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Dutch people who are famous or notable include:

Architecture

  • Jaap Bakema (1914–1981)
  • Hendrik Petrus Berlage
    Hendrik Petrus Berlage
    thumb|120px|left|BerlageHendrik Petrus Berlage, Amsterdam, 21 February 1856 — The Hague 12 August 1934, was a prominent Dutch architect.-Overview:...

     (1856–1934)
  • Jo van den Broek (1898–1978)
  • Pierre Cuypers
    Pierre Cuypers
    Petrus Josephus Hubertus Cuypers was a Dutch architect. His name is most frequently associated with the Amsterdam Central Station and the Rijksmuseum , both in Amsterdam. More representative for his oeuvre, however, are numerous churches, of which he designed more than 100...

     (1827–1921)
  • Willem Marinus Dudok
    Willem Marinus Dudok
    Willem Marinus Dudok , was a Dutch modernist architect, best known for the brick Hilversum City Hall....

     (1884–1974)
  • Aldo van Eyck
    Aldo van Eyck
    Aldo van Eyck or van Eijk was an architect from the Netherlands.-Family:...

     (1918–1999)
  • Rem Koolhaas
    Rem Koolhaas
    Remment Lucas Koolhaas is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA. Koolhaas studied at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam, at the Architectural...

     (born 1944)
  • Jacobus Oud
    Jacobus Oud
    Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud, commonly called J. J. P. Oud was a Dutch architect. His fame began as a follower of the De Stijl movement....

     (1890–1963)
  • Gerrit Rietveld
    Gerrit Rietveld
    Gerrit Thomas Rietveld was a Dutch furniture designer and architect. One of the principal members of the Dutch artistic movement called De Stijl, Rietveld is famous for his Red and Blue Chair and for the Rietveld Schröder House, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.-Biography:Rietveld was born in...

     (1888–1964)


Film

  • Willeke van Ammelrooy
    Willeke van Ammelrooy
    Willy Geertje van Ammelrooij , better known as Willeke van Ammelrooy, is a Dutch actress and director. She was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands....

     (born 1944), actress
  • Jan de Bont
    Jan de Bont
    Jan de Bont is a Dutch cinematographer, producer, and film director.-Early life and career:De Bont was born, one of 17 children, to a Roman Catholic family in Eindhoven, Netherlands. His earliest work after studying at the Amsterdam Film Academy was with the Dutch avant garde director Adriaan...

     (born 1943), cinematographer (Speed
    Speed (film)
    Speed is a 1994 American action-thriller film directed by Jan de Bont, and set in Los Angeles. LAPD officer Jack Traven becomes the focus of a bomber and extortionist, retired Atlanta bomb squad sergeant, Howard Payne...

    )
  • Rene Daalder
    Rene Daalder
    Rene Daalder is a Dutch writer and director. He lives in Los Angeles...

     (born 1944), director
  • Bracha van Doesburgh
    Bracha van Doesburgh
    Bracha Semeyns de Vries van Doesburgh is a Dutch actress. She is well known for her film roles in Vet Hard, Het Schnitzelparadijs and Dick Maas's Moordwijven...

     (born 1981), actress
  • Bobbi Eden
    Bobbi Eden
    Bobbi Eden is a Dutch pornographic actress and international magazine model.Eden was the runner-up for the Dutch Penthouse Pet of the Year. She had also modeled for magazines including Club, Men Only, and Soho.She appeared with Dutch DJ Ferry Corsten in the video for his single "Watch Out"...

     (born 1980), porn actress
  • Laura Gemser
    Laura Gemser
    Laurette Marcia "Laura" Gemser is a Dutch-based actress of Indo descent, now Italian citizen. She is known for her work with director Joe D'Amato and Bruno Mattei, in particular, for doing a set of exploitation-style and Black Emanuelle films.Gemser has also been credited as Moira Chen, most...

     (born 1950), porn actress
  • Rutger Hauer (born 1944), actor
  • Johannes Heesters
    Johannes Heesters
    Johan Marius Nicolaas "Johannes" Heesters is a Dutch actor, singer and entertainer with a -year career, almost exclusively in the German-speaking world. In Germany and Austria, Heesters is mainly known for his acting career...

     (born 1903), actor
  • Deidre Holland
    Deidre Holland
    Deidre Holland is a Dutch porn star and member of the AVN Hall of Fame.She was once married to porn star Jon Dough, and has been a contract performer with Vivid Entertainment.- Awards :...

     (born 1966), porn actress
  • Carice van Houten (born 1976), actress
  • Famke Janssen
    Famke Janssen
    Famke Beumer Janssen is a Dutch actress and former fashion model. She is known for playing the villainous Bond girl Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye and Jean Grey/Phoenix in the X-Men film series .- Early life and education :...

     (born 1965), actress
  • Vincent van Ommen
    Vincent van Ommen
    Vincent van Ommen is a Dutch actor who stars in English language films. He was born and raised in The Hague, The Netherlands.-Film career:Van Ommen studied drama at De Trap, a private school for acting in Amsterdam, where he was trained to become a professional actor, after that he took an intense...

     (born 1982), actor
  • Jeroen Krabbé
    Jeroen Krabbé
    Jeroen Aart Krabbé is a Dutch actor and film director who has appeared in many Dutch and international films.-Biography:...

     (born 1944), actor,
  • Sylvia Kristel
    Sylvia Kristel
    Sylvia Kristel is a Dutch actress, model and singer. Her most famous role is in the French film Emmanuelle.- Early life :...

     (born 1952), actress
  • Anneliese van der Pol
    Anneliese van der Pol
    Anneliese Louise van der Pol is a Dutch-American actress and singer. After an early career in musical theatre, she was cast as Chelsea Daniels in the Disney Channel Original Series That's So Raven, a role that gained her renown among young audiences. Van der Pol also has a career as a singer and...

     (born 1984), actress
  • Renée Soutendijk
    Renée Soutendijk
    Renette Pauline Soutendijk, known as Renée Soutendijk, is a Dutch actress. She was a favorite star of director Paul Verhoeven's films and is perhaps best known for her work in his 1980 release Spetters. Her good looks and striking blond hair secured her status as a Dutch sex symbol in the 1980s...

     (born 1957), actress
  • Johanna ter Steege
    Johanna ter Steege
    Johanna ter Steege is a Dutch actress.She won the European Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her movie debut in The Vanishing...

     (born 1961), actress
  • Monique van de Ven
    Monique van de Ven
    Monica Maria Theresia "Monique" van de Ven is a Dutch actress and director.From 1973 until 1988 she was married to Dutch cinematographer and director Jan de Bont, with whom she lived in Los Angeles for a number of years. She is now married to actor and writer Edwin de Vries.Her film debut as an...

     (born 1952), actress
  • Paul Verhoeven (born 1938), director
  • Zara Whites
    Zara Whites
    Zara Whites is a Dutch former pornographic actress.In 1989 she moved to Italy, performing as a ragazza cin cin . She was also photographed for magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse and appeared in a Hustler magazine layout in April 1991...

     (born 1968), porn actress
  • Michaël Dudok de Wit
    Michaël Dudok De Wit
    Michael Dudok de Wit is an animator, director and illustrator. In 1978, he graduated from the West Surrey College of Art with his first film The Interview. After working for a year in Barcelona, he settled in London where he directs and animates award-winning commercials for television and cinema...

     (born 1953), animator, director (Father and Daughter
    Father and Daughter (film)
    Father and Daughter is a 2000 Dutch animated short film, made by Michaël Dudok De Wit. It won the 2000 Academy Award for Animated Short Film....

    )
  • Paul Driessen
    Paul Driessen
    Paul Driessen may refer to:*Paul Driessen , American author and lobbyist*Paul Driessen Dutch film director, animator and writer...

     (born 1940), animator, director


Music

  • André Rieu
    André Rieu
    André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu is a Dutch violinist, conductor, and composer best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra.- Early life and studies :...

     (born 1949), violinist, conductor, and composer
  • Thomas Acda
    Thomas Acda
    Thomas Acda is a Dutch actor, comedian, and singer, known as member of the duo Acda en De Munnik.Acda grew up in De Rijp and after graduating high school at havo level, Acda started the theater school, but soon switched to the Kleinkunstacademie in Amsterdam. There he first met Paul de Munnik...

     (born 1967), singer, actor
  • Sharon Den Adel
    Sharon den Adel
    Sharon Janny den Adel is a Dutch singer and composer, best known as the lead vocalist and one of the main songwriters in the Dutch symphonic metal/rock band Within Temptation...

    , singer of Within Temptation
  • Jan Akkerman
    Jan Akkerman
    Jan Akkerman is a Dutch guitarist. Akkerman is a distinctive guitarist, constantly experimenting with new equipment and guitars. Akkerman's distinctive guitar sound is characterised by his pioneering use of volume swells which produce a smooth, fluty, sustained tone, and other complex techniques...

    , guitar player
  • Amber
    Amber (performer)
    Marie-Claire "Amber" Cremers is a Dutch-German singer, songwriter, label owner and executive producer. She is best known for her hits "This Is Your Night," "If You Could Read My Mind," and "Sexual ."-Career:Amber's music career took off when one of her demos, "This Is Your Night" gained interest...

    , singer
  • Elly Ameling
    Elly Ameling
    Elisabeth Sara "Elly" Ameling is a Dutch soprano.-Career:Ameling was born in Rotterdam. She studied with Bodi Rapp, Jo Bollekamp, Sem Dresden and Jacoba Dresden-Dhont and later French art song with Pierre Bernac...

    , singer classical music
  • Louis Andriessen
    Louis Andriessen
    Louis Andriessen is a Dutch composer and pianist based in Amsterdam. He teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague...

     (born 1939), composer
  • Dick Annegarn
    Dick Annegarn
    Dick Annegarn is a Dutch rock singer-songwriter who sings mostly in French, although on occasion Dutch and English...

     (born 1952), singer, musician
  • Anouk, singer
  • Bart Berman
    Bart Berman
    Bart Berman is a Dutch-Israeli pianist and composer, best known as an interpreter of Franz Schubert and 20th century music....

    , pianist, composer
  • Marco Borsato
    Marco Borsato
    Marco Borsato is a Dutch singer. He started performing in Italian before switching to Dutch in 1994. He is married to Leontine Ruiters and has three children.-Biography:...

     (born 1966), singer
  • Willem Breuker
    Willem Breuker
    Willem Breuker was a Dutch jazz bandleader, composer, arranger, saxophonist, and bass clarinetist....

     (1944–2010), jazz
    Jazz
    Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

     musician
  • Herman Brood
    Herman Brood
    Hermanus "Herman" Brood was a Dutch musician, painter and media personality. Initially a musician who achieved artistic and commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, and called "the Netherlands' greatest and only rock 'n' roll star," later in life he became a well-known painter.Known for his...

     (1946–2001), rock musician and artist
  • Theo Bruins
    Theo Bruins
    Theo Bruins was a Dutch pianist and composer.Bruins' earliest piano lessons were with his mother. His professional piano studies commenced in 1946 with Jaap Spaanderman at the Conservatoire of the Amsterdam Muzieklyceum Foundation...

    , pianist, composer
  • Armin van Buuren, popular Trance DJ
  • Gerard Cornielje
    Gerard Cornielje
    Gerard Cornielje is a saxophonist, singer and poet. Cornielje is also known for his studies and publications regarding transformational-generative grammar....

     (born 1962), jazz
    Jazz
    Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

     musician and poet
  • Ferry Corsten
    Ferry Corsten
    Ferry Corsten, also known under the alias System F, is a Dutch producer of trance music, in addition to being a DJ and remixer. He also hosts his own weekly radio show, Corsten's Countdown. He routinely plays at events all over the world with crowds in excess of tens of thousands. In 2009 Ferry...

    , popular Trance DJ
  • Esmée Denters
    Esmée Denters
    Esmée Denters is a Dutch singer-songwriter. She was a regular cover-artist on video-sharing website YouTube on which she covered songs by contemporary musicians like Justin Timberlake and Natasha Bedingfield....

    , singer, made famous through YouTube
  • Cristina Deutekom
    Cristina Deutekom
    Cristina Deutekom is a Dutch opera singer. Renowned for her coloratura technique, she is also known as Christine Deutekom and Christina Deutekom....

    , singer classical music
  • Alphons Diepenbrock
    Alphons Diepenbrock
    Alphonsus Johannes Maria Diepenbrock was a Dutch composer, essayist and classicist.-Life and work:...

    , composer
  • Anita Doth, singer
  • Candy Dulfer
    Candy Dulfer
    Candy Dulfer is a Dutch smooth jazz alto saxophonist who began playing at the age of six. She founded her band, Funky Stuff, when she was fourteen years old. Her debut album Saxuality received a Grammy Award nomination. Dulfer has released nine studio albums, two live albums, and one compilation...

    , saxophone player
  • Margriet Ehlen
    Margriet Ehlen
    Margriet Ehlen is a Dutch poet and a composer, conductor and educator of classical music.-Life and career:She has composed for a large variety of instruments, yet is particularly active in composition for voice. These works extend from solo vocalists to choir music. Many of her compositions for...

     (born 1943), composer
  • Caro Emerald
    Caro Emerald
    Caroline Esmeralda van der Leeuw , better known by her stagename Caro Emerald, is a Dutch jazz singer. She debuted on 6 July 2009 with her single "Back It Up"...

    , singer
  • Tess Gaerthé
    Tess Gaerthé
    Tess Gaerthé , betterknown as just Tess, was the Dutch representative at the 3rd Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2005...

     (born 1991), actress and singer
  • Jan van Gilse
    Jan van Gilse
    Jan Pieter Hendrik van Gilse was a Dutch composer and conductor. Among his works are five symphonies and the Dutch-language opera Thijl.-Life:...

     (1881–1944), composer
  • Boudewijn de Groot
    Boudewijn de Groot
    Boudewijn de Groot is a famous Dutch singer/songwriter. He is known for the songs "Welterusten Meneer de President" , "Land van Maas en Waal" , "Jimmy" and "Avond" among others...

     (born 1944), singer, actor
  • Stephen van Haestregt
    Stephen van Haestregt
    Stephen van Haestregt is a Dutch drummer, best known as the drummer of the Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation....

    , drummer of Within Temptation
  • Alex Van Halen
    Alex Van Halen
    Alexander Arthur "Alex" Van Halen is a Dutch-born American musician, best known as the drummer and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen. Originally, his brother Eddie had taken lessons for drums, while Alex practiced guitar...

    , drummer of Van Halen
  • Eddie Van Halen
    Eddie Van Halen
    Edward Lodewijk "Eddie" Van Halen is a Dutch-American guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter and producer, best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...

    , guitarist of Van Halen
  • Barry Hay
    Barry Hay
    Barry Andrew Hay is the vocalist/frontman for Dutch rock band Golden Earring.-Biography:Hay was born in Faizabad, India, and moved to the Netherlands at the age of eight. He lived in Amsterdam and later in The Hague. In the summer of 1967, he joined the Golden Earrings, as they were then called,...

     (1948–), singer of Golden Earring
    Golden Earring
    Golden Earring are a Dutch rock band, founded in 1961 in The Hague as the Golden Earrings . They had international chart success with the songs "Radar Love" in 1973, "Twilight Zone" in 1982, and "When the Lady Smiles" in 1984. In their home country, they had over 40 hits and made over 30 gold and...

  • Bernard Haitink
    Bernard Haitink
    Bernard Johan Herman Haitink, CH, KBE is a Dutch conductor and violinist.- Early life :Haitink was born in Amsterdam, the son of Willem Haitink and Anna Haitink. He studied music at the conservatoire in Amsterdam...

    , conductor Concertgebouworkest
  • André Hazes
    André Hazes
    André Gerardus Hazes was a Dutch singer in a genre called levenslied which is a form of emotional folk music about everyday life sung in the Dutch language. André Hazes was one of the most successful singers in this genre...

     (1951–2004), singer
  • Ilse Huizinga
    Ilse Huizinga
    Ilse Huizinga is a Dutch jazz singer. She performs throughout Europe.-History:Ilse Huizinga was born in Beverwijk, the Netherlands in October 1966 and grew up in Nijmegen. It was an old piano given to her family at the age of six, which first drew Huizinga to music...

     (born 1966), jazz singer
  • Dominique van Hulst
    Dominique van Hulst
    Dominique Rijpma van Hulst is a Dutch singer known by her stage name Do . She is best known for singing the vocals of DJ Sammy's worldwide top 10 hit in 2002-2003, "Heaven", a cover of the 1980s hit by Bryan Adams....

    , singer, popularly known as Do
  • Janine Jansen
    Janine Jansen
    Janine Jansen is a violinist. She began to study the violin at age 6. Her father and both her brothers are also musicians. Her mother is a classical singer and is a sister of the bass Peter Kooy...

