Gerrit is a
Dutch
Dutch or Nederlands commonly refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
** Dutch people as an ethnic group ()
** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship ()
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male name meaning "''brave with the spear''", the Dutch and Frisian form of
Gerard
Gerard is a masculine forename of Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic origin, variations of which exist in many Germanic and Romance languages. Like many other Germanic name, early Germanic names, it is dithematic, consisting of two meaningful ...
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Behind the Name: Gerrit-> People with this name include:
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Gerrit Achterberg (1905–1962), Dutch poet
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Gerrit van Arkel
Gerrit A. van Arkel (April 3, 1858 in Loenen aan de Vecht – July 11, 1918 in Abcoude) was a Dutch architect who designed many of Amsterdam's most prominent Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) buildings.
He moved to Amsterdam in 1883 to become an architec ...
(1858–1918), Dutch architect
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Gerrit Badenhorst
Gerrit Badenhorst (born 10 October 1962) is a former WPC world champion powerlifter and professional strongman competitor from South Africa.
Powerlifting
Badenhorst was born on 10 October 1962 in De Aar, Northern Cape, South Africa.David Web ...
(born 1962), South African powerlifter and professional strongman competitor
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Gerrit Battem
Gerrit Battem or Gerard van Battum (ca. 1636 - October 24, 1684 (buried)) was a Dutch landscape painter.
Biography
Houbraken mentions drawings by Battem in the house of his patron Jonas van Witsen of Amsterdam, who bought them for 1300 guilders ...
(c. 1636 – 1684), Dutch landscape painter
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Gerrit Beneker (1882–1934), American painter and illustrator
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Gerrit Berckheyde (1638–1698), Dutch painter
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Gerrit Berkhoff
Gerrit (Gé) Berkhoff (Wijhe 9 July 1901 – Oosterbeek 27 February 1996) was a Dutch chemist and the first ''rector magnificus'' of the University of Twente in The Netherlands.
Education
The son of primary school principal Gerrit Berkhoff (1868†...
(1901–1996), Dutch chemist and university rector
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Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer
Gerrit Cornelis "G.C." Berkouwer (8 June 1903 – 25 January 1996) was for years the leading theologian of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (GKN). He occupied the chair in systematic theology of the Faculty of Theology, Free University ...
(1903–1996), Dutch theologian
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Gerrit Berveling
Gerrit Berveling (born 1 April 1944, Vlaardingen) is a Dutch Esperanto author.
Biography
He studied Classical Languages (Latin and Greek) at Leiden University, and Theology at Utrecht and Leiden Universities.
After 14 years of teaching general ...
(born 1944), Dutch Esperanto author
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Gerrit Blaauw
Gerrit Anne "Gerry" Blaauw (17 July 1924 – 21 March 2018) was a Dutch computer scientist, known as one of the principal designers of the IBM System/360 line of computers, together with Fred Brooks, Gene Amdahl, and others. (1924–2018), Dutch computer engineer
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Gerrit de Blanken (1894–1961), Dutch pottery artist
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Gerrit van Bloclant (1578–1650), Dutch Renaissance painter
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Gerrit Bol (1906–1989), Dutch mathematician
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Gerrit Braamcamp (1699–1771), Dutch distiller, timber merchant and art collector
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Gerrit den Braber
Gerrit den Braber (23 March 1929 – 3 May 1997) was born in Rotterdam and was a Dutch songwriter and lyricist.
Braber took music lessons in Rotterdam and Hilversum. He then went into Hospital Radio and joined the Dutch radio and television compa ...
(1929–1997), Dutch songwriter and lyricist
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Gerrit Broekstra
Gerrit Broekstra (born 1 August 1941, Alkmaar, Netherlands), is a Dutch scientist and professor in the field of organization behavior and systems sciences at the Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam, Northwestern University, Chicago, and Nyenrode Bu ...
(born 1941), Dutch scientist and professor
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Gerrit Cole
Gerrit Alan Cole (born September 8, 1990) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Houston Astros. Cole played for the bas ...
(born 1990), American baseball pitcher
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Gerrit Gerritsz Cuyp (c. 1565–1644), Dutch painter and stained glass artist
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Gerrit J. Diekema (1859–1930), American politician
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Gerrit van Dijk
Gerrit van Dijk (5 December 1938 – 4 December 2012) was a Dutch animator, film maker, actor and painter.
