Famous People with Name Gerbrand

Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero: was a Dutch poet and playwright in the period known as the Dutch Golden Age.

Gerbrand Van Den Eeckhout            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Gerbrand Van Den Eeckhout: was a Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age and a favourite student of Rembrandt. He was also an etcher, an amateur poet, a collector and an adviser on art.

Gerbrand Bakker            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Gerbrand Bakker: was an eminent Dutch physician, professor at the University of Groningen.He studied medicine in the universities of Alkmaar, Groningen, and Leiden, He was received doctor at the latter place in 1794. His instructors were the celebrated Dupui, Sandifort, Paradys, and Voltelen. He married Jacoba Johanna Poel on January 4, 1800 at Enkhuizen. He practised first at Edam, and was made a reader in the surgical school at Haarlem in 1806. The next year, he was appointed an ordinary professor at the University of Franeker. In 1811, under the French, he was named to the professorship at Groningen. He was active in the severe epidemic disease which afflicted Groningen in 1826.

Karen Gerbrands            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Karen Gerbrands: is a Dutch politician and former nurse. As a member of the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid) she has been an MP since June 17, 2010. She focuses on matters of health care policy and food safety. From March till June 2010 she was a member of the municipal council of The Hague.

Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy: is a Dutch politician.

Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy: a Dutch politician, was born in the village of Goënga near Sneek, in the province of Friesland, in the Netherlands. He was an ethnic Frisian, and his name is styled in the traditional Frisian way: first name ("Pieter"), patronymic ("Sjoerds", meaning "son of Sjoerd"), family name (Gerbrandy).