Dutch Famous Names Starting with Letter H

A Dutch singer.When Hind was eight years she sang and acted in public for the first time. Shortly th

A Dutch singer.When Hind was eight years she sang and acted in public for the first time. Shortly thereafter she started taking singing lessons. At her high school she performed in numerous music shows. Her talent did not go unnoticed; she received an inv

Is a Dutch judoka.Grol competed in the 2007 European Judo Championships in Belgrade, Hungary in the

Is a Dutch judoka.Grol competed in the 2007 European Judo Championships in Belgrade, Hungary in the men's under 90 kg, as a replacement for Mark Huizinga, who cancelled last minute due to personal problems.

Is a butterfly, freestyle and backstroke swimmer from The Netherlands, who also competed in the medl

Is a butterfly, freestyle and backstroke swimmer from The Netherlands, who also competed in the medley events. She's currently living in Eindhoven, where she is studying physiotherapy, and is training at the same club as multiple Olympic champion Pieter van den Hoogenband where she is currently training under the guidance of former world champion Marcel Wouda. She is the current European record holder in the 50 m butterfly short course.

Nicknamed Poly, was a Belgian football player who finished top scorer of the Belgian League in 1954

Nicknamed Poly, was a Belgian football player who finished top scorer of the Belgian League in 1954 while playing for R.S.C. Anderlecht. He played 8 times with the Belgian national team between 1953 and 1956. "Poly" made his international debut on November 22, 1953 in a 2-2 friendly draw against Switzerland and he scored twice.

Was a Dutch Jewish merchant and community worker.Lehren was prominent in the history of the ?alu??ah

Was a Dutch Jewish merchant and community worker.Lehren was prominent in the history of the ?alu??ah in the first half of the nineteenth century. Beginning with 1810, he, as a rich and influential merchant, was entrusted, together with Abraham Prinz and Solomon Reuben, with the responsibility of forwarding to Palestine the contributions which were sent annually to Amsterdam. In 1822 he ruled that in future only one representative, instead of two, should be sent from Palestine for both the Sephardic and the Ashkenazic congregations, and that the money collected for the ?alu??ah should be divided in proportion to the number of persons in the Palestinian congregations in question.

Is a Chinese-Dutch auto-racing driver who races with a Chinese license.Tung started kart racing in t

Is a Chinese-Dutch auto-racing driver who races with a Chinese license.Tung started kart racing in the Netherlands in 1997 before graduating to single-seaters. He won the 2003 Formula BMW Asia series and was rewarded with a test drive with the Williams F1 team.

Is a Belgian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s. At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, he

Is a Belgian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s. At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, he competed in the C-2 1000 m event, but did not finish.

Is a Dutch politician.

Is a Dutch politician.

Was a Belgian lawyer and liberal politician. As a politician, he was a member of the Belgian parliam

Was a Belgian lawyer and liberal politician. As a politician, he was a member of the Belgian parliament, President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives from 23 October 1867 until 20 May 1870 and Minister of State.

Is a Dutch conductor. He played the French horn as a youth. He has won prizes in several conducting

Is a Dutch conductor. He played the French horn as a youth. He has won prizes in several conducting competitions, including the Besançon Young Conductor Competition and the Karajan International Conducting Competition.[1]Soudant has held music directorships with the Utrecht Symphony Orchestra (1974–1980), the Radio France Nouvelle Orchestra Philharmonique (1981–1983), l'Orchestra Toscanini (starting in 1988), l'Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire (1994–2004) and Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg (1995–2004). He has also served as the principal guest conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He became principal guest conductor of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in October 1999, and music director in September 2004.

Was a Belgian competitor in the sport of archery.

Was a Belgian competitor in the sport of archery.

Was a Belgian Olympic fencer. He competed in the team sabre event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Was a Belgian Olympic fencer. He competed in the team sabre event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Was a Flemish composer, teacher, and music editor of the Renaissance. As a composer he was a member

Was a Flemish composer, teacher, and music editor of the Renaissance. As a composer he was a member of the generation contemporary with Palestrina, though unlike the most famous composers of the time he mostly worked in northern Europe, and in addition he was progressive in the use of chromaticism and dissonance.

Was a Dutch boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.In 1924 he was eliminated in the first ro

Was a Dutch boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.In 1924 he was eliminated in the first round of the lightweight class after losing his fight to Charles Sinclair.

Is a former racing driver from the Netherlands. He participated in 30 Formula One Grands Prix, debut

Is a former racing driver from the Netherlands. He participated in 30 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on June 17, 1984. He scored no championship points. He always drove for small and under-funded teams, his drives all either started or became available midseason. He tried to get Dutch sponsors, amongst others by putting in a page-high advertisement in "De Telegraaf"-newspaper. Reputedly, when Niki Lauda was asked about him, he referred to him as "rattengott" - literally "God of the rats".

