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male name meaning "''brave with the spear''", the Dutch and Frisian form of
Gerard
Gerard is a masculine forename of Proto-Germanic origin, variations of which exist in many Germanic and Romance languages. Like many other early Germanic names, it is dithematic, consisting of two meaningful constituents put together. In this ca ...
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Behind the Name: Gerrit-> People with this name include:
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Gerrit Achterberg
Gerrit Achterberg (20 May 1905 – 17 January 1962) was a Dutch poet. His early poetry concerned a desire to be united with a beloved in death.
Achterberg was born in Nederlangbroek in the Netherlands as the third son of a family of eight chi ...
(1905–1962), Dutch poet
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Gerrit van Arkel
Gerrit A. van Arkel (April 3, 1858 in Loenen aan de Vecht – July 11, 1918 in Abcoude) was a Dutch architect who designed many of Amsterdam's most prominent Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) buildings.
He moved to Amsterdam in 1883 to become an architec ...
(1858–1918), Dutch architect
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Gerrit Badenhorst
Gerrit Badenhorst (born 10 October 1962) is a former WPC world champion powerlifter and professional strongman competitor from South Africa.
Powerlifting
Badenhorst was born on 10 October 1962 in De Aar, Northern Cape, South Africa.David Webs ...
(born 1962), South African powerlifter and professional strongman competitor
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Gerrit Battem
Gerrit Battem or Gerard van Battum (ca. 1636 - October 24, 1684 (buried)) was a Dutch landscape painter.
Biography
Houbraken mentions drawings by Battem in the house of his patron Jonas van Witsen of Amsterdam, who bought them for 1300 guilders ...
(c. 1636 – 1684), Dutch landscape painter
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Gerrit Beneker
Gerrit Albertus Beneker (January 26, 1882 – October 23, 1934) was an American painter and illustrator best known for his paintings of industrial scenes and for his poster work in World War I.
Biography
Beneker was born on January 26, 1882 in G ...
(1882–1934), American painter and illustrator
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Gerrit Berckheyde
Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde (1638 – 10 June 1698) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, active in Haarlem, Amsterdam, and The Hague, who is best known today for his cityscapes.
Biography
Berckheyde was born and died in Haarlem. Chris ...
(1638–1698), Dutch painter
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Gerrit Berkhoff
Gerrit (Gé) Berkhoff (Wijhe 9 July 1901 – Oosterbeek 27 February 1996) was a Dutch chemist and the first ''rector magnificus'' of the University of Twente in The Netherlands.
Education
The son of primary school principal Gerrit Berkhoff (1868†...
(1901–1996), Dutch chemist and university rector
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Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer
Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer (1903–1996) was for years the leading theologian of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (GKN). He occupied the chair in systematic theology of the Faculty of Theology, Free University (VU) in Amsterdam.
Berkouwer ...
(1903–1996), Dutch theologian
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Gerrit Berveling (born 1944), Dutch Esperanto author
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Gerrit Blaauw
Gerrit Anne "Gerry" Blaauw (July 17, 1924 – March 21, 2018) was a Dutch computer scientist, known as one of the principal designers of the IBM System/360 line of computers, together with Fred Brooks, Gene Amdahl, and others.[ ...]
(born 1924), Dutch computer engineer
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Gerrit de Blanken (1894–1961), Dutch pottery artist
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Gerrit van Bloclant
Gerrit van Bloclant (ca. 1578 – ca. 1650) was a Dutch The Renaissance, Renaissance painter.
Not much is known about Gerrit van Bloclant's life except through his works. His name suggest he may have come from the village of Blokland, South Holl ...
(1578–1650), Dutch Renaissance painter
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Gerrit Bol
Gerrit Bol (May 29, 1906 in Amsterdam – February 21, 1989 in Freiburg) was a Dutch mathematician who specialized in geometry. He is known for introducing Bol loops in 1937, and Bol’s conjecture on sextactic points.
Life
Bol earned his PhD ...
(1906–1989), Dutch mathematician
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Gerrit Braamcamp
Gerrit Braamcamp (18 November 1699, in Amsterdam – 17 June 1771, in Amsterdam) was a successful Roman Catholic distiller, timber merchant, and art collector from the Netherlands. One of the most important merchants in Amsterdam, he built a ti ...
(1699–1771), Dutch distiller, timber merchant and art collector
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Gerrit den Braber
Gerrit den Braber (23 March 1929 – 3 May 1997) was born in Rotterdam and was a Dutch songwriter and lyricist.