Biography
Gerrit van Dijk was born in a Catholic family in the village of Volkel, in the municipality of Uden. He studied as a fifteen- ...
(1938–2012), Dutch animator, film maker, actor and painter
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Gerrit Dou
Gerrit Dou (; 7 April 1613 – 9 February 1675), also known as Gerard Douw or Dow, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose small, highly polished paintings are typical of the Leiden fijnschilders. He specialised in genre scenes and is noted for h ...
(1613–1675), Dutch painter
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Gerrit L. Dox
Gerrit Lansing Dox (December 13, 1784 – August 2, 1847) was an American politician.
Early life
He was born in Albany, New York, on December 13, 1784, to Pieter Dox and Cathalyntje Lansing. He was baptised on May 20, 178. His brother Myndert M. ...
(1784–1847), American politician
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Gerrit Faulhaber
Gerrit Henri Victor Lodewijk Faulhaber (22 September 1912 – 1951) was an Indonesian football midfielder who played for the Dutch East Indies in the 1938 FIFA World Cup
The 1938 FIFA World Cup was the 3rd edition of the FIFA World Cup, World ...
(1912–1951), Dutch-Indonesian footballer
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Gerrit Fauser
Gerrit Fauser (born 13 July 1989) is a German professional ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings ...
(born 1989), German ice hockey player
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Gerrit Ferreira
Gerrit Thomas Ferreira also known as GT Ferreira is a South African billionaire businessman, investor and banker who is one of the founders of FirstRand Limited.
Biography
Gerrit Ferreira got his MBA degree from University of Stellenbosch. In ...
(born 1948), South African businessman
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Gerrit Fischer
Gerrit Fischer (28 August 1916 – 22 November 1984) was a Dutch footballer who played for Ajax as a right winger.
Club career
Ajax
Fischer was discovered at a school football match at the age of sixteen, by Ajax coach Jack Reynolds, after ...
(1916–1984), Dutch footballer
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Gerrit Fokkema
Gerrit Fokkema Born in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea in 1954 and moved to Australia in 1958.
Education
Gerrit Fokkema attended the NSW public system primary and secondary schools in Queanbeyan, NSW. graduating with a Higher School Certifi ...
(born 1954), Australian photographer
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Gerrit Forbes
Gerrit Angelo Forbes (May 30, 1836 – September 22, 1906) was a justice of the Supreme Court of New York beginning in 1888. He served as District Attorney for Madison County from January 1871 to December 1874. He was a member of the Madison Cou ...
(1836–1906), American judge
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(born 1960), Belgian legal scholar
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Gerrit van Gelderen (1926–1994), Dutch-born Irish naturalist, wildlife broadcaster, film-maker, illustrator and cartoonist
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Gerrit Van Gestel
Gerrit Van Gestel (born 20 January 1958) is a Belgian former cyclist. He competed in the team time trial event at the 1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad () and officially bra ...
(born 1958), Belgian former cyclist
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Gerrit Glas (born 1954), Dutch philosopher and psychiatrist
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Gerrit Glomser
Gerrit Glomser (born 1 April 1975 in Salzburg) is an Austrian former racing cyclist, who currently works as a directeur sportif
A ''directeur sportif'' (, ) is a person directing a cycling team during a road bicycle racing event. It is seen a ...
(born 1975), Austrian racing cyclist
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Gerrit David Gratama (1874–1965), Dutch artist, writer and museum director
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Gerrit Govaars (1866–1954), Dutch teacher and Salvation Army officer
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Gerrit Graham
Gerrit Graham (born November 27, 1949) is an American stage, television, and film actor as well as a scriptwriter and songwriter. He is best known for his appearances in multiple films by Brian De Palma as well as appearances in two ''Star Trek'' ...
(born 1949), American actor and songwriter
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Gerrit Holdijk
Gerrit Holdijk (17 November 1944 – 30 November 2015) was a Dutch jurist and politician of the Reformed Political Party (SGP).
Holdijk was born in Uddel, a village in the Veluwe region. He studied notary at a post-secondary level, and also law ...
