Gerrie Knetemann
Gerard Friedrich "Gerrie" Knetemann (6 March 1951 in Amsterdam – 2 November 2004 in Bergen, North Holland) was a Dutch road bicycle racer who won the 1978 World Championship.
He wore the Yellow Jersey early in each Tour de France for four consecutive years between 1978 and 1981.
A four-time winner of the Ronde van Nederland
, he also rode the Tour de France 11 times between 1974 and 1987, winning 10 stages, a Dutch record equalled only by Jan Raas and Joop Zoetemelk.
Knetemann won 127 races as a professional.
Knetemann maintained an Amsterdam accent and a sharp sense of humour that made him a favourite with reporters and earned him television and radio appearances.
His best year in the Tour de France was 1978, when he led from the sixth stage.
Although he lost the leader's yellow jersey two days later, he won the stage into Lausanne and then the final stage on the Champs Elysées in Paris.
Together with Raas and his TI-Raleigh teammates
Knetemann played a pivotal role in the victory of Zoetemelk in the 1980 Tour de France, one of the most dominating team performances in Tour de France history in which the team won twelve stages.
His career dwindled after a crash in Dwars door België in Belgium in March 1983.
Recovery took months and, although he did again ride the Tour de France, there was not much left of the once sparkling star.
Knetemann did however win the Amstel Gold Race in 1985.
He retired from racing in 1991 and became Dutch team selector.
Knetemann died while riding his bike.
He collapsed from a heart attack with friends in Bergen.
His wife, Gre Donker, was also a racing cyclist.
They had a son and two daughters.
Their daughter Roxane, born in 1987, has been a professional cyclist since 2006.
John Templeton (botanist)
John Templeton( 1766–1825) was an early Irish naturalist and botanist.
He is often referred to as the" Father of Irish Botany".
He was the father of naturalist, artist and entomologist Robert Templeton.
Roxane Knetemann
Roxane Knetemann (born 1 April 1987 in Alkmaar) is a Dutch professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Team .
She is the daughter of former cyclist Gerrie Knetemann.
In September 2016 she announced that she would join for the 2017 season after five years riding for .
Cleomenes II
Cleomenes II( died 309 BC) was Agiad King of Sparta from 369 to 309 BC.
The son of Cleombrotus I, he succeeded his brother Agesipolis II.
He was the father of Acrotatus I, the father of Areus I, and of Cleonymus, the father of Leonidas II.
Arthur Beauchamp
Arthur Beauchamp( 1827 – 28 April 1910) was a Member of Parliament from New Zealand.
He is remembered as the father of Harold Beauchamp, who rose to fame as chairman of the Bank of New Zealand and was the father of writer Katherine Mansfield.
Inoue Masaru (bureaucrat)
Viscount was the first Director of Railways in Japan and is known as the" father of the Japanese railways".
Takayama Tomoteru
He was the father of Takayama Ukon, and was a Kirishitan.
Anacyndaraxes
Anacyndaraxes was the father of Sardanapalus, king of Assyria.
Eystein Glumra
Eystein Glumra(" Eystein the Noisy" or" Eystein the Clatterer"; Modern Norwegian" Øystein Glumra") also known as Eystein Ivarsson, was reputedly a petty king on the west coast of Norway, during the 9th Century.
The" Heimskringla" saga states that Eystein Glumra was the father of Rognvald Eysteinsson and Sigurd Eysteinsson:" The first earl in the Orkney Islands was called Sigurd, who was a son of Eystein Glumra, and brother of Ragnvald earl of More.
After Sigurd, his son Guthorm was earl for one year.
After him Torf- Einar, a son of Ragnvald, took the earldom, and was long earl, and was a man of great power".
According to the" Orkneyinga Saga", Eystein Glumra was the son of Ivar the jarl of Uplanders and grandson of Halfdan the Old.
" Orkneyinga Saga" also named Eystein Glumra as the father of Rognvald Eysteinsson:" Heiti, Gorr ’s son, was father of Sveiði the sea-king,[ who was] the father of Halfdan the old,[ who was] the father of Ivar the Uplanders ’ earl,[ who was] the father of Eystein the noisy,[ who was] the father of earl Rognvald the mighty and wise in council".
Linnea Hartsuyker's books
The Half- drowned King and The Sea Queen cover the lives of Eystein's children.
Obata Toramori
He was the father of Obata Masamori.

Question: Where was the father of Roxane Knetemann born?
Answer: Amsterdam