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Koenraad Koenraad is a Dutch given name. Notable persons with that name include: * Koenraad Degroote (born 1959), Belgian politician * Koenraad Dillen (born 1964), Belgian politician * Koenraad Elst (born 1959), Belgian orientalist and Indologist * Koen ...

. Kôen is a Romanization of an unrelated Japanese family name.

People with the given name

Koen Andries Koen Andries is a Belgian Janssen Pharmaceutica scientist and professor at the University of Antwerp. In 2005 he and his team published a discovery about a new di-Aryl- Quinoline-based drug ( R207910), now called bedaquiline, which promises a ...

, Belgian scientist *

Koen Barbé Koen Barbé (born 20 January 1981) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicy ...

(born 1981), Belgian road bicycle racer * Koen Bauweraerts (born 1983), Belgian hardstyle DJ and producer * Koen Beeckman (born 1973), Belgian road bicycle racer *

Koen van der Biezen Koen van der Biezen (; born 10 July 1985) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a forward. Career Van der Biezen was born in Nuland. In July 2011, he joined Polish club Cracovia on a three-year contract. On 31 July 2012, he moved t ...

(born 1985), Dutch footballer *

Koen Bouwman Koen Bouwman (born 2 December 1993 in Ulft) is a Dutch cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career Bouwman joined in 2016 after riding for the team as a stagiaire the previous season. He competed in his first grand tour in 2016: the ...

(born 1993), Dutch cyclist *

Koen Casteels Koen Casteels (born 25 June 1992) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg and the Belgium national team. Formed at Genk, he spent most of his professional career in Germany with 1899 Hof ...

(born 1992), Belgian footballer *

Koen Crucke Koenraad Desiré Arthur (Koen) Crucke (born 11 February 1952 in Ghent) is a Belgian operatic tenor, politician, and actor of stage, television, and film. As an opera singer he has been particularly active at the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp where he sp ...

(born 1952), Belgian tenor, actor and politician *

Koen Daerden Koen Daerden (; born 8 March 1982) is a Belgian former professional football player and current coach, who works as sporting director for the youth or head of the youth department at Racing Genk. Club career Daerden was born in Tongeren. He st ...

(born 1982), Belgian footballer *

Koen De Bouw Koen De Bouw (born 30 September 1964 in Turnhout) is a Belgium, Belgian actor. He trained to be an actor at Studio Herman Teirlinck in Antwerp and made his breakthrough in Belgium with his role of serial killer ''Stef Tavernier'' in the TV-serie ...

(born 1964), Flemish actor *

Koen De Graeve Koen De Graeve (born 28 April 1972) is a Belgian actor. He appeared in more than forty films since 1993. Selected filmography References External links * 1972 births Living people Belgian male film actors {{Belgium-actor-st ...

(born 1972), Belgian actor * Koen de Kort (born 1982), Dutch cyclist *

Koen Decoster Koen Decoster is a Belgian Belgian may refer to: * Something of, or related to, Belgium * Belgians, people from Belgium or of Belgian descent * Languages of Belgium, languages spoken in Belgium, such as Dutch, French, and German *Ancient Belgian ...

, Belgian historian, philosopher and translator *

Koen Geens Koen Geens (born 22 January 1958) is a Belgian jurist and politician of the Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V) who served as the Minister of Justice and as Deputy Prime Minister in the governments of Prime Ministers Charles Michel and Sophie ...

(born 1958), Belgian Flemish politician *

Koen Heldens Koen Heldens is a Dutch born mix engineer residing in Miami Florida. Koen started his career in 2003 and rose to prominence in 2017 when he started working with the late XXXTentacion with which he earned a Guinness World Records for most streamed ...

(born 1986), Dutch mixing engineer *

Koen Huntelaar Koen Huntelaar (born 8 July 1998) is a Dutch footballer who plays as a midfielder for VV DUNO. He is the nephew of Klaas-Jan Huntelaar. Club career Huntelaar made his professional debut in the Eerste Divisie for De Graafschap on 22 August 2016 i ...

(born 1998), Dutch footballer *

Koen Kessels Koen Kessels (born 1961) is a Belgian conductor and music director of The Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet. Trained as a pianist, Kessels studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp. He has conducted at the Opéra national de Paris, t ...

