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

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)

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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