Famous People with Name Bakker

Arne Bakker            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Arne Bakker: was a Norwegian footballer and bandy player.

Ineke Bakker            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Ineke Bakker: is a Dutch sprint canoer who competed in the early 1980s. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, she was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-2 500 m event while withdrawing from the heats of the K-1 500 m event.

Johannes Age "Joop" Bakker            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Johannes Age "Joop" Bakker: was a Dutch politician.

Lambertus Jozef (Bert) Bakker            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Lambertus Jozef (Bert) Bakker: was a Dutch writer and publisher in the Netherlands. He wrote literary studies, two novels, poetry, and children's books. In World War II he was involved in the Dutch Resistance and assisted in the (illegal at the time) publication of Vrij Nederland. After the war he founded a publishing company under his own name, from which he retired in 1993.[1] In 1953 he founded the literary magazine Maatstaf, which he edited until 1969.

Piet Oege Bakker            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Piet Oege Bakker: was a Dutch journalist and author. He was joint editor for many years of the weekly magazine Elseviers Weekblad.His most famous work was the trilogy written between 1941 and 1946 dealing with the experiences of the street urchin Ciske Vrijmoeth, alias Ciske the Rat. These novels sold in their hundreds of thousands, and later appeared in translation in more than ten other countries. The story has been filmed twice, in 1955 and 1984, and a musical version is planned for October 2007.