Famous People with Name Egbert

Egbert Van Drielst            Origin/Culture/Country: Netherlands

Egbert Van Drielst: began his study of the painting in a factory in Groningen which produced mainly lacquered objects. He soon went to Haarlem, where he was an apprentice in the wallpaper factory. Van Drielst entered the wallpaper studio in Amsterdam where he established friendships with Adriaan de Lelie.

Egbert Rolf ("Erben") Wennemars            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Egbert Rolf ("Erben") Wennemars: is a Dutch speed skater. He specializes in the sprint and middle distances of 500, 1000 and 1500 meters.Erben Wennemars was the first skater who skated the 1500 m faster than 1:50.00. His 1:49.89 in the summer of 1997 however, was not regarded as an offic

Egbert Ho            Origin/Culture/Country: Netherlands

Egbert Ho: is a former field hockey midfielder from the Netherlands, who earned a total number of sixteen caps for the Dutch national team in 2004 under coach Terry Walsh. Ho played club hockey for HC Klein Zwitserland in Den Haag.

Egbert Schuurman            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Egbert Schuurman: is a professor of philosophy in the Netherlands, whose teaching is most concerned with exploring and developing Reformational philosophy and its organized expression, the Association for Reformational Philosophy. He studied under Hendrik Van Riessen. Schuurman has three related appointments to External Professorial Chairs, an arrangement with the Dutch government, at the technical state universities of Delft, Eindhoven, and Wageningen (the latter in large part devoted to agriculture). He is also a member of the Dutch Senate, serving currently as the Caucus Chairman for the ChristenUnie party caucus.

Egbert Adriaan Kreiken            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Egbert Adriaan Kreiken: was a Dutch teacher and astronomer.For most of his life he served as an educator, working in the developing countries of Indonesia, Liberia, and Turkey. While he was in Indonesia he served as that nation's Minister of Education. He became the director of the astronomy institute in Turkey, after moving there in 1954. He would help found the Ankara University Observatory.

Albert Gallatin Egbert            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Albert Gallatin Egbert: was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Egbert was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Mileage during this Congress.

William Egbert            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Egbert: was a Canadian physician and politician. He served as the third Lieutenant Governor of Alberta from 1925 to 1931. Egbert was an unsuccessful legislative candidate for the Liberal Party of Alberta in the 1905 general election. In 1925, the Liberal prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, arranged for Egbert's appointment as Lieutenant Governor. Egbert served six years in that post, and participated in a variety of activities, from welcoming the Prince of Wales to hosting students at the University of Alberta. In 1931, he left his position as Lieutenant Governor and returned to the practice of medicine. He died in 1936 after a long illness.