Famous Dutchmen

A good thing nobody mentioned Hans Brinker. This Hans is a little guy who the Dutch came to know because Americans told us about his "existence". Thanks to the Americans Hans Brinker is now also known in The Netherlands. 😀

Dennis "The Menace" Bergkamp, Marc Overmars etc etc

Originally posted by Tosser
Dennis "The Menace" Bergkamp, Marc Overmars etc etc

Even better, apart from Bennie Knudsen (Goalkeeper and team bus driver), can you name anyone famous from the Faroe Islands?..

What about the new Secretary General of Nato ?

is calemiro dutch?

Originally posted by Varg
William of Orange

Originally posted by flexmore
is calemiro dutch?

erasmus, multatuli, tinbergen

Peter Stuyvesant, governor of New York.

http://www.peterstuyvesant.org/

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/laic/episode1/topic2/e1_t2_s3-ps.html

Originally posted by ivanhoe
Peter Stuyvesant, governor of New York.

http://www.peterstuyvesant.org/

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/laic/episode1/topic2/e1_t2_s3-ps.html

Do you want to know how a Dutchman pronounces:

Johan Cruyff, Pim Fortuyn, Gouda, Van Gogh, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (the new Secretary General of NATO), Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacob van Ruysdael, van Buren, Max Euwe and many more ....

Then take a look and listen on this site :

http://www.stanford.edu/~sipma/dureq.html

Thanks for the van der Waerden links, Ivanhoe. I had a great deal of fun about a year ago with the Posers and Puzzles thread entitled 'Van der Waerden's Theorem'. The biography is pretty cool...

Originally posted by royalchicken
Thanks for the van der Waerden links, Ivanhoe. I had a great deal of fun about a year ago with the Posers and Puzzles thread entitled 'Van der Waerden's Theorem'. The biography is pretty cool...

Originally posted by chancremechanic
The Father of Microbiology: Von Leuwenhouke [sic?]