Famous People with Name Groot

Cor De Groot            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Cor De Groot: was a renowned Dutch pianist and composer.He was born in Amsterdam. He studied piano with Egbert Veen and Ulferts Schults, and composition and conducting under Sem Dresden. In 1932 he graduated with highest honours, playing a piano concerto written by himself. After becoming a soloist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, he won the first prize at an international contest for pianists in Vienna. He played all over the world and his recordings are often considered as musical "treasures". He was a member of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition's jury in 1956.

Daniël ("Daan") De Groot            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Daniël ("Daan") De Groot: was a road bicycle and track cyclist from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.There he was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the men's 4,000 m team pursuit, alongside Adrie Voorting, Jan Pl

Pieter De Groot            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Pieter De Groot: was a Dutch regent and diplomat during the First Stadtholderless Period of the Dutch Republic. He led the Dutch delegation that vainly tried to negotiate the Dutch capitulation to king Louis XIV of France during the Year of Disaster, 1672.

Dick De Groot            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Dick De Groot: was born in Scheveningen, a beach suburb of The Hague in the Netherlands. After the usual schooling that prepared him for the business world he decided to follow his old dream of being a painter. He studied five years at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and took post-graduate classes in sculpture.

Johannes De Groot            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Johannes De Groot: was a Dutch mathematician, the leading Dutch topologist for more than two decades following World War II.[1]De Groot was born at Garrelsweer, a tiny village in the municipality of Loppersum, the Netherlands, on May 7, 1914.[2] He did both his undergraduate and graduate studies at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, where he received his Ph.D. in 1942 under the supervision of Gerrit Schaake. He studied mathematics, physics and philosophy as an undergraduate