Meierijstad
Meierijstad is a municipality in the Dutch province of North Brabant. The municipality is the result of a merger between the municipalities Schijndel, Sint-Oedenrode and Veghel in 2017. After the merger it became North Brabant's largest municipality in terms of land area. The town of Veghel hosts the town hall, while the municipal council holds its meetings at the former town hall of Sint-Oedenrode.
Population centres
Topography
''Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Meierijstad, 2020''Notable people
- Hendrik Herp a Dutch or Flemish Franciscan and a writer on mysticism
- Pieter de Josselin de Jong Dutch painter from North Brabant
- Lou Tellegen Dutch stage and film actor, film director and screenwriter
- Ton Smits Dutch cartoonist and comic artist
- Els Coppens-van de Rijt artist and author from Vlierden
- Anton Berns Dutch scientist researching molecular genetics
- Hein Van de Geyn jazz double bassist, composer and band leader
- Winy Maas Dutch architect, landscape architect, professor and urbanist
- Nikki Kerkhof Dutch pop singer
- Sophie Bongers stage name Sophie Francis, Dutch record producer, DJ and musician, brought up in Sint-Oedenrode
Sport
- Wiljan Vloet Dutch football manager
- Monique Kalkman-Van Den Bosch Dutch wheelchair tennis player
- Eric Verhagen Dutch retired sidecarcross passenger and double World Champion.
- Rein van Duijnhoven Dutch former football goalkeeper with over 500 club caps
- Anky van Grunsven Dutch dressage champion with nine Olympic medals from seven successive games
- Jack de Gier Dutch former footballer with over 400 club caps and current manager of Go Ahead Eagles
- Earnie Stewart American retired soccer player with 474 club caps and the sporting director of U.S. Soccer
- Stefan Jansen Dutch former football striker with over 330 club caps
- Dillianne van den Boogaard Dutch former field hockey defender, twice team bronze medallist in the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics
- Theo Lucius Dutch former footballer with 402 club caps
- Marloes Keetels Dutch field hockey player, team silver medallist at the 2016 Summer Olympics