(1944–2015), Dutch politician
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Gerrit Holtmann
Gerrit Stephan Barba Holtmann (born 25 March 1995) is a Filipino professional footballer who plays as a winger for Bundesliga club VfL Bochum. and the Philippines national team.
Club career Youth
Holtmann played in Bremerhaven for Sparta Bre ...
(born 1995), German footballer
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Gerrit van Houten (1866–1934), Dutch painter and artist
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Gerrit van Iterson ''This page was created from the Dutch Wikipedia with the aid of automatic translation''
Gerrit van Iterson Jr (Roermond, 19 August 1878 – Wassenaar
Wassenaar (; population: in ) is a municipality and town located in the province of South Hol ...
(1878–1972), Dutch botanist and professor
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Gerrit de Jager
Gerrit de Jager (born 1954, Amsterdam) is a Dutch cartoonist, and the creator of series including ', ', ' and '.
Career
De Jager's career started in the early 1980s with Wim Stevenhagen
Wim is a Dutch masculine given name or a shortened form ...
(born 1954), Dutch cartoonist
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Gerrit de Jong Jr. (1892–1978), Dutch-born American art teacher, pedagogue and professor
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Gerrit P. Judd (1803–1873), American physician and missionary
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Gerrit Kastein
Dr. Gerrit Willem Kastein (25 June 1910 – 21 February 1943) was a Dutch people, Dutch communist, neurologist and Dutch resistance, resistance fighter and leader during World War II.
Early life
Kastein was born in Zutphen, the eldest son of Albe ...
(1910–1943), Dutch communist, neurologist and WWII resistance fighter
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Gerrit Hendrik Kersten
Gerrit Hendrik Kersten (6 August 1882 – 6 September 1948) was a Dutch Calvinist minister and politician. After briefly working as a primary school teacher Kersten was inducted into his first pastorate in Meliskerke in 1905 without formal theolo ...
(1882–1948), Dutch Christian minister and politician
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Gerrit Kleerekoper (1897–1943), Dutch gymnastics coach
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Gerrit Komrij
Gerrit Jan Komrij (30 March 1944 – 5 July 2012) was a Dutch poet, novelist, translator, critic, polemic journalist and playwright. He rose to prominence in the early 1970s, writing poetry that sharply contrasted with the free form poetry, free- ...
(1944–2012), Dutch poet
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Gerrit Korteweg (born 1937), Dutch swimmer
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Gerrit Kouwenaar
Gerrit Kouwenaar (9 August 1923 – 4 September 2014) was a Dutch journalist, translator, poet and prose writer.
Biography
Kouwenaar was born in Amsterdam, North Holland. In the early 1940s, during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, he wr ...
(1923–2014), Dutch journalist, translator, poet and prose writer
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Gerrit Krol
Gerrit Krol (1 August 1934 − 24 November 2013) was a Dutch author, essayist and writer.
Krol was born in Groningen. He studied mathematics and worked with Royal Dutch Shell and some of its operating units as computer programmer and system des ...
(1934−2013), Dutch author, essayist and writer
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Gerrit Kruize (1923–2009), American field hockey player
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Ger Lagendijk
Gerrit Lagendijk (13 November 1941 – 11 August 2010) was a Dutch professional football player and agent.
Early and personal life
Lagendijk was born in Rotterdam and grew up in Ridderkerk.
Playing career
Lagendijk began his career with the you ...
(1941–2010), Dutch footballer
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Gerrit Lamberts (1776–1850), Dutch painter and museum curator
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Gerrit Y. Lansing (1783–1862), American politician
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Gerrit Lekkerkerker
Cornelis Gerrit Lekkerkerker (Harmelen, 7 February 1922 – 24 July 1999) was a Dutch mathematician.
Education and career
Lekkerkerker studied mathematics at Utrecht University during the periods 1940-1943 and 1945-1949 under Jurjen Koksma and J ...
(1922–1999), Dutch mathematician
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Gerrit Lundens
Gerrit Lundens (1622 – 1686), was a Dutch painter known for his genre scenes, portraits and a single vanitas painting.[Gerrit van der Meer
Gerrit "Gert" van der Meer (born 1950) is a Dutch film and television producer. Also known as a production manager, Van der Meer has worked on several Hollywood
Hollywood usually refers to:
* Hollywood, Los Angeles, a neighborhood in Californ ...]
