Famous People with Name Rogier

Rogier Veenstra            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Rogier Veenstra: a Dutch footballer who currently plays for NAC Breda. Veenstra is a forward who was born in Middelburg and made his debut in professional football, being part of the NAC Breda squad in the 2006-07 season.Veenstra is loaned out to Excelsior for the 2008-09 season.

Rogier Hofman            Origin/Culture/Country: Netherlands

Rogier Hofman: is a field hockey player from the Netherlands.Hofman was part of the Dutch national team for the 2007 World Championships in Mönchengladbach where the Dutch disappointed and only finished at the seventh spot

Rogier Blink            Origin/Culture/Country: Netherlands

Rogier Blink: is a rower from the Netherlands.Blink took part in the World Championships of 2005 in Munich becoming fifth in the coxed fours. He qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with the Dutch eights forming a team with Olaf van Andel, Jozef Klaassen,

Rogier Wassen            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Rogier Wassen: is a Dutch tennis player who competes regularly on the ATP Tour as a doubles player.Wassen reached his highest doubles ranking on the ATP Tour on 10 September 2007 when he became world no. 24. The right-hander has won three ATP doubles titles.

Rogier Van Aerde            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Rogier Van Aerde: was a Dutch writer and journalist. He made his début in 1941 with 'Kaïn', which was an immediate success. The Dutch poet and essayist Anton van Duinkerken said it was "A masterful début".In Van Aerde's obituary which appeared in 2007 in 'Trouw', it was said that: "Kaïn was a big success and was even translated, but Frans van Rijen didn't get a penny from it. Just like his father Aad van Rijen he did not have a mind for business. With his publisher 'Urbi et Orbi' he signed a contract stating that he never would earn more than a 1000 guilders and that he was not allowed to get another publisher until 1950.

Philippe Rogier            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Philippe Rogier: was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active at the Habsburg court of Philip II in Spain. He was one of the last members of the Franco-Flemish school, in the closing days of the Renaissance period in music history, and was a prolific composer; however most of his music was lost in the destruction by fire of the library of John IV during the Lisbon earthquake of 1755.

Charles Latour Rogier            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Charles Latour Rogier: was a Belgian liberal statesman and a leader in the Belgian Revolution of 1830. He became Prime Minister of Belgium on two separate occasions: from 1847 to 1852, and again from 1857 to 1868. He became a member of the provisional government established in October of the same year, and after the election of Leopold as King in June 1831, he was made Governor of Antwerp. During his first stint as Interior Minister, from 1832 to 1834, he brought into existence the Belgian railway system. From 1840 to 1841 he was Minister of Public Works and Education, and from 1861 to 1868 he served as Minister for Foreign Affairs.