Famous People with Name Kok

Bessel Kok            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Bessel Kok: is a Dutch businessman and chess organiser living in Prague. He has served in top management positions in telecommunications companies in Belgium (Belgacom) and in the Czech Republic. He was also President of the Belgian-based Banking communications compa

Irene Margreta Maria De Kok            Origin/Culture/Country: Netherlands

Irene Margreta Maria De Kok: is a retired judoka from the Netherlands, who represented Holland at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

Ingrid De Kok            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Ingrid De Kok: is a South African author.Ingrid de Kok grew up in Stilfontein, a gold mining town in what was then the Western Transvaal. When she was 12 years old, her parents moved to Johannesburg. In 1977 she emigrated to Canada where she lived until returning to South Africa in 1984. She has one child, a son. Her partner is Tony Morphet. Ingrid is a Fellow of the University of Cape Town, an Associate Professor in Extra Mural Studies and part of a team of two that designs and administers the public non-formal educational curriculum that constitutes the Extra-Mural Programmes at the University of Cape Town. She has also designed and co-ordinated national colloquiums and cultural programmes, such as one on Technology and Reconstruction and on Equal Opportunity Policy and At the Fault Line: Cultural Inquiries into Truth and Reconciliation and runs various capacity building, civic and trade union programmes. She alternates in the role of Director.

Frans De Kok            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Frans De Kok: is a Dutch conductor of various television orchestras who had his heyday in the 1960s.which toured the Netherlands, West Germany and Switzerland with considerable success. From 1957 onwards he worked in various capacities for Dutch television. In 1962, he was asked by TV host and singer Rudi Carrell to accompany his shows with a big orchestra. In the years after, De Kok wrote the arrangements for Carrell's shows and many more tv programmes. Moreover, he worked with a couple of famous Dutch artists in the recording studio, amongst others Boudewijn de Groot.