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Ab (given Name)
Ab is a Dutch language, Dutch and English language, English (primarily Canadian) masculine given name. It usually is short form (hypocorism) of Albert (given name), Albert and occasionally of Abraham or Abbott (other), Abbott. The following people have a full name "Albert(us)", except where noted: *Ab Baars (born 1955), Dutch jazz saxophonist and clarinetist *Ab van Bemmel (1912–1986), Dutch boxer *Ab Box (1909–2000), Canadian football player *Albert Campbell (Canadian politician), Ab Campbell (1910–1973), Canadian (Toronto) politician *Ab Conway (1914–2001), Canadian middle-distance runner *Ab DeMarco (1916–1989), Canadian ice hockey player *Ab DeMarco, Jr. (born 1949), Canadian ice hockey player *Ab Doderer (1926–?), Dutch chauffeur and kidnapping victim *Ab Douglas (born 1950), Dutch sports sailor *Ab van Egmond (born 1938), Dutch road cyclist *Ab Ekels (born 1950), Dutch sports sailor *Ab Fafié (1941–2012), Dutch footballer *Albertus Geldermans, Ab Gelder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the List of languages by total number of speakers, third most spoken Germanic language. In Europe, Dutch is the native language of most of the population of the Netherlands and Flanders (which includes 60% of the population of Belgium). "1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." (page 153). Dutch was one of the official languages of South Africa until 1925, when it was replaced by Afrikaans, a separate but partially Mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible daughter language of Dutch. Afrikaans, depending on the definition used, may be considered a sister language, spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, and evolving from Cape Dutch dialects. In South America, Dutch is the native l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ab Fafié
Ab Fafié (4 March 1941 – 27 November 2012) was a Dutch professional association football, football player and manager. Playing career Club Fafié made his debut for hometown club Feyenoord, Feijenoord against Fortuna '54 in 1959 and also played for Rotterdam club XerxesDZB, Xerxes as well as for PSV Eindhoven, PSV. During an injury-hit spell he only played 13 games for the ''Eindhovenaren''. Managerial career Fafié became assistant to Feyenoord manager Hans Kraay Sr., Hans Kraay in 1981 and was named caretaker after Kraay's dismissal in 1983. He took charge in 1984 after Thijs Libregts was sacked and ended up third in the Eredivisie in both his seasons at the helm. He later managed a number of teams throughout Europe, including AEK Athens F.C., AEK Athens, K.A.A. Gent, AA Gent, FC Utrecht and Go Ahead Eagles where he had succeeded the dismissed Henk Ten Cate. FC Utrecht At Utrecht, he earned the nickname ''King Ab'' after steering them to European football with a fourth-plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ab Osterhaus
Albertus Dominicus Marcellinus Erasmus "Ab" Osterhaus (born 2 June 1948) is a leading Dutch virologist and influenza expert. An Emeritus Professor of Virology at Erasmus University Rotterdam since 1993, Osterhaus is known throughout the world for his work on SARS and H5N1, the pathogen that causes avian influenza. Life Osterhaus was born into a Roman Catholic family of seven and grew up in Slotermeer, Amsterdam. From 1967 he studied at the Utrecht University where he graduated with a degree in veterinary medicine ''cum laude'' in 1974. He then obtained his PhD degree at the same university in 1978 with a dissertation entitled ''Feline infectious peritonitis: identification, propagation and epidemiology''. He fulfilled several positions in his 16-year career at the Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) in Bilthoven, the last of which was head of the laboratory for Immunobiology. During that period he was also a part-time Professor of Enviro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ab Nicholas
Albert O. "Ab" Nicholas (January 24, 1931 – August 4, 2016) was the chairman, CEO, and portfolio manager of Nicholas Company, Inc. founded in 1967 and based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In April 2010, he was one of four inducted into the Wisconsin Business Hall of Fame. According to Bloomberg Markets in 2015, "The Nicholas Fund, which he has run since 1969, has topped the Standard & Poor's 500 Index by an average of 2 percentage points a year for the past 40 years and eatit every year since 2008 hrough 2014 Education Born on January 24, 1931, in Rockford, Illinois, Nicholas earned a Bachelor's in Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and played guard for the Badgers men's basketball team. He spent two years in the military prior to returning for an M.B.A. in Finance and Investments. Early career Nicholas began his career at the Northwestern National Insurance Company, where he worked as an investment analyst. He moved on to Marshall and Ilsley Bank before co-foundin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ab Newsome
Albert Victor Newsome (April 8, 1920 – May 17, 1979) was a Canadian ice hockey player with the Edmonton Mercurys. He won a gold medal at the 1950 World Ice Hockey Championships in London, England. The 1950 Edmonton Mercurys team was inducted to the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 2011. He also played with the Edmonton Flyers and Edmonton Maple Leafs."Ab Newsome", Society for International Hockey Research The Society for International Hockey Research (SIHR) is a network of writers, statisticians, collectors, broadcasters, academics and ice hockey buffs. The society, based in Toronto, Ontario, has an international membership. The society cultivate ... Database. Retrieved August 1, 2015. References 1920 births 1979 deaths Canadian ice hockey centres Ice hockey people from Edmonton 20th-century Canadian sportsmen {{Canada-icehockey-centre-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ab McDonald
