Famous people born in North Holland
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Bette Franke
Bette Franke is a Dutch fashion model. At fourteen years old, she was discovered by Dutch modeling agent Wilma Wakker in Amsterdam, while shopping with her mother.....
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Patricia van der Vliet
Patricia van der Vliet is a Dutch fashion model, who placed fourth in the fourth cycle of the reality television show Hollands Next Top Model.....
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Daphne Jongejans
Daphne Crs Jongejans is a retired female diver from the Netherlands, who represented her native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics 1984, 1988 and 1992.....
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Jan Janszoon
Jan Janszoon van Haarlem, commonly known as Murat Reis the Younger was the first President and Grand Admiral of the Corsair Republic of Sal, Governor of Oualidia, and a Dutch Barbary pirate, one of the most famous of the Sal Rovers from the 17th century.....
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Dick Swaab
Dick Frans Swaab is a Dutch physician and neurobiologist who is a famous brain researcher. He is a professor of neurobiology at the University of Amsterdam and was until 2005 Director of the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences .....
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Frans Stafleu
Frans Antonie Stafleu was a Dutch systematic botanist, former Chair of the Institute of Systematic Botany at the University of Utrecht, and author of Taxonomic Literature A Selective Guide to Botanical Publications and Collections, with Dates, Commentaries, and Types along with 644 other publications. He occupied several positions in the International Association for Plant Taxonomy. The latter organization now triennially awards the Stafleu Medal for an excellent publication dealing with histor....
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Hans Kamp
Johan Anthony Willem Hans Kamp is a Dutch philosopher and linguist, responsible for introducing Discourse Representation Theory in 1981.....
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Cintha Boersma
Jacintha Hedwig Jeanne Boersma is a retired volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992.....
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Aart Staartjes
Aart Staartjes is a Dutch actor, director, television presenter and documentary maker from Amsterdam. He is well known for his role on Sesamstraat, the Dutch coproduction of Sesame Street. On this show, his characters name is Meneer Aart and in this persona he authored a book called Meneer Aart Leven en werken van de man die geen kindervriend wil heten .....
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Bill Glerum
Herman Wilhelm Glerum was a Dutch cricket player. He played one first class game for the Free Foresters in 1957 against Oxford University. He took 216 and 116 bowling, and scored one run in the match. captained VRA, All Holland XI, Brazil XI and South America XI....
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Jan Bol
Jan Bol was a Dutch sailor who represented his country at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Acapulco. Bol, as crew on the Dutch Dragon, took the 10th place with helmsman Cor Groot and fellow crew member Pieter de Zwart. ....
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Marko Klok
Marko Klok is a volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country in two Summer Olympics, starting in 1992 in Barcelona, Spain. There he won the silver medal as a part of the Dutch Mens National Team, and later took ninth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.....
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Martin Teffer
Martin Teffer is a retired volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics, as well as at the 1990 FIVB Volleyball Mens World Championship. He ended up in fifth place at the 1988 Summer Olympics, followed by the silver medal four years later in Barcelona. Teffer later became a volleyball coach.....
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