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masculine given name. It is a form of the name

Godfried Godfried is the Dutch form of Geoffrey and Gottfried. It may refer to: *Carel Godfried Willem Hendrik baron van Boetzelaer van Oosterhout (1892–1986), Dutch diplomat and politician *Eugène Godfried (1952–2009), Curaçao-born political activis ...

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database of given names in the Netherlands. Other forms include ''Govaart'' and ''Govaert''. People with this name include: *

Govert-Marinus Augustijn Govert-Marinus Augustijn (Bergen op Zoom, 27 October 1871 – Hilversum, 26 May 1963) was a Dutch potter in the style of the Art Nouveau.Govert Bidloo Govert Bidloo or Govard Bidloo (12 March 1649 – 30 March 1713) was a Dutch Golden Age physician, anatomist, poet and playwright. He was the personal physician of William III of Orange-Nassau, Dutch stadholder and King of England, Scotland an ...

(1649–1713), Dutch physician, anatomist, poet and playwright *

Govert Boyen Govert boyen (born 7 March 1977 in Sint-Truiden) is a Belgian football goalkeeper who is currently unemployed. He was last on the books of Veldwezelt. Previously, he played for Antwerp in the Belgian Pro League and spent most of his career with ...

(born 1977), Belgian football goalkeeper *

Govert Brasser Govert Jacob Willem Brasser (born 24 April 1957, in The Hague) is a sailor from the Netherlands. Since the Netherlands did boycott the Moscow Olympic Games Brasser represented his National Olympic Committee at the 1980 Summer Olympics, which was ...

(born 1956), Dutch competitive sailor *

Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn Nicolaas Govert (Dick) de Bruijn (; 9 July 1918 – 17 February 2012) was a Dutch mathematician, noted for his many contributions in the fields of analysis, number theory, combinatorics and logic.

(1918–2012), Dutch mathematician *

Govert Dircksz Camphuysen Govert Dircksz Camphuysen (born at Dokkum in 1624, and died in Amsterdam in 1672) was an animal painter, whose style was influenced by Paulus Potter. When his father Dirck Rafaelsz Camphuysen died in 1627, his mother moved with the children to ...

(1624–1672), Dutch animal and genre painter *

Govert Flinck Govert (or Govaert) Teuniszoon Flinck (25 January 16152 February 1660) was a Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age. Life Born at Kleve, capital of the Duchy of Cleves, which was occupied at the time by the United Provinces, he was apprenticed by ...

(1615–1660), Dutch painter *

Govert Huijser Govert Huijser (6 February 1931 – 5 January 2014) was a Dutch general and Chief of the Defence Staff between 1983 and 1988. Huijser was born in Surabaya, in the then Dutch East Indies. During World War II he was imprisoned in a Japanese inte ...

(1931–2014), Dutch Army general * (1702–1774), Dutch poet and silk merchant *

Govert van der Leeuw Gabriel, or Govert van der Leeuw (1645–1688), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. Biography He was the brother of Pieter van der Leeuw, and they learned to paint from their father, the painter Bastiaan Govertsz van der Leeuw, who had bee ...

(1645–1688), Dutch landscape painter *

Govert Schilling Govert Schilling (born 30 November 1956) is a Dutch popular science writer and amateur astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. Th ...

(born 1956), Dutch astronomer and popular-science writer *

Govert Schüller Govert Schüller (born 1959) is a Dutch-American author who writes about Jiddu Krishnamurti and theosophy. He studied philosophy at the University of Leiden and the University of Amsterdam.Luis S R Vas, ''J. Krishnamurti: Great Liberator Or Failed ...

(born 1959), Dutch-American author *

Govert Viergever Govert Viergever (born 29 July 1989) is a Dutch rower. He competed in the men's coxless four event at the 2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt ...

(born 1989), Dutch rower * Govaert Wendelen (1580–1667), Flemish astronomer

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