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Floortje Zwigtman (born 1983), Dutch pop singer
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*Floor van den Brandt (born 1990), Dutch speed skater
*Floor Jansen (born 1981), Dutch singer, songwriter, and vocal coach
Floor is also a now less common short form of the Dutch male given name Floris (other), Floris (or Florentianus, Florentinus, ...
Floortje and Floor are Dutch versions of the feminine given name Flora. People with the name include: ;Floortje *Floortje Dessing (born 1970), Dutch radio and television presenter, producer and travel writer * Floortje Engels (born 1982), Dutch field hockey player * Floortje Mackaij (born 1995), Dutch road racing cyclist * Floortje Meijners (born 1987), Dutch volleyball player *Floortje Smit Floortje Smit (born 16 July 1983, in Amsterdam) is a Dutch singer. Career In ''Idols'' Smit's career started in season three of the Dutch TV talent show ''Idols'', the Dutch spin-off of Pop Idol. In a surprising twist, Smit, a big audience favor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after its close relatives German and English. ''Afrikaans'' is a separate but somewhat mutually intelligible daughter languageAfrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans was historically called Cape Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans is rooted in 17th-century dialects of Dutch; see , , , . Afrikaans is variously described as a creole, a partially creolised language, or a deviant variety of Dutch; see . spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, evolving from the Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa. The dialects used in Belgium (including Flemish) and in Suriname, meanwhile, are all guided by the Dutch Language Union. In Europe, most of the population of the Netherlands (where it is the only official language spoken country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora (given Name)
Flora is a feminine given name of Latin origin meaning ''flower'', ultimately derived from the Latin word ''flos'', which had the genitive ''florus''. Flora was a fertility goddess of flowers and springtime in Ancient Rome. Feminine variants include Florrie or its Scottish Gaelic equivalent Flòraidh. Flora was also used as an English translation for the etymologically unrelated Scottish Gaelic Fionnaghal, a variant of the Irish Gaelic name Fionnuala. Other feminine variants include the Dutch Floor and Floortje, the English and French Florence, the French Fleur, Flore, and Florette, the Hungarian Flóra, the Italian Fiore and Fiorenza, the Occitan Flòra, the Sami Florá, the Portuguese and Spanish Flor and Florinda, the Spanish Florencia, and the Portuguese Florência, and the Welsh Fflur. Usage The name came into regular use by the 1700s in countries across Europe and elsewhere. The name was among the one hundred most popular names for girls in the United States in the late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floortje Dessing
__NOTOC__ Floortje Dessing (born 31 August 1970 in Heemstede) is a Dutch radio and television presenter, producer and travel writer, best known for her various travel TV shows. Since 1995 Dessing has covered more than 120 countries in TV programs, that were mostly made by her own production company, such as ''Arrivals'', ''Yorin Travel'', ''RTL Travel'', ' and ''Floortje naar het einde van de wereld'', for several Dutch TV broadcasters. Her brother Johan Dessing is member of the Dutch senate for the FvD party. North Korea In 2011 Dessing and her crew traveled through North Korea, being only the second crew in history to be allowed to film a travel TV-show in that country. She has also written several travel guides. Fair trade and the environment Dessing is a vegetarian and has two boutiques, which sell clothing that is fair trade and has been produced in an environment-friendly way. Since 2009 Dessing has been a supporter of the Greenpeace climate campaign 'You Turn the Ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floortje Engels
Floortje Engels (born 15 February 1982 in Amersfoort) is a Dutch field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ... player, who plays as a goalkeeper for Dutch club Amsterdam HBC. She also plays for the Netherlands national team and was part of the Dutch squad that became 2007 Champions Trophy winner. References External links * 1982 births Living people Dutch female field hockey players Female field hockey goalkeepers Sportspeople from Amersfoort Field hockey players from Utrecht (province) 20th-century Dutch women 21st-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-fieldhockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floortje Mackaij
