Famous People with Name Liem

Liem Swie King            Origin/Culture/Country: Indonesian

Liem Swie King: was an Indonesian badminton player in the late 1970s and 1980s who competed in singles and some doubles events. Along with Morten Frost Hansen (Denmark), Han Jian (China), and Prakash Padukone (India), he was one of the world's dominant players in that era. Liem, whose given name "Swie King" means "a person of intellectual brilliance", was best known for his aggressive play and the ferocity of his smash.

Liêm Hoang Ngoc            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Liêm Hoang Ngoc: is a French economist and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the East France constituency. Hoang-Ngoc is an associate professor at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. He is a member of the French Socialist Party, where he is close to the left of the party organized around Henri Emmanuelli. He is also a member of the alter-globalization collective Attac.

Carola Christina Liemola            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Carola Christina Liemola: was a Finnish jazz and pop singer. She was born in Helsinki as Carola Christina Standertskjöld. As the vocalist for Esa Pethman's jazz quartet and Hazy Ostwald's sextet in the early 1960s, Carola made fame in Finland, Sweden, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Switzerland. In 1966 with Heikki Sarmanto Trio, she recorded a jazz session in studio, which was shelved by YLE as uncommercial. Carola's accosting tone was supported by the groovy approach of her supporting orchestras. The style was partially inspired by American jazz singers of the 1950s. Simultaneously, it was in the spirit of the modal jazz scene going down in Europe in the 1960s. Mostly, Carola's jazz repertoire consisted in idiosynchratic versions of American jazz songs in English, while her most famous jazz song "The Flame" was an original composition by Esa Pethman and the lyrics by the singer herself. In late 1960s and early 1970s

Ad Van Liempt            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Ad Van Liempt: is a Dutch journalist, writer and a TV producer. He authored several books, including a biography of Prince Bernhard, and is the host of a historical program Andere Tijden (Other Times). Outside of The Netherlands he is best known for his book "A Price on Their Heads", describing the process by which Nazis paid for the information on the locations of the Jews.