Famous People with Name Hove

Hovenden Hely            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Hovenden Hely: was an Australian explorer and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for one term between 1856 and 1857. In 1856 Hely was elected as one of the three members for Northumberland and Hunter in the first New South Wales Legi

Chenjerai Hove            Origin/Culture/Country: Zimbabwe

Chenjerai Hove: is a Zimbabwean poet, novelist and essayist. He was educated at the University of South Africa and the University of Zimbabwe, and has worked as an educator and journalist. A critic of the recent policies of the Mugabe government, he currently lives in exile as the International Writers Project fellow in residence at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.

Martin (Maarten) Van Den Hove            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Martin (Maarten) Van Den Hove: was a Dutch astronomer and mathematician. His adopted Latin name is a translation of the Dutch hof ("garden"), in Latin horta.In 1628, he began studying under Philippe van Lansberge, who was introduced to him by Beeckman. Van den Hove became an enthusiastic supporter of Landsberge, who was by now quite aged, and helped Landsberge complete his project to "restore astronomy" (i.e. create new systematic observations to replace old, insufficient data). Landsberge thanked Van den Hove publicly, considered himself lucky that "by divine providence, in my old age, pressed by sickness, such a strong helper came to my aid, as formerly the learned Rheticus to the great Copernicus."[

Léon Van Hove            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Léon Van Hove: was a Belgian physicist and a former Director General of CERN. He developed a scientific career spanning mathematics, solid state physics, elementary particle and nuclear physics to cosmology.Van Hove studied mathematics and physics at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). In 1946 he received his PhD in mathematics at the ULB. From 1949 to 1954 he worked at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study by virtue of his meeting with Robert Oppenheimer. Later he worked at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and was a professor and Director of the Theoretical Physics Institute at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. In 1958, he was awarded the Francqui Prize in Exact Sciences. In 1959, he received an invitation to become the head of the Theory Division at CERN in Geneva, where he spent three decades. LEP was proposed during Van Hove's tenure as Director General.

Michiel Ten Hove            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Michiel Ten Hove: was ad interim Grand Pensionary of Holland in 1688 and 1689.He was a lawyer for the Dutch West Indies Company since 1664 and from 1672 pensionary of Haarlem. He was son of Nicolaas ten Hove and Cornelia Fagel, and nephew of Gaspar Fagel, who preceded him as Grand Pensionary and died in 1688. He was well appreciated by William III of Orange and probably would have succeeded his uncle formally, had he not died in office the next year.

Anders Hove            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Anders Hove: was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from the Market towns of Hedmark and Oppland counties in 1945, and was re-elected on two occasions.