Braber took music lessons in Rotterdam and Hilversum. He then went into Hospital Radio and joined the Dutch radio and television compa ...
(1929–1997), Dutch songwriter and lyricist
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Gerrit Broekstra
Gerrit Broekstra (born 1 August 1941, Alkmaar, Netherlands), is a Dutch scientist and professor in the field of organization behavior and systems sciences at the Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam, Northwestern University, Chicago, and Nyenrode Busin ...
(born 1941), Dutch scientist and professor
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Gerrit Cole
Gerrit Alan Cole (born September 8, 1990) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Houston Astros. Cole played for the baseball team ...
(born 1990), American baseball pitcher
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Gerrit Gerritsz Cuyp
Gerrit Gerritsz. Cuyp (or
Cuijp; c.1565–1644) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and stained glass cartoon draughtsman.
Biography
According to the RKD he was born in Venlo and moved to Dordrecht before 19 January 1585, when he married and beca ...
(c. 1565–1644), Dutch painter and stained glass artist
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Gerrit J. Diekema (1859–1930), American politician
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Gerrit van Dijk
Gerrit van Dijk (5 December 1938 – 4 December 2012) was a Dutch animator, film maker, actor and painter.
Biography
Gerrit van Dijk was born in a pious Catholic family in the village of Volkel, in the municipality of Uden. He studied as a fift ...
(1938–2012), Dutch animator, film maker, actor and painter
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Gerrit Dou
Gerrit Dou (7 April 1613 – 9 February 1675), also known as Gerard Douw or Dow, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose small, highly polished paintings are typical of the Leiden fijnschilders. He specialised in genre scenes and is noted for his '' ...
(1613–1675), Dutch painter
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Gerrit L. Dox
Gerrit Lansing Dox (December 13, 1784 in Albany, New York – August 2, 1847 in Waterloo, Seneca County, New York) was an American politician.
Early life
He was born on December 13, 1784 to Pieter Dox and Cathalyntje Lansing. He was baptised on ...
(1784–1847), American politician
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Gerrit Faulhaber
Gerrit Henri Victor Lodewijk Faulhaber (22 September 1912 – 1951) was an Indonesian football midfielder who played for the Dutch East Indies in the 1938 FIFA World Cup
The 1938 FIFA World Cup was the third edition of the World Cup, the quadr ...
(1912–1951), Dutch-Indonesian footballer
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Gerrit Fauser
Gerrit Fauser (born 13 July 1989) is a German professional ice hockey player currently with the Grizzlys Wolfsburg in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). He joined Wolfsburg from DEL rival the Hannover Scorpions
The Hannover Scorpions are a prof ...
(born 1989), German ice hockey player
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Gerrit Ferreira
Gerrit Thomas Ferreira also known as GT Ferreira is a South African billionaire businessman, investor and banker who is one of the founders of FirstRand Limited.
Biography
Gerrit Ferreira got his MBA degree from University of Stellenbosch. In 19 ...
(born 1948), South African businessman
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Gerrit Fischer
Gerrit Fischer (28 August 1916 – 22 November 1984) was a Dutch footballer who played for Ajax as a right winger.
Club career
Ajax
Fischer was discovered at a school football match at the age of sixteen, by Ajax coach Jack Reynolds, after w ...
(1916–1984), Dutch footballer
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Gerrit Fokkema
Gerrit Fokkema Born in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea in 1954 and moved to Australia in 1958.
Education
Gerrit Fokkema attended the NSW public system primary and secondary schools in Queanbeyan, NSW. graduating with a Higher School Certifi ...
(born 1954), Australian photographer
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Gerrit Forbes
Gerrit Angelo Forbes (30 May 1836 - 22 September 1906) was a justice of the Supreme Court of New York beginning in 1888. He served as District Attorney for Madison County from January 1871 to December 1874. He was a member of the Madison County a ...
(1836–1906), American judge
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(born 1960), Belgian legal scholar
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Gerrit van Gelderen
Gerrit van Gelderen (1926-1994) was a Dutch-born naturalist, wildlife broadcaster, film-maker, illustrator and cartoonist, who lived and worked in Ireland for a large part of his life. He is famous for his television work on Amuigh Faoin Spéir w ...
