Dutch Famous Names Starting with Letter S

Is a former tennis player from Belgium.Appelmans started playing at the neighbour's court at the age

Is a former tennis player from Belgium.Appelmans started playing at the neighbour's court at the age of seven. Her first trainer, Fred Debruyn, saw immediately that she was very talented. Although right-handed, she played left-handed. At a children's tennis training session she claimed to be left-handed so she could stay with her friend in the left-handed group. Appelmans turned pro in 1988, and won her first title against Chanda Rubin in Phoenix in 1991.

Is a Belgian politician and a member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish.She was elected as a me

Is a Belgian politician and a member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish.She was elected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 1995. Sabine is also a member of the AWEPA Governing Council. She was vice-president of the Senate between 1999 and 2003, and became the 34th President of the Belgian Senate on 11 October 2011. She became an Officer in the Order of Leopold on 6 June 2010.

Was a Dutch spectacle-maker from Middelburg credited with inventing, or contributing advances toward

Was a Dutch spectacle-maker from Middelburg credited with inventing, or contributing advances towards the invention of the first telescope. Jansen is sometimes credited for inventing the first truly compound microscope. However, the origin of the microscope, just like the origin of the telescope, is a matter of debate.

Is a Dutch politician and former civil servant and trade unionist of Kurdish-Turkish descent. As a m

Is a Dutch politician and former civil servant and trade unionist of Kurdish-Turkish descent. As a member of the Socialist Party (Socialistische Partij) she has been an MP since November 30, 2006. From January 11 till April 14, 2011 she was on maternity leave and therefore replaced by Rik Janssen. She focuses on matters of social affairs (poverty reduction, social assistance, purchasing power and child benefit), emancipation and social integration.

Is a Dutch novelist of Turkish extraction. He is known particularly for such "multi-cultural whoduni

Is a Dutch novelist of Turkish extraction. He is known particularly for such "multi-cultural whodunits" as De roos van Amsterdam ("The rose of Amsterdam").

Is a Belgian football player who currently plays for K.S.K. Beveren. His position is right back.Ba p

Is a Belgian football player who currently plays for K.S.K. Beveren. His position is right back.Ba previously played with K.V.C. Westerlo for several seasons in the Belgian First Division.

A Dutch footballer or Moroccan origin who plays for Go Ahead Eagles. He is a defender who plays as a

A Dutch footballer or Moroccan origin who plays for Go Ahead Eagles. He is a defender who plays as a Full Back on the right side of the pitch.Bakkati's career began when he signed a professional contract with SC Heerenveen, making his first first-team appearance in 2000, at the age of 18. After 5.5 years with the team from Friesland he joined fellow Eredivisie participants ADO Den Haag during the 2005-06 season.

Was a Dutch architect and painter.De Bray established himself in Haarlem before 1617, where he is su

Was a Dutch architect and painter.De Bray established himself in Haarlem before 1617, where he is supposed to have been taught by Hendrick Goltzius and Cornelis van Haarlem, and where he married in 1625.

Was a Dutch landscape painter. He was the uncle of Jacob van Ruisdael.

Was a Dutch landscape painter. He was the uncle of Jacob van Ruisdael.

Was a Dutch Olympic fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team sabre event at the 1920 Summer Olympic

Was a Dutch Olympic fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team sabre event at the 1920 Summer Olympics.[1][2]

Is a Dutch professional badminton player. She can play either in singles or in doubles.

Is a Dutch professional badminton player. She can play either in singles or in doubles.

Is a Dutch politician, co-founder and former president[1] of the Pirate Party of the Netherlands (Pi

Is a Dutch politician, co-founder and former president[1] of the Pirate Party of the Netherlands (Piratenpartij Nederland)[2], which was registered on the 10th of March 2010[3]. Besides Jerry Weyer from Luxembourg he is co-president of Pirate Parties International (PPI), the umbrella organization of the international Pirate Party movement[4] Together with Patrick Mächler from Switzerland he followed Andrew Norton as chairman of PPI in July 2009.[5] Mächler stepped down as PPI interim Co-President on Allioui's side in favour of Jerry Weyer who was elected on 1st of March 2010.[6]

A Dutch footballer of Moroccan origin who plays for ADO Den Haag. He is a defender who plays as a fu

A Dutch footballer of Moroccan origin who plays for ADO Den Haag. He is a defender who plays as a fullback on the left side of the pitch.El Moussaoui's career began when he signed a professional contract with ADO Den Haag, his first first-team appearance has yet to be played as he recently joined the team from the club's youth squad.On February 16, 2007 he played his first Eredivisie match for ADO against Willem II Tilburg [1]

Is a Belgian professional football goalkeeper. He currently plays for SV Zulte Waregem.At the end of

Is a Belgian professional football goalkeeper. He currently plays for SV Zulte Waregem.At the end of the 2007-08 season, Zulte Waregem chose not to prolong the contract of Geert De Vlieger, who was until then first choice goalkeeper. Bossut started the last matches of that season to gain more first team experience. Instead of signing a new goalkeeper, Bossut was awarded his spot in the starting eleven for the 2008-09 season.

