Famous People with Name Haan

Hein De Haan            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Hein De Haan: is a Dutch Architect, Urbanist and Teacher at the faculty of Architecture of the TU Delft. de Haan graduated from the TU Delft in 1970. He worked as a teacher at the Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam, Groningen, and Tilburg.Since 1975, he has been working at the TU Delft. Until September 2007, de Haan was chairman of the Stylos Stichting, a foundation which exists since 1984 to support initiatives from students of the Architecture faculty of the TU Delft.

Setske De Haan            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Setske De Haan: was a Dutch writer of children's books. She is the author of the series of Joop ter Heul novels.In 1914, she met Leo Beek, a department store manager as well as a reserve infantry officer. They married on 2 February 1916 and had two sons, Leo and IJnze. Her husband was arrested and later executed at Westerbork transit camp in 1944, though it was 1946 before she learned of his fate. She died on 31 October 1948 in Bussum, Netherlands.[1]

Laurens De Haan            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Laurens De Haan: is a Dutch, Rotterdam-born mathematician (January 15, 1937), Professor in Probability Theory and specializing in extreme value theory. He was guest a professor at Stanford University, Cornell University, Peking University, among others, and is Doctor honoris causa at the University of Lisbon.

Jacob De Haan            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Jacob De Haan: was born March 28, 1959 in Heerenveen, Netherlands. He received his musical education at the State Music Academy in Leeuwarden, where he studied organ and music. As a result, is now a professor specializing in arrangements in this Academy. Jacob de Haan lives in the city of Rotterdam (Netherlands) where he works primarily as a composer. It is often required as guest to interpret their own work and as a judge in international competitions. As a guest conductor he has worked among others in Australia,

Jan De Haan            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Jan De Haan: is a contemporary Dutch composer, publisher, conductor and musician.Between 1961 and 1968 he played as a trombone player in the Nationaal Jeugd Fanfareorkest and in the brass band Pro-Rege from Heerenveen. He studied trombone at the Muziek-Pedagogische Akademie in Leeuwarden between 1969 and 1973. In 1974 he started to study brass band direction under Henk van Lijnschooten at the conservatory in Utrecht and earned his diploma in 1976. From 1969 to 1977 he taught a brass class at the music school in Heerenveen.