Sjeng is a Dutch masculine

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particularly in the south, in and around

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name "Jean", just like the name ''Sjang'' that also can be heard in Limburg. The male inhabitants from Maastricht are sometimes referred to as ''Sjengen'' (plural of Sjeng), by themselves as well as by people from Limburg outside the city of Maastricht. The Maastricht

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is sometimes jokingly referred to as ''Sjengs''.

Notable people with the name Sjeng

* Sjeng Kraft: father of a female singer, well known in and around Maastricht: Beppie Kraft. He himself was known as an accordionist and a writer of

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songs; * Johan "Sjeng" Kremers: the Queen's Commissioner of the Dutch province of Limburg from 1977 to 1990; *

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; * Sjeng Tans, the founder of the

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and the university's first president.

Other uses

* ''"Sjeng aon de geng"'' ('Sjeng at work'), a song written in the Maastricht dialect by Frans Theunisz, singer of the band the " Nachraove". The song is played often during

in Maastricht and even become known throughout the rest of the country in 1995. *''Sjeng & the Gang'', a band from the little town of

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