Joseph Van Dam
Joseph Van Dam (Willebroek, 2 November 1901 — Willebroek, 31 May 1986) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer.
Van Dam entered the 1926 Tour de France, won three stages and finished 12th place in the general classification
Rip Van Dam
Rip Van Dam( 1660 – 10 June 1749) was the acting governor of the Province of New York from 1731 to 1732.
As one of the leaders of the republican liberal( or" country") party, Van Dam confronted the subsequent royal governor William Cosby.
Mike Burke (shortstop)
Michael E. Burke( 1854 – June 9, 1889) was an American Major League Baseball player who played mainly shortstop for the Cincinnati Reds of the National League.
In 28 games, he had 26 hits in 117 at bats for a. 222 batting average, scored 13 Runs, and hit three doubles.
He died at the age of 34 or 35 in Albany, New York, and is interred at St. Agnes Cemetery in Menands, New York.
Cornelis Van Dam
Cornelis Van Dam is a Canadian Old Testament scholar.
He was professor of Old Testament at Canadian Reformed Theological Seminary from 1981 to 2011.
Van Dam holds degrees from Wilfrid Laurier University, Canadian Reformed Theological Seminary, Knox College at the University of Toronto, and the Theological University of Kampen.
In 2011, a" Festschrift" was published in his honour.
" Living Waters from Ancient Springs: Essays in Honor of Cornelis Van Dam" includes contributions from Hans Boersma and Al Wolters.
José Van Baelen
José Van Baelen( 20 February 1927 – 30 January 2015) was a Belgian fencer.
He competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Marcel van Dam
Marcel Parcival
Arthur van Dam( born 30 January 1938) is a retired Dutch politician of the Labour Party( PvdA) and journalist.
Van Dam worked as a researcher for the Wiardi Beckman Foundation from April 1967 until September 1969.
Van Dam also was active as a political activist and was one of the leaders of the New Left movement in the Netherlands which aimed to steer the Labour Party more to the Left.
Van Dam worked as a journalist for the" VARA" from September 1969 until May 1973 as an ombudsman from September 1969 until May 1973 and as an editor from April 1971 until May 1973.
After the election of 1972 Van Dam was appointed as State Secretary for Housing and Spatial Planning in the Cabinet Den Uyl, taking office on 11 May 1973.
The Cabinet Den Uyl fell on 22 March 1977 and continued to serve in a demissionary capacity.
Van Dam was elected as a Member of the House of Representatives after the election of 1977, taking office on 8 June 1977 but he was still serving in the cabinet and because of dualism customs in the constitutional convention of Dutch politics he could n't serve a dual mandate he subsequently resigned as State Secretary on 8 September 1977.
After the election of 1981 Van Dam was appointed as Minister of Housing and Spatial Planning in the Cabinet Van Agt II, taking office on 11 September 1981.
The Cabinet Van Agt II fell just seven months into its term on 12 May 1982 and continued to serve in a demissionary capacity until it was replaced by the caretaker Cabinet Van Agt III on 29 May 1982.
After the election of 1982 Van Dam returned as a Member of the House of Representatives, taking office on 16 September 1982.
In December 1985 Van Dam was nominated as Chairman of the Board of directors of public broadcaster" VARA", he resigned as a Member of the House of Representatives on 22 January 1986 and was installed as a Chairman serving from 10 January 1986 until 30 November 1995.
Van Dam remained active in the public sector for the" VARA" working as a television presenter and television producer for several political programs from January 1996 until January 2005 and occupied numerous seats as a nonprofit director on several boards of directors and supervisory boards( International Institute of Social History, Terre des hommes, International Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Institute for Multiparty Democracy) and as an advocate and activist for social justice, social integration, anti-war movement, multiculturalism, minority groups and housing reformer.
Van Dam is known for his abilities as a debater and negotiator.
Following his retirement Van Dam remains active as an political pundit and columnist for the" VARA" and the" de Volkskrant" and continues to comment on political affairs.
Loona (singer)
Marie- José van der Kolk( born 16 September 1974), better known by her stage name Loona, is a Dutch singer, songwriter and dancer.
Lex van Dam
Lex van Dam( born Drachten, Netherlands in June 1968) is a Dutch investment manager, investor, and writer specialising in trading in equities, currencies and financial derivatives.
He lives in London.
Born in a small town in Friesland, van Dam studied econometrics and investments at the University of Groningen.
His professional career began in 1992, trading stocks for Goldman Sachs where he worked for ten years, latterly as head of the equities proprietary trading desk.
After that he ran money at GLG which, at the time, was Europe ’s largest hedge fund.
Since 2007 he has been a hedge fund manager at Hampstead Capital LLP, London.
In 2009, van Dam featured in a three- part series on BBC2, entitled" Million Dollar Traders" that aimed to educate eight ordinary people about the stock market, in a re-creation of the famous experiment of Richard Dennis in the 1980s.
Van Dam put up the sterling equivalent of$ 1 million of his own money for the novices to trade with over the course of eight weeks.
As with the original experiment, those who lasted the course broadly confirmed the claim that novices could become professional- level traders, making small profits or at least lower losses trading in very turbulent markets during the filming than professionals, who lost four times greater amounts over the same period.
Van Dam set up the experiment to encourage the public to take greater control of their personal finances in the wake of the global financial crisis.
Later that year, a companion book" How to Make Money Trading" was released in order to expand on the trading techniques featured in the television series.
In November 2010, he launched The Lex van Dam Trading Academy which aims to teach people how to trade and invest in the stock market.
Together with David Winner he translated a book about the football player Johan Cruyff, entitled" Ajax, Barcelona, Cruyff, The ABC of a destinate Maestro" by Frits Barend and Henk van Dorp.
José van der Ploeg
José van der Ploeg( born 4 May 1958) is a Spanish sailor who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where he won gold medal in the" Finn Class".
José van Dam
Joseph, Baron Van Damme( born 25 August 1940 in Brussels), known as José van Dam, is a Belgian bass- baritone.
At the age of 17, he entered the Brussels Royal Conservatory and studied with Frederic Anspach.
A year later, he graduated with diplomas and first prizes in voice and opera performance.
He made his opera début as the music teacher Don Basilio in Gioacchino Rossini ’s" Il Barbiere di Siviglia" at the Paris Opera in 1961, and remained in the company until 1965, when he sang his first major role, Escamillo from Bizet's" Carmen".
He then sang for two seasons at Geneva, La Scala, Covent Garden, and in Paris.
At Geneva, Van Dam sang in the première of Milhaud's" La mère coupable" in 1966.
Lorin Maazel heard van Dam and invited him to record Ravel ’s" L’heure espagnole" with him for Deutsche Grammophon.
In 1967, Maazel asked him to join the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.
Van Dam has performed at L’Opéra de Paris, Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Vienna State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Salzburg Festival, and festivals in Aix- en- Provence and Orange, France.

Question: Do José Van Dam and Mike Burke (Shortstop) have the same nationality?
Answer: no