List of Dutch people

Arts

Architecture

• Jaap Bakema
• Hendrik Petrus Berlage
• Jo van den Broek
• Jacob van Campen, Dutch Golden Age architect
• Pierre Cuypers
• Willem Marinus Dudok
• Aldo van Eyck
• Lieven de Key, renaissance architect
• Hendrick de Keyser, sculptor and architect
• Rem Koolhaas
• Jacobus Oud
• Satyendra Pakhale
• Pieter Post, Dutch Golden Age architect
• Gerrit Rietveld

  Film

• Willeke van Ammelrooy, actress
• Antoinette Beumer, film director
• Marjolein Beumer, actress, screenwriter
• Jan de Bont, cinematographer
• Erik-Jan de Boer, animation director
• Rene Daalder, director
• Mike van Diem, screenwriter and director
• Bracha van Doesburgh, actress
• Philip Dorn, actor
• Paul Driessen, animator, director
• Bobbi Eden, porn actress
• Cyrus Frisch, director
• Laura Gemser, actress
• Rijk de Gooyer, actor
• Rutger Hauer, actor
• Johannes Heesters, actor
• Tom Holkenborg , composer
• Carice van Houten, actress
• Michiel Huisman, actor
• Famke Janssen, actress
• Martin Koolhoven, screenwriter and director
• John Kraaijkamp, Sr., actor
• Jeroen Krabbé, actor
• Sylvia Kristel, actress
• Rik Launspach, actor and writer
• Dick Maas, screenwriter and director
• Anneliese van der Pol, actress
• Renée Soutendijk, actress
• Johanna ter Steege, actress
• Monique van de Ven, actress
• Paul Verhoeven, director
• Wiebe van der Vliet, film editor
• Yorick van Wageningen, actor
• Alex van Warmerdam, actor, screenwriter and director
• Zara Whites, former pornographic film actress
• Michaël Dudok de Wit, animator, director
• Emmanuel Ohene Boafo, actor
• Michael Sanderson, Filmmaker and director
• Mimi Mariani, actress

  Music

• Thomas Acda, singer, actor
• Sharon Den Adel, singer of Within Temptation
• Jan Akkerman, guitar player
• Amber, singer
• Elly Ameling, classical music singer
• Louis Andriessen, composer
• Dick Annegarn, singer, musician
• Bart Berman, pianist, composer
• Marco Borsato, singer
• Willem Breuker, jazz musician
• Herman Brood, rock musician and artist
• Frans Brüggen, conductor, recorder player and baroque flautist
• Theo Bruins, pianist, composer
• Armin van Buuren, trance DJ
• Ferry Corsten, trance DJ
• Esmée Denters, singer, made famous through YouTube
• Cristina Deutekom, singer, classical music
• Alphons Diepenbrock, composer
• Anita Doth, singer
• Candy Dulfer, saxophone player
• Margriet Ehlen, composer
• Caro Emerald, singer
• Tess Gaerthé, actress and singer
• Martin Garrix, House DJ
• Afrojack, House DJ
• Jan van Gilse, composer
• Boudewijn de Groot, singer, actor
• Jack Jersey, producer, composer, singer
• Guus Meeuwis, composer, singer
• Stephen van Haestregt, drummer of Within Temptation
• Bernard Haitink, conductor Concertgebouworkest
• Alex Van Halen, drummer of Van Halen
• Eddie Van Halen, guitarist of Van Halen
• Hardwell, house DJ
• Barry Hay, singer of Golden Earring
• André Hazes, singer
• Oliver Heldens, DJ
• Koen Heldens mixing engineer
• Ilse Huizinga, jazz singer
• Dominique van Hulst, singer, popularly known as Do
• Janine Jansen, violinist
• Ruud Jolie, guitarist of Within Temptation
• Gerard Joling, singer
• Tom Holkenborg, film composer, electronic musician, remixer, composer
• Isabelle van Keulen, classical violinist and violist, educator
• Tim Kliphuis, jazz violinist
• Peter Koelewijn, founder of Dutch rock & roll
• Astrid Kruisselbrink, composer
• Natalie La Rose, singer, dancer and model
• Arjen Anthony Lucassen, composer and musician
• Joris de Man, composer
• Gwendolyn Masin, violinist, author, pedagogue, founder of GAIA Chamber Music Festival
• Willem Mengelberg, conductor
• Rogier van Otterloo, composer
• Willem van Otterloo, composer
• Jetty Paerl, singer
• Willem Pijper, composer
• Abbie de Quant, flautist
• André Rieu, violinist, conductor, and composer
• Nicky Romero, house DJ
• Julius Röntgen, composer
• Ramses Shaffy, singer
• Eva Simons, singer-songwriter
• Simone Simons, vocalist of Epica
• Peter Slaghuis, disc jockey
• Ray Slijngaard, singer and disc jockey
• Jaap Spaanderman, pianist, cellist, conductor
• Martijn Spierenburg, keyboardist of Within Temptation
• Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, composer and organist
• Anouk Teeuwe, singer
• Herman van Veen, singer, theater performer
• Jeroen van Veen, classical pianist and composer
• Jeroen van Veen, bassist of Within Temptation
• Roel van Velzen, singer
• Matthijs Vermeulen, composer
• Matthijs Verschoor, classical pianist
• Tijs Verwest, DJ
• Klaas de Vries, composer
• Edo de Waart, conductor
• Johan Wagenaar, composer
• Tony Wall, guitarist
• Robert Westerholt, guitarist of Within Temptation
• Jaap van Zweden, violinist and conductor
• Joost Klein, singer and rapper

