title: Cranendonck
text: # Cranendonck
  
  Cranendonck (pronounced (listen)) is a municipality in the southern Netherlands. Though located in North Brabant near Eindhoven, the spoken dialect is Budels (linguistically a West Limburgish dialect), rather than Kempenlands (linguistically an East Brabantian dialect).
  
  ## Population centres
  
  * Budel
  * Budel-Dorplein
  * Budel-Schoot
  * Gastel
  * Heikant, Gastel
  * Maarheeze
  * Soerendonk
  
  ### Topography
  
  Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Cranendonck, June 2015
  
  ## Notable people
  
  * Antonius Mathijsen (1805 in Budel – 1878) a Dutch army surgeon who first used plaster of Paris
  * Hans Teeuwen (born 1967 in Budel) a Dutch comedian, musician, actor and occasional filmmaker
  * Sylvia Hoeks (born 1983 in Maarheeze) a Dutch actress and former model
  
  ### Sport
  
  * Toine van Mierlo (born 1957 in Soerendonk) a retired Dutch footballer with 230 club caps
  * Craig Osaikhwuwuomwan (born 1990 in Budel) a Dutch professional basketball player
  * Yvon Beliën (born 1993 in Budel) is a Dutch volleyball player, helped the Netherlands reach their first Olympic semifinals at the 2016 Summer Olympics
  
  ## Gallery
  
  * Achterzijde van 'Kasteel' Cranendonck te Soerendonk
  * Budel - Kerkstraat, Vrouw Visitatie kerk
  * Maarheeze - Kerkstraat - Woonhuis
  * Zinkfabriek Budel
  