    , violinist
  • Ruud Jolie, guitarist of Within Temptation
  • Tim Kliphuis
    Tim Kliphuis
    Tim Kliphuis is a Dutch violinist.He first became known in 1999 when he joined Belgian gypsy guitarist, Fapy Lafertin...

    , jazz violinist
  • Peter Koelewijn
    Peter Koelewijn
    Peter Koelewijn is a founding father of Dutch language rock and roll. Koelewijn is also a successful producer and songwriter for other Dutch artists. His most famous song is Kom van dat dak af .Peter Koelewijn was born on the 29 December, the son of a fishmonger in the southern Dutch city of...

     (born 1940) founder of Dutch Rock & Roll
  • Arjen Anthony Lucassen
    Arjen Anthony Lucassen
    Arjen Anthony "Oswold Jr." Lucassen is a progressive metal/rock composer, singer and musician from the Netherlands, best known for his long-running progressive opera project titled Ayreon....

    , composer and musician
  • Willem Mengelberg
    Willem Mengelberg
    Joseph Willem Mengelberg was a Dutch conductor, famous for his performances of Mahler and Strauss with the Concertgebouw Orchestra.- Biography :...

     (1871–1951), conductor
  • Gwendolyn Masin
    Gwendolyn Masin
    -Early Biography:Born in Amsterdam, Gwendolyn Masin is the descendant of a long line of professional musicians from Central and Eastern Europe.Masin began to play the piano at the age of 3. She took up the violin at the age of 5 and within her initial year of schooling, gave her first public...

     (born 1977), violinist, author, pedagogue, founder of GAIA Chamber Music Festival
  • Rogier van Otterloo
    Rogier van Otterloo
    Willem Rogier van Otterloo was a Dutch composer and conductor.-Biography:Van Otterloo was the eldest son of the conductor Willem van Otterloo. He composed several soundtracks for Dutch films and in 1980 became conductor of the Metropole Orkest for jazz music in Amsterdam...

    , composer
  • Willem van Otterloo
    Willem van Otterloo
    Jan Willem van Otterloo was a Dutch conductor, cellist and composer.-Biography:Van Otterloo was born in Winterswijk, Gelderland, in the Netherlands, the son of William Frederik van Otterloo, a railway inspector, and his wife Anna Catharina Enderlé...

     (1907–1978), composer
  • Willem Pijper
    Willem Pijper
    Willem Pijper ; Zeist, 8 September 1894 - Utrecht, 18 March 1947) was a Dutch composer, music critic and music teacher.-Life:Pijper was born at Zeist, near Utrecht, on 8 September 1894 of strict Calvinist working-class parents. His father, who sometimes played psalm accompaniments on the harmonium,...

    , composer
  • Abbie de Quant
    Abbie de Quant
    Abbie de Quant is a renowned Dutch flautist. She teaches at the music academies of Amsterdam and Utrecht and has her own bi-annual concert series at the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam....

    , flautist
  • Julius Röntgen
    Julius Röntgen
    Julius Engelbert Röntgen was a German-Dutch composer of classical music.-Life:Julius Röntgen was born in Leipzig, Germany, to a family of musicians. His father, Engelbert Röntgen, was first violinist in the Gewandhaus orchestra in Leipzig; his mother, Pauline Klengel, was a pianist, the aunt of...

     (1855–1932), composer
  • Marc van Roon
    Marc van Roon
    Marc van Roon is a Dutch jazz pianist. He combines music performance with his work as a creative facilitator for leaders, groups and organizations in change and learning processes applying the art of improvisation as the main source of inspiration...

     (born 1967), jazz pianist, co-founder Art in Rhythm
  • Simone Simons
    Simone Simons
    Simone Johanna Maria Simons is a Dutch coloratura mezzo-soprano singer who is the lead vocalist of symphonic metal band Epica.-Biography:...

    , vocalist of Epica
  • Peter Slaghuis
    Peter Slaghuis
    Peter Slaghuis was a Dutch DJ, producer and remixer, whose work was mostly released under the name Hithouse ....

     (1960–1991), disc jockey
  • Ray Slijngaard
    Ray Slijngaard
    Ray Slijngaard was a member of the original line-up of the Dutch techno-dance band, 2 Unlimited, along with vocalist Anita Doth, and producers, Jean-Paul De Coster and Phil Wilde...

    , singer and disc jockey
  • Ramses Shaffy
    Ramses Shaffy
    Ramses Shaffy was a Dutch singer and actor. He became popular during the 1960s. His most famous songs include Zing, vecht, huil, bid, lach, werk en bewonder , We zullen doorgaan , Pastorale, Sammy and Laat me...

     (1933–2009), singer
  • Jaap Spaanderman
    Jaap Spaanderman
    Jacobus Hendrikus Bastiaan Spaanderman jr. was a Dutch pianist, cellist, conductor and piano and conducting pedagogue....

    , pianist, cellist, conductor
  • Martijn Spierenburg
    Martijn Spierenburg
    Martijn Spierenburg is the keyboardist for Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation.Spierenburg joined Within Temptation after Martijn Westerholt, Robert Westerholt's brother was diagnosed with infectious mononucleosis shortly after the release of Within Temptation's second full-length studio...

    , keyboardist of Within Temptation
  • Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
    Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
    Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. He was among the first major keyboard composers of Europe, and his work as a teacher helped establish the north German organ...

    , composer and organist
  • Marc van Roon
    Marc van Roon
    Marc van Roon is a Dutch jazz pianist. He combines music performance with his work as a creative facilitator for leaders, groups and organizations in change and learning processes applying the art of improvisation as the main source of inspiration...

    , jazz pianist, facilitator
  • Jelle van Tongeren
    Jelle van Tongeren
    Jelle van Tongeren is a Dutch jazz violinist born in Haarlem, Netherlands. He plays both bebop and swing style. He is a member of Hot club de Frank which is one of the best known bands in the Gypsy jazz style today....

     Jazz violinist
  • Jeroen van Veen
    Jeroen van Veen (bassist)
    Jeroen van Veen is the bassist in the symphonic metal band Within Temptation. Jeroen has been a member of Within Temptation since the band's inception in 1996. Although he is the bassist of the band, Jeroen can also play the drums. He also played in the Grey Foxes an Amsterdam Funk Group...

     (born 1974), bassist with the group Within Temptation
  • Jeroen van Veen
    Jeroen van Veen (pianist)
    Jeroen van Veen is a Dutch classical pianist and composer.-Short biography:Jeroen Van Veen studied at the Utrecht Conservatory with Alwin Bär and Håkon Austbø...

     (born 1969), classical pianist and composer
  • Herman van Veen
    Herman van Veen
    Hermannus Jantinus "Herman" van Veen is a Dutch stage performer, actor, musician and singer/songwriter and author. He is most famous as the creator of the Dutch-Japanese cartoon Alfred J...

     (born 1945), singer, theater performer
  • Matthijs Vermeulen
    Matthijs Vermeulen
    Matthijs Vermeulen , was a Dutch composer and music journalist.- Early life :...

     (1888–1967), composer
  • Matthijs Verschoor
    Matthijs Verschoor
    Matthijs Verschoor is a Dutch classical pianist.He studied at the conservatoires of Rotterdam and Amsterdam and continued his studies in Rome and London. Among his teachers are Bart Berman, Willem Brons and John Bingham....

    , classical pianist
  • Tijs Verwest, DJ (better known as DJ Tiësto)
  • Klaas de Vries
    Klaas de Vries (composer)
    Klaas de Vries is a Dutch composer. De Vries teaches composition at the conservatory of Rotterdam and can be described as influential in the Dutch musical life.-Biography:...

     (born 1944), composer
  • Edo de Waart
    Edo de Waart
    Edo de Waart is a Dutch conductor, and the Music Director of both the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra....

    , conductor
  • Tony Wall
    Tony Wall
    Tony Wall is a retired Irish hurling manager and former player. He played hurling with his local club Thurles Sarsfields and with the Tipperary senior inter-county team from 1953 until 1967...

     (born 1988), guitarist
  • Johan Wagenaar
    Johan Wagenaar
    Johan Wagenaar was a Dutch composer and organist.-Life:Born in Utrecht, out of wedlock, he was the son of Cypriaan Gerard Berger van Hengst and Johanna Wagenaar. Wagenaar's parents were of different social strata: his father was an aristocrat, while his mother was of more humble origins...

     (1862–1941), composer
  • Robert Westerholt
    Robert Westerholt
    Robert Westerholt is a Dutch musician, known as the guitarist, backing vocalist and co-founder of the symphonic metal band Within Temptation. He also writes music for the band, along with the band's vocalist, and his partner, Sharon den Adel...

    , guitarist of Within Temptation
  • Jaap van Zweden
    Jaap van Zweden
    Jaap van Zweden is a Dutch conductor and violinist.-Biography:Van Zweden's father, a pianist, encouraged him to begin violin studies at age five, and he studied music in Amsterdam...

    , violinist and conductor
  • Roel van Velzen, singer
  • Gerard Joling
    Gerard Joling
    Gerard Jan Joling is a Dutch singer and television presenter. Known for his high tenor voice, he rose to fame in the late 80's and released a string of singles including "Ticket to the Tropics", "Love is in your Eyes", and his biggest hit, "No more boleros", a song that reached the top 10 in...

    , singer


Visual arts

  • Pieter van Abeele
    Pieter van Abeele
    Pieter van Abeele was a Dutch medallist and coiner in Amsterdam.Van Abeele was born in Middelburg. He perfected the technique of pressing hollow medals. He created the two sides of the medal separately and combined them with a ring of metal. His works are said to be the best of their time, and...

     (1622–1677), medallist
  • Bernard Accama
    Bernard Accama
    Bernardus Accama was an 18th century Dutch historical and portrait painter, born in Friesland, possibly in Burum, Friesland, the son of Aeltje Boetes Nievelt and Simon Accama the local church minister. He was christened 12 July 1696 at Burum. He worked and died in Leeuwarden.-References:...

     (died 1756), painter
  • Karel Appel
    Karel Appel
    Christiaan Karel Appel was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s...

     (1921–2006), painter
  • Hendrick Avercamp
    Hendrick Avercamp
    Hendrick Avercamp was a Dutch painter.Avercamp was born in Amsterdam, where he studied with the Danish-born portrait painter Pieter Isaacks , and perhaps also with David Vinckboons. In 1608 he moved from Amsterdam to Kampen in the province of Overijssel...

     (1585–1634), painter
  • Ludolf Backhuysen
    Ludolf Backhuysen
    Ludolf Bakhuizen was a German-born Dutch Golden Age painter who was the leading Dutch painter of maritime subjects after the two Willem van de Veldes left for England in 1672....

     (1631–1708), painter
  • Helen Berman
    Helen Berman
    Helen Berman is a Dutch-Israeli visual artist. She was a textile designer in the 1960s and has been a painter and occasionally an art educator since the 1970s. She is well known in Israel and has exhibited also in Germany and the Netherlands...

     (born 1936), painter
  • Hieronymus Bosch (1450–1516), painter
  • Ambrosius Bosschaert
    Ambrosius Bosschaert
    Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder was a still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age.-Biography:He was born in Antwerp, where he started his career, but he spent most of it in Middelburg , where he moved with his family because of the threat of religious persecution...

     (1573–1612), painter
  • Jan de Bray
    Jan de Bray
    Jan de Bray , was a Dutch Golden Age painter.-Biography:Jan de Bray was born in Haarlem. According to Houbraken he was the most famous pupil of his father, the architect and poet Salomon de Bray. Houbraken called Jan the "pearl in Haarlem's crown"...

     (1627–1697), painter
  • Dick Bruna
    Dick Bruna
    Dick Bruna is a Dutch author, artist, illustrator and graphic designer.Bruna is best known for his children's books which he authored and illustrated, now numbering over 200. His best known creation is Miffy , a small rabbit drawn with heavy graphic lines, simple shapes and primary colors...

     (born 1927), graphical artist
  • Paul Citroen
    Paul Citroen
    Roelof Paul Citroen was a German-born Dutch artist, art educator and co-founder of the New Art Academy in Amsterdam. Among his best known works are the photo-montage Metropolis and the 1949 Dutch postage stamps....

     (1896–1983), painter
  • Anton Corbijn
    Anton Corbijn
    Anton Corbijn is a Dutch photographer, music video and film director. He is the creative director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion and sleeve photography for both for more than a decade...

    , photographer
  • Aelbert Cuyp
    Aelbert Cuyp
    Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father Jacob Gerritsz...

     (1620–1691), painter
  • Theo van Doesburg
    Theo van Doesburg
    Theo van Doesburg was a Dutch artist, practicing in painting, writing, poetry and architecture. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl.-Biography:-Early life:...

     (1883–1931), painter
  • Willem Drost
    Willem Drost
    Willem Drost was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker of history paintings and portraits who died young.-Biography:...

     (1630–1680), painter and print maker
  • M. C. Escher
    M. C. Escher
    Maurits Cornelis Escher , usually referred to as M. C. Escher , was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints...

     (1898–1972), graphical artist
  • Vincent van Gogh
    Vincent van Gogh
    Vincent Willem van Gogh , and used Brabant dialect in his writing; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent: , with a voiced V and palatalized G and gh. In France, where much of his work was produced, it is...

     (1853–1890), painter
  • Jan van Goyen (1596–1656), painter
  • Frans Hals
    Frans Hals
    Frans Hals was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art. Hals was also instrumental in the evolution of 17th century group portraiture.-Biography:Hals was born in 1580 or 1581, in Antwerp...

     (1580–1666), painter
  • Pieter de Hooch
    Pieter de Hooch
    Pieter de Hooch was a genre painter during the Dutch Golden Age. He was a contemporary of Dutch Master Jan Vermeer, with whom his work shared themes and style.-Biography:...

     (1629–1684), painter
  • Willem de Kooning
    Willem de Kooning
    Willem de Kooning was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands....

     (1904–1997), painter
  • Han van Meegeren
    Han van Meegeren
    Han van Meegeren , born Henricus Antonius van Meegeren, was a Dutch painter and portraitist, and is considered to be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century....

     (1889–1947), forger of paintings
  • Piet Mondrian
    Piet Mondrian
    Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian , was a Dutch painter.He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. He evolved a non-representational form which he termed Neo-Plasticism...

     (1872–1944), painter
  • Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669), painter
  • Geertgen tot Sint Jans
    Geertgen tot Sint Jans
    Geertgen tot Sint Jans , also known as Geertgen van Haarlem, Gerrit van Haarlem, Gerrit Gerritsz, Gheertgen, Geerrit, Gheerrit, or any other diminutive form of Gerald, was an Early Netherlandish painter from the northern Low Countries in the Holy Roman Empire...

     (active 1465–1495), painter
  • Jan Steen
    Jan Steen
    Jan Havickszoon Steen was a Dutch genre painter of the 17th century . Psychological insight, sense of humour and abundance of colour are marks of his trade.-Life:...

     (1626–1679), painter
  • Thierry Veltman
    Thierry Veltman
    Thierry Veltman is a Dutch painter, sculptor, ceramist and art educator. He focuses in particular on figures and still life....

     (born 1939) painter and sculptor
  • Johannes Vermeer
    Johannes Vermeer
    Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of middle class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime...

     (1632–1675), painter
  • Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman
    Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman
    Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman was a Dutch artist, typographer and printer....

     (1882–1945), typographer and illustrator
  • Jacob de Wit
    Jacob de Wit
    Jacob de Wit was a Dutch artist and interior decorator who painted many religious scenes.-Biography:De Wit was born in Amsterdam, and became famous for his door and ceiling paintings. He lived on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, and many of the buildings on the Keizersgracht still have door or...

     (1695–1754), painter
  • Marten Toonder
    Marten Toonder
    Marten Toonder was a Dutch comic creator, born in Rotterdam. He was probably the most successful comic artist in the Netherlands and had a great influence in the Dutch language by introducing new words and expressions....

     (1912-2007), comic creator


Writing

  • A. C. Baantjer
    A. C. Baantjer
    Albert Cornelis "Appie" Baantjer , often simply known as Baantjer, was a Dutch novelist of detective fiction and a former police officer....

     (born 1923), writer of detective fiction
  • Paul Biegel
    Paul Biegel
    Paul Biegel was a successful and prolific Dutch writer of children's literature.-Biography:...

     (1925–2006), writer of children's books
  • Remco Campert
    Remco Campert
    Remco Campert is a Dutch author, poet and columnist.-Early years:Remco Wouter Campert was born in The Hague, son of writer and poet Jan Campert, author of the poem De achttien dooden, and actress Joekie Broedelet...

    , novelist, poet
  • Jacob Cats
    Jacob Cats
    Jacob Cats was a Dutch poet, humorist, jurist and politician. He is most famous for his emblem books.-Early years:...

    , poet
  • Isabelle de Charrière
    Isabelle de Charrière
    Isabelle de Charrière , known as Belle van Zuylen in the Netherlands and Madame de Charrière elsewhere, is a Dutch writer of the Enlightenment who lived the latter half of her life in Switzerland. She is now best known for her letters although she also wrote novels, pamphlets, music and plays...

