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feminine given name, probably after the identical Dutch name for the blackbird (

Turdus merula The common blackbird (''Turdus merula'') is a species of true thrush. It is also called the Eurasian blackbird (especially in North America, to distinguish it from the unrelated New World blackbirds), or simply the blackbird where this does not ...

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Meertens Institute The Meertens Institute (Dutch ''Meertens Instituut'') in Amsterdam is a research institute for Dutch language and culture within the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (''Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen'' or KNAW). ...

database of given names in the Netherlands. It has also been used as a surname. Notable people with the name include: ;Given name *

Merel de Blaeij Merel de Blaeij (also spelled Blaey, born 2 December 1986) is a Dutch field hockey player. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed for the Netherlands women's national field hockey team The Netherlands' national women's field hockey team is ...

(born 1986), Dutch field hockey player *

Merel Blom Merel Blom (born 19 August 1986) is a Dutch Olympic eventing rider. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro where she finished 19th in the individual and 6th in the team competition. Blom also participated at the 2014 World Eq ...

(born 1986), Dutch Olympic eventing rider *

Merel van Dongen Merel Didi van Dongen (, born 11 February 1993) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a defender for Spanish Primera División club Atlético Madrid and the Netherlands women's national team. Club career She played for Ter Leede a ...

(born 1993), Dutch football midfielder *

Merel de Knegt Merel de Knegt (born 9 May 1979 in Tilburg) is a Dutch runner. She is the sister of Gerben de Knegt. Her sole major international outing for the Netherlands was the 2006 IAAF World Road Running Championships, where she came 47th overall. She won ...

(born 1979), Dutch runner *

Merel Mooren Merel Else Mooren (born 22 September 1982) is a Dutch professional beach volleyball and indoor volleyball player born in Haarlem. In indoor volleyball Mooren started her career in 1989 at Allides Haarlem where she was part of the youth teams. T ...

(born 1982), Dutch volleyball player *

Merel Poloway Raúl Rafael Carlos Juliá y Arcelay (March 9, 1940 – October 24, 1994) was a Puerto Rican actor. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he took an interest in acting while still in school and pursued the career upon completion of his studies. After ...

(born 1946), American actress, wife of Raúl Juliá *

Merel S. Sager Merel S. Sager (September 25, 1899 – June 1982) was an American architect and landscape architect. He was employed by the National Park Service where he was a pioneer the form of "rustic architecture" that became known as "National Park Se ...

(1899–1982), American architect and landscape architect *

Merel Witteveen Merel Witteveen (born 12 May 1985, in Leiden) is a sailor from the Netherlands. Witteveen represented her country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Qingdao. With fellow crew member Annemieke Bes and Mandy Mulder as helmsman, Witteveen took Silver me ...

(born 1985), Dutch sailor ;Surname *

Loïc Merel Loïc Merel (born 13 August 1965) is a French mathematician. His research interests include modular forms and number theory. Career Born in Carhaix-Plouguer, Brittany, Merel became a student at the École Normale Supérieure. He finished his doc ...

(born 1965), French mathematician

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