Famous People with Name Paulus

Paulus Moreelse            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Paulus Moreelse: was a Dutch painter, mainly of portraits.Moreelse was a pupil of the Delft portrait painter Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, who had himself been a pupil of Anthonie van Blocklandt. He took a study-trip to Italy, where he received many portrait commissions. Back in Utrecht, in 1596 he became a member of the zadelaarsgilde, and in 1611 was one of the founders of a new painters' guild, becoming its first deken.

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

Paulus "Paul" Bunschoten: was a Dutch sprint canoer who competed in the late 1960s. He was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-4 1000 m event at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

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.

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.

Camille Paulus            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Camille Paulus: is a Belgian lawyer and liberal politician. He was governor of the Belgian province of Antwerp from 1 October 1993 until 30 April 2008.