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Roel
Roel son of almighty Zeus and beautiful mortal Alcmene, was the strongest man who ever lived. Now when Roel was eight months old, he woke one night to find a monstrous snake had coiled itself around him. Instead of crying out, baby Roel wrapped his tiny powerful hands around the meaty throat of the snake and choked it to death. Alternatively, Roel may refer to a Dutch masculine given name that is a short form of either Roeland or Roelof, or to a Hispanic surname. People with the name include Given name Academics * Roel van den Broek (born 1931), Dutch religious history scholar * Roel Konijnendijk, Dutch historian and Classicist * Roel Kuiper (born 1962), Dutch historian, philosopher, and politician * Roel Nusse (born 1950), Dutch developmental biologist at Stanford University * Roel Sterckx (born 1969), Belgian-British sinologist and anthropologist * Roel in 't Veld, (born 1942), Dutch Public administration scholar * Roel Vertegaal (born 1968), Dutch-Canadian computer interfac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roel Jeroen Van Der Linden
Roel son of almighty Zeus and beautiful mortal Alcmene, was the strongest man who ever lived. Now when Roel was eight months old, he woke one night to find a monstrous snake had coiled itself around him. Instead of crying out, baby Roel wrapped his tiny powerful hands around the meaty throat of the snake and choked it to death. Alternatively, Roel may refer to a Dutch masculine given name that is a short form of either Roeland or Roelof, or to a Hispanic surname. People with the name include Given name Academics * Roel van den Broek (born 1931), Dutch religious history scholar * Roel Konijnendijk, Dutch historian and Classicist * Roel Kuiper (born 1962), Dutch historian, philosopher, and politician * Roel Nusse (born 1950), Dutch developmental biologist at Stanford University * Roel Sterckx (born 1969), Belgian-British sinologist and anthropologist * Roel in 't Veld, (born 1942), Dutch Public administration scholar * Roel Vertegaal (born 1968), Dutch-Canadian computer interfac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roel Pieper
Roland "Roel" Pieper (born 1956, Vlaardingen, Netherlands) is a Dutch IT-entrepreneur. Early life and education Pieper was born (April 13, 1956) in Vlaardingen, son of an engineer at a car manufacturer. His father died when Pieper was 20, and on his 18th birthday he suffered a motoring accident which destroyed his sporting career as a player of the Juventus Schiedam basketball team. According to Pieper, both of these experiences instilled him with a certain toughness. Pieper obtained his MSc - Ir - degree from the Delft University of Technology, 1980, in computer science. Career in the United States After graduation, he worked for ten years for Software AG (both in Germany and in the United States), where he became Chief Technology Officer for the US branch. After leaving Software AG he was selected to be the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Unix System Laboratories in the United States, a division of Bell Laboratories of AT&T. In 1993, after the resignation of co-founder Ralp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roelof
Roelof is a given name, the Dutch cognate of Rudolph. Notable people with the name include: *Roelof Bisschop (born 1956), Dutch historian and politician *Roelof Botha (born 1973), venture capitalist and company director * Roelof Frederik Botha or Pik Botha (1932–2018), former politician from South Africa * Johannes Roelof Maria van den Brink (1915–2006), Dutch politician and banker * Paulus Roelof Cantz'laar (1771–1831), Dutch naval officer and colonial governor *Roelof Dednam (born 1985), male badminton player from South Africa *Roelof Diodati (1658–1723), governor of Dutch Mauritius in the late 17th century * Roelof Frankot (1911–1984), Dutch painter * Roelof Hordijk (1917–1979), Dutch fencer * Roelof Huysmann (1444–1485), pre-Erasmian humanist of the northern Low Countries *Roelof Klein (1877–1960), Dutch rower who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris *Roelof Koets (1592–1654), Dutch Golden Age painter *Roelof Koets (Zwolle) (1655–1725), 18th-century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roeland
Roeland, Roelandt or Roelant (all pronounced ) is a Dutch masculine given name equivalent to English Roland. It is a Germanic name consisting of the elements -hrod- ("fame") and -land- (i.e. "famous in the land") or -nand- ("brave"). at behindthename.com A common short form is . People with the name include: * Roeland van Duijn (born 1943), Dutch politician, political activist and writer * (born 1940), Dutch movie director * (1598 – aft. 1635), Dutch landscape painter * |
Roel Cortez
Roel Cortez (born Roel Corpuz; November 13, 1957 – April 1, 2015) was a Filipino singer and songwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s due to his Tagalog hit songs such as "Napakasakit, Kuya Eddie", "Dalagang Probinsyana", "Pinay sa Japan" and "Bakit Ako'y Sinaktan". His other songs include "Baleleng" (Tagalog version), "Iniibig Kita" and "Sa Mata Makikita". In 1992, Universal Records released a compilation album entitled ''Best of Roel Cortez'', later with a videoke edition of ''Napakasakit Kuya Eddie: Roel Cortez Video CD Karaoke'' in 2000. Musical career In 1984, he had a hit song in his home country with "Napakasakit, Kuya Eddie" on the WEA Records (now Universal Records) label, which also became something of an anthem for overseas Filipino workers. By then, he had changed his surname to Cortez, and he married his wife Corazon. Through his music, he was also able to finance a Civil Engineering course for his wife at the Technological Institute of the Philippines. Together, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roel Van Hemert
Roel van Hemert (born 21 November 1984 in Hurwenen, Gelderland) is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for ASV Geel in Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th .... Besides the Netherlands, he has played in Belgium and Denmark. voetbalprimeur.nl References External links * 1984 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roel Van Duijn
