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Nelissen
Nelissen is a Dutch patronymic surname ("Nelis' son"). ''Nelis'' is a short form of the given name Cornelis. The name is most common in Dutch and Belgian Limburg. at familienaam.be Among variant forms of the surname are ''Neelissen'', ''Nelisse'', '''', '' Nellis'', and '' Nelles''. Notable people with the surname include: * (1879–1922), Dutch eclectic architect active in Belgium * (born 1970), Dutch former professional road bicycle r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roelof Nelissen
Roelof Johannes Nelissen (4 April 1931 – 18 July 2019) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and businessman. Biography Nelissen attended a Gymnasium in Dongen from April 1943 until May 1949 and applied at the Radboud University Nijmegen in June 1950 majoring in Tax law obtaining a Bachelor of Laws degree in June 1952 before graduating with a Master of Laws degree in July 1956. Nelissen was conscripted in the Medical Corps of the Royal Netherlands Army serving as a Sergeant from September 1956 until October 1957. Nelissen worked as a trade association executive for the Catholic Business association from December 1956 until September 1968 and served as Deputy General-Secretary of the Executive Board from December 1956 until June 1962 and General-Secretary of the Executive Board from June 1962 until September 1968. Nelissen was elected as a Member of the House of Representatives after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Nelissen
Daniel ("Danny") Wilhelmus Maria Nelissen (born 10 November 1970 in Sittard, Netherlands) is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer and former sports commentator at Eurosport. He won the 1995 amateur world championship and was named ''Dutch Sportsman of the year''. He was the nephew of cycling commentator Jean Nelissen. He started his professional career in 1990 with PDM, for which he won his first professional race, the Grand Prix de Wallonie, in 1992. In 1994, while riding for the Dutch TVM team, he developed heart rhythm impairments and returned to ride at amateur level. The following year in Colombia he won the amateur world championship. He was the last amateur world champion, the UCI replacing the race with a youth competition in 1996. The triumph lead to Nelissen being voted as 1995 ''Dutch Sportsman of the year''. According to Nelissen, his use of a power meter was key to his win: he claimed that he was one of the few riders "(who) had them and knew what t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfried Nelissen
Wilfried Nelissen (Tongeren, 5 May 1970) is a former Belgian road racing cyclist, who specialised as a sprinter. He was involved in a crash at the end of stage 1 of the 1994 Tour de France, when he collided with a policeman. The incident also involved French rider Laurent Jalabert. Nelissen retired in 1998 due to a knee injury that he suffered in 1996 after falling during the Gent–Wevelgem race. Major results ;1991 : Tour de Picardie: Final classification, stage 2 : Tour de Luxembourg Stage 3 ;1992 : Paris–Bourges: Final classification, stage 2 : Tour de Suisse Stages 3 and 6 : Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré Stages 1 and 3 : Ronde van Nederland Stage 1 : Vuelta a Andalucía Stage 2 ;1993 : Omloop Het Volk : Tour de France Stage 2, wearing the yellow jersey for three days : Ronde van Nederland Stages 1, 2 and 4 ;1994 : Belgian road cycling champion : Omloop Het Volk : Four Days of Dunkirk Stages 1 and 2 : Étoile de Bessèges Stages 1 and 3 : Tour Méditerra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Nelissen
Jean Nelissen (2 June 1936, Geleen, Netherlands – 1 September 2010, Maastricht, Netherlands Maastricht ( , , ; li, Mestreech ; french: Maestricht ; es, Mastrique ) is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It is the capital and largest city of the province of Limburg. Maastricht is located on both sides of the ...) was a Dutch sports journalist and commentator. He was the uncle of racing cyclist Danny Nelissen. References 1936 births 2010 deaths Dutch sports journalists People from Geleen Cycling announcers 20th-century Dutch people {{Netherlands-journalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limburg (Netherlands)
Limburg (, ) is the southernmost of the twelve provinces of the Netherlands. It is bordered by Gelderland to the north and by North Brabant to its west. Its long eastern boundary forms the international border with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. To the west is the international border with the similarly named Belgian province of Limburg, part of which is delineated by the river Meuse. The Vaalserberg is on the extreme southeastern point, marking the tripoint of the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. Limburg's main municipalities are the provincial capital Maastricht (population 120,837 as of January 2022), Venlo (population 102,176) in the northeast, as well as Sittard-Geleen (population 91,760, bordering both Belgium and Germany) and Heerlen (population 86,874) in the south. More than half of the population, approximately 650,000 people, live in the south of Limburg, which corresponds to roughly one-third of the province's area proper. In South Limburg, most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelis
Nelis is a Dutch masculine given name, a short form of the given name Cornelis, and a patronymic surname derived from it. at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands Notable people with this name include: ;Given name * Nelis van Dijk (1904–1969), Dutch boxer ;Surname * ("Limping Nelis") (1919–1993), stage name of one-legged Dutch singer Cornelis Pieters * André Nelis (1935–2012), Belgian sailor and Olympian * (1736–1798), Flemish statesman; Bishop of Antwerp 1785–98, bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgian Limburg
