Maarten van Roozendaal
Maarten van Roozendaal( 2 May 1962 – 1 July 2013) was a Dutch singer, comedian and songwriter.
He recorded" I'm So Curious", and variously worked with Paul de Munnik, Willem Ennes, Egon Kracht, Marcel de Groot and Kim Soepnel.
Nicholas de Ewelme
Nicholas de Ewelme was an English medieval university chancellor.
From 1267 – 69, Nicholas de Ewelm was Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
Daan de Groot
Daniël ("Daan") de Groot (25 May 1933 – 8 January 1982) was a road bicycle and track cyclist from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.
In the 1952 Olympics, De Groot was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the men's 4,000 m team pursuit, alongside Adrie Voorting, Jan Plantaz and Jules Maenen.
In 1954, he became a professional road cyclist, which he remained until 1962.
During the 1955 Tour de France, De Groot was in the thirteenth initially dropped by the peloton, and had problems with the heat.
When he passed a field with cabbage, he took two leaves and put them in his neck and on his head, to protect him from the sun.
He regained his strength, and was able to get back to the peloton.
The peloton was also suffering from the heat, and De Groot decided to go for his chance, and escaped from the peloton.
Nobody answered his attack, so he went solo.
After some time, he was told his advantage was  (thirteen minutes), but De Groot's knowledge of the French language was not perfect, and he thought his advantage was three minutes, and he increased his speed.
In the end he won the stage by more than twenty minutes.
His sister Jannie competed as a swimmer for the Netherlands at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
De Groot committed suicide in 1982, a year after his wife had died.
Nicholas de Groot
Nicholas de Groot( born October 22, 1975 in North York, Ontario) is a Canadian cricketer.
He is a right- handed batsman and a right- arm medium- pace bowler with an elegant batting action who has played for both Canada and Guyana.
With few chances at Guyanese cricket from his start in 1994/ 95, he turned to Canada for the 2001 ICC Trophy, making crucial contributions for this competition and qualification for the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
He played in all Canada's World Cup matches in 2003, but has only played twice for them since.
Diede de Groot
Diede de Groot( born 19 December 1996) is a Dutch wheelchair tennis player.
During her career, de Groot won over ten Grand Slam tournaments including back to back women's singles events at Wimbledon from 2017 to 2018.
In 2019, de Groot completed her Career Grand Slam when she won the singles title at the 2019 French Open.
Her 2019 singles win at the French Open also made de Groot the first wheelchair tennis player to complete a non-calendar year grand slam.
Apart from her Grand Slam wins, De Groot won multiple Wheelchair Tennis Masters titles between 2016 and 2018 and a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
Dirk de Groot
Dirk de Groot( born 1943 in Amsterdam) is a former Dutch football player.
De Groot was born in the de Meer district of Amsterdam but became a football player at Catholic Volendam.
He was later persuaded to join the football club in his neighborhood, AFC Ajax.
The move to Ajax was recommended to him by his former trained at Volemdam, Bram Appel.
When de Groot was 27, he suffered a knee injury which ended his active football career.
He began training students as a hobby, without financial compensation.
De Groot became an influential youth coach of later star players such as Frank Rijkhaard and Dennis Bergkamp.
His work with fellow trainer Sonny Silooy helped Ajax become A1 champions in the 2005/2006 season, with players such as Gregory van der Wiel and Jan Verthongron.
Dirk de Groot joined the Ajax membership council in 2010.
Marie-José de Groot
Josephina Maria Allegonda de Groot (born 22 January 1966), known as Marie-José de Groot, is a Dutch rower.
She competed in the women's double sculls event at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Gerda Stevenson
Gerda Stevenson( born 10 April 1956 in Peeblesshire, Scotland) is an award- winning Scottish actress, director and writer, described by" The Scotsman" in 1999 as" Scotland's finest actress".
She has played many parts in the theatre, including the title role in Edwin Morgan's English translation of Racine's" Phèdre", and Lady Macbeth, and has appeared in many television dramas.
She was Murron MacClannough's mother in the Mel Gibson film" Braveheart", and her voice is familiar to listeners of British radio, as a reader of short stories and adaptations.
In particular, she has performed several poems and songs by Robert Burns for the BBC.
Her play Federer Versus Murray toured to New York in 2012, and her poetry collection If This Were Real was published by Smokestack Books in 2013.
She has adapted a number of works for radio:" Self- Control" by Mary Brunton in which Stevenson played the part of Laura Montreville;" For the Love of Willie" by Agnes Owens in which Stevenson played the part of Liza;" The Heart of Midlothian" by Sir Walter Scott for BBC Radio 4, nominated for a Sony Award in 2008, in which Stevenson played the part of the heroine Jeanie Deans; and" Sunset Song" by Lewis Grassic Gibbon.
She has written radio plays including:" Island BlueSecrets:
The Punter's TaleSecrets: The Escort's Tale" and" The Apple Tree".
She directed the Afternoon Play" The Price of a Fish Supper".
Stevenson's partner is the Scottish Gaelic poet Aonghas MacNeacail.
Her father is the musician and composer Ronald Stevenson.
Her sister Savourna Stevenson( born 1961) has recorded works on the Scottish harp, the clàrsach.
She is a graduate of RADA.
Philippe Liégeois
Philippe Liégeois( born 8 July 1947) is a Belgian comic book artist.
He is best known by his pen name Turk.
He is the co-author of numerous comic books, including" Colonel CliftonLéonard" and" Robin Dubois".
His usual writer for all three series is Bob de Groot, and the duo" Turk& De Groot" has been very successful.
Roy Andries De Groot
Baron Roy Andries de Groot( February 21, 1910 – September 16, 1983), was a British- born American culinary writer and wine critic.
He was born in London, the son of a Dutch artist and a French noblewoman.
He was educated at St Paul's School and at Oxford University.
During the 1930s, de Groot worked as a news and feature writer, film writer, and director.
When World War II broke out, he joined the British Ministry of Information and worked for the BBC, where, during The Blitz of London, he suffered eye injuries that would leave him totally blind within 20 years.
De Groot emigrated to the United States in 1941 and worked for the U.S. State Department.
According to his obituary in the New York Times, de Groot gave up his Dutch title in 1945, when he became an American citizen.
In 1948, he married the British actress Katherine Hynes and they lived in a house on Bleecker Street in New York's Greenwich Village with his seeing- eye dog companion, Atena.
Of their three daughters, the youngest was given up for adoption, while the two elder daughters, Fiona and Christina, lived with their parents.
As his vision failed, he switched careers in the 1960s and took up food writing, something he could do with his remaining senses.
He wrote for" EsquireLadies Home JournalPlayboyHouse BeautifulVintageMcCall'sGourmetTime" and" The New York Times".
De Groot's" Recipes from The Auberge of the Flowering HearthAuberge de l' Atre Fleuri") published in 1973 is a classic in its field.
It is the story of how de Groot went to France to seek out the history of the liqueur Chartreuse.
In doing so, he discovered the world of two women who cooked with the seasons, which became the focus of the book.
De Groot later moved with his wife, Kathryn, and his seeing- eye dog companion, Nusta, to the Westbeth Artists' Colony in Greenwich Village.
De Groot died of a self- inflicted gunshot wound, reportedly as a result of depression caused by his failing health.
His wife died of a stroke at age 88 on March 27, 1993.

Question: Did Nicholas De Groot and Gerda Stevenson have the same nationality?
Answer: no