Famous People with Name Paulus

Paulus "Paul" Hoekstra            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Paulus "Paul" Hoekstra: was a Dutch-born, Belgian sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Tokyo in 1964.

Paulus Buys            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Paulus Buys: was Grand Pensionary of Holland between 1572 to 1584.Paulus Buys was appointed as land's advocate of Holland in 1572 before Calvinists took the county. As representative of Holland, he vetoed the decision of the duke of Alva to raise taxes at the estates general of the Netherlands in Brussels. Because of this, he had to flee from the Netherlands and joined Prince William of Orange in Arnstadt. Paulus Buys was Roman Catholic, but he, like many moderate Catholics,

Paulus Adrianus Daum            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Paulus Adrianus Daum: was a Dutch author of Dutch East Indies literature of the nineteenth century.The autodidact Daum was born in impoverished circumstances of a single mother in the Netherlands and did not enjoy much education. However already was a writer of several novels and a journalist at Dutch newspapers before he moved to the Dutch East Indies in 1879.

Paulus Roiha            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Paulus Roiha: is a Finnish footballer who currently plays for Swedish Allsvenskan club Åtvidabergs FF. Roiha is a quick striker who started his Veikkausliiga career in Finland with HJK Helsinki. He was the top scorer in Finland in 2001 with 22 goals.

Paulus Ambunda            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Paulus Ambunda: is a Namibian boxer who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Thomas Paulus            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Thomas Paulus: is a German football player. As of February 2009, he plays for FC Erzgebirge Aue. He spent 3 seasons in the Bundesliga with 1. FC Nuremberg.

Pieter Paulus            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Pieter Paulus: was a Dutch jurist, admiral-fiscal and politician. He was one of the ideologues of the Patriot movement and is considered by many Dutch as the founder of their democracy and political unity.[citation needed]His father was Axel's mill-builder, schepen and mayor. He came, perhaps, from a family of lapsed Huguenots. After an education in 's-Hertogenbosch, he received his training from the Vlissingen rector Van Cruysselenbergen, in whose house he lived. He became a student in Utrecht in 1770.

Andreas L. Paulus            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Andreas L. Paulus: is a German jurist. He currently holds the chair of general international law at the University of Göttingen. His research interests include international law, humanitarian law, and constitutional law. Paulus attended the University of Göttingen, Universi

Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus: was a German theologian and critic of the Christian bible. He is known as a rationalist who offered natural explanations for the biblical miracles of Jesus. Paulus was a professor of theology and oriental languages at the University of Jena (1789-1803), then professor at the University of Würzburg (1803-1807). He spent time in Bamberg, Nürnberg and Ansbach before becoming professor of exegesis and church history at the University of Heidelberg (1811-44), where he was instrumental in hiring Hegel in 1816. His theological rationalism greatly influenced Hegel's own theology.

Norma Paulus            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Norma Paulus: is an American attorney and former politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Nebraska, she was raised in Eastern Oregon before becoming a lawyer. A Republican, she first held political office as a representative in the Oregon House of Representatives