Famous People with Name Geertruida

Geertruida "Truus" Klapwijk            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Geertruida "Truus" Klapwijk: was a Dutch diver and freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics and in the 1928 Summer Olympics.In 1924 she was a member of the Dutch relay team which finished sixth in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay competition. In the 400 metre freestyle event she was eliminated in the first round. She also participated in the 3 metre springboard contest but was also eliminated in the first round.

Geertruida "Truus" Christina Baumeister            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Geertruida "Truus" Christina Baumeister: was a Dutch freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.In 1928 she was eliminated in the first round of the 400 metre freestyle event. She was also a member of the Dutch relay team which was disqualified in the final of the 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay competition.

Geertruida ("Ruud") Maria Geels            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Geertruida ("Ruud") Maria Geels: a retired football striker from the Netherlands, who obtained 20 caps for the Dutch national team, scoring eleven goals, in the 1970s.Geels was a prolific goal scorer, scoring 388 goals in seventeen years of professional football. He served several clubs. Geels is one of very few players, alongside Ronald Koeman for instance, who played for all three big clubs in the Netherlands: Ajax Amsterdam, Feyenoord Rotterdam and PSV Eindhoven. Geels was a member of the national team that ended up in second place at the 1974 FIFA World Cup under the guidance of manager Rinus Michels.

Geertruida Luberta De Haas-Lorentz            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Geertruida Luberta De Haas-Lorentz: was a female Dutch physicist and the first to perform fluctuational analysis of electrons as Brownian particles. Consequently she is considered to be the first female in electrical noise theory. She was the eldest daughter of the physicist H. A. Lorentz and Aletta Catharina Kaiser. In 1910, she married the physicist W.J. de Haas and they had two sons and two daughters.