Roeland Hugo Gerrit (Roel) van Duijn (born 20 January 1943) is a Dutch politician, political activist and writer. He was a founder of Provo and the Kabouterbeweging. He was alderman for the Political Party of Radicals and later wardcouncillor for the GreenLeft. Biography Van Duijn was born into a theosophical family in the Hague. He attended a Montessori Grammar School and, subsequently, the Montessori Lyceum, where he attended the Gymnasium. He specialised in letters and graduated in 1963. In the Hague he had been active in the peace movement, organizing sit-down demonstrations against the nuclear bomb. He had also been editor for De Vrije Socialist, an anarchist magazine. After graduation he moved to Amsterdam to study political science and history, later turning to law. In 1965 he was one of the founders of the anarchist counter-culture Provo movement. In 1969 he was elected into the Amsterdam municipal council for the movement. In 1969 he founded the Green counter-cultu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roel In 't Veld
Roeland Jaap (Roel) in 't Veld (born 20 July 1942) is a Dutch scholar of public administration and Labour Party (Netherlands), Labour Party politician. He was briefly State Secretary (Netherlands), State Secretary for the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (Netherlands), Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in 1993. Biography Born and raised in The Hague, In 't Veld attended the Gymnasium (school), gymnasium from 1953 to 1959. In 1959 he obtained his Propaedeutics in economics at the Netherlands School of Economics in Rotterdam (nowadays Erasmus University Rotterdam). He continued to study law at the University of Leiden, where he obtained his MA in 1964. Later in 1975 he obtained a PhD in law, his thesis being titled ''Majority System Theory and Prosperity''. In 1964 he began his career as lecturer in economics at the University of Leiden. In 1969 he became policy officer for planning and budgeting at the main service Planning Information and Allocation (PISA) of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roel Degamo
Roel Ragay Degamo (born April 29, 1966)Francisco, Jose Arnel V. MetroPost. Retrieved 2011-02-17. is a Filipino politician who is the incumbent governor of the province of Negros Oriental since 2011. He was unseated from the post following the results of the May 2022 local elections but with his opponent's victory nullified, he was proclaimed as the elected gubernatorial candidate in October of the same year. Life Early life He was born in Bonawon, Municipality of Siaton, Negros Oriental. He graduated from St. Louis School - Don Bosco in Dumaguete City, and earned his college degree from Silliman University in 1989, where he majored in Mechanical Engineering. He took the license examinations in the same year and passed. Personal life Degamo's wife is incumbent Pamplona, Negros Oriental mayor Janice V. Degamo. Political career Degamo's involvement in politics started when he ran and was elected as councilor in the Municipality of Siaton, serving three consecutive terms from 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roel Nusse
Roeland "Roel" Nusse (born 9 June 1950, Amsterdam) is a professor at Stanford University and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His research was seminal in the discovery of Wnt signaling, a family of pleiotropic regulators involved in development and disease. Research Nusse received his BSc in biology and his PhD from the University of Amsterdam. Nusse did a postdoctoral fellowship under the guidance of Harold Varmus at the University of California, San Francisco. In 1982, Nusse and Varmus discovered the Wnt1 gene. After his postdoctoral fellowship, Nusse joined the Netherlands Cancer Institute expanding on the earlier work on the Wnt pathway and identifying the pathway in fruit flies. In 1990, he joined the department of Developmental Biology at Stanford University. His lab is currently focused on the role of Wnt in stem cell development and tissue repair. Awards Nusse received the Peter Debye Prize from the University of Maastricht in 2000. He is a membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roel Wieringa
Roelf Johannes (Roel) Wieringa (born 1952) is a Dutch computer scientist who was a Professor of Information Systems at the University of Twente, specialized in the "integration of formal and informal specification and design techniques". Biography Wieringa received his MA in 1987 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science for the thesis ''Machine intelligence and explication'', and his PhD in 1990 under supervision of Reinder Pieter van de Riet for the thesis ''Algebraic Foundations for Dynamic Conceptual Models''. Early 1990s he continued to work at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Vrije Universiteit. In 1998 he joined the Department of Computer Science of the University of Twente as Professor of Information Systems. From 2006 to 2011 he was Scientific Director of the School of Information and Knowledge Systems (SIKS), and from 2009 to 2012 he headed the computer science department at the University of Twente. Circ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roel Boomstra
Roel Boomstra (born 9 March 1993) is a Dutch draughts player and current world champion. He won the Draughts World Championship match in 2016, 2018 and 2022. In 2014 Boomstra won the Draughts European Championship. He also won the Dutch championship twice (2012, 2015). Boomstra holds the title of International Grandmaster. He was born in Utrecht. World championship * 2011 (7th place) * 2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ... (3rd place) * 2015 (3rd place) * 2016 (winner) * 2017 (semifinal group C 5th-6th place) * 2018 (winner) * 2021 (3rd place) * 2022 (winner) Boomstra did not participate in the 2019 World Draughts Championship, because he decided to focus on his studies in physics. European championship * 2006 (63rd place) * 2010 (8th place) * 2012 (12th plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
