List of Dutch people

Dutch people who are famous or notable include:

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

Fictional characters

Historians

Journalists

Military

Gaius Julius Civilis, Batavian military commander, leader of the Batavian rebellion
Jan Pieterszoon Coen, governor general of the Dutch East Indies
Karel Doorman, naval officer
Piet Pieterszoon Hein, naval officer
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, general and stadtholder
J. B. van Heutsz, governor general of the Dutch East Indies
Hendrick Lucifer, naval officer turned pirate
Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, general and stadtholder
Michiel de Ruyter, naval officer
Cornelis Tromp, naval officer
Maarten Tromp, naval officer
Witte Corneliszoon de With, naval officer
Cornelis de Witt, naval officer and statesman

Philosophy

Jacobus Arminius, philosopher and theologian
Isaac Beeckman
Evert Willem Beth
Cornelius van Bynkershoek, jurist and legal theorist
Pieter de la Court, economist and political theorist
Herman Dooyeweerd, philosopher, Vrije Universiteit
Desiderius Erasmus, writer, polemicist, humanist, Protestant Reformation
Hugo Grotius, also lawyer, playwright, and poet
François Hemsterhuis
Bernard Mandeville, philosopher, political economist and satirist
Johannes Jacobus Poortman
Johan van den Sande, lawyer and historian
Baruch Spinoza, philosopher
Cornelis Petrus Tiele, theologian and historian of religion

Politics

Before 20th century

Pier Gerlofs Donia, warrior and freedom fighter
William the Silent, stadtholder
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, statesman
Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, general and stadtholder
Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, general and stadtholder
Andries Bicker, regent of Amsterdam, statesman
Cornelis de Graeff, regent of Amsterdam, statesman
Andries de Graeff, regent of Amsterdam, statesman
Jan van Riebeeck, administrator and colonizer of Cape Town
Cornelis de Witt, statesman
Johan de Witt, statesman
William III of Orange, stadtholder and king of England
Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, prime minister

20th and 21st centuries

Dries van Agt, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Barend Biesheuvel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Els Borst, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport
Wouter Bos, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance
Ben Bot, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Hans van den Broek, Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Commissioner
Jo Cals, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Hendrikus Colijn, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Pieter Cort van der Linden, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, first prominent Socialist
Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Wim Duisenberg, Minister of Finance, President of the European Central Bank
Pim Fortuyn, politician, candidate for Prime Minister, assassinated during the 2002 election
Cornelis van Geelkerken, National-Socialist, co-founder of the NSB
Dirk Jan de Geer, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Secretary General of NATO
Hans Janmaat, right-wing nationalist
Piet de Jong, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Wim Kok, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Neelie Kroes, Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, European Commissioner for Competition
Abraham Kuyper, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Ruud Lubbers, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Joseph Luns, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Secretary General of NATO
Victor Marijnen, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Anton Mussert, National-Socialist, founder of the NSB
Pieter Oud, Founder of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
Alexander Pechtold, Minister for Government Reform and Kingdom Relations
Jan Pronk, Minister for Development Cooperation, Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, Head of the United Nations Mission in Sudan
Jan de Quay, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Johan Remkes, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Piet de Ruiter, member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands between 1971 and 1976
Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Secretary General of NATO
Pieter Jelles Troelstra, political activist for universal suffrage
Joop den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Rita Verdonk, Minister for Integration & Immigration
Hans Wiegel, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior, Queen's Commissioner of Friesland
Geert Wilders, prominent critic of Islam
Gerrit Zalm, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance
Jelle Zijlstra, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Alexander Van der Bellen, President of Austria

Royal Family

William I of the Netherlands, King
William II of the Netherlands, King
William III of the Netherlands, King
Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Queen consort, Queen regent
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Queen
Juliana of the Netherlands, Queen
Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Prince-consort
Beatrix of the Netherlands, Queen
Prince Claus, Prince-consort
Princess Irene of the Netherlands
Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
Princess Christina of the Netherlands
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, King
Máxima of the Netherlands, Queen consort
Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau
Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands
Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
Princess Ariane of the Netherlands

