Liesbeth or Liesbet (both pronounced ) is a
Dutch language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after its close relatives German and English. ''Afrikaans'' ...
feminine given name. It is a relatively common form of
Elisabeth
Elizabeth or Elisabeth may refer to:
People
* Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name)
* Elizabeth (biblical figure), mother of John the Baptist
Ships
* HMS ''Elizabeth'', several ships
* ''Elisabeth'' (sc ...
, peaking in popularity between 1955 and 1985. An older spelling of the name was "Lijsbeth"
Lijsbeth
at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands People with the name include:
Liesbeth
* Liesbeth van Altena (1833–1906), pen name of the Dutch novelist and playwright Betsy Perk
* Liesbeth Bik (born 1959), Dutch conceptual artist
* Liesbeth Homans (born 1973), Belgian N-VA politician
* (born 1975), Dutch film actress
* Liesbeth List (born 1941), Dutch singer, stage actress and television personality
*Liesbeth Mau Asam
Liesbeth Mau Asam (born 9 April 1982 in The Hague) is a Dutch short track speed skating, Short track speed skater who lives in Woubrugge and who has a relationship with Cees Juffermans.
Mau Asam participated at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, b ...
(born 1982), Dutch short track speed skater
* Liesbeth Messer-Heijbroek (1914–2007), Dutch sculptor and medal maker
*Liesbeth Migchelsen
Liesbeth Migchelsen (11 March 1971 – 27 May 2020) was a Dutch footballer who represented the Netherlands women's national team 95 times between 1990 and 2008. She was the sister of former footballer .
Migchelsen played in Germany for FFC ...
(born 1971), Dutch footballer
*Liesbeth Mouha
Liesbeth Mouha (born 7 January 1983) is a beach volleyball player from Belgium. She is partnered in the 2008 Summer Olympics with Liesbet Van Breedam
Liesbet Van Breedam-Simurina (born 27 January 1979) is a beach volleyball player from Belgium. ...
(born 1983), Belgian beach volleyball player
*Liesbeth Pascal-de Graaff
Louise Elisabeth Pascal-de Graaff ( de Graaff; born 11 October 1946) is a retired Dutch rower. In the coxed four, she won the European title in 1973 and finished fifth at the 1975 World Rowing Championships. She competed at the 1976 Summer Olympi ...
(born 1946), Dutch rower
*Liesbeth van der Pol
Liesbeth van der Pol (born 20 January 1959) is a Dutch architect. She was Chief Government Architect of the Netherlands from 2008 to 2011, the first woman to hold that position.
Born in Amsterdam, she graduated cum laude from Delft University of ...
(born 1959), Dutch architect
*Liesbeth Schlumberger
Liesbeth Schlumberger is an organist from South Africa, professor assistant of organ at the Conservatoire national supérieur musique et danse de Lyon since 1996.
Biography
Schlumberger-Kurpershoek began her organ studies with Stephan Zondagh a ...
(born 1964), South African organist
* Liesbeth Spies (born 1966), Dutch Minister of the Interior
* Liesbeth van Tongeren (born 1958), Dutch politician and director of Greenpeace Netherlands
* Liesbeth Tuijnman (born 1943), Dutch mayor
* Lieja Tunks (born Liesbeth Jantina Tunks, 1976), Dutch-born Canadian shot putter
* Liesbeth Vernout (born 1958), Dutch cricketer
* Liesbeth Vosmaer-de Bruin (born 1946), Dutch rower
* Liesbeth Zegveld (born 1970), Dutch lawyer, legal expert and professor
Liesbet
* Liesbet De Vocht (born 1979), Belgian road bicycle racer
* Liesbet Dreesen (born 1976), Belgian swimmer
*Liesbet Hooghe
Liesbet Hooghe (born December 1, 1962, in Oudenaarde, Belgium) is a Belgian political scientist, currently serving as the W. R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also a research fel ...
(born 1962), Belgian political scientist
* Liesbet Van Breedam (born 1979), Belgian beach volleyball player
* Liesbet Vindevoghel (born 1979), Belgian volleyball player
References
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Dutch feminine given names