Dutch Famous Names Starting with Letter W

Is a Belgian footballer who currently plays for R.E. Mouscron, as a central midfielder.In 2005-06, B

Is a Belgian footballer who currently plays for R.E. Mouscron, as a central midfielder.In 2005-06, Baseggio was transfer listed, joining Italy's Treviso F.B.C. 1993 in January 2006, being relegated in his first year. However, in the mid-season interval of the next season, he returned to Anderlecht. In his two stints with the Brussels outfit, he won four national leagues, although he was only a fringe player in the last.

Is a retired Belgian footballer.During his career he played for R.S.C. Anderlecht and Sporting Loker

Is a retired Belgian footballer.During his career he played for R.S.C. Anderlecht and Sporting Lokeren. He earned 5 caps for the Belgium national football team, and participated in UEFA Euro 1984.

Is a retired Belgian professional road bicycle racer and former directeur sportif of Team Telekom, l

Is a retired Belgian professional road bicycle racer and former directeur sportif of Team Telekom, later known as T-Mobile Team, a professional cycling team. In his competitive cycling days, Godefroot was a specialist in the one-day classic cycle races, w

Is a Dutch composer, clarinetist and conductor of classical music, specializing in contemporary clas

Is a Dutch composer, clarinetist and conductor of classical music, specializing in contemporary classical music.Studying composition with Ton de Leeuw and clarinet with Bram de Wilde, he graduated from the Amsterdam Academy of Music in 1961. Upon his graduation he studied clarinet with Keith Wilson and composition with Mel Powell at Yale University, where he received a Master of Music in 1963. In 1966 he studied with Roger Sessions in Tanglewood.

Is a retired Belgian footballer. During his career he played for K. Beerschot V.A.C., Club Brugge K.

Is a retired Belgian footballer. During his career he played for K. Beerschot V.A.C., Club Brugge K.V., R. Standard de Liège, AFC Ajax, K.V. Mechelen. He earned 46 caps for the Belgium national football team, and participated in UEFA Euro 1980 and the 1982 FIFA World Cup. As a player he won 4 championships, 2 with Standard in Belgium, 1 with Bruges in Belgium and 1 with Ajax in the Netherlands. He also won 2 cups and played the final of the European Championship with Belgium in Italy in 1980.

Was a Dutch rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Dutch boat Minerva Ams

Was a Dutch rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Dutch boat Minerva Amsterdam, which won the bronze medal in the eights.

Was a Dutch rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.

Was a Dutch rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.

Was a Flemish singer, musician, poet and artist.His father, Jaak Van de Velde, was a metal worker an

Was a Flemish singer, musician, poet and artist.His father, Jaak Van de Velde, was a metal worker and talented singer, his mother a housewife and singer. He grew up in the Zirkstraat, near the Antwerp Red Light district. At home the young boy was always surrounded by music.

A Brazilian agricultural engineer, geneticist, entomologist, professor and scientific leader, notabl

A Brazilian agricultural engineer, geneticist, entomologist, professor and scientific leader, notable for his discoveries in the genetics and sex determination of bees. He is also partially responsible for the accidental release of experimental, Africanized bee queens in 1957, also called killer bees. Africanized bees are hybrids of European and African honey bees. These queens were eventually responsible for the spread of the Africanized bee to continental areas that were previously dominated by the more docile European bee.From March 1975 to April 1979 Kerr moved to Manaus, Amazonas, as director of the National Institute of Amazonia Research (INPA), a research institute of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He officially retired from the University of São Paulo in January 1981, but not from scientific life. Exactly eleven days later he accepted a position as Full Professor at the Universidade Estadual do Maranhão in São Luís

A Dutch singer. Her first name Wende is commonly used as her artist name.Wende moved to Indonesia wh

A Dutch singer. Her first name Wende is commonly used as her artist name.Wende moved to Indonesia when she was four years old and to Guinea-Bissau when she was six. When she was nine years old, she came to The Netherlands, where she lived in Zeist. She gr

Was a Dutch-Suriname footballer. During his career he served Feyenoord Rotterdam and RBC Roosendaal.

Was a Dutch-Suriname footballer. During his career he served Feyenoord Rotterdam and RBC Roosendaal. He died at the age of 22, when on June 7, 1989 he was killed in the Surinam Airways Flight PY764 air crash in Paramaribo.Fräser was a postman in Rotterdam and played in the youth squads of Feyenoord Rotterdam. He was known as a talented player and was promoted to the first team of Feyenoord in the 1987-88 season. He did not yet make his debut that season, but remained on the bench. The next season he was transferred to RBC Roosendaal where he made his professional debut. After that season he signed a new contract at SVV for whom he would have been playing from the 1989-90 season.

