Famous People with Name Ruud

Ruud Knol            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Ruud Knol: a Dutch footballer who currently plays for Sparta Rotterdam.Knol is a defender who was born in Zevenaar and made his debut in professional football, being part of the Vitesse squad in the 2000-01 season. He played six years for Vitesse and was called up once by then Dutch coach Louis van Gaal for the Netherlands national football team. A serious injury threatened his career between 2002 and 2005 but he came back to play for Vitesse. In summer 2007 he moved abroad but after only one season in Greece he returned to Holland and joined Sparta.[1]

Ruud Ter Heide            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Ruud Ter Heide: a Dutch footballer. His team where he started his career was FC Twente. He had 5 caps from 2001 until 2003. In the 2003-04 season, he played with the German team Eintracht Nordhorn where he got 30 caps and 24 goals. In the next season (2004-05), he switched to another team named Werder Bremen where he got 31 caps and 7 goals, he scored no goals in the next season (2005-06. He played once again in the Netherlands and this time with the AGOVV Apeldoorn since 2006. He has 37 caps and 19 goals up to date with the club, with whom he is currently numbered 9.

Ruud Vormer            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Ruud Vormer: a Dutch footballer who plays for Roda JC. He started his career with AZ.

Ruud Van Rijen            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Ruud Van Rijen: is a producer and mixer most famous for starting and producing the Eurodance act Twenty 4 Seven.He first was a carpenter, but soon, after hearing a megamix done by Ben Liebrand, he realised his greatest love was music. He started with producing megamixes at home and got them to play in local clubs.

Ruud Boffin            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Ruud Boffin: is a Belgian professional footballer currently playing for VVV-Venlo as a goalkeeper. He began his career at PSV, where he spent a loan spell at FC Eindhoven.

Birger Ruud            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Birger Ruud: was a Norwegian ski jumper.Birger Ruud, with his brothers Sigmund and Asbjørn, dominated international jumping in the 1930s, winning three world championships in 1931, 1935 and 1937. Ruud also won the Olympic gold medal in 1932 and 1936. He also was an accomplished alpine skier, winning a bronze medal in the combined at the 1935 world championships. Ruud won the Holmenkollen ski jumping competition in 1934 and shared the Holmenkollen medal in 1937 with Olaf Hoffsbakken and Martin P. Vangsli.

Sif Ruud            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Sif Ruud: a Swedish film actor. She has appeared in 140 films

Christian Ruud            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Christian Ruud: is a former tennis player who turned professional in 1991. Ruud reached his highest singles ranking of 39 on 9 October 1995. Ruud represented Norway at three consecutive Olympic Games, reaching the third round in Atlanta in 1996. Ruud won twelve titles on

Sigmund Ruud            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Sigmund Ruud: was a Norwegian ski jumper. At the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Sigmund earned a silver medal in the ski jumping competition. At the 1929 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, he won the ski jumping competition while earning a bronze at the 1930 even

Asbjørn Ruud            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Asbjørn Ruud: was a Norwegian ski jumper. At the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Asbjørn finished 7th in the individual large hill competition. For his ski jumping effort, he earned the Holmenkollen medal in 1948, the second of the three Ruud brothers to do so.