    , novelist
  • Anne de Vries
    Anne de Vries
    Anne de Vries was a Dutch teacher and author. In the Netherlands he became particularly famous for his novels. He was married to Alida Gerdina van Wermeskerken, the couple had five children. In 1972, de Vries got national recognition when his novel Bartje was made into a television series by Willy...

    , writer from Drenthe
    Drenthe
    Drenthe is a province of the Netherlands, located in the north-east of the country. The capital city is Assen. It is bordered by Overijssel to the south, Friesland to the west, Groningen to the north, and Germany to the east.-History:Drenthe, unlike many other parts of the Netherlands, has been a...

    , wrote the novel Bartje
  • Geert Groote
    Geert Groote
    Gerard Groote , otherwise Gerrit or Gerhard Groet, in Latin Gerardus Magnus, was a Dutch preacher and founder of the Brethren of the Common Life and a key figure in the Devotio Moderna movement....

  • Arnon Grünberg
    Arnon Grünberg
    Arnon Yasha Yves Grunberg is a Dutch writer. Some of his books were written using the heteronym Marek van der Jagt....

     (born 1971)
  • Hella Haasse
    Hella Haasse
    Hélène "Hella" Serafia Haasse was a Dutch writer, often referred to as "the Grand Old Lady" of Dutch literature, and whose novel Oeroeg was a staple for generations of Dutch schoolchildren. Her internationally acclaimed Magnus opus is "Heren van de Thee", translated to "The Tea Lords"...

    , novelist
  • Jan de Hartog
    Jan de Hartog
    Jan de Hartog was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker.- Early years :...

     (1914–2002), novelist and playwright
  • Herman Heijermans
    Herman Heijermans
    Herman Heijermans , was a Dutch writer.Heijermans grew up in a liberal Jewish family as the fifth of 11 children of Herman Heijermans Sr. and Matilda Moses Spiers...

     (1864–1924)
  • Anne Frank
    Anne Frank
    Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.Born in the city of Frankfurt...

     (1929–1945)
  • Willem Frederik Hermans
    Willem Frederik Hermans
    Willem Frederik Hermans was a Dutch author. He is considered one of the three most important authors in the Netherlands in the postwar period, along with Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve...

    , novelist
  • Xaviera Hollander, writer
  • Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
    Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
    Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft - Knight in the Order of Saint Michael - was a Dutch historian, poet and playwright from the period known as the Dutch Golden Age.-Life:...

     (1581–1647)
  • Constantijn Huygens
    Constantijn Huygens
    Constantijn Huygens , was a Dutch Golden Age poet and composer. He was secretary to two Princes of Orange: Frederick Henry and William II, and the father of the scientist Christiaan Huygens.-Biography:...

  • Gerrit Krol
    Gerrit Krol
    Gerrit Krol is a Dutch author, essayist and writer.Krol studied mathematics and worked with Royal Dutch Shell and some of its operating units as computer programmer and system designer. Krol's debut consisted of poems published in 1961 in various Dutch literary magazins. In 1962 his first book De...

    , novelist, poet
  • Geert Mak
    Geert Mak
    Geert Mak is a Dutch journalist and a non-fiction writer in the field of history. His ten books about Amsterdam, Netherlands and Europe have earned him great popularity. His best-known work, In Europe, a combination of a travelogue through the continent of Europe and a history of the 20th century,...

     (born 1946) writer of historical books
  • Harry Mulisch
    Harry Mulisch
    Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch was a Dutch author. He wrote more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems and philosophical reflections. These have been translated into more than 20 languages....

     (1927-2010), novelist
  • Multatuli
    Multatuli
    Eduard Douwes Dekker , better known by his pen name Multatuli , was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel, Max Havelaar , which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies .-Biography:Dekker was born in Amsterdam...

    , novelist
  • Nescio
    Nescio
    "Nescio", Latin for "I don't know", was the pseudonym of the Dutch writer Jan Hendrik Frederik Grönloh, born June 22, 1882 in Amsterdam and died July 25, 1961 in Hilversum, both in the Netherlands. Grönloh was a businessman by profession; as Nescio he is mainly remembered for the three novellas De...

  • Cees Nooteboom
    Cees Nooteboom
    Cees Nooteboom is a Dutch author. He has won numerous literary awards and has been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature.-Life:...

    , novelist
  • Willem Oltmans
    Willem Oltmans
    Willem Leonard Oltmans was a Dutch investigative journalist and author who did not hesitate to pro-actively intervene in international politics....

     (1925–2004), journalist
  • Gerard Reve
    Gerard Reve
    Gerard Kornelis van het Reve was a Dutch writer. He adopted a shortened version of his name, Gerard Reve in 1973, and that is how he is known today. Together with Willem Frederik Hermans and Harry Mulisch, he is considered one of the "Great Three" of Dutch post-war literature...

    , novelist
  • Annie M.G. Schmidt, writer of children's books (Jip en Janneke series, Pluk van de Petteflet
    Pluk van de Petteflet
    Pluk van de Petteflet is a children's book by Dutch writer Annie M.G. Schmidt. First published in 1971, it remains in print and is one of the most popular Dutch books for children, and the second most popular book by Schmidt...

    , Abeltje
    Abeltje
    For the 1998 film, see The Flying LiftboyAbeltje is a children's book by celebrated Dutch author Annie M. G. Schmidt, originally published in 1953 by De Arbeiderspers. It was one of Annie M. G. Schmidt's first children's books, and such an instant success that it was already in its fourth edition...

    )
  • Tjalie Robinson
    Tjalie Robinson
    Tjalie Robinson is the main alias of the Indo intellectual and writer Jan Boon also known as Vincent Mahieu. His father Cornelis Boon, a KNIL sergeant, was Dutch and his Indo-European mother Fela Robinson was part English and Javanese...

     (1911–1974)
  • Joost van den Vondel
    Joost van den Vondel
    Joost van den Vondel was a Dutch writer and playwright. He is considered the most prominent Dutch poet and playwright of the 17th century. His plays are the ones from that period that are still most frequently performed, and his epic Joannes de Boetgezant , on the life of John the Baptist, has...

     (1587–1679), poet, playwright
  • Janwillem van de Wetering
    Janwillem van de Wetering
    Janwillem Lincoln van de Wetering was the author of a number of works in English and Dutch. He was particularly noted for his detective fiction, his most popular creations being Grijpstra and de Gier, a pair of Amsterdam police officers who figure in a lengthy series of novels and short stories...

     (1931–2008), novelist
  • Hendrik Willem Van Loon
    Hendrik Willem van Loon
    Hendrik Willem van Loon was a Dutch-American historian and journalist.-Life:He was born in Rotterdam, the son of Hendrik Willem van Loon and Elisabeth Johanna Hanken. He went to the United States in 1902 to study at Cornell University, receiving his degree in 1905...

     (1882–1944)
  • Jan Wolkers
    Jan Wolkers
    Jan Hendrik Wolkers was a Dutch author, sculptor and painter.Wolkers is considered one of the "Great Four" writers of post-World War II Dutch literature, along with Willem Frederik Hermans, Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve...

     (1925–2007)


Exploration

  • Willem Barentsz (1550?–1597), several expeditions to Arctic
    Arctic
    The Arctic is a region located at the northern-most part of the Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Russia, Greenland, the United States, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. The Arctic region consists of a vast, ice-covered ocean, surrounded by treeless permafrost...

     waters; discovered Spitsbergen
    Spitsbergen
    Spitsbergen is the largest and only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. Constituting the western-most bulk of the archipelago, it borders the Arctic Ocean, the Norwegian Sea and the Greenland Sea...

  • Abraham Blauvelt
    Abraham Blauvelt
    Abraham Blauvelt was a Dutch privateer and explorer mapping much of Central America in the 1630s, after whom both the Bluefield River and the neighboring town of Bluefields, Nicaragua were named....

     (died 1663), Central America
  • Adriaen Block
    Adriaen Block
    Adriaen Block was a Dutch private trader and navigator who is best known for exploring the coastal and river valley areas between present-day New Jersey and Massachusetts during four voyages from 1611 to 1614, following the 1609 expedition by Henry Hudson...

     (1567–1627), New Netherlands
  • Hendrik Brouwer
    Hendrik Brouwer
    Hendrik Brouwer was a Dutch explorer, admiral, and colonial administrator both in Japan and the Dutch East Indies....

     (1580–1643), discovered the Roaring Forties
    Roaring Forties
    The Roaring Forties is the name given to strong westerly winds found in the Southern Hemisphere, generally between the latitudes of 40 and 49 degrees. Air displaced from the Equator towards the South Pole, which travels close to the surface between the latitudes of 30 and 60 degrees south, combines...

  • Olivier Brunel
    Olivier Brunel
    Olivier Brunel was a Flemish merchant and explorer, born in Brabant in the 16th century. He was the first to establish trade routes between the Netherlands and Russia. He also explored the northern coast of Russia searching for a route to China and the East Indies.- 1570s-1580s Olivier Brunel,...

     (c. 1540–1585), tried to find a passage around Siberia to China
  • Jan Carstenszoon
    Jan Carstenszoon
    Jan Carstenszoon or more commonly Jan Carstensz ) was a 17th century Dutch explorer.In 1623, Carstenszoon was commissioned by the Dutch East India Company to lead an expedition to the southern coast of New Guinea and beyond, to follow up the reports of land sighted further south in the 1606 voyages...

     (born c. 1595), New Guinea
    New Guinea
    New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...

     coast, navigated the Gulf of Carpentaria
    Gulf of Carpentaria
    The Gulf of Carpentaria is a large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the Arafura Sea...

     in 1623
  • Dirk Hartog
    Dirk Hartog
    Dirk Hartog was a 17th century Dutch sailor and explorer. Dirk Hartog's expedition was the third European group to land on Australian soil. He was the first to leave behind an artifact to record his visit, the Hartog plate. His name is sometimes alternatively spelled Dirck Hartog or Dierick...

     (1580–1621), VOC
    Dutch East India Company
    The Dutch East India Company was a chartered company established in 1602, when the States-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia...

     captain, charted mid-western coast of Australia
  • Jacob van Heemskerk
    Jacob van Heemskerk
    Jacob van Heemskerk was a Dutch explorer and later admiral commanding the Dutch fleet at the Battle of Gibraltar.-Arctic exploration:...

     (1567–1607), captain of one of Barent's ships on his last fatal expedition
  • Cornelis de Houtman
    Cornelis de Houtman
    Cornelis de Houtman , brother of Frederick de Houtman, was a Dutch explorer who discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia and managed to begin the Dutch spice trade...

     (1565–1599), brother to Frederick, established Dutch trading route to the Spice Islands
    Maluku Islands
    The Maluku Islands are an archipelago that is part of Indonesia, and part of the larger Maritime Southeast Asia region. Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone...

  • Frederick de Houtman
    Frederick de Houtman
    Frederick de Houtman , or Frederik de Houtman, was a Dutch explorer who sailed along the Western coast of Australia en route to Batavia.-Biography:...

     (1571–1627), brother to Cornelis, charted several constellation
    Constellation
    In modern astronomy, a constellation is an internationally defined area of the celestial sphere. These areas are grouped around asterisms, patterns formed by prominent stars within apparent proximity to one another on Earth's night sky....

    s in the southern skies, explored coast of Western Australia
  • Willem Janszoon
    Willem Janszoon
    Willem Janszoon , Dutch navigator and colonial governor, is probably the first European known to have seen the coast of Australia. His name is sometimes abbreviated to Willem Jansz....

     (c. 1570–1630), first European expedition to make landfall on the Australian continent
  • Jacob Le Maire
    Jacob Le Maire
    Jacob Le Maire was a Dutch mariner who circumnavigated the earth in 1615-16. The strait between Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los Estados was named the Le Maire Strait in his honor, though not without controversy...

     (c. 1585–1616), Cape Horn, 1616 circumnavigation
  • Cornelius Jacobsen Mey
    Cornelius Jacobsen Mey
    Cornelis Jacobszoon May , was a Dutch explorer, captain and fur trader, and namesake of Cape May, Cape May County, and the city of Cape May, New Jersey, so named first in 1620.-Family:...

    , New Jersey (1614–1620)
  • Olivier van Noort
    Olivier van Noort
    Olivier van Noort was the first Dutchman to circumnavigate the world.Olivier van Noort was born in 1558 in Utrecht. He left Rotterdam on 2 July 1598 with four ships and a plan to attack Spanish possessions in the Pacific and to trade with China and the Spice Islands...

     (1558–1627), 1598 circumnavigation
  • Jacob Quaeckernaeck
    Jacob Quaeckernaeck
    Jacob Jansz. Quaeckernaeck was a Dutch seaman and Captain of the Liefde, the ship which transported William Adams to Japan in 1600....

     (died 1606), reached Japan via Street of Magellan and Moluccas
  • Matthijs Quast
    Matthijs Quast
    Matthijs Quast was a Dutch explorer in the seventeenth century. He had made several voyages for the VOC to Japan, China and Siam.-Pacific Expedition:Matthijs Quast has become known for an unsuccessful expedition to the Pacific....

     (died 1641), Japan, Bonin Islands, and legendary islands East of Japan
  • Jan Rijp
    Jan Rijp
    Jan Corneliszoon Rijp was a semi-successful mariner in the late sixteenth and early seventieth centuries. Rijp is best known for his involvement with the Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz in finding a route to the East, avoiding the Spanish and the Portuguese navy in the South.In May, 1596, Rijp was...

    , saved remainder of Willem Barentsz' crew in 1597
  • Jakob Roggeveen
    Jakob Roggeveen
    Jacob Roggeveen was a Dutch explorer who was sent to find Terra Australis, but he instead came across Easter Island...

     (1659–1729), First European to reach Easter Island
    Easter Island
    Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian triangle. A special territory of Chile that was annexed in 1888, Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapanui people...

     Easter 1722
  • Willem Schouten
    Willem Schouten
    Willem Cornelisz Schouten was a Dutch navigator for the Dutch East India Company. He was the first to sail the Cape Horn route to the Pacific Ocean.- Biography :Willem Cornelisz Schouten was born in c...

     (1567–1625), Cape Horn, 1616 circumnavigation
  • Simon van der Stel
    Simon van der Stel
    Simon van der Stel was the last Commander and first Governor of the Cape Colony, the Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.-Background:...

     (1639–1702), explored South Africa North and East of Cape Town
  • Abel Tasman
    Abel Tasman
    Abel Janszoon Tasman was a Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the VOC . His was the first known European expedition to reach the islands of Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand and to sight the Fiji islands...

     (1603–1659), extensive voyages around Australia and southwest Pacific, discovered a.o. Tasmania
    Tasmania
    Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

    , New Zealand & Tonga
    Tonga
    Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga , is a state and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising 176 islands scattered over of ocean in the South Pacific...

  • François Thijssen
    François Thijssen
    François Thijssen or Frans Thijsz was a Dutch explorer who explored the southern coast of Australia.He was the captain of the ship t Gulden Zeepaerdt when sailing from Cape of Good Hope to Batavia...

    , charted 1,000 miles of the Australian South Coast in 1627
  • Alexandrine Tinné
    Alexandrine Tinné
    Alexandrine Petronella Francina Tinne was a Dutch explorer in Africa and the first European woman to attempt to cross the Sahara...

     (1839–1869), Sahara desert crossing
  • Willem de Vlamingh
    Willem de Vlamingh
    Willem Hesselsz de Vlamingh was a Dutch sea-captain who explored the central west coast of Australia in the late 17th century.- Vlamingh and the VOC :...

     (1640–17??), Western Australia
  • Sebald de Weert
    Sebald de Weert
    Sebald or Sebalt de Weert was a Dutch captain and vice-admiral of the Dutch East India Company...

     (died 1602), discovered Falkland Islands


Historians

  • Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
    Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
    Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft - Knight in the Order of Saint Michael - was a Dutch historian, poet and playwright from the period known as the Dutch Golden Age.-Life:...

     (1581–1647)
  • Johan Huizinga
    Johan Huizinga
    Johan Huizinga , was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history.-Life:Born in Groningen as the son of Dirk Huizinga, a professor of physiology, and Jacoba Tonkens, who died two years after his birth, he started out as a student of Indo-Germanic languages, earning his...

     (1872–1945)
  • Loe de Jong
    Loe de Jong
    Louis de Jong was a Dutch journalist and historian specialising in the history of the Netherlands in World War II and the Dutch resistance....

     (1914–2005)
  • Jan Romein
    Jan Romein
    Jan Marius Romein was a Dutch journalist and historian.Born in Rotterdam, Romein married the writer and historian Annie Romein-Verschoor on August 14, 1920.Romein began writing while a student in 1916...

     (1893–1962)
  • Petrus Scriverius
    Petrus Scriverius
    Petrus Scriverius, the Latinized form of Peter Schrijver or Schryver was a Dutch writer and scholar on the history of Holland and Belgium....

