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Pieters
Pieters is a Dutch surname, equivalent to Peters. It can refer to: *Amy Pieters (b. 1991), Dutch racing cyclist *Andries Jan Pieters (1916–1952), Dutch collaborator with Nazis who was executed for war crimes *Brandon Pieters (b. 1976), South African professional golfer * Bruno Pieters, Belgian fashion designer *Carle M. Pieters (b. 1943), American planetary scientist *Cindy Pieters (b. 1976), Belgian racing cyclist *Danny Pieters (b. 1956), Belgian politician * Deane Pieters (b. 1968), Australian swimmer * Dewald Pieters (b. 1990), South African rugby player *Eddy Pieters Graafland (b. 1934), Dutch footballer *Erik Pieters (b. 1988) Dutch footballer * Fabio Pieters (b. 1978), Argentine footballer * Geertje Pieters (1636–1712), Dutch flower painter *Godfried Pieters (b. 1936), Dutch sculptor *Guido Pieters (b. 1948), Dutch film director * Jean Pieters (b. 1962), Dutch biochemist *Josh Pieters, South African YouTuber * Kim Pieters (b. 1959), New Zealand painter, musician and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Pieters
Erik Pieters (; born 7 August 1988) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a left back for West Bromwich Albion. Pieters began his career with Utrecht and made his professional debut in August 2006. He impressed enough at the Stadion Galgenwaard to earn a move to PSV Eindhoven in July 2008 for €2.5 million. At PSV he won the Johan Cruijff Shield in 2008 and the KNVB Beker in 2011–12 and also became a regular member of the Dutch national team. Injuries hampered his progress in 2012–13 before he moved to English side Stoke City in June 2013 for €3.6 million. Pieters spent six years with the Potters making 206 appearances before joining Burnley in July 2019. Career Early career Born in Tiel, Pieters grew up in Enspijk and started as a central midfielder in the juvenile ranks of VV Rhelico in Rumpt. There he was scouted by FC Utrecht and, after a trial period, he joined the Utrecht youth academy. Utrecht Pieters made his Eredivisie debut for Utrecht in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andries Jan Pieters
Andries Jan Pieters (2 August 1916 – 21 March 1952) was a Dutch war criminal and, together with Artur Albrecht, was one of the last two people to be executed in the Netherlands. Pieters served as a volunteer for Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front. When he was wounded he returned to the Netherlands and in the final months of World War II he led a SS commando in the Netherlands, which tortured and executed resistance members and others. Early life Pieters was born in 1916 in Leksula, Eastern Dutch East Indies, as the son of a Protestant missionary. Pieters was frustrated during his childhood as he was not allowed to play with native Indonesian children. His father was stern and was recalled to the Netherlands due to mismanagement. In 1924 the family returned to the Netherlands and settled in Groningen. His father started a furniture shop which went bankrupt after a while. Pieters claimed this was caused by "Jewpeople". After failing at school Pieters joined the armed forces o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Pieters
Bruno Pieters (born 17 June 1975 in Bruges, Belgium) is a Belgian fashion designer based in Antwerp. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp graduating with a BA in Fashion Design in 1999. Pieters is highly regarded for his avant-garde creations and sharp tailoring. He worked with renowned designers including Martin Margiela, Josephus Thimister and Christian Lacroix to develop his talent. After a two-year break he introduced his comeback label Honest By Bruno Pieters in 2012. Life and career Two years after his graduation in 1999, Bruno Pieters launched his first collection in July 2001 during Paris Fashion Week. The next year, he introduced his ready-to-wear collection for both male as female. Praised by Vogue international editor and fashion journalist Suzy Menkes and other fashion critics, his career took flight. As result, in 2005 Pieters was named creative director of the men’s line at the Belgian brand Delvaux, the oldest fine leather luxury goods comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Pieters
Amy Pieters (born 1 June 1991) is a Dutch professional road and track cyclist, who is contracted to ride for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She was a member of the Dutch team that finished sixth at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the team pursuit (together with Ellen van Dijk, Kirsten Wild and Vera Koedooder). On 23 December 2021, Pieters was placed in an induced coma and underwent emergency surgery to relieve pressure on her brain caused by a fall that day during a training ride near Alicante with the Dutch national track team. After being repatriated to the Netherlands the following month, Pieters had regained consciousness in April but, due to the brain injury suffered, doctors were unsure of her "residual symptoms and remaining abilities". In October 2022, Pieters was able to take her first steps since the fall, at a neuro-rehabilitation centre in Woerden. Personal life Pieters is the daughter of former professional Peter Pieters, the niece of Sjaak Pieters and the sister of Roy Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Pieters
Jean Pieters is a Dutch biochemist and Professor at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland. Life Jean Pieters studied biochemistry and microbiology at the University of Leuven in Belgium. After completing his doctorate at Maastricht University, the Netherlands, he joined the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg in 1989 as a postdoctoral fellow in Bernhard Dobberstein’s laboratory. From 1992 until 1995 Jean Pieters researched at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam as a junior group leader. In 1996 he was recruited to the Basel Institute for Immunology and in 2002 appointed to the Biozentrum at the University of Basel. Work Jean Pieters investigates the role of coronin proteins in activating cellular signal transduction processes. Coronin proteins are widely distributed in the eukaryotic kingdom and conserved from yeast to man. One of the most conserved members of this protein family, mammalian coronin 1, was originally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Pieters
