Dorus
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People
- Dorus de VriesDorus de VriesDorus de Vries is a Dutch football goalkeeper signed to English Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers.De Vries began his professional career in his native Holland with Telstar, before spending three seasons with ADO Den Haag. He moved to Britain in 2006, when he spent a season at Scottish...
, Dutch footballer - Dorus RijkersDorus RijkersTheodorus "Dorus" Rijkers was a famous Dutch lifeboat captain and folk hero, most famous for his sea rescues of 487 shipwrecked victims over a total of 38 rescue operations, and at least 25 before joining the lifeboat-service....
, Dutch lifeboat captain - Stage name of Dutch comedian Tom MandersTom MandersAntoon Manders was a Dutch artist, comedian and cabaret performer. In later role, he became better known as Dorus.-Biography:Although his birth was officially recorded as having happened on October 24, he was actually born on the 23...
Greek mythology
- Dorus, son of HellenHellenHellen , the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, brother of Amphictyon and father of Aeolus, Xuthus, and Dorus. His name is also another name for Greek, meaning a person of Greek descent or pertaining to Greek culture, and the source of the adjective "Hellenic".Each of his sons founded a primary tribe of...
and founder of the Dorian nation - Dorus, son of ApolloApolloApollo is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in Greek and Roman mythology...
and Phthia, and the father of Xanthippe - Dorus, son of XuthusXuthusIn Greek mythology, Xuthus was a son of Hellen and Orseis and founder of the Achaean and Ionian nations. He had two sons by Creusa: Ion and Achaeus and a daughter named Diomede.- Hesiod :...
and Creusa