(1926–1994), Dutch-born Irish naturalist, wildlife broadcaster, film-maker, illustrator and cartoonist
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Gerrit Van Gestel
Gerrit Van Gestel (born 20 January 1958) is a Belgian former cyclist
Cycling, also, when on a two-wheeled bicycle, called bicycling or biking, is the use of cycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling ...
(born 1958), Belgian former cyclist
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Gerrit Glas
Gerrit is a Dutch language, Dutch male name meaning "''brave with the spear''", the Dutch and Frisian form of Gerard.Beh ...
(born 1954), Dutch philosopher and psychiatrist
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Gerrit Glomser
Gerrit Glomser (born 1 April 1975 in Salzburg) is an Austrian former racing cyclist, who currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team . He turned professional in 1998, and won the Austrian National Road Race Championships in 20 ...
(born 1975), Austrian racing cyclist
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Gerrit David Gratama
Gerrit David Gratama (22 March 1874 – 20 August 1965), was a Dutch artist, writer, and director of the Frans Hals Museum.
Biography
He was born in Groningen and was the brother of the architect Jan Gratama and painter Lina Gratama (1875- ...
(1874–1965), Dutch artist, writer and museum director
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Gerrit Govaars (1866–1954), Dutch teacher and Salvation Army officer
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Gerrit Graham
Gerrit Graham (born November 27, 1949) is an American stage, television, and film actor as well as a scriptwriter and songwriter. He is best known for his appearances in multiple films by Brian De Palma as well as appearances in two ''Star Trek'' ...
(born 1949), American actor and songwriter
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Gerrit Holdijk
Gerrit Holdijk (17 November 1944 – 30 November 2015) was a Dutch jurist and politician of the Reformed Political Party (SGP).
Holdijk was born in Uddel, a village in the Veluwe region. He studied notary at a post-secondary level, and also law ...
(1944–2015), Dutch politician
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Gerrit Holtmann
Gerrit Stephan Barba Holtmann (born 25 March 1995) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for Süper Lig club Antalyaspor, on loan from Bundesliga club VfL Bochum. Born in Germany, he plays for the Philippines national team.
Cl ...
(born 1995), German footballer
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Gerrit van Houten
Gerrit van Houten (also known as Gerry Wood; 29 August 1866, in Groningen – 18 January 1934, in Santpoort) was a Dutch painter and artist.
The Van Houten family lived just outside the gates of the city of Groningen on the Damsterdiep canal. ...
(1866–1934), Dutch painter and artist
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Gerrit van Iterson ''This page was created from the Dutch Wikipedia with the aid of automatic translation''
Gerrit van Iterson Jr (Roermond, August 19, 1878 – Wassenaar, January 4, 1972) was a Dutch botanist and professor who developed a mathematical approach to pl ...
(1878–1972), Dutch botanist and professor
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Gerrit de Jager
Gerrit de Jager (born 1954, Amsterdam) is a Dutch cartoonist, creator of series such as ', ', ' and '.
His career started in the early 1980s with Wim Stevenhagen under the pseudonym ''Prutspruts'' ("fiddle-fiddle"), which later changed to ''P ...
(born 1954), Dutch cartoonist
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Gerrit de Jong Jr. Gerrit de Jong Jr. (28 March 1892, Amsterdam – 26 September 1978, Provo, Utah) was an American academic and the first dean of the College of Fine Arts at Brigham Young University (BYU).
de Jong was skilled in music and wrote the words and music ...
(1892–1978), Dutch-born American art teacher, pedagogue and professor
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Gerrit Kastein
Dr. Gerrit Willem Kastein (25 June 1910 - 21 February 1943) was a Dutch communist, neurologist and resistance fighter and leader during World War II.
Early life
Kastein was born in Zutphen, the eldest son of Albertus Gerhardus Kastein and Gerdina ...
(1910–1943), Dutch communist, neurologist and WWII resistance fighter
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Gerrit Hendrik Kersten
Gerrit Hendrik Kersten (6 August 1882, Deventer – 6 September 1948, Waarde) was a Dutch Calvinist minister and politician. After briefly working as a primary school teacher Kersten was inducted into his first pastorate in Meliskerke in 1905 with ...
(1882–1948), Dutch Christian minister and politician
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Gerrit Kleerekoper
Gerrit Kleerekoper (15 February 1897 – 2 July 1943) was a Jewish-Dutch gymnastics coach. He was married with two children and worked as a diamond cutter.
