|
Renske
Renske () is a Dutch feminine given name. Etymology Renske was originally derived from the masculine name Emerentius or Laurentius or Rein. Popularity In the Netherlands, the popularity of the name Renske peaked in 1984 with 170 newborns and again in 2008 with 228 newborns. In 2017, Renske was the first name of 7,466 women (0.1001%) and the middle name of 1,576 women (0.0213%) in the Netherlands; the municipality of Ferwerderadiel had the highest percentage of women named Renske (1.2474%). (in Dutch), ''Nederlandse Voornamenbank'', . Retrieved 31 December 2023. People named Renske People with the first ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renske Leijten
Renske Maria Leijten (born 17 March 1979) is a Dutch politician of the Socialist Party (SP), who was a member of the House of Representatives between 2006 and 2023. Biography Leijten studied Dutch language and literature at the University of Groningen. She was raised Roman Catholic but is now agnostic. Starting in 2005, she was a member of SP's party executive committee. From 2005 to 2007 she was also chairwoman of SP's youth organization ROOD. She was first elected to the House of Representatives in the 2006 general election. She focused on matters of public health, quality of life and sports. From 6 February 2014 until 29 May 2014 she was temporarily absent due to maternity leave, she was first replaced by Tjitske Siderius, and starting on 14 May 2014 by Henri Swinkels. She rose to prominence through the uncovering by Pieter Omtzigt and her of the childcare benefits scandal, which led to the resignation of the third Rutte cabinet The third Rutte cabinet was the cabin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renske Stoltz
Renske Stoltz is a South African netball player. Early life Stoltz was born in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga before shifting with her family to Rustenburg, North West. She has played netball for the past seventeen years and attended Hoërskool Rustenburg. Career Stoltz earned her first cap against New Zealand in the Netball Quad Series. She was also part of the under-19 Baby Proteas squad. She also participated in the Brutal Fruit Netball Cup for the North West Flames and represented her university in the local varsity championship. She also played for Loughborough Lightning in the British Fast5 All Stars Netball Championship whereby she sank a last-minute five pointer in the grand final against Team Bath to earn the championship title as well as earned the player of the series award. She also got selected to represent South Africa in the 2017 Fast5 Netball World Series in Australia. Stoltz got signed by defending Netball Superleague champions Wasps Netball Wasps Netball were an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renske Endel
Renske Endel (born 13 July 1983, Noord-Scharwoude) is a Dutch former artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different types of apparatus. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which assigns the '' Code of Points'' used .... She won the silver medal on uneven bars at the 2001 World Championships, which was the first world medal won by a Dutch gymnast since 1903. She was unable to compete at the 2004 Olympic Games due to injury and retired shortly afterwards. Endel works as a motivational speaker and acrobat at Corpus Acrobatics in Amsterdam. References 1983 births Living people Dutch female artistic gymnasts Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships People from Langedijk Gymnasts from North Holland 20th-century Dutch women 21st-century Dutch sportswomen {{Netherlands-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renske Vellinga
Renske Vellinga (26 October 1974, Heerenveen – 19 February 1994, Sneek) was a speed skater from the Netherlands, who won a bronze and a silver medal at the 1993 Dutch Single Distance Championships. Death A year later she died when she drove her car into a tree. - Trouw Her death shocked the Dutch Olympians who were in at that time to compete at the . Her friend [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renske Van Beek
