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Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

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 (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 (born 1979), Dutch runner * Merel Mooren (born 1982), Dutch volleyball player * Merel Poloway (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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