Flemming
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Flemming is a surname and a male given name referring, like the more common Fleming, to an inhabitant (or descendant thereof) of Flanders
, a region overlapping parts of modern Belgium
, France
, and the Netherlands
.
Notable individuals with the surname include:
People with the given name Flemming include:
Flanders
Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...
, a region overlapping parts of modern Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, and the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
.
Notable individuals with the surname include:
- Arthur FlemmingArthur FlemmingArthur Sherwood Flemming was United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare between 1958 to 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Flemming was an important force in the shaping of Social Security policy for more than four decades. He also served as president of the University of...
- Brian FlemmingBrian FlemmingBrian Flemming is an American film director and playwright.- Early career :Flemming was born and raised in California's San Fernando Valley, and studied English at the University of California, Irvine, graduating in 1998...
- Dave FlemmingDave FlemmingDavid Braxton "Dave" Flemming is an American sportscaster and television personality, currently working as a play-by-play announcer for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball as well as the Stanford Cardinal football and basketball teams.Flemming grew up in Alexandria, Virginia,...
- Eric Flemming, actor, "Gil Favor" in Rawhide (TV series)Rawhide (TV series)Rawhide is an American Western series that aired for eight seasons on the CBS network on Friday nights, from January 9, 1959 to September 3, 1965, before moving to Tuesday nights from September 14, 1965 until January 4, 1966, with a total of 217 black-and-white episodes...
- Georg Detlev von FlemmingGeorg Detlev von FlemmingGeorg Detlev von Flemming was a Polish-Saxon Artillery General in 1738, Grand Treasurer of Lithuania in 1746–1764 and voivode of Pomerelia in 1766....
(1699–1771), Saxon-Polish general - Heino Heinrich Graf von FlemmingHeino Heinrich Graf von FlemmingHeino Heinrich Reichsgraf von Flemming was a Saxon, later Brandenburger army leader and Field Marshal and Governor of Berlin....
(1632–1706), Saxon and Brandenburg Field Marshal - Hugh John FlemmingHugh John FlemmingHugh John Flemming, PC was a politician and the 24th Premier of New Brunswick.He is always known as "Hugh John"...
- James Kidd FlemmingJames Kidd FlemmingJames Kidd Flemming was a businessman and politician in New Brunswick, Canada.Flemming was a school teacher and lumberman before entering politics and serving as Provincial Secretary-Treasurer from 1908 to 1911 and Minister of Lands and Mines from 1911-1914. He succeeded Douglas Hazen as the...
- Jane FlemmingJane FlemmingJane Christina Flemming is a former Australian Olympic track and field athlete. She completed her HSC in 1982 at Mater Christi College, Belgrave...
- John FlemmingJohn FlemmingJohn Stanton Flemming CBE FBA was an economist and Warden of Wadham College, Oxford....
(1941–2003), English economist - Kate Flemming
- Thomas FlemmingThomas FlemmingThomas Flemming is a former freestyle swimmer from East Germany, who competed for his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics....
- Walther FlemmingWalther FlemmingWalther Flemming was a German biologist and a founder of cytogenetics.He was born in Sachsenberg near Schwerin as the fifth child and only son of the psychiatrist Carl Friedrich Flemming and his second wife, Auguste Winter...
, biologist
People with the given name Flemming include:
- Flemming ChristensenFlemming ChristensenFlemming Christensen is a Danish former football player and former manager of Danish 1st Division club AB. In his active career, Christensen played for Danish clubs AB and Lyngby BK, as well as French club AS Saint-Etienne and FC Aarau from Switzerland...
, Danish footballer - Flemming FlindtFlemming FlindtFlemming Flindt was a Danish choreographer born in Copenhagen. He studied at the Royal Danish Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet schools, joined the Royal Danish Ballet and was promoted to soloist in 1955...
, Danish choreographer - Flemming Hansen (disambiguation), multiple people
- Flemming PovlsenFlemming PovlsenFlemming Søgaard Povlsen is a Danish former professional football player who most notably played as a striker for Borussia Dortmund in Germany.-Career:...
, Danish footballer - Flemming RasmussenFlemming RasmussenFlemming Rasmussen is a Danish engineer, producer, mixer and owner and founder of Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark.-Biography:...
, Danish producer - Flemming ØstergaardFlemming ØstergaardFlemming Ammentorp Østergaard is a retired businessman, best known as long-time chairman of Parken Sport & Entertainment, who owns the football club F.C. Copenhagen...
, Danish business man