Dutch Famous Names Starting with Letter P

Is a Belgian footballer currently playing at K. Sint-Truidense V.V.. He started his professional car

Is a Belgian footballer currently playing at K. Sint-Truidense V.V.. He started his professional career at K. Sint-Truidense V.V. and after playing four years for Roda JC in the Netherlands he spent several years in Germany with Borussia Mönchengladbach and MSV Duisburg. After this he came back to the club where it all started for him, K. Sint-Truidense V.V.

Is a Dutch physicist. He is now a distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University in the United St

Is a Dutch physicist. He is now a distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University in the United States. Van Nieuwenhuizen is best-known for his discovery of supergravity with Sergio Ferrara and Daniel Z. Freedman.

Is a Dutch business man and currently member of the board of Feyenoord Rotterdam. Vogelzang worked a

Is a Dutch business man and currently member of the board of Feyenoord Rotterdam. Vogelzang worked as a director for the Royal Netherlands Football Association (KNVB) and is currently part of the board of directors of the KNVB as well. He was Chef de Mission of the Dutch Olympic Committee during the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

Is a Dutch musician. He plays pan flute and assorted wind instruments and has released a number of s

Is a Dutch musician. He plays pan flute and assorted wind instruments and has released a number of solo pan flute CDs. He worked with the music group Flairck and later he and Anette Visser founded the music theatre company Zenga.

Is a Dutch cricket player. His first taste of international cricket came in the Under 19 World Cup i

Is a Dutch cricket player. His first taste of international cricket came in the Under 19 World Cup in 2002 when he represented his native New Zealand. However, he now represents The Netherlands having made his debut in a One Day International against Sri

A Dutch footballer who currently plays for NEC Nijmegen. Wisgerhof is a defender who was born in Wag

A Dutch footballer who currently plays for NEC Nijmegen. Wisgerhof is a defender who was born in Wageningen and made his debut in professional football, being part of the Vitesse squad in the 1999-2000 season.During the transfer period at the beginning of the 2008-2009 season, Dutch football club FC Twente tried to assign Wisgerhof only if the deal of full-back Wielaert to Ajax continued.

Is a mathematician. His main achievements concern approximation theory – in particular the theory

Is a mathematician. His main achievements concern approximation theory – in particular the theory of Padé approximants – and its application in numerical methods for improving the rate of convergence of sequences of real numbers.

Is a Dutch entrepreneur.In 1991, soon after he completed his studies in Business and Computer Scienc

Is a Dutch entrepreneur.In 1991, soon after he completed his studies in Business and Computer Science at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, he founded, with his former university mate Pieter Geelen, a company called Palmtop Software, which was later renamed to TomTom.

Is a Dutch composer.Wagemans studied organ (diploma 1974), composition with Jan van Vlijmen (diploma

Is a Dutch composer.Wagemans studied organ (diploma 1974), composition with Jan van Vlijmen (diploma 1975) and music theory (diploma 1977) at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. After his studies he also worked with Klaus Huber in Freiburg.

Was a Dutch gabber music producer, best known for his production under the pseudonym 3 Steps Ahead.P

Was a Dutch gabber music producer, best known for his production under the pseudonym 3 Steps Ahead.Pigmans was diagnosed with brain cancer in 1999. On July 18, 2003 in Zaandam at the Hemkade stadium, fellow Dutch producers organized a fundraising event for him where the cream of the Dutch gabber scene performed (for free - all income was spent on his treatment in hope of curing him) and paid respect to him.[2] A couple of weeks later, he died. Two months later the annual Thunderdome started with a one-minute silence in his memory.

Is a Dutch former cyclist from Nieuwkoop The Netherlands, won World Cycling Championships Road Race

Is a Dutch former cyclist from Nieuwkoop The Netherlands, won World Cycling Championships Road Race in 1979. She came third in 3 km Pursuit during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in 1980 which was held in Besançon, France.

