Famous People with Name Lieven

Lieven Gevaert            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Lieven Gevaert: was a Flemish industrialist. His father died when he was only three years old. He started his career in the company he founded together with his mother in 1889, which produced photographic paper according to traditional methods. In 1894, he founded the company Gevaert & Co, which in 1920, was transformed to N.V Gevaert Photo-producten.

Lieven De Key            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Lieven De Key: was a famous architect in the Netherlands. He became city architect of Haarlem in 1592.

Lieven Dehandschutter            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Lieven Dehandschutter: is a Belgian politician and is affiliated to the N-VA. He was elected as a member of the Flemish Parliament in 2009.

Albert Lieven            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Albert Lieven: was a German actor. He was born Albert Fritz Liévin in Hohenstein, East Prussia. He died in London, England. He was married four times, including to the actresses Susan Shaw and Valerie White. He started his screen career in the German film Annemarie, die Braut der Kompanie (Bride of the Company) in 1932. During the next four years he appeared in another sixteen films, including the German film adaptation of Charley's Aunt. Owing of the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany and his wife Tatjana being Jewish, he moved to Britain in 1937. He spent the years of World War II (1939 to 1945) though mainly in roles depicting Nazis in British films, not finding them overly challenging as an actor.

Jan Lievens            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Jan Lievens: was a Dutch painter and visual artist. In his early years he was a student of Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam. After two years as an apprentice he began his career as an independent artist at age twelve in Leiden.

Cornelis Lievense            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Cornelis Lievense: was a Dutch businessman who ran several import/export companies in the United States from the 1920s through the 1940s.During his career in the United States, Lievense was the President or director of a number of import/export companies and banks, most notably the Union Banking Corporation, whose assets were seized by the United States government in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act and the Domestic Fuel Corporation, which was blacklisted by the Canadian government in 1940 for similar suspicions.[1]