Joshua Pieters (born 17 September 1993) is a South African YouTuber known for pranks on celebrities. Originally from Knysna, he is currently based in London. Career In August 2019, Pieters pranked 40 social media influencers including Louise Thompson (TV personality), Louise Thompson into believing they received a piece of Moon rock from the National Space Centre (NSC). Pieters later apologized to the NSC. In September 2019, Pieters and his YouTube partner Archie Manners created a fake restaurant, The Italian Stallion, to sell microwave meals as authentic Italian cuisine via Deliveroo. They followed this up in November 2019 with a prank at the KSI vs. Logan Paul II boxing match, where they managed to convince several YouTubers, influencers, and venue staff at the Staples Center that an Ed Sheeran lookalike was the actual Ed Sheeran. On 27 January 2020, English Far-right politics, far-right political commentator Katie Hopkins was pranked by Pieters into accepting a fake award, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddy Pieters Graafland
Eduard Laurens "Eddy" Pieters Graafland (5 January 193428 April 2020) was a Dutch professional football player and coach. As a player, he was the goalkeeper of Ajax, Feyenoord and the Netherlands. In 1970, his last season as a professional, he won the Europa Cup with Feijenoord. In total, he was capped for the national team 47 times. His nickname was, after his abbreviated surname, ''Eddy PG''. He was a renowned penalty stopper, and kept a notebook with potential penalty takers' favorite side. Career At the age of eleven he became a member of Ajax. Twelve was the minimum age, but his father was a board member, which gave him priority. At the age of seventeen, in 1951, he made his debut in Ajax's first team. In the mid-1950s, Pieters Graafland fulfilled his military service in Arnhem. From that moment on he practiced for a year with the first team of Vitesse. After his military service he returned to Amsterdam. On 28 April 1957, Pieters Graafland made his international deb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Pieters
Kim Pieters (born 1959) is a New Zealand painter, musician and digital filmmaker. Background Born in Rotorua, New Zealand, she was the eldest of six children and grew up on the Bombay Hills. In the early 1980s, she led a peripatetic life, traveling to Australia and around New Zealand. She moved to Christchurch in the late 1980s and, without any significant formal training, "devoted herself to her art practice". She held her first exhibition of photographs and drawings in Wellington in 1981, and her first painting exhibition at the Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery in 1989. In 1993, along with others such as the musician Peter Stapleton, she relocated to Dunedin where she participated in the city's "‘free noise’ scene", and was instrumental in establishing the Metonymic record label (1996) and the experimental film and music festival Lines of Flight (2000). She took up residence in her current studio near the Dunedin waterfront in 2007, which initiated "an especially ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Pieters
Peter Pieters (born 2 February 1962) is a retired Dutch cyclist who was active between 1980 and 1998. On track, he competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the individual 4 km pursuit and points race, and won a bronze medal in the points race at the 1991 world championships. On the road, he won the Delta Profronde (1988), Paris–Tours (1988), Profronde van Almelo (1990) and Ronde van de Haarlemmermeer (1996), as well as individual stages of the Olympia's Tour (1983), Vuelta a Burgos (1984), Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen (1984), Vuelta a Murcia (1985), Tour of Belgium (1988) and Tour of Sweden (1992). After retiring from competition he worked as a cycling coach, in particular he was successful with the Belgian national team: in 2017 the Belgium national team brought home the highest number of medals in 50 years. Pieters's brother Sjaak and daughter Amy Amy is a female given name, sometimes short for Amanda, Amelia, Amélie, or Amita. In French, the name is spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deane Pieters
Deane Anthony Pieters (born 30 July 1968) is a freestyle swimmer who competed for Australia at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There he was disqualified in the final of the men's 4×200-metre freestyle relay team, alongside Kieren Perkins, Duncan Armstrong and Ian Brown. At the 1991 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Edmonton, Pieters won a silver medal in the 4x200-metre freestyle. He also finished 4th in the 200-metre freestyle, 10th in the 400-metre freestyle, and 28th in the 100-metre freestyle. At the 1993 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Kobe, Japan, Pieters again won a silver medal in the 4x200-metre freestyle. He also finished 11th in the 200-metre freestyle, and 23rd in the 100-metre freestyle. Deane is a World Life Saving Champion (1990) and has won eight Australian Surf Life Saving Titles between 1990 and 1993. He has represented Australia in swimming (1991, 1992 and 1993) and surf life saving (1990, 1991 and 1996). Deane is general manager ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabio Pieters
Fabio Pieters (born 3 June 1978 in Rojas, Buenos Aires) is a former Argentine football midfielder. Pieters started his professional playing career in 1998 with Lanús, in 2000 he joined Los Andes, he was part of the squad that obtained promotion to the Argentine Primera later that year. Pieters joined Estudiantes in 2001 after Los Andes' relegation, but after making only 6 appearances for the Estudiantes he returned to Los Andes in 2003. He then had spells with Defensores de Belgrano and Israeli side Hapoel Petah Tikva before joining Gimnasia de Jujuy Club Atlético Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy , (usually known as Gimnasia de Jujuy or just GEJ) is an Argentine sports club based in San Salvador de Jujuy, Jujuy Province. The club was founded in 1931 and is best known for its football team, whi ... in 2005. External links *Argentine Primera statisticsFootball-Lineups player profile 1978 births Living people Sportspeople from Buenos Aires Province Argentine footballer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godfried Pieters
Godfridus Mathias (Godfried) Pieters (born 25 November 1936) is a Dutch sculptor. Life and work Pieters was educated at the Maastricht Institute of Arts and the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. His oeuvre shows a preference for the human figure (especially torsos and heads) and nature (birds, fish and plants and tubers), which he depicts in a realistic style. Works File:Vogel - Bosboom Toussaintplein.jpg, ''Vogel'' (1968), Delft File:Waternimf - Menno ter Braaklaan.jpg, ''Waternimf'' (1969), Delft Delft () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, Netherlands. It is located between Rotterdam, to the southeast, ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Pieters, Godfried 1936 births Living people Dutch male sculptors 20th-century Dutch sculptors 21st-century Dutch sculptors People from Bunde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