A Belgian singer who has taken part in several Belgian National Finals for the Eurovision Song Conte

A Belgian singer who has taken part in several Belgian National Finals for the Eurovision Song Contest:

Is a Belgian sprint canoer who competed in the mid 2000s. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she

Is a Belgian sprint canoer who competed in the mid 2000s. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-1 500 m event.

Is a former swimmer from The Netherlands, who won the golden medal in the 100 metres breaststroke at

Is a former swimmer from The Netherlands, who won the golden medal in the 100 metres breaststroke at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Is a Dutch politician and former banking manager. As a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (Ch

Is a Dutch politician and former banking manager. As a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (Christen-Democratisch Appèl) she has been an MP since November 30, 2006, focusing on finance, economics, innovation and agriculture.

Is a Dutch speed skater who competed in the 1964 Winter Olympics and in the 1968 Winter Olympics.

Is a Dutch speed skater who competed in the 1964 Winter Olympics and in the 1968 Winter Olympics.

Was a track cyclist from the Netherlands.He represented his native country at the two consecutive Su

Was a track cyclist from the Netherlands.He represented his native country at the two consecutive Summer Olympics (1920 and 1924). At his first appearance he won two bronze medals, one in the 50km track race and one in the 2000m tandem competition, alongs

Was a Dutch track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.In 1908 he was eliminat

Was a Dutch track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.In 1908 he was eliminated in the first round of the 3500 metre walk competition as well as of the 10 mile walk event.

Was a Dutch track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.In 1908 he was eliminat

Was a Dutch track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.In 1908 he was eliminated in the first round of the 3500 metre walk competition as well as of the 10 mile walk event.

Was a Dutch politician.

Was a Dutch politician.

Was a Dutch sailor who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.He was a crew member of the Dutch boat O

Was a Dutch sailor who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.He was a crew member of the Dutch boat Oranje, which won the gold medal in the 6½ metre class (1919 rating).

Was a Dutch sailor who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.He was a crew member of the Dutch boat B

Was a Dutch sailor who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.He was a crew member of the Dutch boat Boreas, which won the silver medal in the 12 foot dinghy.

Was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was a contemporary and probable acquaintance of

Was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was a contemporary and probable acquaintance of Ockeghem, and was the composer of at least one of the first unified mass cycles to be written in continental Europe.Domarto's two mass settings, the Missa Spiritus almus and a Missa sine nomine, were famous at the time. The latter of the two may have been one of the earliest cyclic masses composed on the continent, most likely in the 1440s, and imitates some features of contemporary English composers such as Leonel Power.[1] The Missa Spiritus almus, likely dating from the 1450s, is a cantus-firmus mass, with the tune always in the tenor, but with a changing rhythmic profile as it changes mensuration throughout the piece.

Was a Dutch apothecary, chemist and instrument maker. He became known as the inventor of the Kipp ap

Was a Dutch apothecary, chemist and instrument maker. He became known as the inventor of the Kipp apparatus, chemistry equipment for the development of gases.In 1840, Kipp was elected into the medical council of the city of Delft. In this responsibility, he conducted various chemical investigations assigned by the authorities, e.g., of drinking water and of lamp oil used in street lighting. Many pharmacists in those times were working on professionalisation of the profession. Kipp was one of the founders in 1842 of the Nederlandsche Maatschappij ter Bevordering der Pharmacy (Dutch Company for the advancement of Pharmacy). Also in 1842, in Delft the Polytechnische Hogeschool was founded by King Willem II. The following year,

Was a Dutch ophthalmologist, geneticist, and pioneer in the application of genetics to ophthalmology

Was a Dutch ophthalmologist, geneticist, and pioneer in the application of genetics to ophthalmology. Waardenburg syndrome is named after him.[1]Waardenburg studied medicine at the Utrecht University from 1904–11, and then trained in ophthalmology before receiving an MD for a dissertation on the hereditary basis of the physiological and pathological characteristics of the eye in 1913.[2] In 1932 Waardenburg suggested that Down syndrome might be the consequence of a chromosomal aberration, a fact which was confirmed after 27 years, by Jérôme Lejeune and his colleagues.[3]