- Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (June 12, 1929 – early March 1945) was a Jewish girl who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Frank and her family moved to Amsterdam in 1933, after the Nazis gained power in Germany, and were trapped by the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
- Geert Wilders
Geert Wilders (born September 6, 1963 in Venlo) is a Dutch right-wing politician who is best known for his views favoring the restriction of immigration, particularly from non-western countries, his criticism of and opposition to Islam. He is the leader of the Party for Freedom, a party he founded after he left the liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
- Theo van Gogh
Theo van Gogh (July 23, 1957–November 2, 2004) was a Dutch film director, television producer, publicist and actor. He was a descendant of Theo van Gogh, the brother of painter Vincent van Gogh. He was murdered by islamist Mohammed Bouyeri in 2004.
- Theo van Gogh
Theo van Gogh was the younger brother of the painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) and a successful art dealer. Beginning in 1880, Theo's unfailing financial support allowed his brother to devote himself entirely to painting. Theo van Gogh's great-grandson, also named Theo van Gogh, was a film director, famous for his controversial criticism of Islam. He was murdered in 2004, at the age of 47.
- Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (sometimes erroneously pronounced [ˈvɪnsənt væn ˈɡɒf] in British English and [ˈvɪnsənt væn ˈɡoʊ] in US English; the correct Dutch pronunciation is) (30 March 1853 - 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. His paintings and drawings include some of the world's best known, most popular and most expensive pieces. Van Gogh spent his early life working for a firm of art dealers.
- Michael Moore
Michael Moore (born December 4, 1954) is an American-born jazz musician (clarinet, saxophone) and composer who has resided in the Netherlands since 1982.
- Klaas Jan Huntelaar
Klaas Jan Huntelaar (born August 12, 1983 in Drempt, Gelderland, Netherlands) is a Dutch footballer who plays as a striker for Ajax Amsterdam and Netherlands. He is seen as a rising star in Dutch football, having scored 33 goals in the 2005/06 Eredivisie campaign, making him top scorer. His nickname is 'The Hunter' and he has already been compared to the legendary Marco van Basten who is now the current coach of the Dutch national team.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
This individual dismissed Warraq's unique and important collection on apostasy in Islam, because Warraq (and by extension, all Muslim apostates) was (were), '... no longer in the game.' It was astonishing to hear such a glib assessment from a conservative intellectual and self-appointed doyen (subsequently, government-appointed) examining Islamic terrorism.
- Marco van Basten
Marcel ("Marco") van Basten (October 31, 1964 in Oog in Al, Utrecht) is a Dutch football manager, currently in charge of the Dutch national team. Previously, he was a football player who played for Ajax Amsterdam and A.C. Milan in the 1980s and early 1990s. He is regarded as one of the finest strikers of all time and scored 276 goals in a career cut short by injury. Known for his strength on the ball, his tactical awareness and spectacular strikes and volleys, …
- Ruud van Nistelrooy
Rutgerus Johannes Martinius van Nistelrooy (originally spelled "Van Nistelrooij") (born July 1, 1976 in Oss, North Brabant) is a Dutch footballer who plays in the position of centre forward for Real Madrid and the the Dutch national team. He has previously starred for Manchester United, where he holds the record for being the club's top scorer in European competition.
- Guus Hiddink
Guus Hiddink (born 8 November 1946 in Varsseveld) is a Dutch football manager. He managed PSV Eindhoven between 2002-2006. Throughout his entire managerial career, he is best recognised for leading South Korea to a 4th place finish in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, managing the Netherlands into the same position in the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France, …
- Armin van Buuren
Armin van Buuren (b. December 25, 1976) is a renowned trance music DJ and producer hailing from Leiden, the Netherlands. He is currently ranked #3 worldwide according to The DJ List, the world's largest DJ directory. However in 2006, he placed 2nd in DJ Mag's annual Top 100 vote.
- Marvin Emnes
Marvin Emnes (born 27 May 1988 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch football player, currently playing for Sparta Rotterdam.
- Jan Peter Balkenende
Jan Peter Balkenende (born May 7, 1956) is Prime Minister of the Netherlands since July 22, 2002.
