Dutch Famous Names Starting with Letter M

Is a Dutch judoka.Wittenberg won the third place in the Dutch Championships twice in a row. She was

Is a Dutch judoka.Wittenberg won the third place in the Dutch Championships twice in a row. She was downed by a knee injury in December 2004 and was recovering. After recovering she won the third place in the Dutch Championships again in 2008

A Dutch football player currently playing for VVV-Venlo. He formerly played for BV Veendam and FC Gr

A Dutch football player currently playing for VVV-Venlo. He formerly played for BV Veendam and FC Groningen.

A Dutch footballer who currently plays for Heracles Almelo. Smit was born in Almelo and made his deb

A Dutch footballer who currently plays for Heracles Almelo. Smit was born in Almelo and made his debut in professional football in the 1990-00 season.

Is a Belgian midfielder of Moroccan descent currently playing for Premier League side Everton and th

Is a Belgian midfielder of Moroccan descent currently playing for Premier League side Everton and the Belgian national team.Fellaini was eligible to play for Belgium or Morocco. Having already played for Belgium at youth level, he chose to continue representing the country of his birth. He scored his first goal in a 2-1 defeat against Portugal in the UEFA Euro 2008 qualification.

Is a Dutch professional beach volleyball and indoor volleyball player born in Emmen, Drenthe.In indo

Is a Dutch professional beach volleyball and indoor volleyball player born in Emmen, Drenthe.In indoor volleyball Leenstra started her career in 1983 at OSV Pegasus Ter Apel. Other teams she played for were Etiflex Ommen, Martinus Amstelveen, Vini Montesc

Was a Dutch architect, urban planner, and furniture designer. Stam was extraordinarily well-connecte

Was a Dutch architect, urban planner, and furniture designer. Stam was extraordinarily well-connected, and his career intersects with important moments in the history of 20th century European architecture, including chair design at the Bauhaus, the Weissenhof Estate, the "Van Nelle Factory", an important modernist landmark building in Rotterdam, buildings for Ernst May's Weimar Frankfurt housing project then to Russia with the idealistic May Brigade, to postwar reconstruction in Germany.

Was a Dutch politician.

Was a Dutch politician.

Was a Dutch comic writer, born in Rotterdam. He was probably the most successful comic artist in the

Was a Dutch comic writer, born in Rotterdam. He was probably the most successful comic artist in the Netherlands and had a great influence in the Dutch language by introducing new words and expressions. [citation needed]His most famous comic series were the Tom Puss (Tom Poes in Dutch) and Oliver B. Bumble (Olivier B. Bommel in Dutch) series that appeared in a Dutch newspaper from 1941-1986. It has a very characteristic format. Every day there were three drawings and an accompanying text (about a book-page long)

Was a Belgian bobsledder, swimmer, aviator, and businessman who competed in both the Summer and Wint

Was a Belgian bobsledder, swimmer, aviator, and businessman who competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympics for Belgium from the early 1920s to the late 1930s. He was captured by the Nazis during World War II and executed in a concentration camp. Comp

A retired Dutch footballer.He also earned 1 cap for the Netherlands national football team in 1980,

A retired Dutch footballer.He also earned 1 cap for the Netherlands national football team in 1980, and participated in Euro 1980.

A Dutch professional footballer.Reuser began his career at Dutch side Ajax, and having joined the si

A Dutch professional footballer.Reuser began his career at Dutch side Ajax, and having joined the side at youth level, made the step up to play in the first team. He was a goalscoring midfielder who looked capable of being a permanent fixture in the Dutch national setup. His career was looking very promising, but unfortunately he suffered a serious knee injury, which ended his Ajax career. He then moved on to another Dutch side, Vitesse Arnhem. It was here that Martijn made his one and only international appearance against Ghana in a friendly. He didn't really hit it off at Vitesse however and was re-signed by Ajax.

Is a former freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch 4×200 m freestyl

Is a former freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch 4×200 m freestyle relay Team that won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He did so alongside Johan Kenkhuis, Marcel Wouda and Pieter van den Hoogenband.

