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Willeke
Willeke is a Dutch feminine given name and also a surname. The given name may be abbreviated as Wil. People with that name include: * Willeke Alberti (born 1945), Dutch singer and actress * Willeke Knol (born 1991), Dutch racing cyclist * Willeke van Ammelrooy (born 1944), Dutch actress and director * Willeke van der Weide (born 1965), Dutch road racing cyclist * Willeke Wendrich (born 1961), Dutch-American Egyptologist and archaeologist. * Leonard B. Willeke (active 1911-1918), American architect See also * Wilhelmina (given name), a related Dutch feminine name * Willem, a related Dutch masculine given name * Wilma (given name) Wilma is a female given name, a feminine form of William. People with the name include: People * Wilma Arizapana (born 1982), Peruvian long-distance runner *Wilma van den Berg (born 1947), Dutch sprinter * Wilma M. Blom, marine scientist *Wilma Bur ..., a related name * {{given name, type=both Dutch feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willeke Van Ammelrooy
Willy Geertje van Ammelrooij (born 5 April 1944), known as Willeke van Ammelrooy, is a Dutch actress and director. Life and career Willeke van Ammelrooy was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She attended drama school in Amsterdam. Van Ammelrooy has acted on stage as well as in films. She participated in 27 movies. Her first film was ''Mira'' in 1971. Success with ''Antonia's Line'' She later starred in the award-winning feminist film ''Antonia's Line'', which tells the story of an independent woman who, after returning to the anonymous Dutch village of her birth, establishes and nurtures a close-knit matriarchal community. She received positive reviews and the Golden Calf for Best Actress for her performance and the film enjoyed critical success, including the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 68th Academy Awards. Emanuel Levy, writing for '' The Advocate'', wrote "It's easy to see why" the film was winning awards in festivals, calling it "an enchanting f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willeke Alberti
Willeke Alberti (born 3 February 1945) (real name: Willy Albertina Verbrugge) is a Dutch singer and actress, the daughter of entertainer and singer Willy Alberti (1926–1985) and Hendrika Geertruida Kuiper (1921–2011). Biography Willeke Alberti started her career at the early age of eleven in the musical ''Duel om Barbara'' and she recorded her first single in 1958 together with her father. During the 1960s, she was a well-known singer in the Netherlands and had at least one No. 1 hit with "De winter was lang" ("It was a long winter"), however there was no official Dutch chart at the time. Willeke and her father had a television show between 1965 and 1969. Her singing career from 1970 onwards is less active, however Alberti still releases singles and albums at an irregular interval and plays minor roles in television programs and movies. From 1964 to 1974 she was married to musician Joop Oonk and they had a daughter. She married John de Mol in 1976, and they had a son, Johnny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willeke Knol
Willeke Arkema-Knol (née Knol; born 10 April 1991) is a Dutch former racing cyclist. She competed in the 2013 UCI women's team time trial in Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an .... In 2015, Knol finished sixth in the Acht van Westerveld. See also * 2013 Team Argos–Shimano season * 2014 Team Giant–Shimano season * 2015 Team Liv–Plantur season References External links * * 1991 births Living people Dutch female cyclists People from Zwartewaterland Cyclists from Overijssel 21st-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-cycling-bio-1990s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willeke Van Der Weide
Willeke van der Weide (born 9 September 1965) is a Dutch road racing cyclist. Raised in Oudewater, she was known as a triathlete A triathlon is an endurance multisport race consisting of swimming, cycling, and running over various distances. Triathletes compete for fastest overall completion time, racing each segment sequentially with the time transitioning between the d ... when she became national time trial champion in 1996. Leidsch Dagblad, 27 June 1996 References External links * 1965 births Living people[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willeke Wendrich