He led the Dutch women gymnastics team to win the gold medal at the 1928 Olympic Games in ...
(1897–1943), Dutch gymnastics coach
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Gerrit Komrij
Gerrit Jan Komrij (30 March 1944 – 5 July 2012) was a Dutch poet, novelist, translator, critic, polemic journalist and playwright. He rose to prominence in the early 1970s writing poetry that sharply contrasted with the free-form poetry of his ...
(1944–2012), Dutch poet
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Gerrit Korteweg
Gerrit Jacobus Korteweg (born 17 August 1937) is a retired Dutch swimmer. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in and 4×100 m medley relay and finished eighth in the latter event. In the 200 m butterfly
Butterflies are insects in th ...
(born 1937), Dutch swimmer
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Gerrit Kouwenaar
Gerrit Kouwenaar (9 August 1923 – 4 September 2014) was a Dutch journalist, translator, poet and prose writer.
Biography
Kouwenaar was born in Amsterdam, North Holland. In the early 1940s, during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, he w ...
(1923–2014), Dutch journalist, translator, poet and prose writer
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Gerrit Krol
Gerrit Krol (1 August 1934 − 24 November 2013) was a Dutch author, essayist and writer.
Krol was born in Groningen. He studied mathematics and worked with Royal Dutch Shell and some of its operating units as computer programmer and system des ...
(1934−2013), Dutch author, essayist and writer
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Gerrit Kruize (1923–2009), American field hockey player
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Ger Lagendijk (1941–2010), Dutch footballer
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Gerrit Lamberts
Gerrit Lamberts (1776–1850) was a Dutch painter and curator of the Rijksmuseum when it was located in the Trippenhuis.
Lamberts was born in Amsterdam. He started out as a merchant selling paper and later became a watercolorist, draughtsman and ...
(1776–1850), Dutch painter and museum curator
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Gerrit Y. Lansing
Gerrit Yates Lansing (August 4, 1783 – January 3, 1862) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Early life
Lansing was born in Albany, New York on August 4, 1783. He was third of sixteen children born to Susanna Yates (1762–1840) and Abra ...
(1783–1862), American politician
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Gerrit Lekkerkerker
Cornelis Gerrit Lekkerkerker (Harmelen, 7 February 1922 – 24 July 1999) was a Dutch mathematician.
Education and career
Lekkerkerker studied mathematics at Utrecht University during the periods 1940-1943 and 1945-1949 under Jurjen Koksma and ...
(1922–1999), Dutch mathematician
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Gerrit Lundens
Gerrit Lundens (1622 – 1686), was a Dutch painter known for his genre scenes, miniature portraits and vanitas paintings. He also made copies after famous Dutch masters.
Biography
He was born in Amsterdam and married Agniet Mathijs of Antwe ...
(1622–1683), Dutch painter
* Gerrit Maus (born 1981), German vision scientist
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Gerrit van der Meer (born 1950), Dutch television producer, film producer and unit production manager
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Gerrit Nauber (born 1992), German footballer
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Gerrit Niekoop
Arnod Gerrit Niekoop is a former Surinamese football player, referee and board member of the Surinamese Football Association, as well as board member and former chairman of the Surinamese Refereeing Commission.
During his playing career he played ...
(born 1934), Surinamese football player
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Gerrit Noordzij
Gerrit Noordzij (2 April 1931 – 17 March 2022) was a Dutch typographer, typeface designer, and author. He started teaching letters and calligraphy at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 1960. Motivated to make type accessible to his stude ...
(born 1931), Dutch typographer, typeface designer, and author
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Gerrit Olivier Professor Gerrit Olivier is a South African academic and diplomat. In 1991, he became the first diplomatic representative of South Africa to the Soviet Union and in 1992 he was appointed as the first South African Ambassador to the Russian Federatio ...
(born 19??), South African academic and diplomat
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Gerrit Oosting
Gerrit Oosting (12 April 1941 in Zwartemeer – 15 November 2012 in Oldenzaal) was a Dutch politician.
Oosting started his career as a teacher in Oldenzaal. From 1978 to 1987 he was an alderman for the Labour Party (PvdA) in Oldenzaal. S ...
(1941–2012), Dutch politician
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Gerrit Opperman (born 1945), South African Army General
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Gerrit Paape
Gerrit Paape ( Delft, 4 February 1752 – The Hague, 7 December 1803) was a Dutch ''plateelschilder'' (painter of earthenware and stoneware), poet, journalist, novelist, judge, columnist and (at the end of his career) ministerial civil servant.