     (1576–1660)
  • Boudewijn Sirks
    Boudewijn Sirks
    Adriaan Johan Boudewijn Sirks , known as Boudewijn Sirks and as A. J. B. Sirks, is a Dutch academic lawyer and papyrologist specializing in Roman law...

     (born 1953)


Military

  • Karel Doorman
    Karel Doorman
    Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman was a Dutch Rear Admiral who commanded ABDACOM Naval forces, a hastily-organized multinational naval force formed to defend the East Indies against an overwhelming Imperial Japanese attack. Doorman was killed and the main body of ABDACOM Naval forces destroyed...

     (1889–1942), naval officer
  • Piet Pieterszoon Hein
    Piet Pieterszoon Hein
    Pieter Pietersen Heyn was a Dutch naval officer and folk hero during the Eighty Years' War between the United Provinces and Spain.-Early life:...

     (1577–1629), naval officer
  • Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange
    Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange
    Frederick Henry, or Frederik Hendrik in Dutch , was the sovereign Prince of Orange and stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel from 1625 to 1647.-Early life:...

     (1584–1647), general and stadtholder
    Stadtholder
    A Stadtholder A Stadtholder A Stadtholder (Dutch: stadhouder [], "steward" or "lieutenant", literally place holder, holding someones place, possibly a calque of German Statthalter, French lieutenant, or Middle Latin locum tenens...

  • Hendrick Lucifer
    Hendrick Lucifer
    Hendrick Jacobszoon Lucifer was a Dutch-born pirate and brute.Hendrick's last name, Lucifer, referred not to a lighting stick, but to the fallen angel Lucifer, and was most likely used as a nickname due to his use of fire and smoke to surprise enemies.- Greatest success and death :In 1627,...

    , naval officer turned pirate
  • J. B. van Heutsz
    J. B. van Heutsz
    J. B. van Heutsz , was a Dutch military commander who was appointed governor general of the Dutch East Indies in 1904. He had become famous years before by bringing to an end to the long Aceh War.-Aceh war:Following twenty-five years of protracted warfare, J. B...

     (1851–1924), governor general of the Dutch East Indies
  • Jan Pieterszoon Coen
    Jan Pieterszoon Coen
    Jan Pieterszoon Coen was a officer of the Dutch East India Company in the early seventeenth century, holding two terms as its Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies....

     (1587–1629,) governor general of the Dutch East Indies
  • Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange
    Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange
    Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange was sovereign Prince of Orange from 1618, on the death of his eldest half brother, Philip William, Prince of Orange,...

     (1567–1625), general and stadtholder
  • Michiel de Ruyter
    Michiel de Ruyter
    Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter is the most famous and one of the most skilled admirals in Dutch history. De Ruyter is most famous for his role in the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the 17th century. He fought the English and French and scored several major victories against them, the best known probably...

     (1607–1676), naval officer
  • Cornelis Tromp
    Cornelis Tromp
    Sir Cornelis Maartenszoon Tromp, 1st Baronet was a Dutch naval officer. He was the son of Lieutenant Admiral Maarten Tromp. He became Lieutenant Admiral General in the Dutch Navy and briefly Admiral General in the Danish Navy...

     (1629–1691), naval officer
  • Maarten Tromp
    Maarten Tromp
    Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp was an officer and later admiral in the Dutch navy. His first name is also spelled as Maerten.-Early life:...

     (1598–1653), naval officer
  • Cornelis de Witt
    Cornelis de Witt
    Cornelis de Witt was a Dutch politician.-Biography:Cornelis de Witt was a member of the old Dutch patrician family De Witt. He was born on 15 June 1623 in Dordrecht, Holland, Dutch Republic...

     (1623–1672), naval officer and statesman
  • Witte Corneliszoon de With
    Witte Corneliszoon de With
    Witte Corneliszoon de With was a famous Dutch naval officer of the 17th century.- Early life and childhood :...

     (1599–1658), naval officer


Philosophy

  • Isaac Beeckman
    Isaac Beeckman
    Isaac Beeckman was a Dutch philosopher and scientist, who, through his studies and contact with leading natural philosophers, may have "virtually given birth to modern atomism".-Biography:...

     (1588–1637)
  • Evert Willem Beth
    Evert Willem Beth
    Evert Willem Beth was a Dutch philosopher and logician, whose work principally concerned the foundations of mathematics.- Biography :...

     (1908–1964)
  • Herman Dooyeweerd
    Herman Dooyeweerd
    Herman Dooyeweerd was a Dutch juridical scholar by training, who by vocation was a philosopher and the founder of the philosophy of the cosmonomic idea. He received early support for his work from his brother-in-law D. H. Th. Vollenhoven...

    , philosopher Vrije Universiteit
    Vrije Universiteit
    The Vrije Universiteit is a university in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Dutch name is often abbreviated as VU and in English the university uses the name "VU University". The university is located on a compact urban campus in the southern part of Amsterdam in the Buitenveldert district...

  • Desiderius Erasmus
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus , known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and a theologian....

    , writer, polemicist, humanist Protestant Reformation
    Protestant Reformation
    The Protestant Reformation was a 16th-century split within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other early Protestants. The efforts of the self-described "reformers", who objected to the doctrines, rituals and ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Catholic Church, led...

  • Hugo Grotius
    Hugo Grotius
    Hugo Grotius , also known as Huig de Groot, Hugo Grocio or Hugo de Groot, was a jurist in the Dutch Republic. With Francisco de Vitoria and Alberico Gentili he laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law...

     (1583–1645), also lawyer, playwright, & poet
  • François Hemsterhuis
    François Hemsterhuis
    François Hemsterhuis was a Dutch writer on aesthetics and moral philosophy.The son of Tiberius Hemsterhuis, he was born at Franeker in the Netherlands. He was educated at the University of Leiden, where he studied Plato...

     (1721–1790)
  • Johannes Jacobus Poortman
    Johannes Jacobus Poortman
    Johannes Jacobus Poortman , studied philosophy and psychology at Groningen University under Professor Gerardus Heymans. In 1919 he received his Master of Arts; many years later he would also earn a Ph.D.. He was also a theosophist.Poortman studied at the universities of Hamburg, Genève, the...

     (1896–1970)
  • Baruch de Spinoza (1632–1677), philosopher
  • Cornelis Petrus Tiele
    Cornelis Petrus Tiele
    Cornelis Petrus Tiele, was a Dutch theologian and scholar.-Life:He was born at Leiden. He was educated at Amsterdam, first studying at the Athenaeum Illustre, as the communal high school of the capital was then named, and afterwards at the seminary of the Remonstrant Brotherhood.He was destined...

     (1830–1902), theologian and historian of religion


Before 20th century

  • Pier Gerlofs Donia
    Pier Gerlofs Donia
    Pier Gerlofs Donia was a Frisian warrior, pirate, and rebel. He is best known by his West Frisian nickname "Grutte Pier" , or by the Dutch translations "Grote Pier" and "Lange Pier", or, in Latin, "Pierius Magnus", which referred to his legendary size and strength. His life is mostly shrouded in...

     (1480–1520), warrior
    Warrior
    A warrior is a person skilled in combat or warfare, especially within the context of a tribal or clan-based society that recognizes a separate warrior class.-Warrior classes in tribal culture:...

     and freedom fighter
  • William the Silent
    William the Silent
    William I, Prince of Orange , also widely known as William the Silent , or simply William of Orange , was the main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish that set off the Eighty Years' War and resulted in the formal independence of the United Provinces in 1648. He was born in the House of...

     (1533–1584), stadtholder
  • Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (1547–1619), statesman
  • Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange
    Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange
    Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange was sovereign Prince of Orange from 1618, on the death of his eldest half brother, Philip William, Prince of Orange,...

     (1567–1625), general and stadtholder
  • Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange
    Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange
    Frederick Henry, or Frederik Hendrik in Dutch , was the sovereign Prince of Orange and stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel from 1625 to 1647.-Early life:...

     (1584–1647), general and stadtholder
  • Andries Bicker
    Andries Bicker
    Andries Bicker was a wealthy merchant on Moscovia, a member of the vroedschap, the leader of the Arminians, an administrator of the VOC, representative of the States-General of the Netherlands and colonel in the Civic guard...

     (1586–1652), regent of Amsterdam, statesman
  • Cornelis de Graeff
    Cornelis de Graeff
    Cornelis de Graeff, also Cornelis de Graeff van Polsbroek was the most illustrious member of the De Graeff family. He was a mayor of Amsterdam from the Dutch Golden Age and a powerful Amsterdam regent after the sudden death of stadholder William II of Orange...

     (1599–1664), regent of Amsterdam, statesman
  • Andries de Graeff
    Andries de Graeff
    Free Imperial Knight Andries de Graeff was a very powerful member of the Amsterdam branch of the De Graeff - family during the Dutch Golden Age. He became a mayor of Amsterdam and a powerful Amsterdam regent after the death of his older brother Cornelis de Graeff...

     (1611–1678), regent of Amsterdam, statesman
  • Cornelis de Witt
    Cornelis de Witt
    Cornelis de Witt was a Dutch politician.-Biography:Cornelis de Witt was a member of the old Dutch patrician family De Witt. He was born on 15 June 1623 in Dordrecht, Holland, Dutch Republic...

     (1623–1672), statesman
  • Johan de Witt
    Johan de Witt
    Johan de Witt, heer van Zuid- en Noord-Linschoten, Snelrewaard, Hekendorp and IJsselveere was a key figure in Dutch politics in the mid 17th century, when its flourishing sea trade in a period of globalization made the United Provinces a leading European power during the Dutch Golden Age...

     (1625–1672), statesman
  • William III of Orange
    William III of England
    William III & II was a sovereign Prince of Orange of the House of Orange-Nassau by birth. From 1672 he governed as Stadtholder William III of Orange over Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel of the Dutch Republic. From 1689 he reigned as William III over England and Ireland...

     (1650–1702), stadtholder and king of England
  • Johan Rudolf Thorbecke (1798–1872), prime minister


20th and 21st centuries

  • Dries van Agt
    Dries van Agt
    Andreas Antonius Maria "Dries" van Agt is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal . He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from December 19, 1977, until November 4, 1982....

     (born 1931), Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands. He is the de facto head of government of the Netherlands and coordinates the policy of the government...

      (1977–1982)
  • Jan Peter Balkenende
    Jan Peter Balkenende
    Jan Pieter "Jan Peter" Balkenende is a Dutch politician of the party Christian Democratic Appeal .He was the Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 22 July 2002 until 14 October 2010, having led four coalition governments, cabinets Balkenende I, II, III and IV, none of which served a full...

     (born 1956), Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands. He is the de facto head of government of the Netherlands and coordinates the policy of the government...

     (2002–2010)
  • Louis Beel
    Louis Beel
    Louis Joseph Maria Beel was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal . He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from July 3, 1946 until August 7, 1948 and again from December 22, 1958 until May 19, 1959...

     (1902–1977), Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands. He is the de facto head of government of the Netherlands and coordinates the policy of the government...

     (1946–1948, 1958–1959)
  • Barend Biesheuvel
    Barend Biesheuvel
    Barend Willem Biesheuvel was a Dutch politician of the defunct Anti Revolutionary Party now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal . He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from July 6, 1971 until May 11, 1973.He previously served as a Member of the House of Representatives from...

     (1920–2001), Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands. He is the de facto head of government of the Netherlands and coordinates the policy of the government...

      (1971–1973)
  • Els Borst
    Els Borst
    Else Borst-Eilers is a former Dutch Politician, she led D66 in the 1998 election campaign and served as Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport for eight years, and the last four as Deputy Prime Minister. Before entering politics she had a career in medicine.-Education and Academic Career:Borst...

     (born 1932), Deputy Prime Minister
    Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the official Deputy of the Head of Government of the Netherlands. In the absence of the Prime Minister the deputy prime minister takes over his functions, such as chairing the Cabinet of the Netherlands...

    , Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport
  • Wouter Bos
    Wouter Bos
    Wouter Jacob Bos is a Dutch management consultant and former politician of the Labour Party . He was Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister in the Cabinet Balkenende IV from February 22, 2007 till February 23, 2010...

     (born 1963), Deputy Prime Minister
    Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the official Deputy of the Head of Government of the Netherlands. In the absence of the Prime Minister the deputy prime minister takes over his functions, such as chairing the Cabinet of the Netherlands...

    , Minister of Finance
    Ministry of Finance (Netherlands)
    The Ministry of Finance is the Dutch ministry of finance: it is occupied with the national budget, taxation and financial economic policy, including supervision of financial markets...

  • Ben Bot
    Ben Bot
    Bernard Rudolf "Ben" Bot is a Dutch diplomat of the Christian Democratic Appeal . He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from December 3, 2003 until February 22, 2007 in the Cabinets Balkenende II and III....

     (born 1937), Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Hans van den Broek
    Hans van den Broek
    Henri van den Broek is a leading Dutch politician. He is best known for having served 11 years as the Netherlands' Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1982 and 1993, when he became European Commissioner for Foreign Relations.-Career:Van Den Broek started his career as a lawyer...

     (born 1936), Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Commissioner
    European Commissioner
    A European Commissioner is a member of the 27-member European Commission. Each Member within the college holds a specific portfolio and are led by the President of the European Commission...

     (1993–1999)
  • Jo Cals
    Jo Cals
    Jozef Maria Laurens Theo "Jo" Cals was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal...

     (1914–1971), Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands. He is the de facto head of government of the Netherlands and coordinates the policy of the government...

     (1965–1966)
  • Hendrikus Colijn
    Hendrikus Colijn
    Hendrikus Colijn was a successful Dutch soldier, businessman and politician.-Early life:He was born in 1869 in the Haarlemmermeer to Antonie Colijn and Anna Verkuil, who had migrated to the Haarlemmermeer polder from the Land of Heusden and Altena for religious reasons...

     (1869–1944), Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands. He is the de facto head of government of the Netherlands and coordinates the policy of the government...

     (1925–1926, 1933–1939)
  • Pieter Cort van der Linden
    Pieter Cort van der Linden
    Pieter Wilhelm Adriaan Cort van der Linden was a Dutch politician. He served as prime minister of the Netherlands between 1913 and 1918....

     (1846–1935), Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands. He is the de facto head of government of the Netherlands and coordinates the policy of the government...

     (1913–1918)
  • Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis
    Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis
    Ferdinand Jacobus Domela Nieuwenhuis was the Netherlands' first prominent socialist. He was a Lutheran preacher who, after he lost his faith, started a political fight for workers. He was the first socialist in the Dutch parliament.Nieuwenhuis was born in Amsterdam. His family added the second...

     (1846–1919), First prominent Socialist
  • Willem Drees
    Willem Drees
    Willem Drees was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party . He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from August 7, 1948 until December 22, 1958....

     (1886–1988), Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands. He is the de facto head of government of the Netherlands and coordinates the policy of the government...

     (1948–1958)
  • Wim Duisenberg
    Wim Duisenberg
    Willem Frederik "Wim" Duisenberg was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party . He was the first President of the European Central Bank from 1 July 1998 until 31 October 2003. He was instrumental in the Introduction of the euro in the European Union in 2002. He was also credited for making numerous...

     (1935–2005), Minister of Finance
    Ministry of Finance (Netherlands)
    The Ministry of Finance is the Dutch ministry of finance: it is occupied with the national budget, taxation and financial economic policy, including supervision of financial markets...

    , President of the European Central Bank (1998–2003)
  • Pim Fortuyn
    Pim Fortuyn
    Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn was a Dutch politician, civil servant, sociologist, author and professor who formed his own party, Pim Fortuyn List ....

     (1948–2002), politician, candidate for Prime Minister
    Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands. He is the de facto head of government of the Netherlands and coordinates the policy of the government...

    , Assassinated during the 2002 Election
    Dutch general election, 2002
    The General Election to the House of Representatives of the States-General of the Netherlands was held in the Netherlands on May 15, 2002....

  • Cornelis van Geelkerken
    Cornelis van Geelkerken
    Cornelis van Geelkerken was co-founder of the Dutch National Socialist Movement.Cornelis van Geelkerken was born in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Belgium. In the 1920s he gravitated toward extreme nationalism. Proposing an authoritarian, anti-democratic movement to Anton Mussert they formed the...

     (1901–1979), National-Socialist, co-founder of the NSB
    National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands
    The National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands was a Dutch fascist and later national socialist political party. As a parliamentary party participating in legislative elections, the NSB had some success during the 1930s...

  • Dirk Jan de Geer
    Dirk Jan de Geer
    Jonkheer Dirk Jan de Geer was a Dutch nobleman, lawyer, conservative statesman and prime minister of the Netherlands . He was disgraced for advocating a peace settlement between the Kingdom and Nazi Germany in 1940.Born in Groningen, he was a descendant of the de Geer family painted by Rembrandt...

     (1870–1960), Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands. He is the de facto head of government of the Netherlands and coordinates the policy of the government...