Alvin Brian McDonald (February 18, 1936 – September 4, 2018) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward. Career Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, McDonald began his professional hockey career with the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL) in 1958. He later played for the Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, Pittsburgh Penguins, and St. Louis Blues. He won four straight Stanley Cups: three with Montreal followed by another with Chicago. He was the first team captain of the Penguins and Winnipeg Jets organizations, and scored the first goal for the Jets in the World Hockey Association (WHA). He ended his career after 147 games for Winnipeg, retiring after the 1973–74 season. He died at his home in Winnipeg from cancer on September 4, 2018, at the age of 82. Career statistics Awards and achievements *MJHL Second All-Star Team (1953) *Turnbull Cup MJHL Championships (1953 and 1954) *MJHL Scoring Champion (1954) *NHL All-Star Game (1958, 1959, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ab Klink
Abraham "Ab" Klink (born 2 November 1958) is a retired Dutch politician of Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and sociologist. He is a corporate director of the VGZ Cooperative since 1 January 2014 and a professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam The (abbreviated as ''VU Amsterdam'' or simply ''VU'' when in context) is a public university, public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in ... for Healthcare, Labor and Political Guidance since 1 January 2011. Decorations References External links *Prof.Dr. A. (Ab) KlinkParlement & Politiek *Prof.Dr. A. Klink (CDA)Eerste Kamer der Staten-Generaal 1958 births Living people Christian Democratic Appeal politicians Dutch corporate directors Dutch education writers Dutch nonprofit directors Dutch political writers Dutch jurists Dutch speechwriters Dutch sociologists Erasmus University Rotterdam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ab Justice
Donald Max "Ab" Justice (January 23, 1934 – October 7, 2013) was an American professional golfer. Justice played college at Oklahoma State University, where he was the school's first All-American. He enjoyed a brief stint on the PGA Tour, and was the club pro at various golf courses in Oklahoma and Kansas Kansas ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named a .... He died in 2013, aged 79. References External links * American male golfers Oklahoma State Cowboys golfers Golfers from Oklahoma Sportspeople from Oklahoma City 1934 births 2013 deaths 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-golf-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ab Jenkins
David Abbott "Ab" Jenkins (January 25, 1883 – August 9, 1956) was the 24th mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah between 1940 and 1944. He was a professional race car driver. Jenkins' interest in motorsports began with racing motorcycles on dirt tracks and across country. He then became interested in land speed records at the Bonneville Salt Flats. He was instrumental in establishing Bonneville as a location for such events, and in attracting overseas drivers such as George Eyston and Sir Malcolm Campbell to compete there. He drove the " Mormon Meteor", a customized Duesenberg car, to a 24-hour average land speed record of in 1935. In 1940 Jenkins set the 24-hour record of a average that lasted for 50 years (until 1990). He died on a visit to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Safety record Often referred to as "The World's Safest Speedster," Jenkins was the father of salt racing. The distance he drove in 50 years included nearly three million kilometers, which included 42 coast-to-coast trips ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ab Hoffman
Abigail Golda Hoffman, (born February 11, 1947) is a Canadian former track and field athlete. Hockey Hoffman is Jewish, and was born in Toronto. She learned to skate when she was three. In the mid-1950s when she was nine, she wanted to play hockey but there weren't any existing leagues specifically for girls in the Toronto area. As a result her parents registered her in the local boy's league as "Ab Hoffman". Due to her age and the fact that Abby sported a short hair cut, she was not easy to distinguish from the boys. When it was discovered she was a girl, she was no longer allowed to play despite the fact that she had not yet reached the age of puberty. The case went to the Ontario Supreme Court, where she lost, and the story was covered by ''Time'' and ''Newsweek''. Track and field After her experiences with hockey, Hoffman participated in competitive swimming and then realized she was particularly suited to track and field, specifically 800-metre running. She competed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Heijn (born 1927)
Albert Heijn (Zaandam, 25 January 1927 – Hereford, 13 January 2011) was a Dutch entrepreneur, major stockholder and founder and chairman of the board of Ahold.Obituary: Grocer who felt empathy for the shopper Phil Davison, Financial Times, 21 January 2011 (registration required) Albert was the grandson of his namesake (1865–1945), who began the family business with a single grocery store in and after extending to multiple stores laid the foundation of the same named leadin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ab Harrewijn
Albert Bastiaan "Ab" Harrewijn (22 November 1954 – 13 May 2002) was a Dutch politician who was a member of the House of Representatives and chairman of the GroenLinks party. Biography Harrewijn was born 22 November 1954, in Giessen-Nieuwkerk. He was a preacher and a member of the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN). He was strongly committed to helping people in the lowest ranks of society: the homeless, social security claimants and addicts. He was active in the CPN at the municipal and provincial level. On 1 February 1995 Harrewijn became partijvoorzitter (chairman) of the GreenLeft Party, which had emerged after a merger of the CPN, the Christian left Evangelical People's Party and Political Party of Radicals, and the left-socialist Pacifist Socialist Party in 1991. He remained in that position until the 1998 elections when he was elected to the House of Representatives of the Netherlands. Here he focused on defence and social affairs. This earned him the nicknam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
