Famous People with Name Antoon

Antoon Coolen            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Antoon Coolen: was a well-known Dutch writer of novels. He has written the Boekenweekgeschenk for the Boekenweek of 1947 and a novel that was part of the Boekenweekgeschenk in 1939.

Antoon Hoevers            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Antoon Hoevers: was a Dutch Olympic fencer. He competed in the team sabre event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Antoon De Brauwer            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Antoon De Brauwer: is a Belgian sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1980s to the early 1990s. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he was eliminated in the semifinals of both the K-1 500 m and K-1 1000 m events. Eight years later in Barcelona, De Brauwer was elim

Sinan Antoon            Origin/Culture/Country: Arabic

Sinan Antoon: an Iraqi poet and novelist, he also featured in the film About Baghdad and Voices in Wartime.He was born in Baghdad to an Iraqi father and American mother.[2] After emigrating to the United States after the Gulf war, he studied English literature at Baghdad University. His works include I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody Antoon has also directed and co-produced two plays at Middlebury College both in 1998 and 1999; The King is the King and The Elephant.