L ...
(1752–1803), Dutch earthenware and stoneware painter, poet, journalist, novelist, judge, columnist and civil servant
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Gerrit Patist (1947–2005), Dutch sculptor and ceramist
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Gerrit Pels
Gerrit Pels (1893, Woerden – 1966, Leiden?) was a Dutch astronomer, a lifelong member of the scientific staff of the Leiden Observatory.
After following secondary school in Utrecht (city), Utrecht, he was appointed "computer" at the Leiden obser ...
(1893–1966), Dutch astronomer
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Gerrit Plomp
Gerrit Plomp (born 27 June 1963) is a retired Dutch
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(born 1963), Dutch footballer
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Gerrit van Poelje
Gerrit Abraham van Poelje (January 31, 1884, in Naaldwijk – September 8, 1976, in The Hague) was a Dutch civil servant, lawyer and Public Administration scholar. He is considered one of the most important founders of the science of Public Ad ...
(1884–1976), founder of Public Administration in the Netherlands
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Gerrit Pressel
Gerrit Alexander Pressel (born 19 June 1990) is a German professional footballer who plays as a left-back for SC Victoria Hamburg.
Career
Pressel made his senior debut for Willem II in the 2010–11 season, on loan from Hamburger SV. He had pre ...
(born 1990), German footballer
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Gerrit Radstaak
Gerrit Joseph Radstaak (September 4, 1914 – May 1, 1996) was a politician from Alberta, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1967 to 1971 as a member of the Social Credit Party.
Political career
Radstaak first ran for ...
(1914–1996), Canadian politician
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Gerrit Reynst
Gerrit Reynst (1599 – 29 June 1658) (also known as Gerard Reynst) was, like his younger brother Jan (1601–1646), a Dutch merchant and art collector from Amsterdam, with his brother owner of the Reynst Collection. He was an alderman and me ...
(1599–1658), Dutch merchant and art collector
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Gerrit Rietveld
Gerrit Rietveld (24 June 1888 – 25 June 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect.
Early life
Rietveld was born in Utrecht on 24 June 1888 as the son of a joiner. He left school at 11 to be apprenticed to his father and enrolled at ni ...
(1888–1964), Dutch architect
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Gerrit Roos
Gerrit Jacob Roos (21 August 189810 May 1969) was a Dutch weightlifter. He competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics
The 1928 Summer Olympics ( nl, Olympische Zomerspelen 1928), officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad ( nl, Spelen van de ...
(1898–1969), Dutch weightlifter
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Gerrit Rudolph (born 1988), South African-born Namibian cricketer
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Gerrit van Santen
Gerrit van Santen or Gerard Cornelisz van Santen (1591/92–1656) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and writer. He was born in Delft probably in 1591 or 1592, and was buried in the city on 26 April 1656.
Career Author
Van Santen's farce ''Lichte W ...
(1591/92–1656), Dutch painter and writer
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Gerrit Schimmelpenninck
Gerrit, Count Schimmelpenninck (25 February 1794 – 4 October 1863) was a Dutch businessman and politician, whose views ranged from liberal to conservative. He was the son of Grand Pensionary Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck and a member of the Dutc ...
(1794–1863), Dutch businessman and statesman
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Gerrit Schipper (c. 1775 – c. 1832), Dutch painter
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Gerrit Schotte
Gerrit Fransisco Schotte () (born 9 September 1974) is a Curaçaoan politician, and the current leader of the Movementu Futuro Kòrsou (MFK). In the Curaçao general election of 27 August 2010, the MFK became the second-largest party with 5 sea ...
(born 1974), Curaçao optician
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Gerrit Schouten
Gerrit Schouten (16 January 1779 – 28 January 1839) was a Surinamese artist, who has become famous for his painted papier-maché dioramas of Surinamese life.
Schouten was born in Paramaribo, the capital of Surinam, then a Dutch colony. The so ...
(1779–1839), Surinamese artist
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Gerrit Schulte
Gerrit Schulte (7 January 1916 – 26 February 1992) was a Dutch professional track bicycle racer. Between 1940 and 1960 he won 19 six-day races out of 73 starts and was one of the dominant Six days racers of his time. Schulte was as well ...
