Dutch Famous Names Starting with Letter C

Is a Dutch business man and currently marketing manager as well as commercial director of Feyenoord

Is a Dutch business man and currently marketing manager as well as commercial director of Feyenoord Rotterdam.Woerts started his career as a journalist of the newspaper Rotterdam Nieuwsblad. After his spell as a journalist he became International Sponsorship Manager at Heineken International in 1988. Here he brought Amstel together with the UEFA Champions League. He also introduced the Heineken inflatable cups. Other main sponsor activities he was involved in were the sponsor activities around the Amstel Gold Race, the Heineken Dutch Open Golf, the Night of the proms, the Buckler Cycling Team and the Holland Heineken House, where Dutch sports fans can celebrate medals during the Olympics.

Is a Dutch bobsledder and athlete. Bertens is a runner in a 2-bob mostly alongside Eline Jurg.In 200

Is a Dutch bobsledder and athlete. Bertens is a runner in a 2-bob mostly alongside Eline Jurg.In 2005 two Dutch female bobs qualified for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, however the team line-ups were still unsure. At the qualification play-off (named

Was a Dutch athlete competing in the sprints.Born in Amsterdam, Berger's career highlight was at the

Was a Dutch athlete competing in the sprints.Born in Amsterdam, Berger's career highlight was at the first European Championships in Athletics, held in 1934 in Turin. There he won both the 100 m and 200 m sprints and came in third with the Dutch team at t

Dutch physician and pathologist whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the

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.

Was a Dutch syndicalist writer, economist, and trade unionist.Cornelissen was the second of five chi

Was a Dutch syndicalist writer, economist, and trade unionist.Cornelissen was the second of five children of Johannes Cornelissen, carpenter in Den Bosch, Noord Brabant, and Mechelina van Wijk. He became a primary school teacher in Middelburg, Zeeland. In the late 1880s he started working for Recht voor Allen ("Justice for All"), the organ of the Social Democratic League (in Dutch: Sociaal-Democratische Bond, SDB). Next to Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis,

Was a Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist

Was a Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist

Was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at t

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.

A Dutch footballer who was born in Germany. He currently plays for ADO Den Haag, where he started hi

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

Is a Congolese-Belgian football player, he currently plays for KV Kortrijk on loan from the Belgian

Is a Congolese-Belgian football player, he currently plays for KV Kortrijk on loan from the Belgian club Standard Liège.He was member for the Belgium U-17 team at 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Korea Republic and played 3 games and shoot 1 goal.

Is an Belgian footballer who currently plays for Dutch Jupiler League club MVV.Brüls is an attackin

Is an Belgian footballer who currently plays for Dutch Jupiler League club MVV.Brüls is an attacking midfielder. Partly because of his strong performances for the young Red Devils, he attracted the interest of some Belgian top-clubs, including Club Brugge, Germinal Beerschot and Gent. Nevertheless, he chose to play for Dutch Jupiler League club MVV Maastricht.

Is a Dutch game designer and inventor/author of various chess variants, including Grand chess, inven

Is a Dutch game designer and inventor/author of various chess variants, including Grand chess, invented in 1984. Other games he has invented include

Was a famous Belgian football goalkeeper who won the Belgian Golden Shoe in 1972 while at Standard L

Was a famous Belgian football goalkeeper who won the Belgian Golden Shoe in 1972 while at Standard Liège. He played 40 times and scored 1 goal for the national team between 1969 and 1977, starting in a 0-4 defeat to Yugoslavia on October 19, 1969. Piot was in the team for the 1970 World Cup and for the Euro 1972.

Is a Belgian midfielder.Kabeya began his playing career with K.S.K. Ronse before he quickly moved to

Is a Belgian midfielder.Kabeya began his playing career with K.S.K. Ronse before he quickly moved to join top flight club Belgian club Excelsior Mouscron. Interest was soon hotting up for the talented youngster, and Aston Villa soon joined the array of interesting parties, trying to capture Kabeya on a scholarship deal. This initially failed, but merely a few months later, out of contract Kabeya opted to sign for Villa. He eventually signed the contract in July 2003.

Is a Belgian former tennis player active in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1949, Mercelis won the Girls' Si

Is a Belgian former tennis player active in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1949, Mercelis won the Girls' Singles of the Wimbledon Championships. She competed every year at Wimbledon between 1951 and 1968, and at the French Open between 1952 and 1965. In the Fren

Was a Dutch linguist and anthropologist with a wide variety of research interests. His published wor

Was a Dutch linguist and anthropologist with a wide variety of research interests. His published work included books and articles on Germanic and Balto-Slavic languages, Sanskrit, Basque, and the Blackfeet language of North American Indians. He served as a lecturer at Leiden University.

Is a Dutch racing driver

Is a Dutch racing driver

Princess of Orange-Nassau, Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld, is the youngest of four daughters born to

Princess of Orange-Nassau, Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld, is the youngest of four daughters born to Queen regnant Juliana of the Netherlands

Is a retired long-distance runner from the Netherlands, who represented her native country at the 19

Is a retired long-distance runner from the Netherlands, who represented her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There she finished in eleventh place in the women's 10,000 metres event. She is a one-time national champion in the

Is a Dutch organist & pianist.She studied organ and piano at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam

Is a Dutch organist & pianist.She studied organ and piano at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, as well as organ, church music, chamber music and lied accompaniment at the Utrecht conservatory. Her organ teachers included Ewald Kooiman, Jacques van Oortmerssen and Jan Raas, Ronald Brautigam and Thom Bollen were among her piano teachers. She attended courses with Gyorgy Sebok and Marie-Louise Jaquet-Langlais. Christine Kamp has performed in Holland (e.g. Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Sint-Bavokerk Haarlem) and abroad (St. Clotilde, Paris),

Is a Belgian molecular biologist and professor in Molecular genetics at the University of Antwerp (A

Is a Belgian molecular biologist and professor in Molecular genetics at the University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium). She is also leading the VIB Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Antwerp of the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB). Christine Van Broeckhoven does research on Alzheimer dementia, bipolar mental disorders and other neurological diseases. Since 1983 she has had her own laboratory for molecular genetics at the University of Antwerp, and since 2005 is focussing her research on neurodegenerative brain diseases. She is an associate editor of the scientific journal Genes, Brain and Behavior. On 19 March 2007 it became known that Christine Van Broeckhoven would be a candidate for the Socialist Party – Differently, a center-left social-democratic party, in the 2007 Belgian federal elections. Van Broeckhoven headed the list for the Belgian Chamber of People's Representatives in the province of Antwerp. On 10 June 2007 she was elected a member of the Chamber of People's Representatives. She retired from politics after the 2010 Belgian general election to concentrate on her scientific work.

Height 206 cm Year of Birth 1980 Nationality Belgian Position Forward - Center

Height 206 cm Year of Birth 1980 Nationality Belgian Position Forward - Center

Is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Silence-Lotto. In 2004, he returned a p

Is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Silence-Lotto. In 2004, he returned a positive test for methadone. He believed the test was a result of a tainted nutritional supplement that he had taken to cure a liver problem. The chemist wh

Is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer.

Is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer.

Is a Belgian footballer who currently plays for Willem II.

Is a Belgian footballer who currently plays for Willem II.

Is a Belgian football player, who currently plays for RFC de Liège.He enjoyed a youth training at R

Is a Belgian football player, who currently plays for RFC de Liège.He enjoyed a youth training at RSC Anderlecht. He quit Anderlecht for studies, but later he played in the Belgian, British, French and Dutch league for, among others Millwall FC, Sparta Rotterdam, RC Strasbourg, FC Brussels and RFC Liège.