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Famous People with Name Adriaan

Adriaan as First Name

Adriaan Roland Holst     Adriaan Roland Holst       Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Adriaan Roland Holst: was a Dutch writer, nicknamed the "Prince of Dutch writers". He was the second winner, in 1948, of the Constantijn Huygens Prize. Holst was the cousin of painter Richard Roland Holst and writer Henriette Roland Holst.

Adriaan Adriaanszoon     Adriaan Adriaanszoon       Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Adriaan Adriaanszoon: was a Dutch geometer and astronomer. He was born in Alkmaar. The name Metius comes from the Dutch word meten ("measuring"), and therefore means something like "measurer" or "surveyor."

Adriaan Vlacq     Adriaan Vlacq       Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Adriaan Vlacq: was a Dutch book publisher and mathematician. Born in Gouda, Vlacq published a table of Henry Briggs' logarithms from 1 to 100,000 to 10 decimal places in 1628 in his Arithmetica logarithmica. Briggs' original tables only covered the values 1-20,000 and 90,000 to 100,000 so Vlacq calculated and added 69,999 further values to complete the tables.

Adriaan Reland     Adriaan Reland       Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Adriaan Reland: was a Dutch scholar, cartographer and philologist.Reland was the son of Johannes Reland, a Protestant minister, and Aagje Prins in the small North Holland village of De Rijp. Adriaan's brother, Peter (1678-1714) was an influential lawyer in Haarlem[1]. Reeland first studied in Amsterdam and enrolled at University of Utrecht in 1693. After obtaining his PhD in Utrecht he moved to Leiden where he tutored the son of Hans Willem Bentinck, later the 1st Earl of Portland. The latter invited him to move to England, but Reland declined because of his father's deteriorating health [1].

Adriaan Van Dis     Adriaan Van Dis       Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Adriaan Van Dis: is a Dutch author who debuted in 1983 with the novella Nathan Sid. He is also known as a television presenter.His father was an Indies-Dutchman and his mother a farmer's daughter from Breda who had met each other in the Dutch East Indies. By then his mother already had three daughters from her marriage to a Royal Dutch East Indies Army KNIL soldier. His father had been married before as well, in the East Indies. His family had been heavily affected by the war. As a survivor of the Junyo Maru, which had been torpedoed by the Brits,

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Adriaan as Last Name

David Adriaan     David Adriaan       Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

David Adriaan: was a Dutch chemist

Pieter Cornelis Adriaan     Pieter Cornelis Adriaan       Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Pieter Cornelis Adriaan: is a former Dutch politician , and Queen's Commissioner in Utrecht. Descendant of the famous sex Dordrecht rains Beelaerts van Blokland , he followed a career mayor and was an expert in the field of planning , Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in the first cabinet Van Agt (1977-1981). During his ministry was treated Urbanisation Note that the impetus behind the development of growth centers and Alphen aan den Rijn , Lelystad and Horn . Beelaerts van Blokland for his building policy was much criticism from political opponents as Marcel van Dam and Hans Kombrink . Descendant of the famous sex Dordrecht rains Beelaerts van Blokland , he followed a career mayor and was an expert in the field of planning , Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in the first cabinet Van Agt (1977-1981). During his ministry was treated Urbanisation Note that the impetus behind the development of growth centers and Alphen aan den Rijn , Lelystad and Horn . Beelaerts van Blokland for his building policy was much criticism from political opponents as Marcel van Dam and Hans Kombrink .

Julius Philip Jacob Adriaan, Count     Julius Philip Jacob Adriaan, Count       Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Julius Philip Jacob Adriaan, Count: was a Dutch politician. Van Zuylen van Nijevelt served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands (Voorzitter van de Ministerraad) from 1866 to 1868. He also served as minister of foreign affairs from 1860 to 1861 and again from 1866 tot 1868.

Jacobson ("Co") Adriaanse     Jacobson ("Co") Adriaanse       Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Jacobson ("Co") Adriaanse: is a Dutch football manager and former football player from the Netherlands.He started his managing career with Zilvermeeuwen in 1979, and after four years he joined AZ for the first time as scout and youth trainer.

Hans P.M. Adriaansens     Hans P.M. Adriaansens       Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Hans P.M. Adriaansens: is dean of the Roosevelt Academy, a small liberal arts college in Middelburg, the Netherlands.Next to his demanding job as dean of the Roosevelt Academy, Professor Adriaansens currently serves as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Antonius-Mesos Group and of two hospitals in the Utrecht region. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of both the Hogeschool van Utrecht and the Hogeschool Zeeland. He furthermore participates in various government committees in the field of higher education and social development.

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