     (1926–1929, 1939–1940)
  • Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
    Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
    Jakob Gijsbert "Jaap" de Hoop Scheffer is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal . He served as the 11th Secretary General of NATO from January 5, 2004 until August 1, 2009....

     (born 1948), Minister of Foreign Affairs, Secretary General of NATO (since 2004)
  • Hans Janmaat
    Hans Janmaat
    Johannes Gerardus Hendrikus "Hans" Janmaat was a Dutch politician of the Centre Party and later his own formed Centre Democrats . He was Parliamentary leader of the Centre Party in the House of Representatives from September 16, 1982 until October 15, 1984 when he was expelled from the party...

     (1934–2002), Right-Wing Nationalist
  • Piet de Jong
    Piet de Jong
    Petrus Josef Sietse "Piet" de Jong is a retired Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal . He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from April 5, 1967 until July 6, 1971....

     (born 1915), Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands. He is the de facto head of government of the Netherlands and coordinates the policy of the government...

     (1967–1971)
  • Wim Kok
    Wim Kok
    Willem "Wim" Kok ; born September 29, 1938) is a retired Dutch politician of the Labour Party . He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from August 22, 1994 until July 22, 2002....

     (born 1938), Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands. He is the de facto head of government of the Netherlands and coordinates the policy of the government...

     (1994–2002)
  • Neelie Kroes
    Neelie Kroes
    Neelie Kroes is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy . She served as a Member of the House of Representatives from 3 August 1971 until 28 December 1977 when she became State Secretary for Transport, Public Works and Water Management from 28 December 1977 until 11...

     (born 1941), Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, European Commissioner for Competition (since 2004)
  • Abraham Kuyper
    Abraham Kuyper
    Abraham Kuijper generally known as Abraham Kuyper, was a Dutch politician, journalist, statesman and theologian...

     (1837–1920), Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands. He is the de facto head of government of the Netherlands and coordinates the policy of the government...

     (1901–1905)
  • Ruud Lubbers
    Ruud Lubbers
    Rudolphus Franciscus Marie "Ruud" Lubbers is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal . He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from November 4, 1982 until August 22, 1994....

     (born 1938), Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands. He is the de facto head of government of the Netherlands and coordinates the policy of the government...

     (1982–1994), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
    United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
    The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , also known as The UN Refugee Agency is a United Nations agency mandated to protect and support refugees at the request of a government or the UN itself and assists in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to...

     (2001–2005)
  • Joseph Luns
    Joseph Luns
    Joseph Marie Antoine Hubert Luns was a Dutch politician and diplomat of the defunct Catholic People's Party now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal . He was the longest-serving Minister of Foreign Affairs from September 2, 1952 until July 6, 1971...

     (1911–2002), Minister of Foreign Affairs, Secretary General of NATO (1971–1984)
  • Victor Marijnen
    Victor Marijnen
    Victor Gerard Marie Marijnen was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal...

     (1917–1975), Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands. He is the de facto head of government of the Netherlands and coordinates the policy of the government...

     (1963–1965)
  • Anton Mussert
    Anton Mussert
    Anton Adriaan Mussert was one of the founders of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands and its de jure leader. As such, he was the most prominent national socialist in the Netherlands before and during the Second World War...

     (1894–1946), National-Socialist
    Nazism
    Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...

    , Founder of the NSB
    National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands
    The National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands was a Dutch fascist and later national socialist political party. As a parliamentary party participating in legislative elections, the NSB had some success during the 1930s...

  • Pieter Oud
    Pieter Oud
    Pieter Jacobus Oud was a prominent liberal Dutch politician who served held numerous political offices, including member of the House of Representatives, Minister of Finance and Mayor of Rotterdam. He was one of the founding member of the Dutch Labour Party and the People's Party for Freedom and...

     (1886–1966), Founder of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
    People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
    The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy is a conservative-liberal political party located in the Netherlands. The VVD supports private enterprise in the Netherlands and is often perceived as an economic liberal party in contrast to the social-liberal Democrats 66 alongside which it sits in...

  • Alexander Pechtold
    Alexander Pechtold
    Alexander Pechtold is a Dutch politician of the Democrats 66 party. He has been a member of the House of Representatives since 30 November 2006 as well as Parliamentary group leader since 23 November 2006...

     (born 1965), Minister for Government Reform and Kingdom Relations
  • Jan Pronk
    Jan Pronk
    Johannes "Jan" Pieter Pronk is a Dutch politician and diplomat. Currently, he is a Professor of Theory and Practice of International Development at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague....

     (born 1940), Minister for Development Cooperation
    Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Netherlands)
    The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the Dutch ministry of foreign affairs: it is occupied with the external relations of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, including European cooperation and International development...

    , Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, Head of the United Nations Mission in Sudan
    United Nations Mission in Sudan
    The United Nations Mission in the Sudan was established by the UN Security Council under Resolution 1590 of 24 March 2005, in response to the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the government of the Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement on January 9, 2005 in Nairobi,...

     (2004–2006)
  • Jan de Quay
    Jan de Quay
    Jan Eduard de Quay was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal . He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from May 19, 1959 until July 24, 1963....

     (1901–1985), Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands. He is the de facto head of government of the Netherlands and coordinates the policy of the government...

     (1959–1963)
  • Johan Remkes
    Johan Remkes
    Johannes Wijnandus "Johan" Remkes is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy . He is the Queen's Commissioner of North Holland since July 1, 2010....

     (born 1951), Deputy Prime Minister
    Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the official Deputy of the Head of Government of the Netherlands. In the absence of the Prime Minister the deputy prime minister takes over his functions, such as chairing the Cabinet of the Netherlands...

    , Minister of the Interior
  • Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck
    Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck
    Jhr. Charles Joseph Maria Ruijs de Beerenbrouck was a Dutch nobleman and Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1918 to 1925 and again from 1929 to 1933...

     (1873–1936), Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands. He is the de facto head of government of the Netherlands and coordinates the policy of the government...

     (1918–1925, 1929–1933)
  • Pieter Jelles Troelstra
    Pieter Jelles Troelstra
    Pieter Jelles Troelstra was a Dutch politician active in the socialist workers' movement. He is most remembered for his fight for universal suffrage and his failed call for revolution at the end of World War I...

     (1860–1930), Political Activist for Universal suffrage
  • Joop den Uyl
    Joop den Uyl
    Johannes Marten den Uijl, known as Joop den Uyl was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party . He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from May 11, 1973 until December 19, 1977....

     (1919–1987), Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands. He is the de facto head of government of the Netherlands and coordinates the policy of the government...

     (1973–1977)
  • Rita Verdonk
    Rita Verdonk
    Maria Cornelia Frederika "Rita" Verdonk is a retired Dutch politician initially of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy until she was expelled in October 2007, she later formed her own party Proud of the Netherlands . She served as Minister for Integration and Immigration in Cabinets...

     (born 1955), Minister for Integration & Immigration
    Ministry of Justice (Netherlands)
    The Ministry of Security and Justice is the Dutch ministry of justice. Until 14 October 2010, the ministry was just called Ministry of Justice , but at the start of the Rutte cabinet, the name changed because it had taken over some public safety duties from the Ministry of the Interior...

  • Hans Wiegel
    Hans Wiegel
    Hans Wiegel is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy . He served as a Member of the House of Representatives from April 18, 1967 until December 19, 1977...

     (born 1941), Deputy Prime Minister
    Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the official Deputy of the Head of Government of the Netherlands. In the absence of the Prime Minister the deputy prime minister takes over his functions, such as chairing the Cabinet of the Netherlands...

    , Minister of the Interior, Queen's Commissioner
    Queen's Commissioner
    The Queen's Commissioner is the head of a province in the Netherlands, who is chairman of both the Provinciale Staten and the Gedeputeerde Staten , but only has a right to vote in the latter...

     of Friesland
    Friesland
    Friesland is a province in the north of the Netherlands and part of the ancient region of Frisia.Until the end of 1996, the province bore Friesland as its official name. In 1997 this Dutch name lost its official status to the Frisian Fryslân...

  • Geert Wilders
    Geert Wilders
    Geert Wilders is a Dutch right-wing politician and leader of the Party for Freedom , the third-largest political party in the Netherlands. He is the Parliamentary group leader of his party in the Dutch House of Representatives...

     (born 1963), Prominent Islam Critic
    Criticism of Islam
    Criticism of Islam has existed since Islam's formative stages. Early written criticism came from Christians, prior to the ninth century, many of whom viewed Islam as a radical Christian heresy...

  • Gerrit Zalm
    Gerrit Zalm
    Gerrit Zalm is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy . He served as Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister from May 27, 2003 until February 22, 2007 in the Cabinets Balkenende II and III. He served earlier as Minister of Finance in the Cabinets Kok I and...

     (born 1952), Deputy Prime Minister
    Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the official Deputy of the Head of Government of the Netherlands. In the absence of the Prime Minister the deputy prime minister takes over his functions, such as chairing the Cabinet of the Netherlands...

    , Minister of Finance
    Ministry of Finance (Netherlands)
    The Ministry of Finance is the Dutch ministry of finance: it is occupied with the national budget, taxation and financial economic policy, including supervision of financial markets...

  • Jelle Zijlstra
    Jelle Zijlstra
    Jelle Zijlstra was a Dutch politician of the defunct Anti Revolutionary Party now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal . He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from November 22, 1966 until April 5, 1967....

     (1918–2001), Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands. He is the de facto head of government of the Netherlands and coordinates the policy of the government...

     (1966–1967)
  • Mark Rutte
    Mark Rutte
    Mark Rutte is a Dutch politician who has been Prime Minister of the Netherlands since 14 October 2010, as well as Minister of General Affairs in the Rutte cabinet...

     (born 1967), Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands. He is the de facto head of government of the Netherlands and coordinates the policy of the government...

     (since 2010)


Royal Family 

  • William I of the Netherlands
    William I of the Netherlands
    William I Frederick, born Willem Frederik Prins van Oranje-Nassau , was a Prince of Orange and the first King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg....

     (1772–1843), King
  • William II of the Netherlands
    William II of the Netherlands
    William II was King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Duke of Limburg from 7 October 1840 until his death in 1849.- Early life and education :...

     (1792–1849), King
  • William III of the Netherlands
    William III of the Netherlands
    William III was from 1849 King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg until his death and the Duke of Limburg until the abolition of the Duchy in 1866.-Early life:William was born in Brussels as son of William II of the Netherlands and...

     (1817–1890), King
  • Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont
    Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont
    Princess Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont was Queen consort of William III, King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg...

     (1858–1934), Queen consort, Queen regent (1890–1898)
  • Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
    Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
    Wilhelmina was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948. She ruled the Netherlands for fifty-eight years, longer than any other Dutch monarch. Her reign saw World War I and World War II, the economic crisis of 1933, and the decline of the Netherlands as a major colonial...

     (1880–1962), Queen
  • Juliana of the Netherlands
    Juliana of the Netherlands
    Juliana was the Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands between 1948 and 1980. She was the only child of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry...

     (1909–2004), Queen
  • Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911–2004), Prince-consort
  • Beatrix of the Netherlands
    Beatrix of the Netherlands
    Beatrix is the Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands comprising the Netherlands, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and Aruba. She is the first daughter of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. She studied law at Leiden University...

     (born 1938), Queen
  • Prince Claus
    Claus von Amsberg
    Prince Claus of the Netherlands was the prince consort of the current Queen regnant of the Netherlands, Queen Beatrix.-Biography:...

     (1926–2002), Prince-consort
  • Princess Irene of the Netherlands
    Princess Irene of the Netherlands
    Princess Irene of the Netherlands is the second child of the late Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.-Childhood and ancestry:thumb|left|215px|Princesses Margriet, Irene, and Beatrix in 1944...

     (born 1939)
  • Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
    Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
    Princess Margriet Francisca of the Netherlands is the third daughter of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands...

     (born 1943)
  • Princess Christina of the Netherlands
    Princess Christina of the Netherlands
    Princess Maria Christina of the Netherlands , Princess of Orange-Nassau, Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld, is the youngest of four daughters born to Queen regnant Juliana of the Netherlands and her Prince consort Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld.-Birth:She was born Maria Christina at Soestdijk Palace,...

     (born 1947)
  • Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange
    Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange
    Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange is the eldest child of Queen Beatrix and Prince Claus. Since 1980 he is the heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. He is also the head of the House of Amsberg since the death of his father in 2002. He was in military service and he studied...

     (born 1967)
  • Princess Máxima of the Netherlands
    Princess Máxima of the Netherlands
    Princess Máxima of the Netherlands is the wife of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, heir apparent to the throne of the Netherlands.-Early life and education:...

     (born 1971)
  • Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau (born 1968)
  • Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
    Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
    Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands is the third and youngest son of Queen Beatrix and the late Prince Claus of the Netherlands. His godparents are King Constantine II of Greece, Prince Aschwin zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst, Max Kohnstamm, and Mrs. C...

     (born 1969)
  • Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands
    Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands
    The official origins of her given names:*Catharina has been speculated to be after Henriette Catherine of Nassau *Amalia is after Amalia of Solms-Braunfels *Beatrix is after her paternal grandmother, the Queen of the Netherlands...

     (born 2003)
  • Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
    Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
    Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau is the second daughter of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and Princess Máxima of the Netherlands, his spouse...

     (born 2005)
  • Princess Ariane of the Netherlands
    Princess Ariane of the Netherlands
    Princess Ariane of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau is the daughter of heir apparent to the throne of the Netherlands Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Máxima...

     (born 2007)


Before 20th century

  • Daniel Bernoulli
    Daniel Bernoulli
    Daniel Bernoulli was a Dutch-Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He is particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics...

     (1700–1782), mathematician and physicist
  • Herman Boerhaave
    Herman Boerhaave
    Herman Boerhaave was a Dutch botanist, humanist and physician of European fame. He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital. His main achievement was to demonstrate the relation of symptoms to lesions...

     (1668–1738), physician
  • C.H.D. Buys Ballot
    C.H.D. Buys Ballot
    Christophorus Henricus Diedericus Buys Ballot was a Dutch chemist and meteorologist after whom Buys Ballot's law and the Buys Ballot table are named.-Biography:...

     (1817–1890), chemist & meteorologist
  • Ludolph van Ceulen
    Ludolph van Ceulen
    Ludolph van Ceulen was a German / Dutch mathematician from Hildesheim. He emigrated to the Netherlands....

     (1540–1610), mathematician
  • Laurens Janszoon Coster
    Laurens Janszoon Coster
    Laurens Janszoon Coster , or Laurens Jansz Koster, is the name of an inventor of a printing press from Haarlem...

     (1370–1440), printer
  • Cornelius Drebbel
    Cornelius Drebbel
    Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel was the Dutch builder of the first navigable submarine in 1620. Drebbel was an innovator who contributed to the development of measurement and control systems, optics and chemistry....

     (1572–1633), inventor & engineer
  • Eise Eisinga
    Eise Eisinga
    Eise Jeltes Eisinga was a Dutch amateur astronomer who built an orrery in his house in Franeker, Netherlands. The orrery still exists and is the oldest functioning planetarium in the world.-Biography:...

     (1744–1828), astronomer
  • David Fabricius
    David Fabricius
    David Fabricius , was a German theologian who made two major discoveries in the early days of telescopic astronomy, jointly with his eldest son, Johannes Fabricius ....

     (1564–1617), astronomer
  • Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
    Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
    Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Jr. was a Dutch physical and organic chemist and the first winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry. He is best known for his discoveries in chemical kinetics, chemical equilibrium, osmotic pressure, and stereochemistry...

     (1852–1911), chemist
  • Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695), mathematician and physicist
  • Constantijn Huygens, Jr.
    Constantijn Huygens, Jr.
    Constantijn Huygens Jr. was a Dutch statesman also known for his work on scientific instruments and as a chronicler of his times...

     (1628–1697; brother of Christiaan), scientific instrument maker, technological chronicler
  • Jan Ingenhousz
    Jan Ingenhousz
    Jan Ingenhousz or Ingen-Housz FRS was a Dutch physiologist, biologist and chemist. He is best known for showing that light is essential to photosynthesis and thus having discovered photosynthesis. He also discovered that plants, like animals, have cellular respiration...

     (1730–1799), physiologist, botanist and physicist.
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek
    Anton van Leeuwenhoek
    Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch tradesman and scientist from Delft, Netherlands. He is commonly known as "the Father of Microbiology", and considered to be the first microbiologist...

     (1632–1723), scientist
  • Frans van Schooten
    Frans van Schooten
    Franciscus van Schooten was a Dutch mathematician who is most known for popularizing the analytic geometry of René Descartes.-Life:...

     (1615–1660), mathematician
  • Willebrord Snell (1580–1626), astronomer & mathematician
  • Simon Stevin
    Simon Stevin
    Simon Stevin was a Flemish mathematician and military engineer. He was active in a great many areas of science and engineering, both theoretical and practical...

