Dutch Famous Names Starting with Letter B

Is a Belgian football player currently playing for 1. FC Union Berlin in the Second Bundesliga.

Is a Belgian football player currently playing for 1. FC Union Berlin in the Second Bundesliga.

Is a Belgian football midfielder who is currently playing for Belgian club K.A.A. Gent. His former c

Is a Belgian football midfielder who is currently playing for Belgian club K.A.A. Gent. His former clubs include Borussia Mönchengladbach, Standard Liège, Racing Genk and Trabzonspor. Thijs played five times with Belgium and was in the team for the 2002 World Cup.

Prince of Lippe-Biesterfeld, born HSH Count Bernhard Leopold Friedrich Eberhard Julius Kurt Karl Got

Prince of Lippe-Biesterfeld, born HSH Count Bernhard Leopold Friedrich Eberhard Julius Kurt Karl Gottfried Peter of Lippe-Biesterfeld (later elevated thus to Prince), was Prince Consort to the late Queen Juliana

Was a track cyclist from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at two Summer Olympics

Was a track cyclist from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at two Summer Olympics (1928 and 1936).After having won a Gold at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2.000 m Tandem), he captured the silver medal eight year

Is a Belgian professional footballer who currently plays for Cercle Brugge. He formerly played for L

Is a Belgian professional footballer who currently plays for Cercle Brugge. He formerly played for Lindelhoeven VV, KFC Lommel, PSV Eindhoven, KRC Genk, Maasland, Antwerp, Westerlo and Club Brugge.

An Dutch footballer who currently plays for Dutch Eredivisie club FC Groningen. He also played for F

An Dutch footballer who currently plays for Dutch Eredivisie club FC Groningen. He also played for FC Den Bosch and Millwall.Powel started playing football at AFC Quick 1890 and succeeded at the non-professional club Roda'46. Powel was discovered by FC Den Bosch, and in 2003 he made his debut for the club's 1st team. In his first season at the club, he scored 9 goals in 26 games for FC Den Bosch, when they played in the Eerste Divisie. Powel became champions with his club and FC Den Bosch promoted to the Eredivisie. In the Eredivisie he scored 2 goals in 29 games. Den Bosch was relegated to the Eerste Divisie again, following that some of their key players; Koen van de Laak, Mourad Mghizrat, Jochen Janssen and Dennis Schulp left the club, making Powel the most important player of the club.

Is a retired water polo player from The Netherlands, who finished in ninth position with the Dutch t

Is a retired water polo player from The Netherlands, who finished in ninth position with the Dutch team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

Is a Dutch rowing coach.Cocu started rowing at the student rowing club Okeanos, Amsterdam where he h

Is a Dutch rowing coach.Cocu started rowing at the student rowing club Okeanos, Amsterdam where he had several committee jobs and was at one point vice-president of the club.

Is a Belgian professional road racing cyclist riding for Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner.

Is a Belgian professional road racing cyclist riding for Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner.

Is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Christian Democra

Is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs and its Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.

Is a Dutch politician.

Is a Dutch politician.

Was a Dutch film and documentary director and Academy Award winner.Haanstra was born in the town of

Was a Dutch film and documentary director and Academy Award winner.Haanstra was born in the town of Holten and became a professional filmmaker in 1947. He won international acclaim with his short documentary Spiegel van Holland / Mirror of Holland, for which he received the Grand Prix du court métrage at the Cannes-festival of 1951. During the fifties he made six films for Shell, among others The Rival World (1955) on insects spreading deadly diseases and how to fight them.

Was a football manager from the Netherlands, who played for HFC Haarlem. Born in Zandvoort, he start

Was a football manager from the Netherlands, who played for HFC Haarlem. Born in Zandvoort, he started a career as a football coach as a 27-year old when he became the head coach of Velox from Utrecht. Jacobs later became the first manager of FC Utrecht.In 1974 Jacobs moved to Roda JC, followed by Willem II Tilburg (1980), Seiko Hong Kong (1982-83) and Sparta Rotterdam (1983), where he succeeded Barry Hughes. In 1984 he started to work for Fortuna Sittard, which reached the quarterfinals of the Cup Winners Cup under his guidance. He had to stop working in December 1986 due to cancer, but recovered and signed with Vitesse Arnhem, who he brought back to the highest level in Dutch professional football, the Eredivisie, in 1989.

Is a Dutch award winning author, film maker, photographer and world explorer currently living in the

Is a Dutch award winning author, film maker, photographer and world explorer currently living in the Netherlands.

