- Frits Philips
Frederik ("Frits") Jacques Philips (Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 16 April 1905 - Eindhoven, 5 December 2005) was the fourth chairman of the board of directors of Dutch electronics company Philips.
- Phillip Cocu
Phillip John William Cocu (born October 29 1970 in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant) is a retired Dutch football midfielder who ended his spell with PSV Eindhoven at the end of season 2006-2007. He was an incredibly versatile midfielder, being able to play anywhere in defence, midfield and as a second striker. He was also a scorer of many goals and is also really good at defending. He usually played a central playmaker role who dictates his teams play.
- Otman Bakkal
Otman Bakkal (born February 27, 1985 in Eindhoven) is a Dutch footballer of Moroccan origin who plays for PSV Eindhoven. Bakkal also plays for the Netherlands national under-21 football team. His former club are FC Den Bosch, and he was on loan to FC Twente. In 2007 Bakkal was called up by Jong Oranje coach Foppe de Haan to be part of his squad for the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship held in the Netherlands.
- Inge de Bruijn
Inge de Bruijn (born August 24, 1973) is a former Dutch swimmer, and a four-time Olympic champion.
- Klaas-Erik Zwering
Klaas-Erik Zwering (born May 19, 1981 in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant) is a former Dutch swimmer and an Olympic medalist. He is currently studying MBO entrepreneurship as he trained in Eindhoven with the PSV Eindhoven swim club. His personal coach was Jacco Verhaeren, who is also coach for Dutch swimming phenom Pieter van den Hoogenband. Zwering originally specialized in the 200 meter backstroke, …
- Sander van Doorn
Sander van Doorn (b. Sander Ketelaars) is a Dutch trance music DJ and producer. He was born in Eindhoven in the Netherlands on February 28th, 1979. He is currently listed as the #32 top DJ in the world by DJMag. Sander hosts an internet radio show every 4th Wednesday of the month on Digitally Imported radio.
- Marcel Wouda
Marcel Reinier Wouda (January 23, 1972 in Tilburg, Noord-Brabant) is a Dutch former swimmer, who became Holland's first world champion when he won the world title in the 200m individual medley at the FINA 1998 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Australia. Wouda grew up in Uden, where he joined the 'De Zeester' swimming club at a very young age. His trainers were Martien Swinkels and Rob Kennis, who brought him to the top of Dutch swimming.
- Rob Maas
Rob Maas (born 17 December 1969) is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for Heracles Almelo. Maas was born in Eindhoven and made his debut in professional football in the 1989-90 season when playing for FC Eindhoven. He also played competitive matches for RKC Waalwijk, Feyenoord Rotterdam, Arminia Bielefeld, Hertha BSC and MSV Duisburg.
- Hinkelien Schreuder
Hinkelien Schreuder (born February 13, 1984 in Goor) is a medley and backstroke swimmer from The Netherlands, who also competed in the freestyle events. She's currently living in Eindhoven, where she is studying physiotherapy, and is training at the same club as multiple Olympic champion Pieter van den Hoogenband. In 1999 Schreuder made her international debut at the European Junior Championships in Moscow.
- Maarten Baas
Dutch designer Maarten Baas was born on the 19th of February 1978 in Arnsberg (Germany) and from 1979 grew up in Burgh-Haamstede and Hemmen in the south and centre part of the Netherlands. Graduated from highschool he started to study at Design Academy Eindhoven in 1996. Still in school his first design, candleholder “Knuckle”, was taken in production bij Pol’s Potten. He also sold the first unique-piece of the now well known “Hey, chair, …
- Peter Koelewijn
Peter Koelewijn (born 29 december, 1940 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands) 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" ('Come Off Of That Roof'). Peter Koelewijn was born on the 29 December, the son of a fishmonger in the southern Dutch city of Eindhoven. At the age of thirteen he received his first guitar.
- Christijan Albers
Christijan Albers (born April 16, 1979 in Eindhoven) is a Dutch racing driver. After success in the DTM he drove in Formula One from 2005 until the 2007 British Grand Prix, shortly after which he was dropped by his Spyker F1 team.
- Paul Verhaegh
Paul Verhaegh (born 1 September 1983 in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant) is a Dutch footballer who plays right back for Vitesse Arnhem and the Netherlands U-21 team. He began his career at PSV Eindhoven, making 33 league appearances while on loan at AGOVV Apeldoorn. He then moved to F.C. Den Bosch in 2004, making 32 league appearances, before finally moving to Vitesse after the 2004-05 season. He was a member of the Dutch squad that won the UEFA U-21 Championship in 2006.
- Olaf Wildeboer
Olaf Wildeboer is a freestyle swimmer. He is of Dutch origin. His parents, both born and raised in Holland, moved to Spain in 1978, and settled in Sabadell, where his father Paulus Wildeboer became the head coach of the local swimming club, called "Club Natación Sabadell". There both Olaf and his younger brother Aschwin, a backstroke swimmer, were raised. They both represented Spain at the 2004 Summer Olympics, …
- Richard Hutten
Richard Hutten (born: 1967 Zwollerkerspel, The Netherlands) is a Dutch designer. Hutten started his own design studio in 1991 in Rotterdam after graduating from the Academy for Industrial Design in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Hutten's work is part of the permanent collections of the Centraal Museum Utrecht, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
- Lenny Kuhr
Lenny Kuhr (born February 22, 1950 in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant) is a Dutch singer-songwriter. In 1967 she started a singing career in the Netherlands, performing songs in the French chanson tradition. In 1969 she represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest with her own composition "De Troubadour" (lyrics by David Hartsema; orchestra conducted by Franz de Kok). She was one of the four winners that year.
