María-Luz Álvarez
María- Luz Álvarez( born in Madrid) is a Spanish soprano known for performance and recording of early music.
She currently resides in Thompson, Manitoba.
She studied with Max van Egmond and Peter Kooy, and has sung in the Capilla Real de Madrid, Huelgas Ensemble, Capella Figuralis of Jos van Veldhoven, Al Ayre Español and the Egidius Ensemble.
Annet van Egmond
Annet van Egmond( born January 12, 1964 in Leiden) is a Dutch designer.
She is a founder, an owner and the Art Director of the design label “ Brand van Egmond ” in Naarden.
Jacobus van Egmond
Jacobus van Egmond( 17 February 1908 – 9 January 1969) was a Dutch track cyclist who competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
He won a gold medal in the sprint and a silver in the 1000 m time trial; he finished fourth in the tandem, together with Bernard Leene.
Van Egmond took up sports after the 1928 Olympics, and first trained in running.
He then changed to track cycling and won the national sprint title in 1931 and 1932.
At the 1932 Olympics he went flat out in the sprint and time trial, and had no power left for the tandem event.
Next year he won the world title in the sprint.
He turned professional in 1934, and won the national sprint titles in 1934- 36.
Beginning in 1938, he ran a grocery store and then a self- service laundry.
In 1954 he opened Café van Egmond, which was later managed by his son Paul, who was a professional football player.
Anna van Egmont
Anna van Egmont( March
1533 – 24 March 1558) was a Dutch heiress who became the first wife of William the Silent, Prince of Orange.
Anna was born in Grave, Netherlands.
As the only child of Maximiliaan van Egmond and Françoise de Lannoy, she was" suo jure" Countess of Buren and Lady of Egmond.
She was also Countess of Lingen and of Leerdam, and Lady of IJsselstein, of Borssele, of Grave, of Cranendonck, of Jaarsveld, of Kortgene, of Sint Maartensdijk, and of Odijk.
In 1551 she married William the Silent in Buren, and thereby he earned the titles Lord of Egmond and Count of Buren.
Anna van Egmont had three children with William the Silent: Anna died and was buried in Breda.
Anthony Van Egmond
Anthony Van Egmond, born Antonij Jacobi Willem Gijben( 10 March 1778 Groesbeek in Dutch Republic – 5 January 1838 in Toronto, Upper Canada) before coming to North America, was purportedly a Dutch Napoleonic War veteran.
He became one of the first settlers and business people in the Huron Tract, located in present- day southwestern Ontario Canada.
Van Egmond became an early contractor employed by the Canada Company to construct the original in length road into the new settlement, allowing the entry of settlers for the purchase of company lands and further economic development.
He eventually became a supporter of William Lyon Mackenzie, and led a force of armed rebels in their unsuccessful skirmish at Montgomery's Tavern near Toronto, Ontario on December 7, 1837 during the Upper Canada Rebellion.
Gary van Egmond
Gary Rudy Peter van Egmond (born 29 June 1965) is an Australian former soccer player and former head coach of Newcastle Jets in the A-League.
Tim Van Egmond
Timothy Layne Van Egmond( born May 31, 1969), was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played with the Boston Red Sox( 1994 – 1995) and Milwaukee Brewers( 1996).
He batted and threw right- handed.
A native of Shreveport, Louisiana, Van Egmond attended Jacksonville State University.
He was selected in the 17th round of the 1991 amateur draft by the Boston Red Sox.
His first professional season, 1992, was arguably his best as a professional pitcher.
Pitching for the Lynchburg Red Sox of the class A" Carolina League, Van Egmond posted a 12- 4 record with a 3.41 ERA in 28 games, 27 of which were starts.
He followed that with a 6- 12 record and 3.98 ERA for the AA New Britain Red Sox of the Eastern League in 1993.
He was assigned to the Pawtucket Red Sox, Boston's AAA affiliate in the International League, in 1994 and made 20 starts, going 9- 5 with a 3.78 ERA in 119 innings.
Van Egmond made his MLB debut on June 26, 1994 against the Milwaukee Brewers.
Van Egmond pitched 7 ⅔ innings in his first big league start, yielding five earned runs on five hits and four walks while striking out seven.
The Brewers won the game 5- 4, handing Van Egmond his first MLB loss.
He recorded his first big league victory on July 29, 1994 at Fenway Park as the Red Sox defeated the Brewers 7- 2.
Van Egmond threw a complete game to earn the victory, yielding two runs on five hits and three walks, striking out four Milwaukee hitters.
The Red Sox released Van Egmond on June 6, 1996, and he signed with the Brewers as a free agent three days later.
Having posted a 5- 3 record with a 4.35 ERA with Pawtucket before being released, Van Egmond performed well for the Brewers' American Association affiliate New Orleans Zephyrs, going 5- 1 with a 1.50 ERA in seven starts.
His AAA performance in New Orleans earned him some time on the big league roster.
He made 12 appearances with the Brewers, nine of which were starts.
His final appearance at the big league level came September 25, 1996 in the first game of a double- header against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium.
Taking the mound as the starting pitcher, the Yankees pounded Van Egmond for eight runs on four hits and four walks in 1 ⅓ innings of work en route to a 19- 2 drubbing of the Brewers.
Van Egmond pitched in the minor leagues with Milwaukee affiliates but never again appeared in a big league uniform before retiring after going 0- 6 with a 4.50 ERA in 11 appearances with the AA Huntsville Stars of the Southern League and Louisville RiverBats of the International League in 1999.
In a three- year MLB career, Van Egmond posted a 5- 9 record with a 5.96 ERA in 99 ⅔ innings.
In eight minor league season, he went 49- 45 with a 3.81 ERA in 831 innings.
Marie Knutsen
Marie Knutsen( born 31 August 1982) is a Norwegian former football midfielder who played for Røa of Norway's Toppserien league and represented the Norwegian national team.
Eigil Knutsen
Eigil Knutsen( born 21 October 1988) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
He served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Hordaland during the term 2013 – 2017.
He hails from Karmøy, but has been based in Bergen since 2008 to study at the University of Bergen.
Floris van Egmont
Floris van Egmond( ca. 1470 – 25 October 1539) was count of Buren and Leerdam and Lord of IJsselstein and Sint Maartensdijk.
He was stadtholder of Guelders( 1507 – 1511) and Friesland( 1515 – 1518)
Floris was the son of Frederik van Egmond and Aleida van Culemborg.
His career started in the 1490s as a chamberlord in the royal household of Philip I of Castile.
After Philip's death, Floris gained a seat in the Court Council of Margaret of Habsburg, at the time the governor of the Netherlands.
In 1505 he was knighted in the Order of the Golden Fleece.
As a stadtholder of Guelders, he represented the Habsburg government in the parts of Guelders owned by Magaretha .< br>
In 1515 he became stadtholder of Friesland, when it was sold by George, Duke of Saxony to Habsburg.
George of Saxony had failed to subdue Friesland during the Guelders Wars, and Floris controlled only a few cities( Leeuwarden, Harlingen en Franeker).
Floris was also a commander in arms.
In 1523, he was appointed commander of the Dutch troops for an invasion of France during the Italian War of 1521 – 1526.
In 1536, Floris became Captain- General of the Army that was present in the northern parts of the Low Countries.
Floris van Egmond married Margaret of Glymes- Bergen, daughter of Cornelis of Glymes, on 12 October 1500.
They had 2 children:

Question: Were both Anthony Van Egmond and Eigil Knutsen, born in the same place?
Answer: no