(born c. 1960), Belgian conductor and music director *

Koen Lamberts Koenraad Lamberts (born 1964) is a British/Belgian psychologist and academic. Since 2018, he has served as President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield. From 2014 to 2018, he was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of York. Prev ...

, Belgian psychologist *

Koen Lenaerts Koen Lenaerts, Baron Lenaerts (; born 20 December 1954 in Mortsel) is a Belgian jurist and the President of the Court of Justice of the European Union. He is also a Professor of European Law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and was a member ...

(born 1954), Belgian law scholar and judge *

Koen Naert Koen Naert (born 3 September 1989 in Roeselare) is a Belgian athlete who specializes in cross-country and long-distance running. Naert finished seventh at the 2015 Berlin Marathon and 13th at the 2015 Hamburg Marathon. In 2018, he won the gold ...

(born 1989), Belgian long-distance runner *

Koen Olthuis Koen Olthuis (born 1971) is a Dutch architect. He studied architecture and industrial design at Delft University of Technology. Olthuis is founder of the Dutch architectural firm, Waterstudio.NL, which specializes in floating structures to counte ...

(born 1971), Dutch architect *

Koen Onzia Koen Onzia (born 1961 in Geel) is a Belgian ballet dancer and dance teacher. In 1979, he won a gold medal at the Prix de Lausanne. Onzia was a soloist with Béjart Ballet Lausanne Béjart is the name of several French actors of the 17th centur ...

(born 1961), Belgian ballet dancer *

Koen Peeters Koen Peeters (Turnhout, 9 March 1959) is a Belgian writer. He was shortlisted for the Libris Literature Prize for his book the ''Great European Novel'' which has since been translated into multiple languages. He received the Ferdinand Bordewijk ...

(born 1959), Belgian writer * Koen Pijpers (born 1969), Dutch field hockey player *

Koen Ridder Koen Ridder (born 14 March 1985) is a Dutch badminton player. The left handler Ridder, was a part of the Duinwijck badminton club. He won the men's doubles title at the national championships in 2009, 2011, and 2013 partnered with Ruud Bosch. Tog ...

(born 1985), Dutch badminton player *

Koen Schockaert Koen Schockaert (born 13 February 1978) is a retired Belgium, Belgian football striker. References

1978 births Living people Belgian men's footballers K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen players Club Brugge KV players Sint-Truidense V.V. player ...

(born 1978), Belgian footballer * Koen Sleeckx (born 1975), Belgian judoka *

Koen Stam Koen Stam (born 27 February 1987) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a central defender. He is currently the Head of Methodology at the Feyenoord Academy. Player career Stam came through the youth ranks of vv SRC from his ...

(born 1987), Dutch footballer * Koen Van Langendonck (born 1989), Belgian footballer *

Koen Vandenbempt Koen Vandenbempt (born c. 1970) is a Belgian organizational theorist, business executive, and Professor of Strategy at the University of Antwerp and Antwerp Management School, particularly known for his work on business-to-business marketing and s ...

(born ca. 1970), Belgian organizational theorist *

Koen Vanmechelen Koen Vanmechelen (born August 26, 1965 in Sint-Truiden) is a Belgian artist who began his career in the early 1990s. Central to his work is the concept of bio-cultural diversity, which he investigates through the domestic chicken and its ancestra ...

(born 1965), Belgian artist *

Koen van de Laak Koen van de Laak (born 3 September 1982) is a Dutch former professional footballer. He played for Den Bosch, Groningen and Ajax Cape Town in South Africa. Career Den Bosch Born in Vught, Koen van de Laak started to play for a local club named ...

(born 1982), Dutch footballer *

Koen van Nol Koen van Nol (born 20 January 1974, in Amsterdam) is a Dutch judo is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科� ...

(born 1974), Dutch judoka *

Koen van Velsen Koen Jozef van Velsen (born 17 July 1952) is an architect from Hilversum, Netherlands known for his design work on the Discothèque Slinger, rehabilitation center Groot Klimmendaal and the library in Zeewolde. His work employs a contextual desig ...

