List of Famous people named Wim

Often it's a shorthand for Willem. Similar names: Willem, Wimie, Weyma. Here are some famous Wims:

Wim van Doorne

First Name Wim
Born on July 19, 1906
Died on May 3, 1978 (aged 71)
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Wim Quist

First Name Wim
Born on October 27, 1930
Died on July 9, 2022 (aged 91)

Wim Quist was a Dutch architect.

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Wim van Est

First Name Wim
Born on March 25, 1923
Died on May 1, 2003 (aged 80)

Willem "Wim" van Est was a Dutch racing cyclist. He is best known for being the first Dutch cyclist to wear the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification in the Tour de France of 1951, and for falling into a ravine while wearing it.

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Wim Udenhout

First Name Wim
Born on September 29, 1937 (age 86)
Born in Suriname

Willem "Wim" Alfred Udenhout was the military-installed Prime Minister of Suriname from February 1984 to July 1986. He had previously been a teacher and, for a time, a Black Power activist. As an academic he had a PhD in English literature from Leiden University. He later served as an ambassador to the United States. He did not favor investigating the military's murder of civilians or of Maroon people. He is most recently the Chairman of the Suriname Conservation Foundation.

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Wim Delvoye

First Name Wim

Wim Delvoye is a Belgian neo-conceptual artist known for his inventive and often shocking projects. Much of his work is focused on the body. As the critic Robert Enright wrote in the art magazine Border Crossings, "Delvoye is involved in a way of making art that reorients our understanding of how beauty can be created". Wim Delvoye has an eclectic oeuvre, exposing his interest in a range of themes, from bodily function, and scatology to the function of art in the current market economy, and numerous subjects in between. He lives and works in Brighton, UK.

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Wim Schepers

First Name Wim
Born on September 25, 1943
Died on September 25, 1998 (aged 55)

Wim Schepers was a Dutch professional road cyclist. A professional from 1966 to 1975, he won two stages of the 1970 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and finished second in the 1972 Liège–Bastogne–Liège to Eddy Merckx.

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Wim Van Huffel

First Name Wim
Born on May 28, 1979 (age 44)

Wim Van Huffel is a Belgian former road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2002 and 2010.

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Wim Mertens

First Name Wim
Born on May 14, 1953 (age 71)

Wim Mertens is a Flemish Belgian composer, countertenor vocalist, pianist, guitarist, and musicologist.

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Wim Deetman

First Name Wim
Born on April 3, 1945 (age 79)

Willem Joost "Wim" Deetman is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and teacher.

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Wim van der Leegte

First Name Wim
Born on August 23, 1947 (age 76)
Net Worth $2.6B

Wilhelmus Gerardus Stephanus Maria "Wim" van der Leegte is a Dutch billionaire, and runs the Netherlands-based VDL Groep.

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