Heemstede[ˈɦeːmsteːdə](listen) is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.
Jonkheer Gijsbert van Lennep is a Dutch esquire and former racing driver who competed in eight Formula One races. However his main achievements were in sports car racing. He is a member of the untitled Dutch nobility with the honorific, Jonkheer.
Witte van Haemstede (1280/1282–1321) was a bastard son of Floris V, Count of Holland. His half-brother John I, Count of Holland, gave him the property of Haamstede, in Southern Holland. He married Agnes van der Sluys, sometime before 1307. Their descendants were the Lords of Haamstede.
Jacob van Lennep was a Dutch poet and novelist.
The 1955 Cincinnati mid-air collision occurred on January 12, 1955, when a Trans World Airlines Martin 2-0-2 on takeoff from Boone County Airport collided in mid-air with a privately owned Douglas DC-3 that had entered the airport's control space without proper clearance. There were no survivors.
Adrienne Minette (Mies) Boissevain-van Lennep was a Dutch feminist who was active in the Resistance before being arrested by the Nazis and sent to the Herzogenbusch concentration camp. After the war, she promoted the idea of the national liberation skirt, and some of these unusual skirts are now in Dutch museums.
Aernout van Lennep was a Dutch horse rider. He competed in eventing at the 1932 Summer Olympics and won a team silver medal, finishing ninth individually.
Dirk, Count van Hogendorp, son of Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp, nephew of Dirk van Hogendorp, father of Dirk van Hogendorp jr., was a Dutch jurist. Van Hogendorp lived continually in the shadow of his father, the founder of the first Dutch Constitution.
Marita Theodora Catharina Mathijsen-Verkooijen is professor of modern Dutch literature at the University of Amsterdam, with her speciality as the literature of the nineteenth century in the Netherlands.
The Huis te Manpad is an historical villa and former summer home of Jacob van Lennep in Heemstede, the Netherlands; bordered by the Leidsevaart canal, the Manpadslaan, and the Herenweg. It neighbors the estate of Hartekamp, famed for the gardens described by Linnaeus. Both estates still have trees and other flora dating from that period.
Norman Willem van Lennep was a Dutch chess master.
The Little Blonde Death is a 1993 Dutch film directed by Jean van de Velde. The film was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Kinkerbuurt is the neighborhood in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Along with the Overtoombuurt, it is part of the neighborhood of Oud-West in the borough of Amsterdam-West. It was built at the beginning of the twentieth century when Amsterdam was being expanded. Kinkerstraat, the area's main shopping street, was named after Dutch poet and lawyer Johannes Kinker.
Frans Pietersz de Grebber was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Jonkheer Christiaan van Lennep was a Dutch tennis player and multiple champion of The Netherlands.
Jhr. Emile (Emiel) van Lennep was a Dutch official, diplomat and Minister of State.
Jonkheer Roelof van Lennep was a Dutch male tennis player. He competed for the Netherlands in the tennis event at the 1908 Summer Olympics where he took part in the men's singles and men's doubles competitions.
Catharina Julia Roeters van Lennep (1813–1883) was a Dutch artist.
A national liberation skirt or national celebration skirt is a style of skirt, handmade of patchwork and embroidery, in celebration of Dutch Liberation Day on 5 May 1945. The style was invented by resistance fighter and feminist Mies Boissevain-van Lennep. The feestrok has been described as "a female mode of political expression ... [which] explicitly linked gender to the reconstruction of a ravaged country and the general striving for 'breakthrough' and social renewal."
Mary E. Van Lennep was an American missionary, school founder, and memoirist. Accompanying her husband to Asia Minor, she established a school for Armenian girls in Constantinople, Turkey. Her religious writings were contained in a journal which she commenced in January 1841 and closed in June 1843, just before leaving home; the unpublished manuscript was found after her death. Other journals followed at various times in Van Lennep's life. Her mother published Memoir of Mrs. Mary E. Van Lennep : only daughter of the Rev. Joel Hawes, D.D. and wife of the Rev. Henry J. Van Lennep, Missionary in Turkey posthumously in 1847.
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