Rotterdam is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, at the mouth of the Nieuwe Maas channel leading into the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta at the North Sea. Its history goes back to 1270, when a dam was constructed in the Rotte. In 1340, Rotterdam was granted city rights by the Count of Holland. The Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area, with a population of approximately 2.7 million, is the 10th-largest in the European Union and the most populous in the country.
Roland Duchâtelet is a Belgian businessman and politician. He is the owner of football clubs Carl Zeiss Jena and Újpest. He is the founder of the social-liberal political party Vivant in Belgium.
Oscar Ignatius Joannes van Dillen is a Dutch composer, conductor, and instrumentalist.
"Wat een geluk" was the Dutch entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1960, performed in Dutch by Rudi Carrell. This was the first occasion on which the Dutch entry was performed by a male singer.
Patrick Van Caeckenbergh is a Belgian artist. Born in Aalst, East Flanders, he now lives and works in Sint-Kornelis-Horebeke, Belgium.
Lodewijk Paulina Van Den Bergh, known as Lode Van Den Bergh, also using the pseudonyms Aster Berkhof and Piet Visser, was a Belgian writer.
Nicole & Hugo are a singing duet from Belgium.
Barry Madlener is a Dutch politician of the Party for Freedom. He was the Parliamentary leader of the Party for Freedom in the European Parliament from July 14, 2009 to September 20, 2012. He was a member of the Netherlands House of Representatives from November 30, 2006 until July 14, 2009 and has been again an MP since September 20, 2012.
Annie Palmen was a Dutch singer, best known for her participation in the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest.
Gerardus Antonius "Gerard" Cox is a Dutch singer, cabaret artist, actor and director. For fifteen years, he played the lead character of the Dutch sitcom Toen Was Geluk Heel Gewoon. In 2018, Cox had a leading role in the RTL 4 alternative comedy series Beter Laat Dan Nooit, where he travels around the world with other Dutch celebrities, which include Peter Faber, Willibrord Frequin and Barrie Stevens.
The Netherlands was represented by Rudi Carrell, with the song '"Wat een geluk", at the 1960 Eurovision Song Contest, which took place on 29 March in London. Although Teddy Scholten had won the previous contest for the Netherlands, Dutch broadcaster NTS declined to host the contest for a second time in two years, so 1959 runners-up the United Kingdom had agreed to host the 1960 contest, which was staged by the BBC at London's Royal Festival Hall.
The Government of Rotterdam is the government of the municipality and city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Most of the inhabitants live in the city of Rotterdam, but the municipality also covers a number of small villages, and other parts of the local government, such as Rozenburg, cover an even larger area.
Markus Gerardus Jozef "Mark" Harbers is a Dutch politician who served as State Secretary for Justice and Security in the Third Rutte cabinet from 26 October 2017 until 21 May 2019. He is a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
Waterschap Hollandse Delta (WSHD) is a Dutch regional water authority covering the south of Zuid Holland with its seat in Ridderkerk. The area it encompasses includes Rotterdam as well as the (former) islands Goeree-Overflakkee, Hoeksche Waard, Voorne-Putten, the Island of Dordrecht, IJsselmonde, Rozenburg and Tiengemeten.
Hugo Inglis is a New Zealand field hockey player who plays as a forward for the New Zealand national team.
Ruut Veenhoven is a Dutch sociologist and a pioneer and world authority on the scientific study of happiness, in the sense of subjective enjoyment of life. His work on the social conditions for human happiness at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, has contributed to a renewed interest in happiness as an aim for public policy. He has shown that happiness can be used a reliable measure to assess progress in societies which was one of the sources of inspiration for the United Nations to adopt happiness measures as a holistic approach to development. Veenhoven is the founding director of the World Database of Happiness and a founding editor of the Journal of Happiness Studies. He has been described as "the godfather of happiness studies", and "a leading authority on worldwide levels of happiness from country to country", whose work "earned him international acclaim".
Toen Was Geluk Heel Gewoon was a popular Dutch sitcom broadcast on KRO from January 2, 1994 till June 3, 2009. It's a Dutch adaptation of the American sitcom The Honeymooners starring Gerard Cox and Sjoerd Pleijsier in the respective roles of bus-driver Jaap Kooiman and journalist Simon Stokvis.
Johan Heldenbergh is a Belgian actor, playwright, screenwriter, theatre director and film director. He gained international fame by starring in films, including A Day in a Life (2007), Moscow, Belgium (2008), The Misfortunates (2009), The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012) and The Zookeeper's Wife (2017).
Leonie Meijer is a Dutch singer and songwriter.
Leuntje Wilhelmina Digna Geluk-Poortvliet, known as Lenny Geluk-Poortvliet, is a Dutch politician serving as a Member of the House of Representatives since 31 October 2017. She is a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal. Geluk-Poortvliet was a municipal councillor of Schouwen-Duiveland in the early-2000s.