- Pim Fortuyn
Wilhelmus Simon Petrus (Pim) Fortuyn, (February 19, 1948 – May 6, 2002), was a controversial, openly gay, charismatic populistic right-wing politician in the Netherlands who formed his own party "Lijst Pim Fortuyn" (List Pim Fortuyn or LPF). He was assassinated during the 2002 Dutch national election campaign by animal rights activist Volkert van der Graaf, …
- Harry Mulisch
Harry Mulisch (born July 29, 1927) is a Dutch author. Along with W.F. Hermans and Gerard Reve, he is considered one of the "Great Three" of Dutch postwar literature. He has written novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections.
- Arjen Robben
Arjen Robben is a rare breed in modern day football. There may be many fast attacking midfielders nowadays, but very few are as capable as Robben is of dribbling the ball with such class inside the box and changing the pace of the game in such a way that thwarts any defenders attempts to steal the ball. He has a phenomenal knack for scoring and is an excellent shot, which also make deadly from outside the box.
- Wesley Sneijder
Wesley Sneijder (born June 9 1984 in Utrecht) is a Dutch professional footballer who is currently contracted to Ajax Amsterdam. He is also a regular member of the Dutch national team. Sneijder previously played for DOS Utrecht.
- Gerard Reve
Gerard Kornelis van het Reve (born December 14, 1923 in Amsterdam, Netherlands - died April 8, 2006 in Zulte, Belgium) was a Dutch writer publishing first under the names Simon van het Reve, Darger Taveherven (an anagram) and his official name, although he became known as Gerard Reve. Together with W.F. Hermans and Harry Mulisch, he is considered one of the "Great Three" of Dutch post-war literature.
- Robin van Persie
Robin van Persie (born August 6, 1983 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch footballer currently playing at English Premier League team Arsenal as a striker. He can play as a striker (as he normally does for Arsenal) or on either wing, as he primarily does for the Netherlands. He is also a free kick specialist. Van Persie was brought up in the Kralingen area of east Rotterdam.
- Hugo Claus
Hugo Maurice Julien Claus is a prolific Flemish novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director. He is considered to be one of the most important contemporary Dutch language authors. Hugo Claus was born in Bruges. Under the pseudonym Dorothea van Male, he published the novel Schola Nostra (1971). He also used the pseudonyms Jan Hyoens and Thea Streiner. In 1983, he published "Het verdriet van België" ("The Sorrow of Belgium"), …
- Dennis Bergkamp
Dennis Nicolaas Maria Bergkamp (born May 10, 1969 in Amsterdam) is a retired Dutch professional footballer. At club level he played for Ajax Amsterdam, Internazionale, Arsenal and also represented the Netherlands at international level. Bergkamp played most of his best games as a support striker, where his tactical awareness and deft passes made him a great exponent of the game from the 'hole'.
- Jan Smit
Jan Smit (born December 31 1985 in Volendam), is a Dutch singer. He scored his first number one position in the Dutch charts in 1997, with "Ik zing dit lied voor jou alleen". Being 12 years of age back then, he still called himself Jantje Smit(Little Jan Smit). 1997-1999 Breaktrough'. Smit was discovered by BZN, who used his vocals in a duet called "Mama". He has released several albums in Dutch and German since.
- Jan Smit
Jan Smit is a Dutch theoretical physicist. During his PhD at UCLA with professor Finkelstein he made some early contributions to lattice formulation of quantum field theory around 1972, which was a year before Kenneth Wilson, and two years before Alexander Polyakov. However, he encountered some problems with fermion doubling which he could not solve at the moment.
- Joran van der Sloot
Joran Andreas Petrus van der Sloot (b. August 6, 1987 in Arnhem, Netherlands) is a Dutch college student who lived in Aruba. He was held in the Aruba prison for three months on suspicion of involvement in the disappearance of American Natalee Holloway on May 30, 2005. However, he was not, and has not been, charged with any offense. In the early hours of the morning that Holloway (18) disappeared, she left with Van der Sloot (then aged 17) and two of his friends, …
- Rem Koolhaas
Remment Koolhaas (born November 17 1944 in Rotterdam) 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 first studied scriptwriting at the Dutch Film Academy, and was then a journalist for the "Haagse Post" before starting studies, in 1968, in architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, followed, …
- Rafael van der Vaart
Rafael Ferdinand van der Vaart (born 11 February 1983) is a Dutch footballer who captains Bundesliga side Hamburger SV and plays for the Dutch national team. Van der Vaart was born to a Spanish mother and a Dutch father in Heemskerk, in North Holland. He has scored 11 goals in 44 caps for the national team. His previous clubs were Ajax and De Kennemers in his hometown of Heemskerk. Van der Vaart played for the Netherlands in Euro 2004 and in the 2006 World Cup.