Was a Dutch-American physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George

Was a Dutch-American physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck. He studied physics at the University of Leiden under Paul Ehrenfest, where he obtained his PhD in 1927. After receiving his PhD, Goudsmit served as a Professor at the University of Michigan between 1927 and 1946. In 1930 he co-authored a text with Linus Pauling titled The Structure of Line Spectra.

Was a Dutch minister, poet and purist.In 1617, he began writing a description of Haarlem in poetic f

Was a Dutch minister, poet and purist.In 1617, he began writing a description of Haarlem in poetic form, aided by Petrus Scriverius. Its poetry was printed and published in 1628. This history of the city was not superseded until Pieter Langendijk's nearly a century later. As a foreword to this book, Ampzing wrote a dissertation on the Dutch language, in which he also wrote about the rules of rhetoric; this foreword was also sold separately in 1628 under the title ""Taelbericht der Nederlandsche spellinge" ("Treatise on Dutch spelling").

Was a Dutch entomologist. He was curator of the entomological collections of the Natural History Mus

Was a Dutch entomologist. He was curator of the entomological collections of the Natural History Museum, Leiden from 1854 to 1873, when he retired due to health problems. In 1857 he founded Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, a journal of systematic and evolutionary entomology published by the Netherlands Entomological Society. Sellen van Vollenhoven was a founder member of this Society. He described 9 genera and 471 species of insects.

Was a Dutch painter of the Golden Age.Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten was first a pupil of his father

Was a Dutch painter of the Golden Age.Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten was first a pupil of his father while living at Dordrecht until about 1640. On the death of Dirk van Hoogstraten, his father, he changed his residence to Amsterdam and entered the school of Rembrandt.

Was a successful Dutch lawyer and a prominent Patriot and democrat, involved in the dismantling of t

Was a successful Dutch lawyer and a prominent Patriot and democrat, involved in the dismantling of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the negotiations over the Cape. Wiselius was a witty, Voltairian spirit with political views far ahead of his time who would end his days writing dramas on Classical themes. ...[2] Wiselius corresponded with nearly all the main players at the time of the Batavian Republic and it would be impossible to know that period completely without his carefully-kept and neatly written correspondence. He was also a poet, historian and superintendent of the police.

Was a Dutch bobsledder who competed in the mid 1930s. At the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Parten

Was a Dutch bobsledder who competed in the mid 1930s. At the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, he finished tenth in the two-man event.

A Dutch footballer who plays for FSV Frankfurt. Koejoe, a pacy striker, has played much of his caree

A Dutch footballer who plays for FSV Frankfurt. Koejoe, a pacy striker, has played much of his career in Austria and Germany, and has also played for Queens Park Rangers.

Was a Dutch physician and Amsterdam city planner.Sarphati's ancestors were Portuguese Sephardi Jews

Was a Dutch physician and Amsterdam city planner.Sarphati's ancestors were Portuguese Sephardi Jews who arrived in the Netherlands in the 17th century. While only middle-class, his parents were able to let him attend a Latin school. At the age of 20, Sarphati started studying medicine in Leiden, which he finished with a promotion in 1839.

Was a vice-admiral of the navy of the Batavian Republic. He commanded the squadron that surrendered

Was a vice-admiral of the navy of the Batavian Republic. He commanded the squadron that surrendered without a fight to the Royal Navy at the Vlieter Incident in 1799.In the severe Winter of 1794/95 the ships of the Dutch navy on the roadstead of Hellevoetsluis became lodged in the ice on the river Maas. Story's commanding officer rear-admiral Pieter Melvill van Carnbee then appointed him commander of the naval base and squadron. The armies of the French Republic had invaded the Netherlands in the course of the War of the First Coalition.

Was a Dutch liberal politician.In 1869, van Houten was first elected to the House of Representatives

Was a Dutch liberal politician.In 1869, van Houten was first elected to the House of Representatives for the electoral district Groningen, until he became a minister in 1894 in the cabinet of Joan Röell.Van Houten introduced a law in 1874, Kinderwetje - van Houten (Children's Law), that forbade children younger than 12-year old to work as labourers in factories. It was the first social law of the Netherlands. Nonetheless, van Houten was a conservative and opposed further social laws and any egalitarianism by the state. On individual issues, he was progressive though, writing about feminism, prostitution and birth control. He was president of a Neo-Malthusian society in 1888.

A Dutch football (soccer) goalkeeper who plays for FC Twente, with whom he has spent nearly all of h

A Dutch football (soccer) goalkeeper who plays for FC Twente, with whom he has spent nearly all of his career, save for a season at Ajax Amsterdam.Although Boschker has never made an appearance for the Netherlands, he was included in Marco van Basten's provisional squad for UEFA Euro 2008. [1] However, following the Ukraine match on 21 May, van Basten released him from the provisional squad as he was seen as surplus to the squad's needs being the 4th goalkeeper. [1]