Science and technology

Before 20th century

Herman Boerhaave, physician
C.H.D. Buys Ballot, chemist and meteorologist
Ludolph van Ceulen, mathematician
Carolus Clusius, doctor and botanist
Menno van Coehoorn, military engineer
Laurens Janszoon Coster, printer
Cornelius Drebbel, inventor and engineer
Eise Eisinga, astronomer who built a scale of the Solar System in his house
David Fabricius, astronomer
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, German-Polish physicist and engineer, lived most of his life in the Dutch Republic
Regnier de Graaf, physician and anatomist, who made key discoveries in reproductive biology
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, chemist
Coenraad Johannes van Houten, chemist, inventor, known for the Dutch process chocolate
Christiaan Huygens, mathematician and physicist
Constantijn Huygens, Jr., scientific instrument maker, technological chronicler
Jan Ingenhousz, physiologist, botanist and physicist.
Zacharias Janssen, scientific instrument maker from Middelburg, associated with the invention of the first optical telescope
Petrus Jacobus Kipp, chemist, inventor of the Kipp apparatus
Jan Leeghwater, hydraulic engineer and mill builder
Anton van Leeuwenhoek, scientist
Hans Lippershey, inventor and scientific instrument maker, associated with the invention of the first telescope
Pieter van Musschenbroek, Dutch scientist, scientific instrument maker and inventor of Leyden jar
Frederik Ruysch, botanist and anatomist
Marie du Saar, ophthalmologist
Frans van Schooten, mathematician
Willebrord Snell, astronomer and mathematician
Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, mathematician
Simon Stevin, mathematician and engineer
Jan Swammerdam, scientist
Franciscus Sylvius, physician and anatomist
Nicolaes Tulp, physician, surgeon and mayor of Amsterdam
Gustav de Vries, mathematician
Hugo de Vries, geneticist
Johannes Diderik van der Waals, physicist
Nicolaes Witsen, statesman, shipbuilder, geographer and cartographer
Hendrik Zwaardemaker, scientist

20th century

Wiebe Bijker, social scientist
Nicolaas Bloembergen, physicist
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer, mathematician
Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, mathematician
Hendrik Casimir, physicist
Paul J. Crutzen, atmospheric chemist
David van Dantzig, mathematician
Paul Ehrenfest, physicist
Chaim Elata, Israeli professor of mechanical engineering, President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Chairman of the Israel Public Utility Authority for Electricity
George Uhlenbeck, theoretical physicist
Samuel Goudsmit, Dutch-American physicist
Dirk Brouwer, astronomer
Cornelis Johannes van Houten, astronomer
Tom Gehrels, astronomer
Willem Johan Kolff, physician and inventor
Peter Debye, chemist
Robbert Dijkgraaf, physicist
Edsger Dijkstra, computer scientist
David Adriaan van Dorp, chemist
Eugène Dubois, paleontologist and anatomist
Christiaan Eijkman, physician and pathologist
Willem Einthoven, physician
Anthony Fokker, aviation engineer
Valerie Frissen, social scientist
Richard D. Gill, mathematician
Jaap Haartsen, inventor of Bluetooth
Arend Heyting, mathematician
Gerardus 't Hooft, physicist
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, physicist
Jacobus Kapteyn, astronomer
Willem Hendrik Keesom, physicist
Hendrik Anthony Kramers, physicist
Pieter Kok, physicist
Tjalling Koopmans, economist
Gerard Kuiper, astronomer
Hendrik Lorentz, physicist
Arend Lijphart, political scientist
Simon van der Meer, physicist
Bram Moolenaar, computer programmer, author of text-editor Vim
Wubbo Ockels, astronaut
Jan Oort, astronomer
Lou Ottens, inventor of the compact cassette
Anton Pannekoek, astronomer
Guido van Rossum, computer programmer, inventor of the Python programming language
Carel van Schaik, primatologist
Maarten Schmidt, astronomer
Kees Schouhamer Immink, engineer, development of CD, DVD and Blu-ray
Willem de Sitter, mathematician, physicist and astronomer
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer scientist, developer of Minix which inspired Linus Torvalds to write Linux
Hendrik Tennekes, aerodynamics professor
Jan Tinbergen, economist
Nico Tinbergen, ecologist
Martinus J. G. Veltman, physicist
Frans de Waal, primatologist
Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, mathematician
Pieter Zeeman, physicist
Frits Zernike, physicist
Andre Geim, Russian-born British-Dutch physicist
Konstantin Novoselov, Russian-born British physicist, undertook his PhD studies at the University of Nijmegen before moving to the University of Manchester

