Bakker
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Bakker is a Norwegian
, Swedish
, Danish
, or Dutch
surname and may refer to:
Norwegian language
Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...
, Swedish
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
, Danish
Danish language
Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...
, or Dutch
Dutch language
Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
surname and may refer to:
- Cornelis Jan Bakker, nuclear physicist, Director-General of CERNCERNThe European Organization for Nuclear Research , known as CERN , is an international organization whose purpose is to operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory, which is situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border...
in 1955–1960 - Donald BakkerDonald BakkerDonald Michel Bakker is a Canadian from Penticton who made headlines when he was the first person to be tried in Canada for child prostitution crimes committed in another country...
, Canadian convicted of sex tourism - Glenys BakkerGlenys BakkerGlenys Bakker is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta.Bakker played second for Shannon Kleibrink's bronze medal winning team at the 2006 Winter Olympics....
(born 1962), Canadian curler - Jay BakkerJay BakkerJamie Charles Bakker is an American Christian pastor and the son of Jim Bakker and the late Tammy Faye Bakker Messner. He ministers to Revolution Church, a church he founded in 1994 in Phoenix, Arizona with Kelli Miller and Mike Wall...
(born 1975), American pastor and founder of Revolution Church, son of Jim and Tammy Faye - Jim BakkerJim BakkerJames Orsen "Jim" Bakker is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister, and a former host of The PTL Club, a popular evangelical Christian television program.A sex scandal led to his resignation from the ministry...
(born 1939), American televangelist - Lori BakkerLori BakkerLori Graham Bakker is the second wife of televangelist Jim Bakker. She was born Lori Beth Graham .Lori is the author of More Than I Could Ever Ask ....
, wife of Jim Bakker - Paul-Jan BakkerPaul-Jan BakkerPaul-Jan Bakker is a former Dutch cricketer. Bakker was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler.-International career:Bakker made his ICC Trophy debut in 1986, taking 5/18 against Papua New Guinea...
(born 1957), Dutch cricketer - Tammy FayeTammy FayeTamara Faye LaValley Bakker Messner was an American Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, author, talk show host, and television personality. She was married to televangelist, and later convicted felon, Jim Bakker . She co-hosted with him on The PTL Club...
(1942-2007), famous as Tammy Faye Bakker, former wife of Jim Bakker - Robert T. BakkerRobert T. BakkerRobert T. Bakker is an American paleontologist who helped reshape modern theories about dinosaurs, particularly by adding support to the theory that some dinosaurs were endothermic...
(born 1945), American paleontologist - R. Scott BakkerR. Scott BakkerRichard Scott Bakker is a Canadian fantasy author. He grew up on a tobacco farm in the Simcoe area. In 1986 he attended the University of Western Ontario to pursue a degree in Literature and later an MA in Theory and Criticism...
(born 1967), Canadian fantasy author - Thiemo de BakkerThiemo de BakkerThiemo de Bakker is a Dutch tennis player, who is currently ranked 99th in the world, and is the second ranked Dutch tennis player...
(born 1988), Dutch Junior tennis player