     (1548–1620), mathematician & engineer
  • Thomas Joannes Stieltjes
    Thomas Joannes Stieltjes
    Thomas Joannes Stieltjes was a Dutch mathematician. He was born in Zwolle and died in Toulouse, France. He was a pioneer in the field of moment problems and contributed to the study of continued fractions....

     (1856–1894), mathematician
  • Jan Swammerdam
    Jan Swammerdam
    Jan Swammerdam was a Dutch biologist and microscopist. His work on insects demonstrated that the various phases during the life of an insect—egg, larva, pupa, and adult—are different forms of the same animal. As part of his anatomical research, he carried out experiments on muscle contraction...

     (1637–1680), scientist
  • Gustav de Vries
    Gustav de Vries
    Gustav de Vries was a Dutch mathematician, who is best remembered for his work on the Korteweg–de Vries equation with Diederik Korteweg. He was born on 22 January 1866 in Amsterdam, and studied at the University of Amsterdam with the distinguished physical chemist Johannes van der Waals and with...

     (1866–1934), mathematician
  • Hugo de Vries
    Hugo de Vries
    Hugo Marie de Vries ForMemRS was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering the laws of heredity in the 1890s while unaware of Gregor Mendel's work, for introducing the term "mutation", and for developing a mutation...

     (1848–1937), geneticist
  • Johannes Diderik van der Waals
    Johannes Diderik van der Waals
    Johannes Diderik van der Waals was a Dutch theoretical physicist and thermodynamicist famous for his work on an equation of state for gases and liquids....

     (1837–1923), physicist
  • Hendrik Zwaardemaker
    Hendrik Zwaardemaker
    Hendrik Zwaardemaker was a Dutch scientist who invented the olfactometer in 1888.From 1897 to 1927 he was professor of Experimental Physiology at the University of Utrecht. In addition to his work on the sense of smell, he also conducted research on the human heart...

     (1857–1930), scientist


20th century

  • Wiebe Bijker
    Wiebe Bijker
    Wiebe E. Bijker is a Dutch professor, chair of the Department of Social Science and Technology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands....

     (born 1951), social scientist
  • Nicolaas Bloembergen
    Nicolaas Bloembergen
    Nicolaas Bloembergen is a Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate.He received his Ph.D. degree from University of Leiden in 1948; while pursuing his PhD at Harvard, Bloembergen also worked part-time as a graduate research assistant for Edward Mills Purcell at the MIT Radiation Laboratory...

     (born 1920), physicist
  • Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer
    Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer
    Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer FRS , usually cited as L. E. J. Brouwer but known to his friends as Bertus, was a Dutch mathematician and philosopher, a graduate of the University of Amsterdam, who worked in topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis.-Biography:Early in his career,...

     (1881–1966), mathematician
  • Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn
    Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn
    Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn is a Dutch mathematician, affiliated as professor emeritus with the Eindhoven University of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in 1943 from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam....

     (born 1918), mathematician
  • Hendrik Casimir
    Hendrik Casimir
    Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir FRS was a Dutch physicist best known for his research on the two-fluid model of superconductors in 1934 and the Casimir effect Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir FRS (July 15, 1909 in The Hague, Netherlands – May 4, 2000 in Heeze) was a Dutch physicist best known...

     (1909–2000), physicist
  • Paul J. Crutzen
    Paul J. Crutzen
    Paul Jozef Crutzen is a Dutch Nobel prize winning atmospheric chemist.Crutzen is best known for his research on ozone depletion. He lists his main research interests as “Stratospheric and tropospheric chemistry, and their role in the biogeochemical cycles and climate”...

     (born 1933), atmospheric chemist
  • David van Dantzig
    David van Dantzig
    David van Dantzig was a Dutch mathematician, well known for the construction in topology of the dyadic solenoid....

     (1900–1959), mathematician
  • Peter Debye
    Peter Debye
    Peter Joseph William Debye FRS was a Dutch physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry.-Early life:...

     (1884–1966), chemist
  • Robbert Dijkgraaf
    Robbert Dijkgraaf
    Robertus Henricus "Robbert" Dijkgraaf is a Dutch mathematical physicist and string theorist.Robertus Henricus Dijkgraaf was born on 24 January 1960 in Ridderkerk, Netherlands. He currently lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands...

     (born 1960), physicist
  • Edsger Dijkstra
    Edsger Dijkstra
    Edsger Wybe Dijkstra ; ) was a Dutch computer scientist. He received the 1972 Turing Award for fundamental contributions to developing programming languages, and was the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin from 1984 until 2000.Shortly before his...

     (1930–2002), computer scientist
  • David Adriaan van Dorp
    David Adriaan van Dorp
    David 'Davy' Adriaan van Dorp was a Dutch chemist.Van Dorp was born as the son of Hendrik van Dorp and Maria van Dorp, and studied chemistry in Amsterdam where he received a PhD for his thesis Aneurine en gistphosphatase in 1941.In 1946, while employed by the Dutch Organon company in Oss, Van...

     (1915–1995), chemist
  • Eugène Dubois
    Eugène Dubois
    Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois was a Dutch paleoanthropologist. He earned worldwide fame for his discovery of Pithecanthropus erectus , or 'Java Man'...

     (1858–1944), paleontologist & anatomist
  • Christiaan Eijkman
    Christiaan Eijkman
    Christiaan Eijkman was a Dutch physician and professor of physiology whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of vitamins...

     (1858–1930), physician & pathologist
  • Willem Einthoven
    Willem Einthoven
    Willem Einthoven was a Dutch doctor and physiologist. He invented the first practical electrocardiogram in 1903 and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1924 for it....

     (1860–1927), physician
  • Anthony Fokker
    Anthony Fokker
    Anton Herman Gerard "Anthony" Fokker was a Dutch aviation pioneer and an aircraft manufacturer. He is most famous for the fighter aircraft he produced in Germany during the First World War such as the Eindecker monoplanes, the Fokker Triplane the and the Fokker D.VII, but after the collapse of...

     (1890–1939), aviation engineer
  • Valerie Frissen
    Valerie Frissen
    Valerie Frissen holds the extraordinary professorship in ‘ICT and Social Change’ at the Faculty of Philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam were she belongs to the group of Professor Dr. Jos de Mul...

     (born 1960), social scientist
  • Richard D. Gill (born 1951), mathematician
  • Arend Heyting
    Arend Heyting
    Arend Heyting was a Dutch mathematician and logician. He was a student of Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer at the University of Amsterdam, and did much to put intuitionistic logic on a footing where it could become part of mathematical logic...

     (1898–1980), mathematician
  • Gerardus 't Hooft
    Gerardus 't Hooft
    Gerardus 't Hooft is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his thesis advisor Martinus J. G...

     (born 1946), physicist
  • Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
    Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
    Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. He pioneered refrigeration techniques, and he explored how materials behaved when cooled to nearly absolute zero. He was the first to liquify helium...

     (1853–1926), physicist
  • Jacobus Kapteyn
    Jacobus Kapteyn
    Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, was a Dutch astronomer, best known for his extensive studies of the Milky Way and as the first discoverer of evidence for galactic rotation....

     (1851–1922), astronomer
  • Willem Hendrik Keesom
    Willem Hendrik Keesom
    Willem Hendrik Keesom was a Dutch physicist who, in 1926, invented a method to freeze liquid helium.He also developed the first mathematical description of dipole-dipole interactions in 1921...

     (1878–1956), physicist
  • Pieter Kok
    Pieter Kok
    Pieter Kok, Ph.D. is one of the co-developers of quantum interferometric optical lithography.He is a co-author of a measurement-based entanglement protocol...

     (born 1972), physicist
  • Tjalling Koopmans
    Tjalling Koopmans
    Tjalling Charles Koopmans was the joint winner, with Leonid Kantorovich, of the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences....

     (1910–1985), economist
  • Gerard Kuiper
    Gerard Kuiper
    Gerard Peter Kuiper , Netherlands – December 24, 1973, Mexico City) was a Dutch-American astronomer after whom the Kuiper belt was named.-Early life:...

     (1905–1973), astronomer
  • Hendrik Lorentz
    Hendrik Lorentz
    Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect...

     (1853–1928), physicist
  • Simon van der Meer
    Simon van der Meer
    Simon van der Meer was a Dutch particle accelerator physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Carlo Rubbia for contributions to the CERN project which led to the discovery of the W and Z particles, two of the most fundamental constituents of matter.-Biography:One of four...

     (born 1925), physicist
  • Bram Moolenaar
    Bram Moolenaar
    Bram Moolenaar is an active member of the open source software community. He is the author of Vim, a text editor that is very popular among programmers and power users....

    , computer programmer, author of text-editor Vim
    Vim (text editor)
    Vim is a text editor written by Bram Moolenaar and first released publicly in 1991. Based on the vi editor common to Unix-like systems, Vim is designed for use both from a command line interface and as a standalone application in a graphical user interface...

  • Wubbo Ockels
    Wubbo Ockels
    Prof. Dr. Wubbo Johannes Ockels is a Dutch physicist and a former ESA astronaut. In 1985 he participated in a flight on a space shuttle , making him the first Dutch citizen in space. He was not the first Dutch-born astronaut, as he is preceded by the naturalized American Lodewijk van den Berg, who...

     (born 1946), astronaut
  • Jan Oort
    Jan Oort
    Jan Hendrik Oort was a Dutch astronomer. He was a pioneer in the field of radio astronomy. The Oort cloud of comets bears his name....

     (1900–1992), astronomer
  • Anton Pannekoek (1873–1960), astronomer
  • Guido van Rossum
    Guido van Rossum
    Guido van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. In the Python community, Van Rossum is known as a "Benevolent Dictator For Life" , meaning that he continues to oversee the Python development process, making decisions where necessary...

    , computer programmer, inventor of the Python programming language
    Python (programming language)
    Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...

  • Carel van Schaik
    Carel van Schaik
    Carolus Philippus "Carel" van Schaik is a Dutch primatologist who since 2004 is professor and director of the Anthropological Institute and Museum at the University of Zürich, Switzerland....

    , primatologist
  • Maarten Schmidt
    Maarten Schmidt
    Maarten Schmidt is a Dutch astronomer who measured the distances of quasars.Born in Groningen, The Netherlands, Schmidt studied with Jan Hendrik Oort. He earned his Ph.D. degree from Leiden Observatory in 1956....

     (born 1929), astronomer
  • Willem de Sitter
    Willem de Sitter
    Willem de Sitter was a Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer.-Life and work:Born in Sneek, De Sitter studied mathematics at the University of Groningen and then joined the Groningen astronomical laboratory. He worked at the Cape Observatory in South Africa...

     (1872–1934), mathematician, physicist & astronomer
  • Hendrik Tennekes
    Hendrik Tennekes
    Hendrik Tennekes was the director of research at the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute , and was a Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He is known for his work in the fields of turbulence and multi-modal forecasting...

     (1936–), aerodynamics professor
  • Jan Tinbergen
    Jan Tinbergen
    Jan Tinbergen , was a Dutch economist. He was awarded the first Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes...

     (1903–1994), economist
  • Nico Tinbergen
    Nikolaas Tinbergen
    Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen was a Dutch ethologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns in animals.In the 1960s he...

     (1907–1988), ecologist
  • Martinus J. G. Veltman
    Martinus J. G. Veltman
    Martinus Justinus Godefriedus Veltman is a Dutch theoretical physicist. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in physics with his former student Gerardus 't Hooft for their work on particle theory.-Biography:...

     (born 1931), physicist
  • Frans de Waal
    Frans de Waal
    Fransiscus Bernardus Maria de Waal, PhD , is a Dutch primatologist and ethologist. He is the Charles Howard Candler professor of Primate Behavior in the Emory University psychology department in Atlanta, Georgia, and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research...

     (born 1948), primatologist
  • Bartel Leendert van der Waerden
    Bartel Leendert van der Waerden
    Bartel Leendert van der Waerden was a Dutch mathematician and historian of mathematics....

     (1903–1996), mathematician
  • Pieter Zeeman
    Pieter Zeeman
    Pieter Zeeman was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect.-Childhood and youth:...

     (1865–1943), physicist
  • Frits Zernike
    Frits Zernike
    Frits Zernike was a Dutch physicist and winner of the Nobel prize for physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase contrast microscope, an instrument that permits the study of internal cell structure without the need to stain and thus kill the cells....

     (1888–1966), physicist


Supermodels

  • Azra Akın
    Azra Akin
    Azra Akın is a Dutch born Turkish model and actress. She is a beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss World 2002 and Miss Turkey 2002.-Biography:...

     (born 1981)
  • Wilhelmina Cooper
    Wilhelmina Cooper
    Wilhelmina Cooper was a model who began with Ford Models and, at the peak of her success, founded her own agency, Wilhelmina Models, in New York City in 1967.-Life:...

     (1940–1980)
  • Daniella van Graas
    Daniella van Graas
    Daniella van Graas is a Dutch fashion model and actress.- Filmography:*Entourage - *Perfect Stranger - *Marmalade -...

     (born 1975)
  • Rianne ten Haken
    Rianne ten Haken
    Rianne ten Haken is a Dutch model. She was born in Lelystad, Flevoland, and began modeling after she won the 2001 Elite Model Look competition at the age of 15.In 2003 Rianne walked her first runways...

     (born 1986)
  • Touriya Vaughan-Haoud
    Touriya Haoud
    Touriya Haoud is a Dutch actress, model and singer of Macedonian and Moroccan heritage.-Biography:Haoud was born in in Rhenen, Utrecht, the Netherlands....

     (born 1977)
  • Querelle Jansen
    Querelle Jansen
    Querelle Jansen is a Dutch model. Her real name is Lisette Jansen; Querelle is her professional name, chosen by an agent who had been looking for a model to name after her favourite literary character, Jean Genet's Georges Querelle.Querelle's androgynous features and austere aura have landed her a...

     (born 1985)
  • Doutzen Kroes (born 1985)
  • Karen Mulder
    Karen Mulder
    Karen Mulder is a Dutch former model and singer. During the 90s, she had a successful modeling career and was recognized as a world-class "supermodel" by various media...

     (born 1970)
  • Marcus Schenkenberg
    Marcus Schenkenberg
    Marcus Lodewijk Schenkenberg van Mierop better known as Marcus Schenkenberg, , is a Swedish model of Dutch and Indonesian descent. He was born in Solna and has dual citizenship of both Sweden and the Netherlands...

     (born 1968)
  • Lara Stone
    Lara Stone
    Lara Catherina Stone is a Dutch model.On February 19, 2010, she was tabulated as the world's number-one fashion model on the international modelling site models.com's Top 50 Models Women ranking, a position she maintains as of November 2011...

     (born 1983)
  • Yfke Sturm
    Yfke Sturm
    Yfke Sturm is a Dutch model.-Youth:Becoming a top international model was the last thing 15-year-old sports enthusiast Yfke Sturm expected until in 1997 the 5'11” teen was approached in her hometown of Almere, Netherlands, by a Elite Model Management scout. Shortly thereafter, she entered the...

     (born 1981)
  • Mark Vanderloo
    Mark Vanderloo
    Mark Vanderloo is a Dutch model. At age 22, Vanderloo entered the University of Amsterdam to study history...

     (born 1968)
  • Frederique van der Wal
    Frederique van der Wal
    Frederique van der Wal is a Dutch model, best known for her appearances in Sports Illustrated, Cosmopolitan, and Victoria's Secret. Van der Wal grew up in the city of the Hague. She attended college in The Netherlands and earned a bachelor's degree in economics...

     (born 1967)
  • Kris Jenner
    Kris Jenner
    Kristen Mary "Kris" Jenner is an American television personality, socialite and businesswoman. She also is the manager for all of her family members, including Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian and Khloé Kardashian...

     (born 1955)


Sports

  • Estella Agsteribbe
    Estella Agsteribbe
    Estella "Stella" Agsteribbe was a Dutch gymnast. She won the gold medal as member of the Dutch gymnastics team at the 1928 Summer Olympics in her native Amsterdam.She was Jewish...

     (1909–1943), Olympic champion gymnast (team combined exercises)
  • Christijan Albers
    Christijan Albers
    Christijan Albers is a Dutch racing driver. After success in the DTM he drove in Formula One from until the 2007 British Grand Prix, shortly after which he was dropped by his Spyker F1 team...

     (born 1979), Formula 1 driver
  • Ryan Babel
    Ryan Babel
    Ryan Guno Babel is a Dutch football player who currently plays for TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. He can play as a left winger and as a striker. Babel began his career at AFC Ajax in 1998, working his way up through the youth team and into the senior squad...

     (born 1986), football player
  • Raymond van Barneveld
    Raymond van Barneveld
    Raymond van Barneveld , nickname Barney is a professional darts player. He is a five time World Darts Champion, and two time UK Open Champion. From January to June 2008, he was the PDC world number one ranked player...