Is a Dutch writer and physician.He studied philosophy in Nottingham from 1968, then medicine in Amst

Is a Dutch writer and physician.He studied philosophy in Nottingham from 1968, then medicine in Amsterdam from 1972. Graduated 1981, worked as a doctor in Kenya for a while, then in a nursing home in Amsterdam.As a physician in a nursing home he has written about physician assisted suicide (which has been legal in the Netherlands for some years), most notably in his book Dancing with Mr D. While the euthanasia/assisted suicide was the most salient point for the literary criticism, it is not a very large part of the book.

A former professional footballer from the Netherlands. He retired in June 2004.Konterman's career be

A former professional footballer from the Netherlands. He retired in June 2004.Konterman's career began with the local amateur club SC Rouveen, then went on to play for clubs in the Dutch Eredivisie including FC Zwolle, Cambuur, Willem II and Feyenoord, until he was snapped up by Dick Advocaat in 2000 to play for Rangers FC for a fee of £4.5m. Konterman was part of a growing Dutch influence at Ibrox under then manager Dick Advocaat. Whereas the likes of Ronald de Boer and Arthur Numan were a successful part of the Orange invasion, Konterman did not make a similarly impressive impact. He endured a difficult start at Ibrox,

Is an associate professor of economics and philosophy at Roosevelt Academy, Middelburg, the Netherla

Is an associate professor of economics and philosophy at Roosevelt Academy, Middelburg, the Netherlands. He has published extensively on the history of economic thought and the history of philosophy, most notably on William Stanley Jevons, a 19th-century British philosopher and economist. He is currently editing the proceedings of the conference 'Aristotelian Encounters, which he organized in 2007 in Middelburg.

Was a Dutch racing cyclist. Oosterbosch was a successful track and road racer.As a professional Oost

Was a Dutch racing cyclist. Oosterbosch was a successful track and road racer.As a professional Oosterbosch was especially successful in time trials; he won 14 stage race prologues, including three in the Tour de France. He won three other stages of the T

Is a Dutch bass guitarist, record producer, and composer.Ruiter was born in Amsterdam and grew up in

Is a Dutch bass guitarist, record producer, and composer.Ruiter was born in Amsterdam and grew up in Hilversum. When he was twelve he started playing guitar by ear; later he switched to bass guitar. In 1966 he began his career by replacing Dick Ankersmit as bass guitarist for The Caps, with singer Hans van Hemert and guitarist Roy Beltman. Afterwards, he played in the groups Fullhouse and the Jay-Jays.

Was a Belgian politician and writer. He was a member of the Belgian parliament from 1946 up to 1949

Was a Belgian politician and writer. He was a member of the Belgian parliament from 1946 up to 1949 and from 1958 until 1976.In 1946 he was elected to the municipal council of Aalst and to the Belgian parliament. After the events of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, he broke with the communist party and in January 1957 he became a member of the Belgian socialist party. In 1958, he became a member of parliament for the socialist party, and he held this mandate until 1976. From 1971 up to 1974 he was also secretary of the parliament.

Is a retired long-distance runner from The Netherlands, who participated in two Summer Olympics

Is a retired long-distance runner from The Netherlands, who participated in two Summer Olympics

Is a Dutch darts player who competed in British Darts Organisation and World Darts Federation events

Is a Dutch darts player who competed in British Darts Organisation and World Darts Federation events.Vlaardingerbrock made four BDO World Darts Championship appearances and lost in the first round each time, losing to Bob Anderson in 1988, Dennis Hickling in 1989, Cliff Lazarenko in 1990 and Martin Phillips in 1992.

A retired football striker from the Netherlands, who made his professional debut in the 1990-1991 se

A retired football striker from the Netherlands, who made his professional debut in the 1990-1991 season for FC Groningen. Later on he played for Heracles Almelo, SC Heerenveen, BV Veendam, FC Eindhoven, FC Emmen, FC Zwolle, and TOP Oss.

Is a former Belgian footballer, in the position of right/center back.He started his career at Anderl

Is a former Belgian footballer, in the position of right/center back.He started his career at Anderlecht (1989-96), moving abroad to Serie A's Napoli in 1996-98, before rejoining his previous side for five more seasons. Crasson played in 2003-2004 with Lierse and FC Brussels the following season, retiring afterwards.

Is a Dutch businessman and chess organiser living in Prague. He has served in top management positio

Is a Dutch businessman and chess organiser living in Prague. He has served in top management positions in telecommunications companies in Belgium (Belgacom) and in the Czech Republic. He was also President of the Belgian-based Banking communications compa