Famous People with Name Jaap

Jaap Spaanderman            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Jaap Spaanderman: was a Dutch pianist, cellist, conductor and piano and conducting pedagogue.

Jaap Van Zweden            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Jaap Van Zweden: is a Dutch conductor and violinist.

Jaap Barendregt            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Jaap Barendregt: a former Dutch footballer who was active as a striker. Barendregt played his whole career at Feijenoord and his total of 196 league goals is a club record, leading Kees Pijl and Cor van der Gijp.

Jaap Davids            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Jaap Davids: a Dutch footballer.His first club was SBV Vitesse in the 2003-04 and 2004-05 season, but made no appearances for the club. He was loaned out to FC Den Bosch in 2005, where he had 34 appearances and 5 goals. The next season Davids was loaned out to AGOVV Apeldoorn making three appearances. He currently left the club and will return to Vitesse.

Jaap Marais            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Jaap Marais: was an attorney, an Afrikaner nationalist and the leader of the far-right South African political party, the Herstigte Nasionale Party, from 1977.Jaap Marais was thrown out of the Broederbond shortly after the HNP was formed, and later all other identified HNP members or sympathizers were also purged from the Broederbond.[citation needed]Under Jaap Marais' leadership, the party challenged the negotiating policies of the National Party. He tried in vain to obtain the co-operation of the Conservative Party under Andries Treurnicht.[citation needed] He proposed a Volksfront, being a coalition of all the right wing organizations with one objective only, to stop De Klerk on his path to handing over the reins of government to the ANC. Instead, in 1991, a Volksfront was created from the ranks of the Conservative Party, and led by Constand Viljoen. This organization spoke at first for the Afrikaans right wing, but in the end it registered to participate in the multi-racial elections of 1994. Under Jaap Marais, the HNP campaigned vigorously to persuade whites to boycott these multi-racial elections.

Johnny Jaap            Origin/Culture/Country: Scottish

Johnny Jaap: was a Scottish-U.S. soccer inside right. He played seven seasons in the American Soccer League and one with Hearts. He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. He began his career in 1912 with a series of amateur and semi-professional teams in the Pittsburgh area. In 1921, he moved to Philadelphia Field Club of the first division American Soccer League.

Marie ("Mieke") Jaapies            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Marie ("Mieke") Jaapies: is a Dutch [Canoe racing|sprint canoer]] who competed in the late 1960s and early 1970s.