Renske van Beek (born 25 April 1989) is a Dutch para-snowboarder in the SB-LL2 category. Life and career Van Beek sustained a cerebral infarction when she was ten, which left her paralyzed on one side. She started snowboarding because skiing was no longer possible. Through Bibian Mentel's Mentelity Foundation, she ended up in the U23 team of the Dutch Ski Association. At the 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships, van Beek won the bronze medal in the women's snowboard cross event. Along with Lisa Bunschoten, she also won the silver medal in the women's team event. She represented the Netherlands at the 2022 Winter Paralympics The 2022 Winter Paralympics (), also known as XIII Paralympic Winter Games, commonly known as Beijing 2022 (), were an international winter multi-sport parasports event held in Beijing, China, from 4 to 13 March 2022. This was the 13th Winter ... in Beijing, China. She competed in the women's snowboard cross SB-LL2 and women's banked slal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurentius
Laurentius is a Latin given name and surname that means "''From Laurentum''" (a city near Rome). It is possible that the place name ''Laurentum'' is derived from the Latin ''laurus'' (" laurel"). People with the name include: In Early Christianity: * Lawrence of Rome, Saint Laurentius of Rome (died 258), Italian deacon and saint, born in Spain In Catholicism: * Antipope Laurentius (r. 498–506), antipope of the Roman Catholic Church * Laurence of Canterbury, archbishop of Canterbury known as Saint Laurentius * Lárentíus Kálfsson (1267–1331), bishop of Hólar, Iceland, 1324–1331 * Laurentius Abstemius, Italian writer, Professor of Belles Lettres at Urbino, and Librarian to Duke Guido Ubaldo under Pope Alexander VI * Laurentia McLachlan, Benedictian nun, Great Britain, 1866–1953 In Byzantium: * Joannes Laurentius Lydus, Byzantine writer on antiquarian subjects In Poland: * Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki, Laurentius Grimaldius Gosliscius, (1530–1607), Polish bish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rein (given Name)
Rein is a male given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f .... People with the given name or nickname include: Given name * Rein Aedma (born 1952), Estonian actor * Rein Ahas (1966–2018), Estonian geographer and professor * Rein Ahun (1940–2016), Estonian hammer thrower and track and field coach * Rein Aidma (born 1950), Estonian politician * Rein Aren (1927–1990), Estonian actor * Rein Arjukese (1941–2018), Estonian naturalist, dissident and politician * Rein Aun (1940–1995), Estonian decathlete * Rein Baart (born 1972), Dutch football goalkeeper * Rein van Duijnhoven (born 1967), Dutch football goalkeeper * Rein Eliaser (1885–1941), Estonian lawyer and politician * Rein Gilje (born 1959), Norwegian sprint canoeist * Rein Haljand (born 1945), Estonian sw ... [...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] |
Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. In Western culture, the idioms "" and "being on first-name terms" refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or Gentile name, ''gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meertens Institute
The Meertens Institute (Dutch ''Meertens Instituut'') in Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ... is a research institute which studies and documents language and culture in the Netherlands as well as Dutch language and culture throughout the world. The institute is part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (''Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen'' or KNAW). Its two departments are ''Ethnology and oral culture'', which studies and documents culture of everyday life in the Netherlands from an international, comparative, and historical perspective, and ''Language variation'', which studies and documents language, language variation and language change in the Netherlands, as well as Dutch languages in the world. History The instit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferwerderadiel
Ferwerderadiel () is a former Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of Friesland in the northern Netherlands. Its official name is West Frisian language, West Frisian, the Dutch name is Ferwerderadeel (). In 2019 it merged with the municipalities of Dongeradeel and Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland to form the new municipality Noardeast-Fryslân. Population centres Bartlehiem, Blije, Burdaard, Ferwert, Ginnum, Hallum, Hegebeintum, Jannum, Jislum, Lichtaard, Marrum, Reitsum, Wânswert, Westernijtsjerk. Topography Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Ferwerderadiel, June 2015'' Notable people * Saint Frederick of Hallum (ca. 1113 – 1175) a Premonstratensian priest * Barthold Douma van Burmania (1695 in Hallum – 1766) a Dutch statesman and ambassador to the court of Vienna * Pieter Boeles (1795 in Ferwerd – 1875) a Dutch Minister and linguist * Gerardus Heymans (1857 in Ferwert – 1930) a Dutch philosopher, psychologist and academic * Watse Cuperus (1891 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
