Famous People with Name Teun

Teun De Nooijer            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Teun De Nooijer: is a skilful field hockey player from The Netherlands, who twice became Olympic champion with the Dutch national squad: in 1996 and in 2000.

Teun Adrianus Van Dijk            Origin/Culture/Country: Netherlands

Teun Adrianus Van Dijk: a scholar in the fields of text linguistics, discourse analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA).With Walter Kintsch he contributed to the development of the psychology of text processing. Since the 1980s his work in CDA focused especially on the study of the discursive reproduction of racism by what he calls the 'symbolic elites' (politicians, journalists, scholars, writers), the study of news in the press, and on the theories of ideology and context.He founded six international journals: Poetics, Text (now called Text & Talk), Discourse & Society, Discourse Studies, Discourse & Communication and the internet journal in Spanish Discurso & Sociedad, of which he still edits the last four.

Teun Floris De Nooijer            Origin/Culture/Country: Noord-Holland

Teun Floris De Nooijer: a field hockey player from The Netherlands, who twice became Olympic champion with the Dutch national squad: in 1996 and in 2000. He currently plays for Dutch side HC Bloemendaal.De Nooijer started playing hockey at the age of nine, with his brothers in the backyard of their house. He joined HC Alkmaar at the age of eleven, and was selected for the Dutch under-16 team 2 years later. At fifteen, De Nooijer made his debut in the senior men's league with HC Alkmaar, and two years later, he first played in Holland's elite league with HC Bloemendaal.

Teunis ("Teun") Mulder            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Teunis ("Teun") Mulder: is a Dutch track cyclist born in Zuuk. He is a former keirin World Champion and won a silver in the team sprint with Theo Bos and Tim Veldt. Mulder also won a total of four world cup classics in the team sprint and keirin. He competed for his native count

Teunus (Teun) Tolman            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Teunus (Teun) Tolman: was a Dutch rancher and politician . He was a member of the House of CHU and was a member of the European Parliament . From 2 September 1958 Tolman was a member of the council member of Weststellingwerf alderman , until in September 1967 at the behest of the Board of the CBTB resigned. On 9 November 1959 he became a member of the Provincial States of Friesland , on 5 June 1963 he became a member of the House . After he had resigned his alderman, came on 17 July 1979 terminated his membership of the House, that since 8 June 1977 the CDA held. He was now on 19 January 1978 became a member of Parliament, appointed by the States General . In January 1978 he also became second vice chairman of the CDA. After his parliament membership ended Tolman was a member of the European Parliament. From 1990 he was chairman of the European Agriculture Commission.