Dutch Famous Names Starting with Letter J

Was a Dutch professional road bicycle racer. Nolten participated in five Tour de Frances, and won tw

Was a Dutch professional road bicycle racer. Nolten participated in five Tour de Frances, and won two stages.

Is the Prime Minister of the Netherlands since July 22, 2002.

Is the Prime Minister of the Netherlands since July 22, 2002.

Is a Flemish politician from the province of Limburg in Belgium. Being part of the Flemish Movement,

Is a Flemish politician from the province of Limburg in Belgium. Being part of the Flemish Movement, he was at a young age already member of the Volksunie. He seated for that party in the Limburgish provincial council and is since 2004 a Flemish Parliament member for the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA). From 2007 until 2009 he was N-VA fraction leader in the Flemish Parliament. After the elections of 7 June 2009 (which was successful for his party; and with more than 27.000 Limburgish preference votes for him), he became President of the Flemish Parliament, succeeding Marleen Vanderpoorten.

Is a former professional ice hockey player. Of Dutch descent, he played several years for Dutch club

Is a former professional ice hockey player. Of Dutch descent, he played several years for Dutch club Heerenveen Flyers as well as for the Netherlands national ice hockey team. He was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois.

Was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and be

Was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. He was among the first major keyboard composers of Europe, and his work as a teacher helped establish the north German organ tradition.

A retired football defender from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1978 FIF

A retired football defender from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina, wearing the number two jersey. His biggest club successes came when he played for PSV Eindhoven in the mid- and late 1970s. After his retirement in the early 1990s he became a football manager, who worked for clubs like F.C. Den Bosch, RBC Roosendaal and Stormvogels Telstar. As a manager Poortvliet has won six titles at various levels and has a good record of succeeding with little or no money to spend. [1]

Was a Dutch marine artist. He was the father of the marine artist Julius Porcellis (they shared a si

Was a Dutch marine artist. He was the father of the marine artist Julius Porcellis (they shared a similar repertoire of subjects and an identical signature monogram), and is generally agreed to be the more fluent artist, particularly in his sense of space and his tonal palette (subtler than his son's).

Is a Dutch former professional cyclist whose 115 wins include the 1979 World Road Race Championship

Is a Dutch former professional cyclist whose 115 wins include the 1979 World Road Race Championship in Valkenburg, he also won the Ronde van Vlaanderen in 1979 and 1983, Paris-Roubaix in 1982 and Milan-Sanremo in 1977.In 1977 he rode for Frisol. Victories

Was Attorney General of the High Council of the Netherlands from 1968 to 1989. He headed the Dutch g

Was Attorney General of the High Council of the Netherlands from 1968 to 1989. He headed the Dutch government committee on euthanasia that released the first, official study of the practice of euthanasia in the Netherlands in 1991. Internationally, this report - Medical Decisions About the End of Life, also called the Remmelink Report - has led to much discussion.

Was a Dutch artist who worked in numerous disciplines. He was a member of the Pulchri Studio in The

Was a Dutch artist who worked in numerous disciplines. He was a member of the Pulchri Studio in The Hague.

Was a Dutch journalist and historian.

Was a Dutch journalist and historian.

A former Dutch football goalkeeper.During his club career he played for FC Volendam, R.S.C. Anderlec

A former Dutch football goalkeeper.During his club career he played for FC Volendam, R.S.C. Anderlecht, R.W.D. Molenbeek, K. Beerschot V.A.C. and Royal Antwerp FC. He earned 1 cap for the Netherlands national football team, and was included in their squad for the 1976 UEFA European Football Championship.

Was a Dutch Olympic fencer. He competed in the team épée event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Was a Dutch Olympic fencer. He competed in the team épée event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Was a Dutch politician and Christian minister.

Was a Dutch politician and Christian minister.

