giant slalom.

Annemarie Schimmel            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Annemarie Schimmel: was a well known and very influential German Orientalist and scholar, who wrote extensively on Islam and Sufism. She began studying at the University of Berlin in 1939 at the age of 17, during the period of Nazi Germany. She received a doctorate in Islamic languages and civilization at the age of 19. Following this, she was drafted by the German Foreign Office while continuing with her scholarly work in her free time. At the age of 23, she became a professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Marburg, Germany in 1946, where she earned a second doctorate in the history of religions in 1954.