Sports

Estella Agsteribbe, Olympic champion gymnast
Christijan Albers, Formula 1 driver
Ryan Babel, football player
Raymond van Barneveld, darts player
Marco van Basten, manager and retired football player
Stan van Belkum, water polo player
Xander Bogaerts, MLB player for the Boston Red Sox
Carina Benninga, field hockey player, Olympic champion, bronze
Dennis Bergkamp, manager and retired football player
Juliette Bergmann, IFBB pro bodybuilder
Jorrit Bergsma, speed skater
Det de Beus, field hockey goalkeeper
Fanny Blankers-Koen, athlete
Jan Blokhuijsen, speed skater
Rens Blom, 2005 world champion pole vaulter
Femke Bol, athlete
Frank de Boer, retired football player
Ronald de Boer, retired football player
Floris Jan Bovelander, field hockey player
Mart Bras, water polo player
Jacques Brinkman, field hockey player
Giovanni van Bronckhorst, football player
Inge de Bruijn, swimmer
Roel Buikema, football player
Ton Buunk, water polo player
Johan Cruijff, retired football player and former manager
Edgar Davids, football player
Marc Delissen, field hockey player
Cees Jan Diepeveen, field hockey player
Ellen van Dijk, road and track cyclist, four-time world champion
Sjoukje Dijkstra, figure skater
Robert Doornbos, Formula One driver
Eva Duldig, Austrian-born Australian and Dutch tennis player, author
Francisco Elson, NBA player for Utah Jazz and San Antonio Spurs
Jacco Eltingh, tennis player
Max Euwe, chess player
Didi Gregorius, MLB player for New York Yankees
Louis van Gaal, football player and manager
Dan Gadzuric, NBA player for Milwaukee Bucks
Anton Geesink, judoka
Yuri van Gelder, gymnast
Yvonne van Gennip, speed skater
Stefan Groothuis, speed skater
Anky van Grunsven, dressage
Ruud Gullit, football player and coach
Paul Haarhuis, tennis player
Eddy Hamel, Jewish-American soccer player for Dutch club AFC Ajax who was killed by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp
Willem van Hanegem, football player and coach
Wil Hartog, Grand Prix motorcycle racer
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, football player
John Heitinga, football player
Guus Hiddink, manager and retired football player
Ellen Hoog, field hockey player
Pieter van den Hoogenband, swimmer
Ernesto Hoost, kickboxer
Jan Janssen, cyclist
Bob de Jong, speed skater
Niek Kimmann, champion BMX rider
Jelle Klaasen, darts player
Bep van Klaveren, boxer
Patrick Kluivert, football player
Sjinkie Knegt, short-track speed skater
Ronald Koeman, football player and manager
Ada Kok, swimmer
Richard Krajicek, tennis player
Sven Kramer, speed skater
Ties Kruize, field hockey player
Dirk Kuyt, football player
Nico Landeweerd, water polo player
Ellen van Langen, athlete
Elka de Levie, Olympic champion gymnast
Arie Luyendyk, race car driver
Joost Luiten, golfer
Rie Mastenbroek, swimmer
Loek van Mil, baseball player
Lion van Minden, Olympic fencer, who was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp
Leontien van Moorsel, cyclist
Bob Mulder, football player
Boyito Mulder, figure skater
Dustley Mulder, football player
Eefke Mulder, field hockey player
Erwin Mulder, football player
Jan Mulder, football player
Lau Mulder, field hockey player
Michel Mulder, speed skater
Ronald Mulder, speed skater
Teun Mulder, cyclist
Youri Mulder, football player
Bennie Muller, football player
Ruud van Nistelrooy, football player
Teun de Nooijer, field hockey player
Helena Nordheim, Olympic champion gymnast
Simon Okker, Olympic fencer killed in Auschwitz
Tom Okker, tennis player, won 1973 French Open Men's Doubles, 1976 US Open Men's Doubles, highest world ranking # 3 in singles, and # 1 in doubles
Tinus Osendarp, athlete
Alistair Overeem, MMA fighter and former kickboxer
Mathieu van der Poel, professional cyclist
Robin van Persie, football player
Annie Polak, Olympic champion gymnast
Daniël de Ridder, football player, forward winger/attacking midfielder
Frank Rijkaard, football player and manager
Lucia Rijker, boxer and kickboxer
Dorian van Rijsselberghe, windsurfer
Rintje Ritsma, speed skater
Arjen Robben, football player
Johnny Roeg, football player, striker for Ajax
Gianni Romme, speed skater
Wim Ruska, judoka
Bas Rutten, mixed martial artist
Edwin van der Sar, football player
Ard Schenk, speed skater
Dafne Schippers, athlete
Clarence Seedorf, football player
Aryeh "Arie" Selinger, volleyball player & coach
Avital Selinger, Olympic silver medallist
Gerald Sibon, football player
Judijke Simons, Olympic champion gymnast
Emil Sitoci, pro wrestler
Jan Smeekens, speed skater
Rutger Smith, athlete
Rik Smits, NBA player
Wesley Sneijder, football player
Petra van Staveren, swimmer
Betty Stöve, tennis player
Sjaak Swart, footballer
Bernard D. H. Tellegen, electrical engineer, inventor, known for Tellegen's theorem in circuit theory
Carole Thate, field hockey player
Jan Timman, chess player
Regilio Tuur, boxer
Jochem Uytdehaage, speed skater
Wilma van den Berg, sprinter, competed at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics
Rick VandenHurk, baseball player
Arnold Vanderlyde, boxer
Jim Vandermeer, Dutch-Canadian ice hockey player
Bart Veldkamp, speed skater
Kees Verkerk, speed skater
Martin Verkerk, tennis player
Jos Verstappen, F1 Grand Prix racing driver
Max Verstappen, F1 Grand Prix racing driver
Koen Verweij, speed skater
Bert van Vlaanderen, long-distance runner
Gregory van der Wiel, football player
Harm Wiersma, checkers player
Hans Wouda, water polo player
Marcel Wouda, swimmer
Joop Zoetemelk, cyclist
Epke Zonderland, gymnast
Anish Giri, chess player
Virgil van Dijk, football player
Arne Slot, football manager

