Famous People with Name Wilhelmina

Wilhelmina            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Wilhelmina: was queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948. She ruled the Netherlands for fifty-eight years, longer than any other Dutch monarch

Wilhelmina ("Winnie") Van Weerdenburg            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Wilhelmina ("Winnie") Van Weerdenburg: was a Dutch swimmer. Born in The Hague, she won the bronze medal in the 4x100 metres Freestyle Relay at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Her team mates in that race, clocked in 4:12,0, were Toos Beumer, Erica Terpstra and Pauline van der Wildt. At her only individual start in Japan, on the 100m Freestyle, she didn't advance in the heats.

Wilhelmina Krafft            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Wilhelmina Krafft: was a Swedish painter and portrait miniaturist, child of the painter Per Krafft the Elder and sister of the artist Per Krafft the Younger.Wilhelmina Krafft and her brother acted as models for their father's children-portraits, a genre for which he was famous; one of these paintings portraits Per drawing and Wilhelmina at his feet in admiration (1783) and one other Wilhelmina alone praying (1782).

Wilhelmina Petronella Ardina Maria ("Mijntje") Don            Origin/Culture/Country: Netherlands

Wilhelmina Petronella Ardina Maria ("Mijntje") Don: is a field hockey striker from the Netherlands, who played 234 international matches for the Dutch National Women's Team, in which she scored 97 goals.

Wilhelmina Koch            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Wilhelmina Koch: was a German composer of sacred and secular song melodies, biblical motets and choral and instrumental music. She is one of only two women that have had compositions included in the Protestant hymnal. In 1860 her father became the Professor and Director of the Royal Theological Seminary and Superintendent for Wittenberg. The family moved there to a big house at the parish church square where Johann Bugenhagen had lived and where Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon had met. Mina Koch spent the first years there in a girls' school in Droyßig in Zeitz, where her Confirmation was celebrated. The Wittenberg church music director and organist Carl Stein (1824–1902) gave her music theory and harmony lessons.

Adelheid Emma Wilhelmina            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Adelheid Emma Wilhelmina: was Queen consort of William III, King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg

Alexandra Victoria Augusta Leopoldine Charlotte Am            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Alexandra Victoria Augusta Leopoldine Charlotte Am: was a daughter of Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein and his wife Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. Princess Alexandra Victoria was born on 21 April 1887 at Grünholz Manor in Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia as the second eldest daughter of Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderbug-Glücksburg and his wife Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.