(1916–1992), Dutch track bicycle racer
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Gerrit Smith
Gerrit Smith (March 6, 1797 – December 28, 1874), also spelled Gerritt Smith, was a leading American social reformer, abolitionist, businessman, public intellectual, and philanthropist. Married to Ann Carroll Fitzhugh, Smith was a candidat ...
(1797–1874), American abolitionist
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Gerrit van Spaan (1654–1711), Dutch writer
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Gerrit Stoeten (born 1986), Spanish footballer
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Gerrit T. Thorn (1835–1900), American politician
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Gerrit Friedrich Otto Toennies Gerrit Friedrich Otto Toennies (January 31, 1898 in Hamburg, Germany – September 16, 1978 in Kensington, Prince Edward Island, Canada) was a research biochemist. He was the oldest of five children of the famous sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies and a ...
(1898-1978), research biochemist
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Gerrit van Uylenburgh
Gerrit van Uylenburgh (c. 1625 – 1679), or Gerrit Uylenburgh, was a Dutch Golden Age painter and art-dealer. He was the eldest son of Hendrick van Uylenburgh and took over the family art-dealing business after Hendrick's death and burial i ...
(c. 1625 – 1679), Dutch painter and art-dealer
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Gerrit van der Veen
Gerrit van der Veen (26 November 1902, Amsterdam — 10 June 1944, Overveen) was a Dutch sculptor. He was a member of the Dutch underground, which resisted the German occupation of Amsterdam during World War II. The historian Robert-Jan van Pe ...
(1902–1944), Dutch sculptor and member of the Dutch Resistance in WWII
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Gerrit de Veer
Gerrit de Veer (–) was a Dutch officer on Willem Barentsz' second and third voyages of 1595 and 1596 respectively, in search of the Northeast passage.
De Veer kept a diary of the voyages and in 1597, was the first person to observe and reco ...
(c. 1570 – after 1598), Dutch military officer and explorer
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Gerrit Verschuur
Gerrit L. Verschuur (born in 1937 in Cape Town, South Africa) is an American scientist who is best known for his work in radio astronomy. Though a pioneer in that field, Verschuur is also an author (he has written about astronomy, natural disast ...
(born 1937), South African-born American scientist
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Gerrit Viljoen
Gerrit Van Niekerk Viljoen (11 September 1926 in Cape Town – 29 March 2009) was a South African government minister and member of the National Party.
He was chair of the Broederbond from 1974 to 1980, Administrator-General of South West ...
(1926–2009), South African politician
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Gerrit Cornelisz Vlasman (before 1600–after 1624), Dutch brewer
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Gerrit van Voorst
Gerrit van Voorst (18 July 1910 – 13 November 1986) was a Dutch swimmer. He competed in the men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay event at the 1928 Summer Olympics
The 1928 Summer Olympics ( nl, Olympische Zomerspelen 1928), officially ...
(1910–1986), Dutch swimmer
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Gerrit de Vries (politician)
Gerrit Abrahamszoon de Vries (22 February 1818 – 4 March 1900) was a Dutch jurist and politician who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 4 June 1872 to 27 August 1874. He took office after his predecessor died (Thorbecke).
Refere ...
(1818–1900), Dutch jurist and politician, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
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Gerrit de Vries (cyclist)
Gerrit de Vries (born 13 May 1967) is a retired road racing cyclist from the Netherlands, who was a professional from 1989 to 1997. As an amateur he won the world title in the 100 km team time trial, alongside Rob Harmeling, Tom Cordes an ...
(born 1967), road racing cyclist
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Gerrit van Wees
Gerrit van Wees (26 January 1913 – 5 May 1995) was a Dutch cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit event at the 1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Gam ...
(1913–1995), Dutch cyclist
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(1616–1674), Dutch painter
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Gerrit Zalm
Gerrit Zalm (born 6 May 1952) is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and businessman.
Zalm studied Economics at the Free University Amsterdam obtaining a Master of Economics degree and worked as a ci ...
(born 1952), Dutch politician
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Gerrit Zegelaar
Gerrit Zegelaar (born Loenen aan de Vecht 16 July 1719 – Wageningen 24 July 1794) was a Dutch painter.
Zegelaar was born as son of the carpenter and alderman Hendrik Zegelaar and Johanna ter Bruggen. Gerrit was a deaf mute. He settled in Amste ...
(1719–1794), Dutch painter
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