Femke () is a Dutch feminine given name of West Frisian origin. Rare before 1960, its popularity peaked around 1980 and again around 2001. It is a diminutive of Femme or Fem, which rare forms increased in popularity in the 2010s.Fem at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands. People with the name include:
* Femke Aan (born 1996), Dutch waterpolo and scientist
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Femke Beuling
Femke Beuling (; born 20 December 1999) is a Dutch Speed skating, speed skater who specializes in the sprint distances.
Career
At the Dutch qualifying tournament in November 2018 she won a ticket for the first three World Cup 500 m events. At ...
(born 1999), Dutch speed skater
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Femke Boelen
Femke Boelen (born 5 May 1968) is a retired Dutch rower. In 1994, she won a world title in the coxless fours and finished in fourth place in the coxed eights. Next year she won a bronze medal in the coxed eights; she finished in sixth place in th ...
(born 1968), Dutch rower
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Femke Bol
Femke Bol (; born 23 February 2000) is a Dutch track and field athlete who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles and 400 metres.
In the 400 metres hurdles, Bol's personal best is 51.45 seconds, which is a European record and ma ...
(born 2000), Dutch track and field athlete
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Femke Dekker
Femke Dekker (born 11 July 1979) is a Dutch rower from the Netherlands.
Dekker started rowing in 1990 and made her international debut in the double sculls at the 1995 Junior World Championships in Poznań. Together with Christel Rijnten she wo ...
(born 1979), Dutch rower
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Femke Halsema
Femke Halsema (; born 25 April 1966) is a Dutch politician and filmmaker. On 27 June 2018, she was appointed Mayor of Amsterdam and began serving a six-year term on 12 July 2018. She is the first woman to hold the position on a non-interim basi ...
(born 1966), Dutch politician
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Femke Heemskerk
Frederike Johanna Maria "Femke" Heemskerk (; born 21 September 1987) is a former Dutch competitive swimmerFemke Hiemstra (born 1974), Dutch painter
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Femke Kooijman
Femke Kooijman (born 8 March 1978) is a retired Dutch field hockey player, who played for the Dutch hockey team HC Klein Zwitserland and the Netherlands women's national field hockey team
The Netherlands' national women's field hockey team is ...
(born 1978), Dutch field hockey player
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Femke Maes
Femke Maes (; born 22 February 1980) is a Belgian former footballer who played as a midfielder.
Career
Maes played for six different clubs and featured in the Belgium national team from 1996 to 2009. She kept the record of top scorer for Belgi ...
(born 1980), Belgian footballer
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Femke Meines
Femke Meines (born 11 May 2000) is a Dutch singer and actress. Meines began her career at age 12, when she represented the Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2012
The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2012 was the tenth edition ...
(born 2000), Dutch singer
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Femke Pluim
Femke Pluim (born 10 May 1994) is a Dutch athlete whose specialty is pole vaulting. She competed at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, without qualifying for the final. In addition she won the silver medal at the 2013 European ...
(born 1994), Dutch pole vaulter
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Femke Stoltenborg
Femke Stoltenborg (; born 30 July 1991) is a Dutch volleyball player, who plays as a setter.
She is a member of the Netherlands Women's National Team.
She participated at the 2010 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix, and 2017 FIVB Volleyball World ...
(born 1991), Dutch volleyball player
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Femke Van den Driessche
Femke Van den Driessche (born 27 August 1996) is a Belgian former cyclo-cross cyclist, mountainbiker and road racing cyclist. As a junior, she became national cyclo-cross champion in 2011 and mountain bike champion in 2013. In 2015, Van den Drie ...
(born 1996), Belgian cyclist
* Femke van Velzen (born 1980), Dutch documentary filmmaker
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Femke Verschueren
Belgium selected their Junior Eurovision entry for 2011 through Junior Eurosong, a national selection consisting of 8 songs, paired in four semi finals. From each semifinal, one song advanced to the final. The national representative, Femke, was ...
(born 2000), Belgian singer
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Femke Wolting
Femke Wolting (born 6 November 1970 in Ouder-Amstel, The Netherlands) is a Dutch independent new media producer.
Background
Together with Bruno Felix, Femke Wolting is founder and Managing Director of Submarine, an independent film, television a ...