     (born 1967), darts player
  • Marco van Basten (born 1964), manager and retired football player
  • Stan van Belkum
    Stan van Belkum
    Stanislaus van Belkum is a former water polo player from the Netherlands, who participated in two Summer Olympics. In 1980 he finished in sixth position with the Dutch team. Four years later in Los Angeles Van Belkum once again gained the sixth spot in the final rankings with Holland.-References:*...

     (born 1961), water polo player
  • Carina Benninga
    Carina Benninga
    Carina Marguerite Benninga is a former Dutch field hockey player, who played 158 international matches for The Netherlands hockey team, in which she scored 25 goals. She was part of the gold medal winning team at the 1984 Summer Olympics and also won a bronze medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics...

     (born 1962), field hockey player, Olympic champion, bronze
  • Dennis Bergkamp
    Dennis Bergkamp
    Dennis Nicolaas Bergkamp , is a former Dutch professional footballer who is currently the assistant manager to Frank de Boer at Ajax. At club level he played for Ajax, Internazionale, and Arsenal, and also represented the Netherlands at international level...

     (born 1969), manager and retired football player
  • Det de Beus
    Det de Beus
    Det de Beus was born Anna Maria Bernadette de Beus on February 18, 1958 in Utrecht in the Netherlands. She was the first goalkeeper in women's field hockey to wear a mask....

     (born 1958), field hockey goalkeeper
  • Fanny Blankers-Koen
    Fanny Blankers-Koen
    Francina "Fanny" Elsje Blankers-Koen was a Dutch athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She accomplished this as a 30 year old mother of two, during a time when many disregarded women's athletics...

     (1918–2004), athlete
  • Rens Blom
    Rens Blom
    Rens Blom is a former Dutch athlete competing in pole vault.-Biography:He achieved the result of 5.75 as early as in 2000, but five years passed without much progression. However, on June 8, 2004 in Zaragoza he set the current Dutch record with 5.81...

     (born 1977), 2005 World Champion pole vault
  • Frank de Boer
    Frank de Boer
    Franciscus "Frank" de Boer is a Dutch former professional footballer, and the younger twin brother of Ronald de Boer. Since 6 December 2010 he is the Manager of AFC Ajax.-Club career:...

     (born 1970), retired football player
  • Ronald de Boer
    Ronald de Boer
    Ronaldus "Ronald" de Boer is a former Dutch football midfielder who has played for the Dutch national team as well as a host of professional clubs in Europe. He is the older twin brother of Frank de Boer.-Club career:...

     (born 1970), retired football player
  • Floris Jan Bovelander
    Floris Jan Bovelander
    Floris Jan Bovelander is a former field hockey player from the Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch national squad that won the golden medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta...

     (born 1966), field hockey player
  • Mart Bras
    Mart Bras
    Martinus Rokes Bras is a former water polo player from The Netherlands, who finished in seventh position with the Dutch Men's Water Polo Team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Later on Bras became an international water polo referee.-References:*...

     (born 1950), water polo player
  • Jacques Brinkman
    Jacques Brinkman
    Jacques Brinkman is a former Dutch field hockey player, who twice won the golden medal with the national squad: at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and four years later, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney...

     (born 1966), field hockey player
  • Giovanni van Bronckhorst
    Giovanni van Bronckhorst
    Giovanni Christiaan van Bronckhorst OON , known as Gio in Spain, is a retired Dutch footballer of Moluccan descent who served as the captain of the Dutch national team from August 2008 until his retirement....

     (born 1975), football player
  • Inge de Bruijn
    Inge de Bruijn
    Inge de Bruijn is a Dutch former swimmer. She was a four-time Olympic champion and a former world record holder.-Biography:De Bruijn was born in Barendrecht, South Holland, and tried several sports before settling with swimming....

     (born 1974), swimmer
  • Daniël de Ridder
    Daniël de Ridder
    Daniël Robin Frederick de Ridder is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for Grasshopper Club Zürich. He has previously played for Ajax, Celta Vigo, Birmingham City and Wigan Athletic as a forward, winger or attacking midfielder....

     (born 1984), football player, forward winger/attacking midfielder (Wigan Athletic
    Wigan Athletic F.C.
    Wigan Athletic Football Club is an English Premier League Association football club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, having been promoted from the Championship in 2005. Wigan's current spell in the Premier League is the only top flight run in the club's history.They have played at the DW...

     & U21 national team)
  • Ton Buunk
    Ton Buunk
    Anton Gerrit Jan Buunk is a former water polo player from the Netherlands, who participated in four Summer Olympics, starting in 1972 in Munich....

     (born 1952), water polo player
  • Johan Cruijff (born 1947), retired football player and former manager
  • Edgar Davids
    Edgar Davids
    Edgar Steven Davids is a retired Dutch footballer and current member of the supervisory board of Ajax. After beginning his career with the Amsterdam club, he subsequently played in Italy for Milan and Juventus before a loan spell with Barcelona. He went on to play for Internazionale and Tottenham...

     (born 1973), football player
  • Marc Delissen
    Marc Delissen
    Marcus Johannes Elisabeth Leopold Delissen played field hockey for The Netherlands....

     (born 1965), field hockey player
  • Cees Jan Diepeveen
    Cees Jan Diepeveen
    Cees Jan Diepeveen is a former field hockey player from the Netherlands, who participated in three Summer Olympics: in Los Angeles , in Seoul and finally in Barcelona...

     (born 1956), field hockey player
  • Sjoukje Dijkstra
    Sjoukje Dijkstra
    Sjoukje Rosalinde Dijkstra is a Dutch figure skater. She is the 1964 Olympic champion in Ladies' Singles, the 1960 Olympic silver medalist, a three-time World champion , five-time European champion , and the six-time Dutch national champion .Following the retirement of Carol Heiss in 1960, who...

    , figure skater
  • Robert Doornbos
    Robert Doornbos
    Robert Michael Doornbos is a Dutch racing driver. He has been test and third driver for the Jordan and Red Bull Racing Formula One teams, as well as driving for Minardi and Red Bull Racing in 2005 and 2006. Doornbos then drove for Minardi Team USA in the 2007 and final season of the Champ Car...

     (born 1981), Formula 1 driver
  • Jacco Eltingh
    Jacco Eltingh
    Jacco Folkert Eltingh is a former professional male tennis player and former World No. 1 doubles player from the Netherlands.He is best remembered for his success in doubles with fellow countryman Paul Haarhuis...

     (born 1970), tennis player
  • Francisco Elson
    Francisco Elson
    Francisco Marinho Robby Elson is a Dutch professional basketball player. At 7' 0" and weighing 235 lbs , he most recently played for the Utah Jazz of the NBA. Elson is the seventh Dutch player in the NBA....

     (born 1976), NBA player for Utah Jazz
    Utah Jazz
    The Utah Jazz is a professional basketball team based in Salt Lake City, Utah. They are currently a part of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association...

     and San Antonio Spurs
    San Antonio Spurs
    The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas. They are part of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ....

  • Max Euwe
    Max Euwe
    Machgielis Euwe was a Dutch chess Grandmaster, mathematician, and author. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion . Euwe also served as President of FIDE, the World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978.- Early years :Euwe was born in Watergraafsmeer, near Amsterdam...

     (1901–81), chess player
  • Louis van Gaal
    Louis van Gaal
    Aloysius Paulus Maria "Louis" van Gaal OON is a Dutch football manager formerly in charge of Ajax, Netherlands, Barcelona, AZ and Bayern Munich...

     (born 1951), football player and manager
  • Dan Gadzuric
    Dan Gadzuric
    Daniel "Dan" Gadzuric is a Dutch professional basketball player who plays for the Jiangsu Dragons in the CBA.Gadzuric, a center, attended preparatory school at The Governor's Academy in Massachusetts, U.S., before playing college basketball for the Bruins at University of California, Los Angeles...

     (born 1978), NBA player for Milwaukee Bucks
    Milwaukee Bucks
    The Milwaukee Bucks are a professional basketball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They are part of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was founded in 1968 as an expansion team, and currently plays at the Bradley Center....

  • Anton Geesink
    Anton Geesink
    Antonius "Anton" Johannes Geesink was a Dutch 10th-dan judoka from Utrecht. He was a three-time World Judo Champion , Olympic Gold Medalist and won 21 European championships...

     (1934–2010), judoka
  • Yvonne van Gennip
    Yvonne van Gennip
    Yvonne Maria van Gennip was one of the most successful female Dutch all-round speed skaters. Her main success dates from the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, where she surprisingly won three gold medals...

     (born 1964), speed skater
  • Anky van Grunsven
    Anky van Grunsven
    Theodora Elisabeth Gerarda van Grunsven is a Dutch dressage champion who won the gold medal in the 2000 Olympics with her horse Bonfire and gold in the 2004 Olympics and in the 2008 Olympics with Salinero.Van Grunsven has also dominated World Cup Dressage competition, being named the World...

     (born 1968), dressage
  • Ruud Gullit
    Ruud Gullit
    OON is a Dutch football manager and former football player, who played professionally in the 1980s and 1990s. He was the captain of the Netherlands national team that was victorious at Euro 88 and was also a member of the squad for the 1990 World Cup. He was named the European Footballer of the...

     (born 1962), football player and coach
  • Paul Haarhuis
    Paul Haarhuis
    Paul Vincent Nicholas Haarhuis is a Dutch former professional tennis player. He is a former World No. 1 doubles player. He won six Grand Slam men's doubles titles, five with Jacco Eltingh and one with Yevgeny Kafelnikov.-Personal life:...

     (born 1966), tennis player
  • Willem van Hanegem
    Willem van Hanegem
    Willem "Wim" van Hanegem is a Dutch football player and coach born in Breskens, Zeeland. In a playing career spanning over 20 years he won several domestic honours in the Netherlands, as well as two UEFA trophies, all with Feyenoord. He was also a finalist in the FIFA World Cup 1974...

     (born 1944), football player and coach
  • Wil Hartog
    Wil Hartog
    Wil Hartog is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. In 1977, Hartog became the first Dutchman to win a 500cc Grand Prix when he claimed a victory at the Dutch TT. That victory earned him a ride with the Suzuki factory team as a team-mate to Barry Sheene. Hartog won five Grands Prix during his...

     (born 1948) Grand Prix motorcycle racer
  • Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
    Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
    Jerrel Hasselbaink usually known as Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink is a Dutch former football striker who played for various clubs in the Netherlands, Portugal, England, and Spain, as well as the Dutch national team. He scored more than 200 career goals...

     (born 1972), football player
  • John Heitinga
    John Heitinga
    John Gijsbert Alan "Johnny" Heitinga is a Dutch footballer who plays as a defender for English Premier League club Everton and the Dutch national team. A product of Jong Ajax, he previously played for AFC Ajax and Atlético Madrid, before signing for Everton in 2009. Heitinga previously represented...

     (born 1983), football player
  • Guus Hiddink
    Guus Hiddink
    Guus Hiddink is a Dutch football manager and former player. He was the most recently manager of the Turkish national football team. He is considered to be one of the best managers of his generation and was the best-paid coach in international football in 2009...

     (born 1946), manager and retired football player
  • Ellen Hoog (born 1986), field hockey player
  • Pieter van den Hoogenband
    Pieter van den Hoogenband
    Pieter Cornelis Ruud Martijn van den Hoogenband is a Dutch former swimmer and a triple Olympic champion.-Personal life:...

     (born 1978), swimmer
  • Ernesto Hoost
    Ernesto Hoost
    Ernesto Fritz "Mr. Perfect" Hoost is a Dutch former kickboxer and four-time K-1 World Champion. He made his debut in 1993 at the K-1 World Grand Prix 1993, where he came just one win short of the world title...

     (born 1965), kickboxer
  • Jan Janssen (born 1940), cyclist
  • Jelle Klaasen
    Jelle Klaasen
    Jelle Klaasen is a Dutch professional darts player who plays in the Professional Darts Corporation and is the youngest darts player to win the World Darts Championship. His nickname is The Matador. He lives in Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands...

     (born 1984), darts player
  • Bep van Klaveren
    Bep van Klaveren
    Lambertus "Bep" van Klaveren was a Dutch boxer, who won the gold medal in the featherweight division at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. Born in Rotterdam as Lambertus Steenhorst, he adopted the name of his stepfather Pieter van Klaveren when he was eight...

     (1907–1992), boxer
  • Patrick Kluivert
    Patrick Kluivert
    Patrick Stephan Kluivert is a former Dutch footballer, currently head coach of the youth side of FC Twente. He played as a striker for AFC Ajax, A.C. Milan, FC Barcelona, Newcastle United, Valencia CF, PSV Eindhoven, and Lille OSC. Kluivert played for the Dutch national team from 1994 to 2004. He...

     (born 1976), football player
  • Ronald Koeman
    Ronald Koeman
    Ronald Koeman is a former Dutch footballer, and the current manager of Feyenoord. He is the younger brother of former Feyenoord coach Erwin Koeman and the son of former Dutch international Martin Koeman...

     (born 1963), football player and manager
  • Ada Kok
    Ada Kok
    Aagje Kok is a former swimmer who ranked among the world's best in the butterfly stroke category during the 1960s....

     (born 1947), swimmer
  • Sven Kramer
    Sven Kramer
    Sven Kramer is a Dutch long track speed skater. He is the Olympic champion of the 5000 meter in Vancouver 2010, and four-time European and World Allround Champion. He is also three-time world champion and world record holder in the 5,000 m, 10,000 m, and the team pursuit...

     (born 1986), speed skater
  • Richard Krajicek
    Richard Krajicek
    Richard Peter Stanislav Krajicek is a Dutch former professional tennis player. In 1996 he won the men's singles title at Wimbledon, the only Dutch player to have done so. In the quarterfinals of that tournament he defeated Pete Sampras. This was Sampras' only singles defeat at Wimbledon between...

     (born 1971), tennis player
  • Ties Kruize
    Ties Kruize
    Ties Kruize is a former field hockey player from the Netherlands, who represented Holland at the Summer Olympics of 1972, 1976, and 1984...

     (born 1952), field hockey player
  • Dirk Kuyt
    Dirk Kuyt
    Dirk Kuyt is a Dutch footballer who plays for English club Liverpool. He started his career as a striker, but he has been converted into a winger and plays the position for both Liverpool and the Netherlands national team....

     (born 1980), football player
  • Nico Landeweerd
    Nico Landeweerd
    Nicolaas Albertus Adrianus Landeweerd is a former water polo player from the Netherlands, who participated in three Summer Olympics. At his debut, at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, he won the bronze medal with the Dutch team. In 1980 and 1984 Landeweerd finished in sixth position with the...

     (born 1954), water polo player
  • Ellen van Langen
    Ellen van Langen
    Ellen Gezina Maria van Langen is a former Dutch middle distance runner. Van Langen has a degree in economics at the University of Amsterdam. Before she started running, she played football....

     (born 1966), athlete
  • Elka de Levie
    Elka de Levie
    Elka de Levie was a Dutch gymnast. She won the gold medal as member of the Dutch gymnastics team at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.De Levie was born in Amsterdam...

     (1905–1979), Olympic champion gymnast (team combined exercises)
  • Arie Luyendyk
    Arie Luyendyk
    Arie Luyendyk, originally Arie Luijendijk is a Dutch auto racing driver, twice winner of the Indianapolis 500....

     (born 1953), race car driver
  • Rie Mastenbroek
    Rie Mastenbroek
    Hendrika "Rie" Wilhelmina Mastenbroek was a Dutch swimmer and a triple Olympic champion.-Biography:...

     (1919–2003), swimmer
  • Leontien van Moorsel
    Leontien van Moorsel
    Leontine Martha Henrica Petronella van Moorsel is a former Dutch racing cyclist.Van Moorsel started her career in the late 1980s and was soon one of the best cyclists in the world. She won major races both on the track, and on the road...

     (born 1970), cyclist
  • Ruud van Nistelrooy
    Ruud van Nistelrooy
    Rutgerus Johannes Martinus "Ruud" van Nistelrooy, , is a Dutch footballer who plays as a striker for Málaga CF in Spain's La Liga. He is the second-highest goalscorer in Champions League history with 60 goals...

     (born 1976), football player
  • Teun de Nooijer
    Teun de Nooijer
    Teun Floris de Nooijer is a field hockey player from the Netherlands, who twice became Olympic champion with the Dutch national squad: in 1996 and in 2000. He currently plays for Dutch side HC Bloemendaal.- Life and work :He made his debut on 4 June 1994 in a friendly match against New Zealand...

     (born 1976), field hockey player
  • Helena Nordheim
    Helena Nordheim
    Helena "Lea" Nordheim was a Jewish Dutch gymnast. She won the gold medal as member of the Dutch gymnastics team at the 1928 Summer Olympics in her native Amsterdam....

     (1903–1943), Olympic champion gymnast (team combined exercises)
  • Tom Okker
    Tom Okker
    Thomas S. Okker is a former Dutch tennis player. He was ranked among the world's top 10 singles players for seven consecutive years, 1968–74, reaching a career high of world # 3 in 1969. He also was ranked World # 1 in doubles in 1969.-Tennis career:Okker was the Dutch champion from 1964 through...