(born 1950), Dutch television producer, film producer and unit production manager
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Gerrit Nauber (born 1992), German footballer
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Gerrit Niekoop
Arnod Gerrit Niekoop is a former Surinamese football player, referee and board member of the Surinamese Football Association, as well as board member and former chairman of the Surinamese Refereeing Commission.
During his playing career he played ...
(born 1934), Surinamese football player
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Gerrit Noordzij
Gerrit Noordzij (2 April 1931 – 17 March 2022) was a Dutch typographer, Type design, typeface designer, and author. He started teaching letters and calligraphy at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 1960. Motivated to make type accessible ...
(1931–2022), Dutch typographer, typeface designer, and author
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Gerrit Olivier Professor Gerrit Olivier is a South African academic and diplomat. He joined the apartheid diplomatic corp in 1983 and became the director of the communication and planning division. In 1991, he became the first diplomatic representative of aparthei ...
(born 19??), South African academic and diplomat
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Gerrit Oosting (1941–2012), Dutch politician
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Gerrit Opperman
Major General Gerrit Nicolaas Opperman (Gert) was a General Officer in the South African Army.
Early life
General Gert Opperman was born on 27 July 1945 in Johannesburg.
Career
He served as spokesman for the Malan family on the death of Magnus ...
(born 1945), South African Army General
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Gerrit Paape (1752–1803), Dutch earthenware and stoneware painter, poet, journalist, novelist, judge, columnist and civil servant
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(1947–2005), Dutch sculptor and ceramist
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Gerrit Pels (1893–1966), Dutch astronomer
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Gerrit Plomp (born 1963), Dutch footballer
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Gerrit van Poelje (1884–1976), founder of Public Administration in the Netherlands
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Gerrit Pressel (born 1990), German footballer
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Gerrit Radstaak
Gerrit Joseph Radstaak (September 4, 1914 – May 1, 1996) was a politician from Alberta, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1967 to 1971 as a member of the Social Credit Party.
Political career
Radstaak first ran fo ...
(1914–1996), Canadian politician
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Gerrit Reynst
Gerrit Reynst (1599 – 29 June 1658) (also known as Gerard Reynst) was, like his younger brother Jan (1601–1646), a Dutch merchant and art collector from Amsterdam, with his brother owner of the Reynst Collection. He was an alderman and me ...
(1599–1658), Dutch merchant and art collector
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Gerrit Rietveld
Gerrit Rietveld (24 June 1888 – 25 June 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect.
Early life
Rietveld was born in Utrecht on 24 June 1888 as the son of a joiner. He left school at 11 to be apprenticed to his father and enrolled at n ...
(1888–1964), Dutch architect
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Gerrit Roos (1898–1969), Dutch weightlifter
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Gerrit Rudolph (born 1988), South African-born Namibian cricketer
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Gerrit van Santen
Gerrit van Santen or Gerard Cornelisz van Santen (1591/92–1656) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and writer. He was born in Delft probably in 1591 or 1592, and was buried in the city on 26 April 1656.
Career Author
Van Santen's farce ''Lichte Wi ...
(1591/92–1656), Dutch painter and writer
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Gerrit Schimmelpenninck (1794–1863), Dutch businessman and statesman
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Gerrit Schipper (c. 1775 – c. 1832), Dutch painter
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Gerrit Schotte
Gerrit Fransisco Schotte (; born 9 September 1974) is a Curaçaoan politician, and the current leader of the Movementu Futuro Kòrsou (MFK). In the Curaçao general election of 27 August 2010, the MFK became the second-largest party with 5 seat ...
(born 1974), Curaçao optician
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Gerrit Schouten (1779–1839), Surinamese artist
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Gerrit Schulte
Gerrit Schulte (7 January 1916 – 26 February 1992) was a The Netherlands, Dutch professional Track cycling, track bicycle racer. Between 1940 and 1960 he won 19 Six-day racing, six-day races out of 73 starts and was one of the dominant Six ...