Was a Dutch professional road and track cyclist.Schröder, born in Koningsbosch won his first profes

Was a Dutch professional road and track cyclist.Schröder, born in Koningsbosch won his first professional race in 1961 when he won the Omloop der Kempen outsprinting Henk Nijdam and Adriaan Biemans. A year later he was the strongest in the Ster van Zwolle

Was born in Amsterdam in 1965, where he first took piano lessons at the age of 4 and commenced horn

Was born in Amsterdam in 1965, where he first took piano lessons at the age of 4 and commenced horn lessons at the age of 10. Emphasis was laid on both these instruments during his student years under Jan Wijn and Adriaan van Woudenberg at the Sweelinck Conservatoire in Amsterdam. In 1986, he removed to Basle, where he continued his studies of the horn among other instruments at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis under Thomas Mueller and at the Conservatoire in Lausanne under Bruno Schneider. He was finally awarded the Premier Prix de Virtuosité and played in numerous orchestras, such as the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Netherlands Radio Orchestra Hilversum, in the Basle Orchestras, the Camerata in Berne and in various Baroque ensembles such as the Concerto Cologne, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and the Clementi Consort.

Is a Dutch author. In 2005, he wrote the novel Knielen op een bed violen that sold over 500,000 copi

Is a Dutch author. In 2005, he wrote the novel Knielen op een bed violen that sold over 500,000 copies. In 1991, he won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for De overkant van de rivier.

Is a Dutch speed skater who competed in the 1960 Winter Olympics.

Is a Dutch speed skater who competed in the 1960 Winter Olympics.

Was an important cultural figure in the golden age of the Netherlands.The son of a well-to-do mercha

Was an important cultural figure in the golden age of the Netherlands.The son of a well-to-do merchant family Six, Jan studied liberal arts and law in Leiden in 1634. He became the son-in-law of the mayor of Amsterdam, Nicolaes Tulp in 1655 when he married his daughter Margaretha. Thanks to his father-in-law, he became magistrate of family law and various other appointments on the city council, eventually becoming mayor of Amsterdam himself in 1691 at the ripe age of 73.

Was a Dutch electronics technician, who claimed to have developed a revolutionary data compression t

Was a Dutch electronics technician, who claimed to have developed a revolutionary data compression technique, the Sloot Digital Coding System,

Was a Dutch politician.

Was a Dutch politician.

Is a Dutch speed skater. He is specialised in riding the 500m.On 7 January 2006, later during the 20

Is a Dutch speed skater. He is specialised in riding the 500m.On 7 January 2006, later during the 2005-06 season he also made his début at the 2006 KNSB Dutch Sprint Championships. At these championships he managed to win the second race over 500m. In Feb

Is a Dutch chess player with the title Grandmaster. He was the Netherlands' national champion in 200

Is a Dutch chess player with the title Grandmaster. He was the Netherlands' national champion in 2008.Taught by his father at the age of six, he quickly progressed to being a regular on the youth tournament circuit, both nationally and internationally. Wh

Also known as Giovanni Sons, was a Dutch painter from 's-Hertogenbosch, who was particularly active

Also known as Giovanni Sons, was a Dutch painter from 's-Hertogenbosch, who was particularly active from 1575 with the Farnese in Rome, and in Piacenza and Parma in the early seventeenth century.[1] He painted history works, such as the mannerist Jupiter and Antiope,[2] as well as religious paintings reflecting the Council of Trent's decrees on art and Counter Reformation ideals of clearly represented piety.

Was a Dutch architect.Stuyt started his architectural career in 1883 at the office of A.C. Bleys (18

Was a Dutch architect.Stuyt started his architectural career in 1883 at the office of A.C. Bleys (1842-1912), whose neo-Romanesque style would become of great influence on Stuyt. In 1891 Stuyt joined the Cuypers office in Amsterdam, where he became an overseer of the building of the Cathedral of Saint Bavo in Haarlem between 1895 and 1898. In 1899, after a short career as an independent architect in which he built his first church