A multi-racial actress and singer; and daughter of author W.D. Wright (Crisis of the Black Intellect

A multi-racial actress and singer; and daughter of author W.D. Wright (Crisis of the Black Intellectual, Racism Matters). Wendy is married to James T. Smith whose daughter Taryn Smith is the great, great, great granddaughter of American abolitionist John

Is a Belgian amateur snooker and pool player.

Is a Belgian amateur snooker and pool player.

Was a Belgian Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual foil and team épée events at the 1932

Was a Belgian Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual foil and team épée events at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

A Dutch football player who currently plays for FC Utrecht.

A Dutch football player who currently plays for FC Utrecht.

A Dutch footballer. He played for Ajax (2002–2007) and currently plays for Real Madrid. He is also

A Dutch footballer. He played for Ajax (2002–2007) and currently plays for Real Madrid. He is also a regular member of the Dutch national team.Although Sneijder was not born in Amsterdam, he started his career in the Ajax's famous youth academy. He made his debut for Ajax in a 2-0 win at Excelsior on December 22, 2002 when manager Ronald Koeman, troubled by an injury-filled squad called him up, advised by Danny Blind, the then-coach of the Ajax youth-squad. He rapidly established himself in the role of midfield general and occasional left winger. Despite his short height, he is pacy and quick and strong on the ball and his passing range is enhanced by his two-footedness (ambidextrous).

Is a Belgian football player, who currently plays as a striker for Club Brugge and the Belgium natio

Is a Belgian football player, who currently plays as a striker for Club Brugge and the Belgium national football team. He played for K.R.C. Genk in the Jupiler League from where he joined AFC Ajax in 2003 for about £5 million. He finished as the top scorer of Jupiler League in 2002 with 30 goals and in 2003 22 goals, which he shared with Cédric Roussel.

A Dutch footballer who plays for ADO Den Haag. He is a striker who plays as a winger on both side of

A Dutch footballer who plays for ADO Den Haag. He is a striker who plays as a winger on both side of the pitch.Verhoek's career began when he signed a professional contract with ADO Den Haag, after the winter break in 2004/2005 he played his first match in the first team of ADO Den Haag. Verhoek also plays for the Dutch youth squad.

Is a Dutch professor, chair of the Department of Social Science & Technology at the Faculty of Arts

Is a Dutch professor, chair of the Department of Social Science & Technology at the Faculty of Arts & Culture in the Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Is a former Dutch swimmer, who won the bronze medal in the 200 Metres Breaststroke at the 1960 Summe

Is a former Dutch swimmer, who won the bronze medal in the 200 Metres Breaststroke at the 1960 Summer Olympics. For forty years he was the only Dutch swimmer who had won an olympic medal. Pieter van den Hoogenband followed in his footsteps at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney

Is a Dutch field hockey player, who plays as midfielder for Dutch club Laren. She also plays for the

Is a Dutch field hockey player, who plays as midfielder for Dutch club Laren. She also plays for the Netherlands national team, however most of the time as a defender. She was part of the Dutch squad that became World Champion at the 2006 Women's Hockey W

Is a Dutch architect, theorist and industrial designer from the Dutch-German border town of Heerlen.

Is a Dutch architect, theorist and industrial designer from the Dutch-German border town of Heerlen. After graduating from Eindhoven University in 1983 he established Wiel Arets Architect & Associates in his hometown a year later and in 1997 the office was moved to Maastricht. In 2004 a second office was opened in Amsterdam, with a third office in Zurich opening in 2008. Bettina Kraus, born 1970 in Nuremberg, has been a partner of Wiel Arets Architects since 2000.[1]

A football (soccer) manager from the Netherlands, who's the developer of the Coerver coaching method

A football (soccer) manager from the Netherlands, who's the developer of the Coerver coaching method. He won the UEFA Cup with Feyenoord Rotterdam in the 1973-1974 season.The 1998 FIFA World Cup in France saw the first Coerver student, Boudewijn Zenden who played for the Netherlands national football team, to make the FIFA World Cup.Coerver Coaching Technique is a soccer coaching technique which Coerver created. By analysing videotapes of various great players including Pelé, devised a new concept in football which advocates that skill could not only be inherent with the young players but could also be passed on in a comprehensive academic way. Under this technique, players progress in a structured manner,

Is a former female field hockey striker from The Netherlands, who represented her native country at

Is a former female field hockey striker from The Netherlands, who represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics: 1992 and 1996. At the last tournament in Atlanta, Georgia the former player of Hockey Vereniging Victoria in Rotterdam (wh

Is a Dutch musician.In 1980 Ott joined Diesel as a replacement for Frank Papendrecht. He had taken u

Is a Dutch musician.In 1980 Ott joined Diesel as a replacement for Frank Papendrecht. He had taken up a career as a bassist only recently before that (switching from guitar) and despite his shy demeanour, he was a quality bassist.