Famous People with Name Marten

Marten Toonder            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Marten Toonder: was a Dutch comic writer, born in Rotterdam. He was probably the most successful comic artist in the Netherlands and had a great influence in the Dutch language by introducing new words and expressions. [citation needed]His most famous comic series were the Tom Puss (Tom Poes in Dutch) and Oliver B. Bumble (Olivier B. Bommel in Dutch) series that appeared in a Dutch newspaper from 1941-1986. It has a very characteristic format. Every day there were three drawings and an accompanying text (about a book-page long)

Mårten Gustaf Mickos            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Mårten Gustaf Mickos: was chief executive officer (CEO) of MySQL AB. He served as chief executive officer from January 2001 to February 2008, when Sun bought MySQL AB. He served as senior vice president of the database group at Sun Microsystems until February 2009.[1] In February 2008 he was announced as member of the board of Mozilla Messaging, in May 2009, he also joined the board of directors at RightScale.[2] In September 2009 venture capital firm Benchmark Capital hired Mickos as their Entrepreneur In Residence

Marten Von Barnekow            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Marten Von Barnekow: was a German equestrian and Olympic champion.