Floortje Mackaij (born 18 October 1995) is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . After switching from speed skating to road cycling she became the 2013 junior Dutch National time trial Champion and won a silver medal in the junior time trial at the 2013 European Road Championships. In the same year she represented her country at the UCI Road World Championships in the junior time trial and road race. Personal life Mackaij lives with her parents in Woerden and has one older brother. Her father, Ron Mackay, was also a professional cyclist. Mackaij graduated from the Minkema College, Woerden, in 2012 and went to the Johan Cruijff College afterwards. Career Early career Mackaij started her career as a speed skater. When she was seven years old she became a member of a local speed skating club. As a 'Junior C' and 'Junior B' she skated at national level and was part of the regional selection. Between 2011 and 2013 she participat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floortje Meijners
Floortje Meijners (born 16 January 1987 in Oldenzaal, Overijssel) is a volleyball player from the Netherlands, who plays as a wing-spiker. She was a member of the Dutch National Women's Team that won the gold medal at the FIVB World Grand Prix 2007 in Ningbo, PR China. Starting from 2010, she played in Italy at Busto Arsizio, where she remained until 2012, when she moved to River Volley Piacenza A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wa .... After one year at Turkish team Galatasaray Daikin Istanbul (2014-2015), she is now playing again for the Italian team Nordmeccanica Piacenza. ReferencesFIVB Profile *http://www.legavolleyfemminile.it/DettaglioAtleta.asp?IdAtleta=MEI-FLO-87 1987 births Living people People from Oldenzaal Dutch women's volleyball playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floortje Smit
Floortje Smit (born 16 July 1983, in Amsterdam) is a Dutch singer. Career In ''Idols'' Smit's career started in season three of the Dutch TV talent show ''Idols'', the Dutch spin-off of Pop Idol. In a surprising twist, Smit, a big audience favorite with her girl-nextdoor image and very popular (she even performed on Koninginnedag for the Dutch queen) lost in the final to Raffaëla Paton. That she was an early favorite and that her name was already trademarked before the competition started led to allegations that the show's outcome was predetermined. Solo career Despite losing the competition, she went on to start a music career; her first single, "Wake Up," was performed live for the first time in the municipality of Wijchen where, according to the local paper, she transformed herself from a run-off-the-mill singer into a diva, who gave the audience and the reviewer goosebumps. She signed with the label The Entertainment Group in May 2006 after being turned down by BMG/Sony, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floor Van Den Brandt
Floor van den Brandt (born 23 November 1990) is a Dutch speed skater Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating. ... who is specialized in the sprint distances. Career Van den Brandt finished fourth at the ISU World Cup 500m event in Seoul in November 2014. She is a member of Team AfterPay. Personal records References External links * Team Afterpay profile* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brandt, Floor 1990 births Dutch female speed skaters Sportspeople from 's-Hertogenbosch Living people 21st-century Dutch women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floor Jansen
Floor Jansen (; born 21 February 1981) is a Dutch singer and songwriter. She is the lead vocalist of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. Jansen first became known as a member of symphonic metal band After Forever, standing as their lead vocalist from 1997, when she joined at age 16, to their disbanding in 2009. When After Forever disbanded, she formed ReVamp and has released two albums with them. In 2012 following the departure of their lead vocalist Anette Olzon, Nightwish brought in Jansen as a touring member until the end of their Imaginaerum World Tour. In 2013, they announced Jansen was now their full-time lead vocalist; she subsequently disbanded ReVamp to focus on Nightwish. In 2018, she and Pagan's Mind guitarist Jørn Viggo Lofstad premiered their hard rock duo Northward. A frequent collaborator of Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Jansen is a member of his progressive metal supergroup Star One, and sang in the Ayreon albums '' Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floris (other)
Floris may refer to: People Given name * Five counts of Holland: **Floris I, Count of Holland (c.1017–1061) **Floris II, Count of Holland (c.1085–1121) **Floris III, Count of Holland (1141–1190) **Floris IV, Count of Holland (1210–1234) **Floris de Voogd (c.1228–1258), interim count of Holland, and guardian of Floris V **Floris V, Count of Holland (1254–1296) * Floris of Zeeland (c.1255–1297), stadholder of Zeeland *Floris Arntzenius (1864–1925), Dutch painter, water-colourist, illustrator and printmaker * Floris van den Berg (born 1973), Dutch philosopher and skeptic *Floris Jan Bovelander (born 1966), Dutch field hockey player *Floris Braat (born 1979), Dutch slalom canoeist *Floris Cohen (born 1946), Dutch historian of science *Floris De Tier (born 1992), Belgian racing cyclist * Floris Diergaardt (born 1980), Namibian football striker * Floris van Dijck (c.1575–1651), Dutch still life painter *Floris van Egmont (c.1470–1539), Dutch nobleman, stadtholder of G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