(born 1952), Dutch architect * Koen Vervaeke (born 1959), Belgian diplomat *

Koen Verweij Koen Verweij (; born 26 August 1990) is a former Dutch speed skater and inline speed skater. At the end of the skating season 2008–09 he made a transfer from the Jong Oranje team of the national skating union ( KNSB) to the commercial team of T ...

(born 1990), Dutch speed skater *

Koen Wauters Koen Maria Gaston Wauters (born 17 September 1967) is a Flemish singer, active with the band Clouseau, television presenter, and occasionally actor and race car driver. Biography Koen Wauters was born in Halle in 1967. Together with his three br ...

(born 1967), Belgian singer and television presenter *

Koen Weuts Koen Weuts (born 18 September 1990) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a left back for Lyra-Lierse Berlaar in the Belgian Third Amateur Division. Career Before joining OH Leuven, Weuts played with youth teams of Lyra and Lierse. ...

(born 1990), Belgian footballer

Fictional characters

Koen West ''Cleverman'' is an Australian television drama program based on an original concept by Ryan Griffen. The series premiered on 1 June 2016 on SundanceTV in the United States and 2 June (other side of International Date Line) on ABC in Australia. ...

, protagonist of the Australian television series ''Cleverman''

People with the surname Koen

Charles Koen Charles "Chuck" Koen (1945 – July 20, 2018) was an African-American minister and civil rights activist from Cairo, Illinois who served as prime minister of the Black Liberators and the executive directors of the Black United Front, Black United F ...

(born 1945), American civil rights activist *

Erwin Koen Erwin Koen (born 7 September 1978) is a Dutch former footballer who played as a striker. Most of his career he played in the 2. Bundesliga The 2. Bundesliga ( ) is the second division of professional football in Germany. It was implemented ...

(born 1978), Dutch footballer *

Fanny Koen Francina "Fanny" Elsje Blankers-Koen (26 April 1918 – 25 January 2004) was a Dutch track and field athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She competed there as a 30-year-old mother of two, earn ...

, later Fanny Blankers-Koen (1918–2004), Dutch athlete *

J. P. Koen Juan-Pierre 'JP' Koen (born 17 October 1983) is a South African rugby union player who currently plays as a prop for in the ITM Cup and the in the international Super Rugby competition. Career Born and raised in South Africa, Koen played his ...

(born 1983), South African rugby player * Karleen Koen (born 1948), American novelist * Louis Koen (cricketer) (born 1967), South African cricketer *

Louis Koen (rugby union) Louis Johannes Koen (born 7 July 1975 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a South-African rugby union player who played for the Springboks, until 2003, when he moved abroad following the World Cup. Effective at either fly half or full back, his care ...

(born 1975), South African rugby player *

Martsel Koen Martsel Koen ( bg, Марцел Коен, born 5 July 1933) is a Bulgarian former Shooting sport, sports shooter. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics, 1960, 1964 Summer Olympics, 1964 and the 1968 Summer Olympics. References

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(born 1933), Bulgarian sports shooter *

Matilda Koen-Sarano Matilda Koen-Sarano (in he, מתילדה כהן-סראנו; born 1939 in Milan, Italy), is an Israeli writer. Born to Turkish Jewish parents, she is one of the most widely known writers in the Ladino language. Biography Koen-Sarano was born in ...

(born 1939), Israeli writer *

Shaun Koen Shaun Koen is a South African professional wrestler. He is the owner and promoter of the Africa Wrestling Alliance and is the promotion's current African Heavyweight Champion. Koen is a second-generation professional wrestler; his father Jack ...

(born 1970), South African professional wrestler *

Sias Koen Sias Koen (born 1 January 1994) is a South African rugby union player for the in Pro14 on loan from in the Currie Cup and in the Rugby Challenge. He is a utility forward that can play as a flanker, number eight or a lock. Rugby career ...

(born 1994), South African rugby player *

Tyron Koen Tyron Koen (born 25 October 1997) is a South African cricketer. He made his first-class debut for KwaZulu-Natal in the 2016–17 Sunfoil 3-Day Cup on 17 November 2016. He made his List A debut for KwaZulu-Natal in the 2016–17 CSA Provincial O ...

(born 1997), South African cricketer

People with the surname Kôen

* Kôen Kondo (born 1978), Japanese actor * Kôen Ryōsuke (born 1948), Japanese mail artist known as Ryosuke Cohen

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