Famous People with Name Bastian

Bastian Swillims            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Bastian Swillims: is a German sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. His personal best time is 45.83 seconds, achieved in June 2004 in Erfurt.

Dr. Bastian Jan (Bart Jan) Spruyt            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Dr. Bastian Jan (Bart Jan) Spruyt: is a Dutch historian, journalist and conservative writer. From 1994 to 2002 Spruyt worked as a journalist for the Reformatorisch Dagblad, the sixth largest Dutch daily newspaper, with a mainly Protestant readership. He covered Dutch politics and the foreign desk. His last position was from 2000 to 2002 as chief political editor and commentator of the newspaper, working from The Hague. In the second half of 2006, he picked up his journalistic work again. As one of the leading voices of intellectual conservatism, Spruyt was instrumental in founding the Edmund Burke Foundation, the Dutch conservative group, in the second half of 2000. Together with conservative activist Joshua Livestro, Spruyt became the Foundation's director when the Foundation opened up its own offices in The Hague.

Frederick Ellison "Fritz" Bastian            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frederick Ellison "Fritz" Bastian: was an outstanding American tennis player in the early 20th Century. Bastian, a one-time runner-up in the National Junior tennis championship, won singles titles in 1917 and 1919 at the Cincinnati Masters. In winning the 1919 title, Bastian upset U.S. Dav