(1916–1992), Dutch track bicycle racer
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Gerrit Smith
Gerrit Smith (March 6, 1797 – December 28, 1874), also spelled Gerritt Smith, was an American social reformer, abolitionist, businessman, public intellectual, and philanthropist. Married to Ann Carroll Fitzhugh, Smith was a candidate for P ...
(1797–1874), American abolitionist
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Gerrit van Spaan (1654–1711), Dutch writer
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Gerrit Stoeten (born 1986), Spanish footballer
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Gerrit T. Thorn
Gerrit Tunis Thorn (July 20, 1832February 3, 1900) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party (United States), Democratic politician. He represented Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Jefferson County in the Wisconsin State Senate in 20th Wisconsin Le ...
(1835–1900), American politician
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Gerrit Friedrich Otto Toennies Gerrit Friedrich Otto Toennies (January 31, 1898 – September 16, 1978) was a research biochemist. He was the oldest of five children of sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies and a brother of Jan Friedrich Tönnies.
Life
Toennies was born in , in Hambu ...
(1898-1978), research biochemist
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Gerrit van Uylenburgh
Gerrit van Uylenburgh (c. 1625 – 1679), also known as Gerrit Uylenburgh, was a Dutch Golden Age painter and art-dealer. He was the eldest son of Hendrick van Uylenburgh and took over the family art-dealing business after Hendrick's death ...
(c. 1625 – 1679), Dutch painter and art-dealer
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Gerrit van der Veen
Gerrit van der Veen (26 November 1902 – 10 June 1944) was a Dutch sculptor. He was a member of the Dutch underground, which resisted the German occupation of Amsterdam during World War II. The historian Robert-Jan van Pelt wrote:
In 1940, ...
(1902–1944), Dutch sculptor and member of the Dutch Resistance in WWII
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Gerrit de Veer
Gerrit de Veer (–after 1598) was a Dutch officer on Willem Barentsz' second and third voyages of 1595 and 1596 respectively, in search of the Northeast passage.
De Veer kept a diary of the voyages and in 1597, was the first person to observe ...
(c. 1570 – after 1598), Dutch military officer and explorer
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Gerrit Verschuur
Gerrit L. Verschuur (born in 1937 in Cape Town, South Africa) is an American scientist who is best known for his work in radio astronomy. Though a pioneer in that field, Verschuur is also an author (he has written about astronomy, natural disast ...
(born 1937), South African-born American scientist
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Gerrit Viljoen
Gerrit Van Niekerk Viljoen (11 September 1926 – 29 March 2009) was a South African government minister and member of the National Party.
He was chair of the Broederbond from 1974 to 1980, Administrator-General of South West Africa from ...
(1926–2009), South African politician
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Gerrit Cornelisz Vlasman
Gerrit Cornelisz. Vlasman (before 1600 – after 1624), was a Dutch Golden Age brewer and member of the Haarlem schutterij.
Biography
He was the son of Cornelis Gerritsz. Vlasman, a landowner with privileges near Sassenheim who owned the Haarl ...
(before 1600–after 1624), Dutch brewer
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Gerrit van Voorst (1910–1986), Dutch swimmer
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Gerrit de Vries (politician)
Gerrit Abrahamszoon de Vries (22 February 1818 – 4 March 1900) was a Dutch jurist and politician who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 4 June 1872 to 27 August 1874. He took office after his predecessor died (Thorbecke).
Refere ...
(1818–1900), Dutch jurist and politician, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
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Gerrit de Vries (cyclist)
Gerrit de Vries (born 13 May 1967) is a retired road racing cyclist from the Netherlands, who was a professional from 1989 to 1997. As an amateur he won the world title in the 100 km team time trial, alongside Rob Harmeling, Tom Cordes an ...
(born 1967), road racing cyclist
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Gerrit van Wees (1913–1995), Dutch cyclist
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Gerrit de Wet (1616–1674), Dutch painter
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Gerrit Zalm
Gerrit Zalm (; born 6 May 1952) is a retired Dutch people, Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and businessman.
Zalm studied Economics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, obtaining a Master of Economics degree ...
(born 1952), Dutch politician
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Gerrit Zegelaar (1719–1794), Dutch painter
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