Famous People with Name Lange

William Alexander "Bill" Lange            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Alexander "Bill" Lange: was an American Major League Baseball center fielder, who played his entire seven year career for the Chicago Colts and Orphans from 1893 to 1899. During his time in the Majors, he once led the National League in stolen bases, and was among the seasonal leaders in several other offensive categories including home runs, and batting average.Lange was noted for having a combination of great speed and power, especially for his size. His 6-foot-1-inch (1.85 m), 190-pound (86 kg) frame was considered large for his era.[3] He is best known for retiring from baseball during the prime of his career to get married, as his future father-in-law forbid his daughter to marry a baseball player. Despite the short-lived marriage, he refused all offers to return as a player.

Poul Lange            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Poul Lange: is a Danish illustrator, graphic designer, photographer, fine artist and children's book creator, who has won numerous awards for his design work. Since the early 1990s, he has lived and worked in the USA, in New York City.Over the years, Lange has designed hundreds of book jackets and created hundreds of illustrations for print media. His design work also includes editorial design. A children's book that Lange created was published in 2004. Lange teaches design in New York and in Copenhagen. Collage has formed an important part of both his design and fine art works.

Johan Martin Christian Lange            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Johan Martin Christian Lange: was a Danish botanist.He held the post of Librarian at the Botanical library of the University of Copenhagen from 1851 to 1858. He was Director of the Botanical Garden there from 1856 to 1876, the Reader of botany at the Danish Technical University from 1857 to 1862, and Reader of Botany at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College from 1858 to 1893, achieving full professor standing in 1892. He began editing the Flora Danica in 1858, and was its last editor. Together with Japetus Steenstrup, Johan Lange was the publisher of Flora Danica fasc. 44 (1858). Thereafter, he edited alone fasc. 45-51 (1861-83) and Supplement vols 2-3 (1865-74), in total 600 plates. After having finished the publication of Flora Danica, he issued Nomenclator Floræ Danicæ in 1887 - a volume indexing all planches in Flora Danica alphabetically, systematically and chronologically.

Esther De Lange            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Esther De Lange: is a Dutch politician for the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).

Joep MA Lange            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Joep MA Lange: is a clinical researcher from The Netherlands, specialising in HIV therapy. He is currently (2006) Professor of Medicine at the Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam and Senior Scientific Advisor to the International Antiviral Therapy Evaluation Centre, Amsterdam. He is also co-director of the HIV Netherlands Australia Research Collaboration (HIV-NAT), based in Thailand.