Zeelandic Flanders - Famous People From Zeelandic Flanders

Famous People From Zeelandic Flanders

  • Lodewijk van den Berg, astronaut
  • Willem Beukelszoon, inventor of gibbing
  • Herman den Blijker, chef cook
  • Richard Bukacki, professional cyclist
  • Emile Buysse, author
  • Honoré Colsen, politician
  • Johan Hendrik van Dale, lexicographer
  • Dick Dees, politician
  • Jan Gerard van Deinse, politician
  • Frans Dieleman, geographer
  • Jan Eekhout, author
  • Thea Fierens, politician
  • Omer Gielliet, woodcutter and priest
  • Jacques Hamelink, author and poet
  • Willem van Hanegem, soccer player and coach
  • Sergio Herman, chef cook and co-owner of restaurant "Oud Sluis"
  • Ate de Jong, director
  • Annabel Kosten, swimmer
  • Jan Kuipers, author
  • Gert de Meijer, musician
  • José de Meijer, politician
  • Guido Metsers, sculptor and painter
  • Hugo Metsers II, actor
  • Theo Middelkamp, professional cyclist
  • Jacques de Milliano, physician and co-founder and chairman of Artsen zonder Grenzen in the Netherlands
  • Marie Cécile Moerdijk, singer and author
  • Jos de Mul, scholar philosophy
  • Roelof Nelissen, politician and banker
  • Jos de Putter, director
  • George van Renesse, pianist and musical conductor
  • Jan III van Renesse, strategist and leader of the Flemish troops during the de Guldensporenslag
  • Sandra Roelofs, First lady of Georgia (spouse of president Micheil Saakasjvili)
  • Franciscus Maria Amandus van Schaeck Mathon, Catholic statesman
  • Paul Tingen, schrijver, journalist, musician
  • Kees Torn, comedian
  • Ad Verbrugge, philosopher
  • Annelies Verstand-Bogaert, politician
  • Herman Wijffels, Dutch administrator of the World Bank in Washington

Read more about this topic:  Zeelandic Flanders

Famous quotes containing the words famous, people and/or flanders:

    Hunger makes you restless. You dream about food—not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother’s milk singing to your bloodstream.
    Dorothy Allison (b. 1953)

    When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It’s a remarkably shrewed and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.
    John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)

    In Flanders fields the poppies blow
    Between the crosses, row on row,
    John McCrae (1872–1918)