Famous People with Name Christiaan

Christiaan Eijkman            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Christiaan Eijkman: Dutch physician and pathologist whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of vitamins. Together with Sir Frederick Hopkins, he was awarded the 1929 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

Christiaan Huygens            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Christiaan Huygens: was a Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist

Christiaan Karel Appel            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Christiaan Karel Appel: was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avant-garde movement Cobra in 1948.He studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten there from 1940 to 1943 and had his first show in Groningen in 1946. He was influenced by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Jean Dubuffet; he joined the Nederlandse Experimentele Groep and joined CoBrA in 1948 together with Corneille, Constant and Jan Nieuwenhuys (see also Aart Kemink). His 1949 fresco 'Questioning Children' in the Amsterdam City Hall caused controversy and was covered up for ten years.

Christiaan Neethling Barnard            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Christiaan Neethling Barnard: was a South African cardiac surgeon, famous for performing the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant.In 1956, he received a two-year scholarship for postgraduate training in cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States. It was during this time that Barnard first became acquainted with Norman Shumway, who did much of the pioneering research leading to the first human heart transplant. In 1958 he received a Master of Science in Surgery for a thesis entitled, "The aortic valve - problems in the fabrication and testing of a prosthetic valve". The same year he was awarded Doctor of Philosophy degree for his dissertation entitled "The aetiology of congenital intestinal atresia". Barnard described the two years he spent in the USA as "the most fascinating time in his life".

Christiaan Kum            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Christiaan Kum: a Dutch footballer who was born in Germany. He currently plays for ADO Den Haag, where he started his career.

Kees Christiaanse            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Kees Christiaanse: is an architect and urban planner from the Netherlands. After working with Rem Koolhaas, he started two firms, Kees Christiaanse Architects & Planners (KCAP, in Rotterdam) in 1989 and Architects and Planners (ASTOC, in Cologne) in 1990, where he was a partner till 2002. Christiaanse has "tackled some of the highest profile urban design schemes in the Netherlands, hosting buildings by" the finest Dutch and several international architects.[1]