List of Famous people with last name Lely

Peter Lely

Pieter van der Faes

First Name Peter

Last Name Lely

Died on November 30, 1680

Born in Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia

Sir Peter Lely was a painter of Dutch origin whose career was nearly all spent in England, where he became the dominant portrait painter to the court.

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Cornelis Lely

First Name Cornelis

Last Name Lely

Born on September 23, 1854

Died on January 22, 1929 (aged 74)

Born in Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, North Holland

Cornelis Lely was a Dutch politician of the Liberal Union (LU) and civil engineer. He oversaw the passage of an act of parliament authorising construction of the Zuiderzee Works, a huge project – designed to his own plans – that turned the Zuiderzee into a lake and made possible the conversion of a vast area of former seabed into dry land.

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