Limburg ( nl, Limburg, ; li, Limburg or ''Wes-Limburg'' ; french: Limbourg, ) is a province in Belgium. It is the easternmost of the five Dutch-speaking provinces that together form the Region of Flanders, one of the three main political and cultural sub-divisions of modern-day Belgium. Limburg is located west of the Meuse ( nl, Maas), which separates it from the similarly-named Dutch province of Limburg. To the south it shares a border with the French-speaking province of Liège, with which it also has historical ties. To the north and west are the old territories of the Duchy of Brabant. Today these are the Flemish provinces of Flemish Brabant and Antwerp to the west, and the Dutch province of North Brabant to the north. The province of Limburg has an area of which comprises three arrondissements (''arrondissementen'' in Dutch) containing 44 municipalities. Among these municipalities are the current capital Hasselt, Sint-Truiden, Genk, and Tongeren, the only Roman city in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nellis (other)
Nellis may refer to: People * Alice Nellis (born 1971), Czech filmmaker * Duane Nellis (born 1954), American educator and Ohio University president * William Harrell Nellis (1916-1944), World War II fighter pilot, after whom the Air Force base is named * William J. Nellis (born 1941), American physicist Places in the United States * Nellis, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada ** Federal Prison Camp, Nellis, a United States federal minimum-security prison, on the base * Jacob Nellis Farmhouse, a historic farmhouse in Montgomery County, New York * Nellis Tavern, a historic tavern in Montgomery County, New York * Nellis Historic District, Boone County, West Virginia See also * Nelis * Nelissen, a surname * Nelles * Nelli (other) * Nelliston, New York Nelliston is a village in Montgomery County, New York, United States. The population was 596 at the 2010 census. The name is from members of the Nellis family. The Village of Nelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Nélisse
Marie-Sophie Nélisse (born March 27, 2000) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her Genie Award–winning performance in ''Monsieur Lazhar'', as Liesel Meminger in the film adaptation of the best-selling novel ''The Book Thief'', written by Markus Zusak, and as Caroline in '' The Kid Detective''. She also stars as young Shauna in Showtime's series ''Yellowjackets''. Early life Marie-Sophie Nélisse was born in Windsor, Ontario, on March 27, 2000. She is of French descent. Her mother, Pauline Belhumeur, left her job as a schoolteacher in 2013 to act as a talent manager for both Sophie and her younger sister Isabelle, who is also an actress. Nélisse is fluent in both French and English. The family moved to Montreal when she was four. Career She spent her early years training in gymnastics, aiming for the 2016 Olympics, and signed to a talent agency to make money to pay for the training, but after getting the part in ''The Book Thief'' (and subsequent accolades) she shifte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Nelisse
Robin Nelisse (born 25 January 1978) is an Aruban former professional footballer who played as a forward. He gained two caps for the former Netherlands Antilles national football team, Netherlands Antillean national team. Career Nelisse started playing football with De Musschen as a 10-year-old and was scouted by Feyenoord two years later, at the age of 12. In the 1997–98 season, he made nine appearances in which hed scored three goals. After he made a further five appearances in the following season and scoring one goal, Nelisse was sent on loan to SC Cambuur, Cambuur. There, he scored 12 goals in 34 matches. He subsequently moved to AZ Alkmaar, AZ, where he experienced his breakthrough under head coach Co Adriaanse. Nelisse spent five successful seasons at the club, in which he made 155 appearances for the club in which he scored 47 goals. After the arrival of Georgian striker Shota Arveladze, Nelisse was benched and therefore moved to FC Utrecht. At Utrecht he was signed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabelle Nélisse
Isabelle Nélisse (born December 3, 2003) is a Canadian actress. The younger sister of actress Sophie Nélisse, she is most noted for her roles in the films ''Mama'', '' Wait Till Helen Comes'' and ''The Tale''.Emily Buder"The Tale Is a Powerful, Messy Story About Abuse" ''The Atlantic'', February 3, 2018. She has also appeared in the films ''Whitewash'', '' Mommy'', '' Worst Case, We Get Married (Et au pire, on se mariera)'' and ''The Far Shore (Dérive)'', the television series ''The Strain ''The Strain'' is a 2009 vampire horror novel by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. It is the first installment in ''The Strain Trilogy'', and was followed by '' The Fall'' (2010) and ''The Night Eternal'' (2011). Plot synopsis A Boeing 77 ...,'' ''Mirador and It: Chapter One.'' References External links * 2003 births Living people 21st-century Canadian actresses Canadian film actresses Canadian television actresses Canadian child actresses Actresses from Windsor, Onta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa. The most widely spoken Germanic language, E ..., after its close relatives German language, German and English language, English. ''Afrikaans'' is a separate but somewhat Mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible daughter languageAfrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans was historically called Cape Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans is rooted in 17th-century dialects of Dutch; see , , , . Afrikaans is variously described as a creole, a partially creolised language, or a deviant variety of Dutch; see . spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
