Famous People with Name Joos

Joos Valgaeren            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Joos Valgaeren: is a former Belgian international footballer who lastly played as a defender for FC Emmen in the Dutch Eerste Divisie. His former clubs include Club Brugge in Belgium, Roda JC in the Netherlands and Celtic in Scotland and he was in the Belgian squad for Euro 2000.

Joos De Damhouder            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Joos De Damhouder: also referred to as Joost, Jost, Josse or Jodocus (de) Damhouder, was a jurist from the Seventeen Provinces, whose works had a lasting influence on European criminal law.His principal work was the Praxis rerum criminalium (1554), a manual on the practice of criminal law, which he almost entirely plagiarised from an unpublished text by Filips Wielant and from other works. The book was a great success and saw numerous translations in other European languages, partly due to de Damhouder's novel approach of illustrating the various crimes and procedural stages with woodcuts.

Joos Ambuehl            Origin/Culture/Country: Swiss

Joos Ambuehl: was a Swiss cross country skier who competed in 1984. He finished fifth in the 4 x 10 km relay event at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. His best World Cup finish was 15th in a 15 km event in Finland that year.