Famous People with Name Vonn

Vonne Van Der Meer            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Vonne Van Der Meer: is a Dutch prose writer and playwright. Since 1978 Van der Meer has been married to the Dutch writer Willem Jan Otten.Van der Meer was born in Eindhoven. She attended the Amsterdam Theater School. In 1976 De Behandeling (The Treatment), a monologue written for theatre, was played by Toneelgroep Centrum. In 1978 Van der Meer assisted Frans Marijnen as a stage director at the Ro Theater.

Lindsey Vonn            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lindsey Vonn: She was raised in the Twin Cities area (in Burnsville, Minnesota) and was on skis at age 2 before moving into Erich Sailer's renowned development program at Buck Hill. She commuted to Colorado to train for a couple of years before her family moved to Vail in the late 1990s. She married fellow 2002 Olympian and former U.S. Ski Team athlete Thomas Vonn on September 29, 2007. She speaks German and is good friends with German colleague Maria Riesch.After climbing through the ranks of the U.S. Ski Team, she made her Alpine Skiing World Cup debut on November 18, 2000 in Park City. Two years later, she made her first U.S. Olympic Team and competed at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City.

Lindsey Caroline Vonn            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lindsey Caroline Vonn: is a champion alpine ski racer with the U.S. Ski Team. She has won three consecutive overall World Cup and downhill championships (2008, 2009, 2010), the first American woman and second woman ever to accomplish this.

Thomas Vonn            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Thomas Vonn: is a former alpine ski racer with the U.S. Ski Team.Primarily a giant slalom racer, Vonn's best finish in international competition was in the Super-G at the 2002 Winter Olympics, where he placed ninth.

Bernard Vonnegut            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bernard Vonnegut: was an American atmospheric scientist credited with discovering that silver iodide could be used effectively in cloud seeding to produce snow and rain. He is the older brother of American novelist Kurt Vonnegut.Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving his B.S. in chemistry (1936) and Ph.D. in physical chemistry (1939).

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr: was a prolific and genre-bending American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions (1973).Kurt Vonnegut was born to fourth-generation German-American parents, son and grandson of architects in the Indianapolis firm Vonnegut & Bohn, on Armistice Day. As a student at Shortridge High School in Indianapolis, Vonnegut worked on the nation's first daily high school newspaper, The Daily Echo. He attended Cornell University from 1940 to 1943, where he served as assistant managing editor and associate editor for the student newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun, and majored in chemistry. While attending Cornell, he was a member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity, following in the footsteps of his father. While at Cornell, Vonnegut enlisted into the U.S. Army. The army sent him to the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) and the University of Tennessee to study mechanical engineering. On May 14, 1944, Mothers' Day, his mother, Edith S. (Lieber) Vonnegut, committed suicide.