Famous People with Name Haan

Ferry De Haan            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Ferry De Haan: a retired Dutch footballer who currently coaches the youth team of Excelsior Rotterdam. Formally he also played for Feyenoord Rotterdam.

Adrianus ("Arend" Or "Arie") Haan            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Adrianus ("Arend" Or "Arie") Haan: a Dutch football manager and former midfielder, who scored 6 goals in 35 matches for the Dutch national squad of the 1970s. At club level he enjoyed a successful career with AFC Ajax, R.S.C. Anderlecht, Standard Liège and PSV Eindhoven. He participated seven times in European Cup finals with five victories and two defeats.He joined AFC Ajax in 1969, and was a member of Ajax that won the European Champions' Cup for three consecutive years, from 1971 until 1973, the Intercontinental Cup in 1972 and two European Super Cups in 1972 and 1973. Also, with Ajax he won three Dutch Championships in 1969-70, 1971-72 and 1972-73 and the Dutch Cup from 1970 until 1972. In 1970 his team won the Double and in 1972 the Treble.

Radjin De Haan            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Radjin De Haan: a retired Dutch-Suriname footballer and currently is a football manager. During his career he served Telstar, FC Eindhoven and FC Den Bosch. He was one of the footballers that survived the Surinam Airways Flight PY764 air crash in Paramaribo on June 7, 1989. He was the only player to return on the pitch after the disaster.De Haan was known as a talented player and started his career at Telstar where he made his debut. He was the youngest footballer (18) to be invited by Sonny Hasnoe, the founder of the Colourful 11 to be part of the team and travel to Suriname to play in the "Boxel Kleurrijk Tournament" with three Surinamese teams. The Surinam Airways Flight PY764 crashed during approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport

Wilhem De Haan            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Wilhem De Haan: was a Dutch zoologist. He specialised in the study of insects and crustaceans, and was the first keeper of invertebrates at the Rijksmuseum (national museum) in Leiden, now Naturalis. He was forced to retire in 1846, when he was partially paralysed by a spinal disease. He was responsible for the invertebrate volume of Siebold's Fauna Japonica, which was published in 1833, and introduced the western world for the first time to Japanese wildlife. He named a great many new taxa, and several taxa are named in his honour.

Jacob Meijer De Haan            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Jacob Meijer De Haan: was a Dutch artist born into a successful Jewish family of biscuit manufacturers, close to the study of religion, music and art. He had already had some success in the Netherlands as a painter of Jewish genre, when in winter 1888, accompanied by Isaacson, he went to Paris to continue his studies.