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Piet

Tony Piet (1906-1981), American Major League Baseball player


Barbara Jeppe

Her definitive work on Amaryllidaceae in collaboration with Piet Vorster, has yet to be published, the illustrations being finished by her daughter, Leigh Voigt.

Charles de Villiers

He has won the South African Chess Championship six times; in 1975 (with Piet Kroon), 1977 (with David Walker), 1981, 1985 (with Clyde Wolpe), 1987 and 1989.

Grook

Piet Hein's gruks first started to appear in the daily newspaper "Politiken" shortly after the Nazi Occupation in April 1940 under the signature Kumbel Kumbell.

Inke Arns

After having held positions at Humboldt University in Berlin, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst (HGK) in Zürich and Piet Zwart Institut in Rotterdam, she has been the artistic director of Hartware MedienKunstVerein since 2005, a contemporary art space in Dortmund, Germany.

Mia Van Roy

Her husband is journalist Piet Piryns and her daughter is the Groen Senator, Freya Piryns.

Piet Hein Donner

In 2006, Piet Hein Donner recorded a rap song together with Meester G to explain his point of view on the Dutch soft-drug policy.

Piet Hein Donner's father, André Donner, was a judge at the European Court of Justice in 1958-1979 and was part of the government commission that looked into Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands's dealing with the Lockheed Corporation.

Piet Kramer

The total number of realized Piet Kramer bridges is 220, 64 of them in the Amsterdamse Bos park.

Piet Pienter en Bert Bibber

Piet Pienter en Bert Bibber is a Belgian comic series, published between 1950 and 1995, created by Pom (Jozef Van Hove).

Rob du Bois

The two wind quintets (Chants en contrepoints from 1962 and Réflexions sur le jour où Pérotin le Grand ressuscitera from 1969) were both written for the Danzi Quintet, and Bois also wrote solo pieces for some of the members of this well-known ensemble: flutist Frans Vester (Muziek for solo flute, 1961), oboist Koen van Slogteren (Beams, for oboe and piano, 1979), and clarinetist Piet Honingh (Vertiges, 1987).

Steven Tainer

Together with Piet Hut, Steven Tainer has explored two distinctive ways of knowing, science and contemplation and how they can be reconciled at the Princeton Program for Interdisciplinary Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.


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