- Hella Haasse
Hella Serafia Haasse (born 2 February 1918 in Batavia) is one of the most important modern Dutch writers. She is often called the Grand Old Lady of Dutch literature. Many of her works are historical novels, but she has also produced essays, autobiographical material, short stories, etc. Some of her work, such as her debut "Oeroeg", is set in the Dutch East Indies, where she was born and lived during the first 20 years of her life.
- Frans Bauer
Frans Bauer (Roosendaal, 30 December 1973) is a Dutch singer of "het levenslied" (Dutch folk music).
- Kate Ryan
Kate Ryan, born Katrien Verbeeck on July 22, 1980, in Tessenderlo, Belgium to Dutch parents, is a Belgian pop music singer/songwriter.
- Jeroen van der Veer
</gallery>;Jeroen van der Veer (born October 27, 1947 in Utrecht, Netherlands) is the CEO of oil company Royal Dutch Shell. Van der Veer joined Shell in 1971 where he worked in manufacturing and marketing in the Netherlands, Curaçao and the United Kingdom. Van der Veer graduated in 1971 from Delft University with a MSc in mechanical engineering and went on to earn a MSc in economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.
- Ferry Corsten
Ferry Corsten (born December 4 1973 in Rotterdam, Netherlands) is an early pioneer and producer of trance, in addition to being a world-renowed DJ and remixer.
- Dirk Kuyt
Dirk Kuyt, officially spelled Dirk Kuijt, (born July 22 1980, in Katwijk aan Zee) is a Dutch professional football player, who currently plays for English club Liverpool FC. A fan favourite, he plays in the position of striker and is known for his high work-rate and team play. In his early career, and often for the Dutch national team, Kuyt has played on the wing.
- Frans Hals
Frans Hals (c. 1580 - August 26, 1666) was a Dutch painter during the Dutch Golden Age. As a portrait painter, considered by some as second in Holland only to Rembrandt, he displayed extraordinary talent and quickness in his art.
- Frank Rijkaard
Franklin Edmundo "Frank" Rijkaard (born September 30, 1962 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch football manager and former player. Rijkaard has played for AFC Ajax, Real Zaragoza and AC Milan, and represented his national side 73 times, scoring 10 goals. Since 2003 he has been the manager of FC Barcelona. He is of Surinamese descent.
- Ryan Babel
Ryan Guno Babel (born December 19, 1986 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch professional football player who currently plays for Liverpool. He is right footed and plays as a striker or a left winger. He has been a member of the Netherlands national football team since 2005
- Paul Verhoeven
Paul Verhoeven (born July 18, 1938 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He filmed in both the Netherlands and the United States. Explicitly violent and sexual content are trademarks of both his drama and science fiction films. He is best known for directing the American feature films "RoboCop" (1987), "Total Recall" (1990), "Basic Instinct" (1992), and "Starship Troopers" (1997).
- M. C. Escher
Maurits Cornelis Escher (June 17 1898 - March 27 1972), usually referred to as M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints which feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations.
- Foekje Dillema
Foekje Dillema, born on September 18, 1926 in Burum, the Netherlands. Dillema became world famous when she received the title "athlete of the match" in 1949 after having a fabulous sprint on the 200 meter during a tournament in London. She was an important competitor for another famous Dutch athlete Fanny Blankers-Koen, who won four golden medals during the 1948 Summer Olympics and became "Athlete of The Century" in 1999.
- Wouter Bos
Drs. Wouter Jacob Bos (born July 14, 1963 in Vlaardingen) is the Dutch Minister of Finance and deputy prime minister. He is political leader of the Labour Party (PvdA).