     (born 1944), tennis player, won 1973 French Open Men's Doubles (w/John Newcombe
    John Newcombe
    John David Newcombe, AO, OBE is a former World No. 1 tennis player.-Biography:He won seven Grand Slam singles titles, A natural athlete, Newcombe played several sports as a boy until devoting himself to tennis. He was the Australian junior champion in 1961, 1962, and 1963 and was a member of...

    ), 1976 US Open Men's Doubles (w/Marty Riessen
    Marty Riessen
    Marty Riessen played amateur and professional tennis in the 1960s and 1970s. He was ranked as high as No. 11 in the world in singles on the ATP Rankings...

    ), highest world ranking # 3 in singles, and # 1 in doubles
  • Tinus Osendarp
    Tinus Osendarp
    Martinus Bernardus Osendarp was a Dutch athlete, excelling in the sprint events.Born in Delft, Osendarp won two bronze medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in the 100 and 200 m sprint events...

     (1916–2002), athlete
  • Alistair Overeem
    Alistair Overeem
    Alistair Cees Overeem is a British born Dutch mixed martial artist and kickboxer, signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is the former Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion, Dream Interim Heavyweight Champion, K-1 World Grand Prix Champion, and made history by being the only fighter in combat...

     (born 1980), MMA fighter and former kickboxer
  • Robin van Persie
    Robin van Persie
    Robin van Persie is a Dutch footballer who plays as a striker for Arsenal and the Dutch national team. He is a youth product of Feyenoord. Having joined Arsenal in 2004, Van Persie became the club captain on 16 August 2011...

     (born 1983), football player
  • Annie Polak, Olympic champion gymnast (team combined exercises)
  • Frank Rijkaard
    Frank Rijkaard
    Franklin Edmundo Rijkaard is a Dutch football manager of Dutch and Surinamese descent and former player. Rijkaard has played for Ajax, Real Zaragoza and Milan, and represented his national side 73 times, scoring 10 goals. In his coaching career, he has been at the helm of the Dutch national side,...

     (born 1962), football player and manager
  • Lucia Rijker
    Lucia Rijker
    Lucia Rijker is a Dutch professional female boxer, kickboxer, and actress.Rijker has been dubbed by the press and opponents "The Most Dangerous Woman in the World". She can speak four languages and is a Buddhist, dedicating time daily to meditation and chanting...

     (born 1967), boxer and kickboxer
  • Rintje Ritsma
    Rintje Ritsma
    Robert Rintje Ritsma is a former Dutch long track speed skater. His nickname is the Beer van Lemmer, which translates to the Bear from Lemmer.-Speed skating career:He has won the World Allround Championships 4 times...

     (born 1970), speed skater
  • Arjen Robben
    Arjen Robben
    Arjen Robben is a Dutch footballer who plays for the German Bundesliga club Bayern Munich. Though often classified as a forward, he usually plays behind the forwards as a winger, and he is also known for his dribbling skills...

     (born 1984), football player
  • Gianni Romme
    Gianni Romme
    Gianni Petrus Cornelis Romme is a Dutch marathon and a former long track speed skater. He is also a coach since the 2006-07 speed skating season....

     (born 1973), speed skater
  • Wim Ruska
    Wim Ruska
    Willem Ruska is a retired judoka from the Netherlands.During his career in the 1960s and 1970s he won seven European titles, five in the +93kg category and two in the open category . He furthermore won two world titles and two Olympic titles...

     (born 1940), judoka
  • Bas Rutten
    Bas Rutten
    Sebastiaan "Bas" Rutten is a retired Dutch mixed martial artist, Karate and Taekwondo blackbelt, and kickboxer. He was a UFC Heavyweight Champion, a three time King of Pancrase world champion, and finished his career on a 22 fight unbeaten streak...

     (born 1965), mixed martial artist
  • Edwin van der Sar
    Edwin van der Sar
    Edwin van der Sar OON is a former footballer who played as a goalkeeper for AFC Ajax, Juventus, Fulham and Manchester United. He is the most capped player in the Netherlands national football team's history...

     (born 1970), football player
  • Ard Schenk
    Ard Schenk
    Adrianus "Ard" Schenk is a former speed skater from the Netherlands, who is considered to be one of the best in history. His first Olympic success came in 1968, when he won a silver medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics. Between 1970 and 1972 Winter Olympics, Schenk won three consecutive World...

     (born 1944), speed skater
  • Clarence Seedorf
    Clarence Seedorf
    Clarence Clyde Seedorf OON is a Dutch footballer who currently plays as an attacking midfielder for Serie A club Milan. Seedorf is the first player to have won the Champions League with three different clubs - Ajax in 1995, Real Madrid in 1998 and Milan in 2003 and 2007...

     (born 1976), football player
  • Aryeh "Arie" Selinger
    Arie Selinger
    Aryeh Selinger is widely regarded as one of the greatest volleyball coaches of all time.Selinger has served as the head coach of the USA Women's Team in the years 1975-1984, a team that would go on to win the Bronze medal in the 1982 World Championship and the Silver Medal in the 1984 Summer...

     (born 1937), volleyball player & coach
  • Avital Selinger
    Avital Selinger
    Avital Haim Selinger is a retired volleyball player, who twice represented the Netherlands at the Summer Olympics.-References:...

    , Olympic silver
  • Gerald Sibon
    Gerald Sibon
    Gerald Sibon is a Dutch football player who plays for Eredivisie club SC Heerenveen.-Europe:He featured for FC Twente in the 1993–94 season as a substitute but could only string together three games before deciding to sign for VVV-Venlo of the Eerste Divisie in the following season...

     (born 1974), football player
  • Judijke Simons, Olympic champion gymanst (team combined exercises)
  • Rutger Smith
    Rutger Smith
    Rutger Smith is a Dutch track and field athlete competing in the shot put and discus throw. He was the first athlete to win medals at the World Championships in both events. He represented the Netherlands at the Summer Olympics in 2004 and 2008...

     (born 1981), athlete
  • Rik Smits
    Rik Smits
    Rik Smits is a retired Dutch professional basketball player who spent his entire professional career with the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association. The 7'4" center was drafted by the Pacers out of Marist College with the second overall pick in the 1988 NBA Draft...

     (born 1966), NBA player
  • Wesley Sneijder
    Wesley Sneijder
    Wesley Sneijder is a Dutch footballer playing as an attacking midfielder for Internazionale. He was named UEFA midfielder of the season as well as one of the three best midfielders in the world for 2010 by FIFA....

     (born 1984), football player
  • Petra van Staveren
    Petra van Staveren
    Petronella Grietje van Staveren is a former swimmer from The Netherlands, who won the gold medal in the 100 meter breaststroke at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.-References:*...

     (born 1966), swimmer
  • Betty Stöve
    Betty Stöve
    Betty Stöve is a former Dutch professional tennis player. She is best remembered for reaching the ladies' singles final at Wimbledon in 1977. She also won ten Grand Slam titles in women's doubles and mixed doubles.-Career:...

     (born 1945), tennis player
  • Carole Thate
    Carole Thate
    Carole Helene Antoinette Thate is a Dutch former field hockey player, who played 168 international matches for the Netherlands, in which she scored forty goals...

     (born 1971), field hockey player
  • Jan Timman
    Jan Timman
    Jan Timman is a Dutch chess Grandmaster who was one of the world's leading players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. At the peak of his career he was considered to be the best non-Soviet player and was known as "The Best of the West"...

     (born 1951), chess player
  • Regilio Tuur
    Regilio Tuur
    Regilio Benito Tuur is a former boxer from The Netherlands, who made his fame by knocking out reigning world champion Kelcie Banks in the first round at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.-Amateur career:...

     (born 1967), boxer
  • Jochem Uytdehaage
    Jochem Uytdehaage
    Jochem Simon Uytdehaage is a former Dutch long track speed skater and two-time Olympic champion. He retired in 2007 at the age of 30, following two consecutive seasons of poor results.-Biography:...

     (born 1976), speed skater
  • Rick VandenHurk
    Rick VandenHurk
    Henricus Nicolas "Rick" VandenHurk is a Dutch baseball starting pitcher who plays for the Baltimore Orioles in Major League Baseball and the Netherlands national baseball team....

     (born 1985), baseball player
  • Arnold Vanderlyde
    Arnold Vanderlyde
    Arnold Petrus Maria Vanderlyde is a former boxer from the Netherlands, who participated in three Summer Olympics and won three bronze medals in the heavyweight division , starting in 1984 in Los Angeles, California. He started boxing at age fifteen...

     (born 1963), boxer
  • Jim Van der Meer
    Jim Vandermeer
    James Patrick "Jim" Vandermeer is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League . Jim was born and raised in Caroline, Alberta.-Playing career:...

     (born 1980), Dutch-Canadian ice hockey player
  • Bart Veldkamp
    Bart Veldkamp
    Bart Veldkamp is a retired speed skater, who represented both the Netherlands and Belgium in international competitions, including the Winter Olympics.-Short biography:...

     (born 1967), speed skater
  • Kees Verkerk
    Kees Verkerk
    Cornelis Arie Verkerk , better known as Kees Verkerk, is a former speed skater from the Netherlands.-Short biography:...

     (born 1942), speed skater
  • Martin Verkerk
    Martin Verkerk
    Martin Willem Verkerk is a retired Dutch tennis player. As a relatively unknown player, he had a brilliant run at the French Open in 2003, reaching the final before losing to Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero...

     (born 1978), tennis player
  • Jos Verstappen
    Jos Verstappen
    Johannes Franciscus "Jos" Verstappen nicknamed "Jos the Boss" is a Dutch racing driver. He is the most successful Dutch Formula One driver, and has also won races in A1 Grand Prix and Le Mans Series LMP2 races...

     (born 1972), F1 Grand Prix racing driver
  • Bert van Vlaanderen
    Bert van Vlaanderen
    Albert van Vlaanderen is a retired long-distance runner from The Netherlands, who participated in two Summer Olympics. At the 1992 Olympic Marathon in Barcelona he finished in fifteenth position with a time of 2 hours, 15 minutes and 47 seconds...

     (born 1964), long-distance runner
  • Harm Wiersma
    Harm Wiersma
    Harm Wiersma is a Dutch draughts player and former politician. He is a six-time world champion in draughts and former MP.- Biography :...

     (born 1953), checkers player
  • Hans Wouda
    Hans Wouda
    Hans Wouda is a former water polo player from the Netherlands, who competed in two consequentive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1968...

     (born 1941), water polo player
  • Marcel Wouda
    Marcel Wouda
    Marcel Reinier Wouda is a former Dutch swimmer, who became Holland's first world champion when he won the world title in the 200 m individual medley at the FINA 1998 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Australia...

     (born 1972), swimmer
  • Joop Zoetemelk
    Joop Zoetemelk
    Hendrik Gerardus Jozef "Joop" Zoetemelk is a retired professional racing cyclist from the Netherlands who has emigrated to France. He started the Tour de France 16 times and finished every time, a record. He won the race in 1980 and also came eighth, fifth, fourth and second...

     (born 1946), cyclist


Other

  • Alfred Henry (Freddy) Heineken
    Freddy Heineken
    Alfred Henry Heineken was a Dutch major stock holder and president of Heineken International, the brewing company bought in 1864 by his grandfather Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam....

     (1923–2002), Commercial Mastermind of the Heineken Imperium. Grandson of the founder of Heineken
    Heineken
    Heineken is a Dutch beer which has been brewed by Heineken International since 1873. It is available in a 4.6% alcohol variety in countries such as Ireland. It is the flagship product of the Heineken company and is made of purified water, malted barley, hops, and yeast. In 1886 H...

    .
  • Pope Adrian VI
    Pope Adrian VI
    Pope Adrian VI , born Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens, served as Pope from 9 January 1522 until his death some 18 months later...

     (1522–1523), pope from 1522 to 1523
  • Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper
    Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper
    Hendrikje "Henny" van Andel-Schipper was the oldest person ever in the history of the Netherlands , and from 29 May 2004 was thought to be the oldest recognized person in the world until her death Hendrikje "Henny" van Andel-Schipper (née Schipper) (29 June 1890 – 30 August 2005) was the...

     (1890–2005), oldest person in world from May 2004 to 30 August 2005
  • Corrie ten Boom
    Corrie ten Boom
    Cornelia "Corrie" ten Boom was a Dutch Christian, who with her father and other family members helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War II. Her family was arrested due to an informant in 1944, and her father died 10 days later at Scheveningen prison where they were first held...

    , Christian activist during the Holocaust
  • Evert Dudok
    Evert Dudok
    Evert Dudok has been the President of EADS Astrium Satellites since June 2007. Prior to this date he was president of EADS Astrium Space Transportation since June 2005...

    , president of EADS Astrium Space Transportation
  • Gretta Duisenberg
    Gretta Duisenberg
    Gretta Duisenberg is a Dutch left-wing political activist and supporter of anti-Israeli causes. She is the widow of Dutch Labour Party politician Wim Duisenberg who was also the first president of the European Central Bank....

    , pro-Palestinian activist and the wife of Wim Duisenberg
    Wim Duisenberg
    Willem Frederik "Wim" Duisenberg was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party . He was the first President of the European Central Bank from 1 July 1998 until 31 October 2003. He was instrumental in the Introduction of the euro in the European Union in 2002. He was also credited for making numerous...

  • Jacob Eelkens, first commander of the first Dutch fort in America (fort Nassau
    Fort Nassau
    The name Fort Nassau was used by the Dutch in the 17th century for several fortifications, mostly trading stations, named for the House of Orange-Nassau...

    )
  • Frans van der Hoff
    Frans van der Hoff
    Frans van der Hoff , or Francisco VanderHoff Boersma as he is called in Latin America, is a Dutch missionary who, in collaboration with Nico Roozen and ecumenical development agency Solidaridad, launched Max Havelaar, the first Fairtrade label in 1988...

     (born 1939), co-founder of Max Havelaar
    Stichting Max Havelaar
    Stichting Max Havelaar is the Dutch member of FLO International, which unites 23 Fairtrade producer and labelling initiatives across Europe, Asia, Latin America, North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Several of these corresponding organizations in other European countries also use the...

    , the first Fairtrade certification initiative
  • Joran van der Sloot
    Joran van der Sloot
    Joran Andreas Petrus van der Sloot is a Dutch national who lived in Aruba. He has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the United States for wire fraud and extortion related to the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway, who disappeared in Aruba on May 30, 2005, and is charged in Peru with the...

    , alleged murderer
  • Marinus van der Lubbe
    Marinus van der Lubbe
    Marinus van der Lubbe was a Dutch council communist convicted of, and controversially executed for, setting fire to the German Reichstag building on February 27, 1933, an event known as the Reichstag fire. ....

     (1909–1934), see: Reichstag fire
    Reichstag fire
    The Reichstag fire was an arson attack on the Reichstag building in Berlin on 27 February 1933. The event is seen as pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany....

  • Mata Hari
    Mata Hari
    Mata Hari was the stage name of Margaretha Geertruida "M'greet" Zelle , a Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and accused spy who was executed by firing squad in France under charges of espionage for Germany during World War I.-Early life:Margaretha Geertruida Zelle was born in Leeuwarden, Friesland,...

    , spy
  • Anton Philips
    Anton Philips
    Anton Frederik Philips co-founded Royal Philips Electronics N.V. in 1912 with his older brother Gerard Philips in Eindhoven, the Netherlands...

    , co-founder of the Royal Philips Electronics
    Philips
    Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. , more commonly known as Philips, is a multinational Dutch electronics company....

  • Gerard Philips
    Gerard Philips
    Gerard Leonard Frederik Philips was a Dutch industrialist, co-founder of the Philips Company as a family business in 1891. Gerard and his younger brother Anton Philips changed the business to a corporation by founding in 1912 the NV Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken...

     (1858–1942), co-founder of the Royal Philips Electronics
  • Roel Pieper
    Roel Pieper
    -Early life and education:Pieper was born in Vlaardingen, son of an engineer at a car manufacturer. His father died when Pieper was 20, and on his 18th birthday he suffered a motoring accident which destroyed his sporting career as a player of the Juventus Schiedam basketball team. According to...

     (born 1956–), businessman and professor
  • Jan Sloot
    Jan Sloot
    Romke Jan Bernhard Sloot was a Dutch electronics technician, who claimed to have developed a revolutionary data compression technique, the Sloot Digital Coding System, which could compress a complete movie down to 8 kilobytes of data— this is orders of magnitude greater compression than the...

     inventor
  • Peter Stuyvesant
    Peter Stuyvesant
    Peter Stuyvesant , served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York...

     (1592–1672), governor of the New Netherland
  • Wouter Harryvan (born 1973) World watermelon seed spitting champion
  • Jak Peter Van Doesburg (born 1991) vintage motorcycle builder and painter


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