Willemina Zwanida "Willeke" Wendrich (born 13 September 1961, Haarlem) is a Dutch and/or American Egyptologist and archaeologist. Wendrich completed her Ph.D. at the Centre for Asian, African and Amerindian Studies (CNWS]) at Leiden University in the Netherlands in 1993. The topic of her dissertation was ''Ethnoarchaeology and the social context of Ancient Egyptian basketry'', which was subsequently published as ''The World According to Basketry'' by the CIoA Press in June 1999. From 1995 to 1999 Wendrich was an assistant professor of Egyptian archaeology at Leiden University, stationed at the Netherlands Institute for Archaeology and Arabic Studies in Cairo. In 2000, Wendrich moved to Los Angeles and became an assistant professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Currently Wendrich holds the Joan Silsbee Chair in African Cultural Archaeology after becoming promoted to full professor in 2009. Wendrich has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willem
Willem () is a Dutch and West FrisianRienk de Haan, ''Fryske Foarnammen'', Leeuwarden, 2002 (Friese Pers Boekerij), , p. 158. masculine given name. The name is Germanic, and can be seen as the Dutch equivalent of the name William in English, Guillaume in French, Guilherme in Portuguese, Guillermo in Spanish and Wilhelm in German. Nicknames that are derived from Willem are Jelle, Pim, Willie, Willy and Wim. Given name *Willem Cody (2007-Present), Active Serbian terrorist, Leader of the Serbian World Republic, Intolerably based * Willem I (1772–1843), King of the Netherlands * Willem II (1792–1849), King of the Netherlands * Willem III (1817–1890), King of the Netherlands * Willem of the Netherlands (1840–1879), Dutch prince *Willem-Alexander (b. 1967), King of the Netherlands *Willem Aantjes (b. 1923), Dutch politician *Willem Adelaar (b. 1948), Dutch linguist *Willem Andriessen (1887–1964), Dutch pianist and composer *Willem Arondeus (1894–1943), Dutch artist and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard B
Leonard or ''Leo'' is a common English masculine given name and a surname. The given name and surname originate from the Old High German ''Leonhard'' containing the prefix ''levon'' ("lion") from the Greek Λέων ("lion") through the Latin '' Leo,'' and the suffix ''hardu'' ("brave" or "hardy"). The name has come to mean "lion strength", "lion-strong", or "lion-hearted". Leonard was the name of a Saint in the Middle Ages period, known as the patron saint of prisoners. Leonard is also an Irish origin surname, from the Gaelic ''O'Leannain'' also found as O'Leonard, but often was anglicised to just Leonard, consisting of the prefix ''O'' ("descendant of") and the suffix ''Leannan'' ("lover"). The oldest public records of the surname appear in 1272 in Huntingdonshire, England, and in 1479 in Ulm, Germany. Variations The name has variants in other languages: * Leen, Leendert, Lenard (Dutch) * Lehnertz, Lehnert (Luxembourgish) * Len (English) * :hu:Lénárd (Hungarian) * Lenart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelmina (given Name)
Wilhelmina (also: Wilhelmena, Wilhelmine, Wilhemina) is a feminine given name, the Dutch, German and Yiddish form of Wilhelm or William, which is derived from the Germanic ''wil'', meaning "will, desire" and ''helm'', meaning "helmet, protection". Wilhelmina was ranked in the top 1000 most popular names for girls in the United States between 1900 and 1940 but is rarely used today. In many European countries, this name is once again very popular. Nicknames for Wilhelmina include, but are not restricted to, Minna, Mina, Mineke, Minnie, Willie and Billie. Notable persons with this name * Augusta Wilhelmena Fredericka Appel (1905–1973), American silent and early sound film actress * Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg (born 1951), British-American actress * Katherine Elizabeth Wilhelmina Sharon Beuving Langbroek (born 1965), Australian comedian, radio and television presenter * Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient (1804–1860), German operatic soprano * Wilhelmina van den Berg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilma (given Name)
Wilma is a female given name, a feminine form of William. People with the name include: People * Wilma Arizapana (born 1982), Peruvian long-distance runner *Wilma van den Berg (born 1947), Dutch sprinter * Wilma M. Blom, marine scientist *Wilma Burgess (1939–2003), American singer *Wilma Chan (1949–2021), American politician *Wilma Lee Cooper (1921–2011), American singer * Wilma Cosmé (born 1966), Puerto Rican singer known as Sa-Fire *Wilma De Angelis (born 1931), Italian singer and TV presenter * Wilma Driessen (born 1938), Dutch opera singer *Wilma Dykeman (1920–2006), American writer *Wilma Elles (born 1986), German actress * Wilma de Faria, Brazilian politician, governor of Rio Grande do Norte * Wilma Anderson Gilman (1881-1971), American concert pianist, music teacher, clubwoman *Wilma Goich (born 1945), Italian pop singer and television personality *Wilma Scott Heide (1921–1985), American feminist author and social activist *Wilma van Hofwegen (born 1971), Dutch swim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