Was a Dutch inventor who conceived of and patented an idea for machine encryption — the rotor mach

Was a Dutch inventor who conceived of and patented an idea for machine encryption — the rotor machine, although he was not the first to do so. He is sometimes erroneously credited as the originator of the Enigma machine, although this has been shown to be the work of German engineer Arthur Scherbius.

Is a Dutch author known for his achievements in both literature and science.In 1970, he was awarded

Is a Dutch author known for his achievements in both literature and science.In 1970, he was awarded a PhD on the subject of computational linguistics. He used to work at the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam. However, to the general public he is mostly known for his writing, in particular

Is a Belgian football manager who is last coaching Trabzonspor of Turkcell Süper Lig.He started his

Is a Belgian football manager who is last coaching Trabzonspor of Turkcell Süper Lig.He started his football career in his hometown Humbeek, playing for KFC Humbeek and was discovered at the early age of eighteen by a scout from RSC Anderlecht. For more than ten years he was their central defender and helped them win 4 Euro Cup finals, 3 national championships and 4 Belgian Cups. Between 1974 and 1986 he represented his country playing 31 times for the national team, gaining 24 caps and finishing 4th at the World Championship in Mexico in 1986.

Was a Dutch scientist, who was responsible for the Hamaker theory which explains the van der Waals f

Was a Dutch scientist, who was responsible for the Hamaker theory which explains the van der Waals forces between objects larger than molecules. His 1937 paper was heavily cited.He completed his doctorate at the Universiteit Utrecht in 1934. His dissertation was labelled: Reflectivity and Emissivity of Tungsten; with a Description of a New Method to Determine the Total Reflectivity of Any Surface in a Simple and Accurate Way. His adviser was Leonard Ornstein. From 1934 to 1967 he was employed in the Physical Laboratory of Philips in Eindhoven, and from 1960 to 1972 he was Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology.[1][2]

Worked as a jurist in the Dutch Republic and laid the foundations with Francisco de Vitoria and Albe

Worked as a jurist in the Dutch Republic and laid the foundations with Francisco de Vitoria and Alberico Gentili for international law, based on natural law. He was also a philosopher, Christian apologist, playwright, and poet.Aided by his continued association with van Oldenbarnevelt, Grotius made considerable advances in his political career, being retained as Oldenbarnevelt's resident advisor in 1605, Advocate General of the Fisc of Holland, Zeeland and Friesland in 1607, and then as Pensionary of Rotterdam (the equivalent of a mayoral office) in 1613.[4] In 1608 he married Maria van Reigersbergen, with whom he would have eight children (four surviving beyond youth) and who would be invaluable in helping him and the family to weather the storm to come.

Was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concep

Was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity in the 1890s, and for developing a mutation theory of evolution.

Worked as a jurist in the Dutch Republic and laid the foundations with Francisco de Vitoria for inte

Worked as a jurist in the Dutch Republic and laid the foundations with Francisco de Vitoria for international law, based on natural law. He was also a philosopher, Christian apologist, playwright, and poet.

A former Dutch football defender, who played for the Dutch club AZ Alkmaar in the late 1970s, early

A former Dutch football defender, who played for the Dutch club AZ Alkmaar in the late 1970s, early 1980s. He started his professional career for FC Groningen.Hovenkamp made his international debut for Holland in a 2:0 win in February 1977 against England. Hovenkamp was forced to withdraw from the 1978 World Cup squad due to injury, but as the deadline for calling up replacement players had passed, the Netherlands were unable to replace him. He did play in the 1980 European Championships, and played his final international (a 1-0 loss to Spain) in a qualifier for the 1984 European Championship. He obtained 31 caps, scoring 2 goals.

Is a Dutch crystallographer and one of the most prominent crystallographers of the 20th century. He

Is a Dutch crystallographer and one of the most prominent crystallographers of the 20th century. He is famous for his invention of the Rietveld refinement method, which is used for the characterisation of crystalline materials from powder diffraction data. The Rietveld refinement uses a least squares approach to refine a theoretical line profile (calculated from a known or postulated crystal structure) until it matches the measured profile. The introduction of this technique was a significant step forward in the diffraction analysis of powder samples.

Was a Dutch theoretical physicist who contributed to statistical physics, early quantum theory and q

Was a Dutch theoretical physicist who contributed to statistical physics, early quantum theory and quantum mechanics.From Amsterdam, he corresponded with Albert Einstein, Hendrik Lorentz and Paul Ehrenfest on quantum mechanics and wrote several influential papers on quantum mechanics which were published in the German physics journal Zeitschrift für Physik. In particular, the notion that elementary particles only act on other elementary particles and not themselves was a key idea in the formulation of the Wheeler-Feynman Time symmetric theory. Tetrode led a withdrawn life; it is said that Einstein and Ehrenfest once visited him in Amsterdam, but were sent away by a maid at the front door with the words, Meneer ontvangt niet ("Sir does not receive").