Famous People with Name Joris

Joris Gerhard Keizer            Origin/Culture/Country: Netherlands

Joris Gerhard Keizer: is a retired butterfly swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 in Sydney, Australia. There he was eliminated in the semi finals of the 100m Butterfly, and finished in fourth place with the Men's 4x100 Medley Relay Team.

Joris Di Gregorio Zitella            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Joris Di Gregorio Zitella: is a French-born Luxembourg international footballer, playing as a midfielder. He currently plays in Luxembourg for CS Fola Esch.

Joris Van Hout            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Joris Van Hout: is a Belgian footballer.Forward Joris Van Hout has parted with Bundesliga outfit VfL Bochum 1848 by mutual consent to sign a four-year contract with KVC Westerlo in his native Belgium.

Joris Ivens            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Joris Ivens: was a Dutch documentary filmmaker and committed communist.Originally his work focused on technique - some argue that it had that focus at the cost of relevance, especially in Rain (Regen, 1929), a 10-minute short filmed over 2 years which features impressive cinematography and a number of 'characters' but no information about them aside from what was visible, and in The Bridge (De Brug, 1928), which showed a frank admiration of engineering and also featured a number of "characters" but again did not give any information about them. Around this time he was involved in the creation of the Filmliga based in Amsterdam which drew foreign filmmakers to Holland such as Alberto Cavalcanti, Rene Clair, Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Dziga Vertov who also became his friends.

Joris Luyendijk            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Joris Luyendijk: is a Dutch non-fiction author, news correspondent and talk show host.Joris Luyendijk studied in Kansas, Amsterdam, and Cairo. He earned his Master's degree equivalent "doctoraal" degree in Cairo. His first book Een goede man slaat soms zijn vrouw (1998, A good man sometimes hits his wife) is about the Egyptian society from a Western observer's point of view.

Albert Joris            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Albert Joris: was a Belgian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1930s. He competed in the K-2 1000 m at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, and was eliminated in the heats.