  Visual arts

• Pieter van Abeele, medallist
• Bernard Accama, painter
• Karel Appel, painter
• Hendrick Avercamp, painter
• Ludolf Backhuysen, painter
• John Baselmans, painter and illustrator
• Helen Berman, painter
• Charles Bolsius, painters and print maker
• Hieronymus Bosch, painter
• Ambrosius Bosschaert, painter
• Jan de Bray, painter
• Dick Bruna, graphical artist
• Paul Citroen, painter
• Anton Corbijn, photographer
• Aelbert Cuyp, painter
• Theo van Doesburg, painter
• Willem Drost, painter and print maker
• Ger van Elk, sculptor
• M. C. Escher, graphical artist
• Vincent van Gogh, painter
• Jan van Goyen, painter
• Mieke Groot, glass artist
• Frans Hals, painter
• Jacoba van Heemskerck, painter, stained glass designer and graphic artist
• Milou Hermus, painter
• Jan van Herwijnen, painter
• Pieter de Hooch, painter
• Helena Klakocar, cartoonist
• Willem de Kooning, painter
• Andrea Kruis, illustrator
• Jeanne de Loos-Haaxman, art historian
• Han van Meegeren, forger of paintings
• Jacobus Anthonie Meessen, photographer
• Piet Mondrian, painter
• Rien Poortvliet, painter and illustrator
• Rembrandt van Rijn, painter
• Willem de Rooij, contemporary artist
• Jacob van Ruisdael, landscape painter
• Geertgen tot Sint Jans, painter
• Carolein Smit, ceramic art sculptor
• Peter Spier, illustrator
• Jan Steen, painter
• Marten Toonder, comic creator
• Thierry Veltman, painter and sculptor
• Johannes Vermeer, painter
• Gisèle d'Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht, painter
• Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, typographer and illustrator
• Jacob de Wit, painter

  Writers

• A. C. Baantjer, writer of detective fiction
• Paul Biegel, writer of children's books
• Remco Campert, novelist and poet
• Jacob Cats, poet
• Isabelle de Charrière, novelist
• Louis Couperus, novelist and poet
• Willy Corsari, novelist, actress and composer
• Johan Fabricius, novelist, journalist and painter
• Geert Groote
• Arnon Grünberg
• Hella Haasse, novelist
• Jan de Hartog, novelist and playwright
• Herman Heijermans
• Willem Frederik Hermans, novelist and physical geographer
• Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
• Constantijn Huygens
• Gerrit Krol, novelist, poet
• Hendrik Willem van Loon
• Geert Mak, writer of history books
• Harry Mulisch, novelist
• Multatuli, novelist
• Nescio
• Cees Nooteboom, novelist
• Willem Oltmans, journalist
• Gerard Reve, novelist
• Tjalie Robinson
• Annie M.G. Schmidt, children's writer
• Philip Slier
• Joost van den Vondel, poet and playwright
• Anne de Vries, novelist
• Janwillem van de Wetering, novelist
• Willy Wielek-Berg film critic, writer, columnist
• Jan Wolkers
• Yael van der Wouden, novelist

  Exploration

• Willem Barentsz, several expeditions to Arctic waters; discovered Spitsbergen
• Abraham Blauvelt, Central America
• Adriaen Block, New Netherland
• Hendrik Brouwer, discovered the Roaring Forties
• Olivier Brunel, tried to find a passage around Siberia to China
• Jan Carstenszoon, New Guinea coast, navigated the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1623
• Robert Jacob Gordon, extensively traveled South Africa in the service of the Dutch East India Company
• Dirk Hartog, VOC captain, charted mid-western coast of Australia
• Jacob van Heemskerk, captain of one of Barent's ships on his last fatal expedition
• Cornelis de Houtman, brother to Frederick, established Dutch trading route to the Spice Islands
• Frederick de Houtman, brother to Cornelis, charted several constellations in the southern skies, explored coast of Western Australia
• Willem Janszoon, first European expedition to make landfall on the Australian continent
• Jacob Le Maire, Cape Horn, 1616 circumnavigation
• Cornelius Jacobsen Mey, New Jersey
• Olivier van Noort, 1598 circumnavigation
• Jacob Quaeckernaeck, reached Japan via Street of Magellan and Moluccas
• Matthijs Quast, Japan, Bonin Islands, and legendary islands East of Japan
• Jan Rijp, saved remainder of Willem Barentsz's crew in 1597
• Jakob Roggeveen, First European to reach Easter Island Easter 1722
• Willem Schouten, Cape Horn, 1616 circumnavigation
• Simon van der Stel, explored South Africa North and East of Cape Town
• Abel Tasman, extensive voyages around Australia and southwest Pacific, discovered a.o. Tasmania, New Zealand and Tonga
• François Thijssen, charted 1,000 miles of the Australian South Coast in 1627
• Alexine Tinne, Sahara desert crossing
• Willem de Vlamingh, Western Australia
• Sebald de Weert, discovered Falkland Islands

  Fashion models

• Azra Akın
• Wilhelmina Cooper
• Kim Feenstra
• Bette Franke
• Daphne Groeneveld
• Daniella van Graas
• Tatjana Maul
• Rianne ten Haken
• Marpessa Hennink
• Querelle Jansen
• Kim Kötter
• Doutzen Kroes
• Karen Mulder
• Marcus Schenkenberg
• Iekeliene Stange
• Lara Stone
• Romee Strijd
• Yfke Sturm
• Mark Vanderloo