page_title: Aalsmeer
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Aalsmeer / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: Peter R. de Vries
context_page_description: Aalsmeer is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Its name is derived from the Dutch for eel and lake. Aalsmeer is bordered by the Westeinderplassen lake, the largest open water of the Randstad, and the Ringvaart Canal. The town is located 13 km southwest of Amsterdam.
  The town is sometimes referred to as the flower capital of the world, as the largest flower auction in the world is based in Aalsmeer, along with numerous nurseries and an experimental station for floriculture.
context_section_description: Jan de Pous (1920 in Aalsmeer – 1996) a Dutch politician and economist
  Ada van Keulen (1920 in Aalsmeer – 2010) a Dutch woman participant in the resistance in WWII
  Joost Hoffscholte (born 1942) a retired Dutch politician, Mayor of Aalsmeer 1985 to 2007, lives in Aalsmeer
  Fred Borgman (1946 in Aalsmeer – 11 May 1996) was a Dutch politician, an alderman of Aalsmeer 1974 to 1978
  Theodore van Houten (1952 in Aalsmeer – 2016) a Dutch-British writer, journalist and radio-theatre producer
  Peter R. de Vries (born 1956 in Aalsmeer) a Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter 
  Pieter Litjens (born 1968) a Dutch politician, Mayor of Aalsmeer 2007 to 2012
caption: Peter R. de Vries, 1995
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