Is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist currently riding for Team Garmin-Chipotle. Garmin's dire

Is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist currently riding for Team Garmin-Chipotle. Garmin's directeur sportif, Jonathan Vaughters was able to lure Maaskant to his team away from Dutch UCI ProTour team Rabobank. Maaskant turned pro in 2008, and immedia

Is a Dutch baseball player who currently plays for Neptunus and the Dutch national team.Meeuwis debu

Is a Dutch baseball player who currently plays for Neptunus and the Dutch national team.Meeuwis debuted with the Twins Sport Club in 1999 as a teenager but did not return to the Hoofdklasse again until 2004, when he became a full-time player. When the Twi

Is a Belgian football player who plays as a right back. He currently plays for K.F.C. Germinal Beers

Is a Belgian football player who plays as a right back. He currently plays for K.F.C. Germinal Beerschot in Antwerp. He joined the team from KSV Roeselare, where he played from 2005 to 2007.

Is the keyboardist for Dutch metal band Within Temptation.

Is the keyboardist for Dutch metal band Within Temptation.

Is a Dutch judoka.

Is a Dutch judoka.

Is a retired long-distance runner from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 19

Is a retired long-distance runner from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There he finished in 9th place in the men's 10,000 metres (27:50.30), and in 13th position (02:14:53) in the men'

Is a Dutch politician and one of the members of the PVV. He used to work as a journalist and also as

Is a Dutch politician and one of the members of the PVV. He used to work as a journalist and also as a secretary for the PVV.

Is a Dutch/Austrian badminton player.He started his career at the age of 6 at the local town badmint

Is a Dutch/Austrian badminton player.He started his career at the age of 6 at the local town badminton club and turned professional at 16. At the age of 17, after a conflict with the Dutch national coach he decided to move to Austria, to join the Austrian

A Dutch retired football Striker. He is best remembered for his stints at BV Veendam, FC Emmen and F

A Dutch retired football Striker. He is best remembered for his stints at BV Veendam, FC Emmen and FC Groningen.Martin Drent started his career at amateur club GVAV Rapiditas in 1991. His career in amateur football was short lived, however, as he proved his quality, signing for Eredivisie side FC Groningen in 1992. He played very few games at Groningen and left after just one season to join BV Veendam where he was a relative success. In 1993 he signed for FC Emmen where he played for six years. He returned to Groningen in 1999 where he scored 22 goals in his first season back at the club, helping them achieve promotion from the Eerste Divisie. In January 2005 he returned to another former club BV Veendam where he retired at the end of the season.

A retired football defender from the Netherlands, who is the current assistant-coach of Louis van Ga

A retired football defender from the Netherlands, who is the current assistant-coach of Louis van Gaal at AZ Alkmaar. He played for Go Ahead Eagles (1971-1977), HFC Haarlem (1977-1983), AZ '67 (1983-1986), HFC Haarlem (1986-1988), Sparta Rotterdam (1988-1989) and FC Wageningen (1989). He was a member of the famous Haarlem-team, that competed in the UEFA Cup in the 1982-1983 season, for the first time in the club's history.

A former Dutch footballer.Koeman played professional football with KFC of Koog aan de Zaan from 1955

A former Dutch footballer.Koeman played professional football with KFC of Koog aan de Zaan from 1955-1960, Blauw-Wit Amsterdam from 1960-1963, GVAV/FC Groningen from 1963-73 and SC Heerenveen until his retirement. He was selected regularly for the Netherlands national football team but only played one match, against Austria on April 12, 1964. Despite his respectable career he is best known for being the father of Erwin and Ronald Koeman, who followed in their father's footsteps.

Is a Dutch film director.It was his next (and first feature length) film however that established hi

Is a Dutch film director.It was his next (and first feature length) film however that established his name, also outside of the Netherlands. Suzy Q (also made for television) became the most awarded Dutch film of 1999 and established both Koolhoven's career and that of actress Carice van Houten, who Koolhoven worked with several times in the films to come.

Is a painter, sculptor, digital artist and conceptual artist, who has created the Weightless Sculptu

Is a painter, sculptor, digital artist and conceptual artist, who has created the Weightless Sculpture Project.Since 1998 he has been developing an Art and Educational Project using interactive 3D technology with vrml in collaboration with the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands. His main project is Weightless Sculpture, which he began in 1985 with the concept " A Line in Outer Space - Visible from earth - with the naked eye - At clear nights."