Maas
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Maas is the name, in English borrowed from the Dutch language, of a river that is also named Meuse (river), in English borrowed from French language. The practical use in English may be influenced by the context at a lower or upper stream location.
Maas is a Dutch and North German surname. It is the modern (after 1804) northern Dutch spelling of the name Maes due to the standardisation of the northern Dutch spelling under Matthijs Siegenbeek.
MAAS also refers to the "Motor Activity Assessment Scale"
Maas is a Dutch and North German surname. It is the modern (after 1804) northern Dutch spelling of the name Maes due to the standardisation of the northern Dutch spelling under Matthijs Siegenbeek.
MAAS also refers to the "Motor Activity Assessment Scale"
People
- Dick MaasDick MaasDick Maas is Dutch film director, screenwriter, film producer and movie music composer.He achieved national fame after the success of the movies De Lift, Amsterdamned and Flodder.-Shorts:* Adelbert* De overval...
, Dutch film maker - Hermann MaasHermann MaasHermann Maas was a Protestant minister, a doctor of theology and named one of the Righteous Among the Nations, a title given by the Israeli organization for study and remembrance of the Holocaust - Yad Vashem, for people who helped save the lives of Jews during the Holocaust without seeking to...
, German pastor and opponent of Nazism - James MaasJames MaasJames Maas is an American social psychologist, professor at Cornell University, and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow. He is best known for his work in the field of sleep research, specifically the relationship between sleep and performance. He coined the term "power nap" and wrote the...
, American social psychologist, Professor at Cornell University, and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow - Johannes MaasJohannes MaasJohannes "Jan" Leonardus Maas was a Dutch racing cyclist who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics and in the 1928 Summer Olympics....
, Dutch racing cyclist - Kevin MaasKevin MaasKevin Christian Maas is a former Major League Baseball player. He was drafted by the New York Yankees in the 22nd round of the 1986 draft after attending the University Of California. He made his major league debut for Yankees on June 29, 1990 when they called him up from the Columbus Clippers...
(born 1965), American former major league baseball player - Melvin MaasMelvin MaasMelvin Joseph Maas was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota.-Biography:Melvin Joseph Maas was born in Duluth, Minnesota, May 14, 1898. He moved with his parents to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1898. Educated in the public schools, he graduated from St. Thomas College at St. Paul in 1919 and also...
(1898–1964), American Marine aviator and politician from Minnesota - Paulus Johannes Maria MaasPaulus Johannes Maria MaasPaulus Johannes Maria Maas is a botanist from the Netherlands and a specialist in the flora of the neotropics. Maas has identified and named about two hundred fifty plants from the Burmanniaceae, the Costus Family , the Gentian Family , the Bloodwort Family , the Banana Family , the Olacaceae, the...
(born 1939), Dutch botanist and a specialist in the flora of the neotropics - Peter MaasPeter MaasPeter Maas was an American journalist and author. He was born in New York City and attended Duke University. Maas had Dutch and Irish heritage....
(1929–2001), American journalist and author - Rupert MaasRupert MaasRupert Maas is an English painting specialist and gallery owner.-Biography:He was born in 1960, the same year that his father Jeremy started the Maas Gallery in Mayfair, London, dealing in Pre-Raphaelite paintings. He was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset 1974 –1978, and took a ‘Desmond’ in...
, art gallery owner and expert on the television programme "Antiques Roadshow" - Timo MaasTimo MaasTimo Maas is an electronic music DJ/producer and remixer.-Career:Maas bought his first set of turntables at the age of 17, and played his very first DJ set in 1982 at a party in his friend's home...
, German DJ - Willard MaasWillard MaasWillard Maas was an American experimental filmmaker and poet.-Personal life and career:He was the husband of filmmaker Marie Menken...
(1906–1971), American experimental filmmaker and poet - Ernest MaasErnest MaasErnest Maas was a silent-era screenwriter.Maas first worked on silent films in 1920 when he created the scenario for Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge, a pro-League of Nations film in the aftermath of World War I. He also was the first to film the almost unbelievable crush of commuters during the rush...
, (1892–1986), was a silent-era screenwriter - Frederica Sagor MaasFrederica Sagor MaasFrederica Alexandrina Sagor Maas is an American playwright, screenwriter, memoirist and author, the youngest daughter of Russian immigrants. Maas is best known for a detailed, tell-all memoir of her time spent in early Hollywood. She is one of the rare supercentenarians known for reasons other...
(born 1900), playwright