List of Famous people named Cornelis

Shortened forms: Cees. Here are some famous Cornelises:

Cornelis de Houtman

First Name Cornelis
Last Name Houtman
Born on April 2, 1565
Died on September 1, 1599 (aged 34)

Cornelis de Houtman, brother of Frederick de Houtman, was a Dutch explorer who discovered a new sea route from Europe to the East Indies, and who thus begun the Dutch spice trade. At the time, the Portuguese Empire held a monopoly on the spice trade, and the voyage was a symbolic victory for the Dutch, even though the voyage itself was a disaster. Houtman was also a spy, having worked against the Portuguese by bringing back to the Netherlands privileged nautical information obtained during his stay in Portugal.

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Cornelis Hin

First Name Cornelis
Last Name Hin
Born on October 6, 1869
Died on October 21, 1944 (aged 75)

Cornelis Nicolaas Hin was a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Ostend, Belgium.

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Cornelis de Jager

First Name Cornelis
Last Name Jager
Born on April 29, 1921
Died on May 27, 2021 (aged 100)

Cornelis "Kees" de Jager was a Dutch astronomer who specialized in predicting solar variation to assess the Sun's impact on future climate. He was the General Secretary of the IAU from 1967 to 1973 and former director of the observatory at Utrecht. He was a fellow with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and played an important role in the European skeptical movement as the first chairman of both Stichting Skepsis and the European Council of Skeptical Organisations.

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Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts

First Name Cornelis
Last Name Gysbrechts
Born on January 1, 1640
Died on November 30, 1674 (aged 34)

Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts or Gysbrechts was a Flemish painter who was active in the Spanish Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Sweden in the second half of the seventeenth century. He was a court painter to the Danish royal family. He specialised in trompe-l'œil still lifes, an artistic genre which uses visual tricks to give viewers the illusion that they are not looking at a painting but rather at real three-dimensional objects. He also created many vanitas still lifes.

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Cornelis Drebbel

First Name Cornelis
Last Name Drebbel
Born on November 30, 1571
Died on November 17, 1633 (aged 61)

Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel was a Dutch engineer and inventor. He was the builder of the first navigable submarine in 1620 and an innovator who contributed to the development of measurement and control systems, optics and chemistry.

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Cornelis van Haarlem

First Name Cornelis
Last Name Haarlem
Born on January 1, 1562
Died on November 11, 1638 (aged 76)

Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem, Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman, was one of the leading Northern Mannerist artists in the Netherlands, and an important forerunner of Frans Hals as a portraitist.

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Cornélis Henri de Witt

First Name Cornélis
Last Name Witt
Born on November 21, 1828
Died on December 14, 1889 (aged 61)
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Cornelis Floris II

First Name Cornelis
Last Name II
Born on November 30, 1513
Died on October 20, 1575 (aged 61)

Cornelis Floris or Cornelis (II) Floris De Vriendt was a Flemish sculptor, print artist and architect. He developed a new style, which was informed by Flemish traditions, the 16th century Italian renaissance and possibly the School of Fontainebleau. His innovations spread throughout Northern Europe where they had a major influence on the development of sculpture and architecture in the 16th and early 17th centuries.

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Cornelis Bicker

First Name Cornelis
Last Name Bicker
Born on October 25, 1592
Died on September 15, 1654 (aged 61)

Cornelis Bicker, heer (lord) Van Swieten and of Kasteel Swieten, was a regent of the Dutch Republic and a governor of the Dutch West India Company. He was also a sugar merchant, hoogheemraad of the Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland and a counsellor of the States of Holland and West Friesland for Amsterdam at The Hague.

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Cornelis of Glymes

First Name Cornelis
Last Name Glymes
Born on January 1, 1458
Died on January 1, 1509 (aged 51)

Cornelis of Glymes or Cornelis of Bergen was an Admiral of the Netherlands.

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