Other

Willem Doorn, for 33 years vicar of Nobel Street Church in The Hague
Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Sicily
Pope Adrian VI, pope from 1522 to 1523
Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, oldest person in the world from 29 May 2004 to 30 August 2005
Corrie ten Boom, Christian activist during the Holocaust
Aaron Abbas, Jewish editor and printer
Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, officially first ever validated supercentenarian
Evert Dudok, president of EADS Astrium Space Transportation
Gretta Duisenberg, pro-Palestinian activist and the wife of Wim Duisenberg
Esmée van Eeghen, Dutch resistance member
Jacob Eelkens, first commander of the first Dutch fort in America
Jetske van den Elsen, television presenter
Caro van Eyck, stage and television actress
Ferry Piekart, writer on children's games
Anne Frank, diarist in World War II Amsterdam
Harry Gideonse, American President of Brooklyn College, and Chancellor of the New School for Social Research
Alfred Henry (Freddy) Heineken, commercial mastermind of the Heineken Imperium; grandson of the founder of Heineken
Mata Hari, spy
Frans van der Hoff, co-founder of Max Havelaar, the first Fairtrade certification initiative
Aletta Jacobs, first Dutch female to complete a university degree and the first female physician
Nicolaas Godfried van Kampen Dutch Mennonite deacon
Frederik Lauesen, television presenter
Marinus van der Lubbe, see: Reichstag fire
George Maduro, Dutch Resistance member; the miniature city of Madurodam is named after him, as well as the Maduroplein area in Scheveningen, in The Hague
Adrienne van Melle-Hermans, peace activist
Maria van Pallaes, philanthropist in Utrecht
Anton Philips, co-founder of the Royal Philips Electronics
Gerard Philips, co-founder of the Royal Philips Electronics
Roel Pieper, businessman and professor
Jan Sloot, inventor
Joran van der Sloot, convicted murderer
Peter Stuyvesant, governor of the New Netherland
Jason Walters, sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges related to Islamic terrorism