- Patrick Lodewijks
Patrick Lodewijks (born February 21, 1967 in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant) is a former Dutch goalkeeper. Lodewijks played for PSV (1987 - 1989 and 1998 - 2002), FC Groningen (1989 - 1998) and Feyenoord (2002 - 2007). Lodewijks made his debut for PSV on April 23, 1988 (FC Groningen - PSV, 0-2). His first match for Feyenoord was on November 3, 2002, also away at FC Groningen, also ending in a 0-2 victory.
- Anton Philips
Anton Frederik Philips co-founded Royal Philips Electronics N.V. in 1891 with his brother Gerard Philips in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He served as CEO of the company from 1922 to 1939. During World War I, he managed to increase his sales by taking advantage of a boycott of German goods in several countries, providing them with substitute products. He died in Eindhoven in 1951. He was a cousin of Karl Marx.
- Tim Janssen
Tim Janssen (born 6 March 1986) is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for RKC Waalwijk. Janssen is a striker who was born in Eindhoven and made his debut in the professional football squad of FC Zwolle in the 2004-05 season. He also played for FC Eindhoven before joining RKC Waalwijk.
- Mitja Zastrow
Mitja Kolia Zastrow is a Dutch swimmer and an Olympic medalist. Originally from Germany, Zastrow was born and raised in Wuppertal, near Düsseldorf. He became a naturalized Dutch citizen in July 2003, after a conflict with the German Swimming Association. He currently trains at PSV Eindhoven in Eindhoven, Netherlands, with his coach, Torsten Petsch. Zastrow's swimming career has been filled with a series of unfortunate injuries.
- Robert Fuchs
Robert Fuchs (born 15 February 1975) is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for RKC Waalwijk. Fuchs is a midfielder who was born in Eindhoven and made his debut in professional football, being part of the PSV Eindhoven squad in the 1993-94 season. He also played for De Graafschap before joining RKC Waalwijk.
- Jan de Bont
Jan de Bont (born October 22, 1943) is a Dutch cinematographer, producer, and film director. De Bont was born, one of 17 children, to a Roman Catholic family in Eindhoven, Netherlands. He first came to fame in the Netherlands as the cinematographer for the 1973 movie "Turkish Delight", directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Rutger Hauer and Monique van de Ven. Since the early 1980s, he worked frequently in Hollywood.
- Hans Segers
Hans Segers (born October 30, 1961 in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant) is a Dutch goalkeeper, who is famous for his playing career in England. His early career was with PSV Eindhoven, before being signed for Nottingham Forest by Brian Clough during 1984. Although he played four seasons with Nottingham Forest, his final season included loan spells with Sheffield United, Stoke City and Dunfermline Athletic.
- Paul Haarhuis
Paul Vincent Nicholas Haarhuis (born February 19, 1966) is a Dutch former professional tennis player. He is a former world number one doubles player. He won six Grand Slam men's doubles titles, five with Jacco Eltingh and one with Yevgeny Kafelnikov.
- Marcel de Jong
Marcel De Jong (born 15 October, 1986 in Newmarket, Ontario) is a Canadian soccer player. De Jong plays for Roda JC in the Netherlands league. His first game for Canada was on April 26, 2004, and has played 13 youth international caps, scoring his only goal in a 4-1 loss against Italy in the World Youth Championship of Soccer. He currently lives in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
- Pierre Cuypers
Petrus Josephus Hubertus (Pierre) Cuypers (May 16 1827, Roermond - March 3, 1921, Roermond) was a Dutch architect. His name is most frequently associated with the Amsterdam Central Station (1881-1889) and the Rijksmuseum (1876-1885), both in Amsterdam. More representative for his oeuvre, however, are a lot of churches, of which he built more than 100. Moreover, he restored a large number of monuments.
- Leon Kantelberg
Leon Kantelberg (born 15 July 1978 in Eindhoven, Netherlands) is a football midfielder from Netherlands Antilles, who currently plays in the Netherlands for Eerste Divisie team VVV Venlo.
- Adriaen van Ostade
Adriaen van Ostade was a Dutch genre painter.
- Ed Warby
Edward R. Warby (born: 7 March 1968) was born and raised in Rotterdam. He is best known as the drummer for Gorefest and Ayreon. He also appeared in the band Agressor in 1982 and joined the Eindhoven-based prog-outfit Elegy in 1987. <br /> Very recognizable in an era of metal when triggered drums were not very common and tempo quantization/edit was impossible, Ed Warby was (and is) astonishingly precise, with a very incisive and fluid technique, …
- Sander van der Weide
Sander Petrus Henricus van der Weide (born June 21, 1976 in Boxtel, Noord-Brabant) is a field hockey player from the Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch team that won the golden medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The defender made his debut on November 13, 1996 in a friendly against Germany in Eindhoven. He played in the Dutch League for HC Den Bosch and Amsterdam, before moving to Spain in the summer of 2004, just after the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, …
- Cor Vriend
Cornelis ("Cor") Wilhelmus Pieter Vriend (born November 8, 1949 in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant) is a former long-distance runner from the Netherlands, who mainly competed in the marathon. He participated in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country; in 1980 (Moscow, 41st place) and 1984 (Los Angeles, 39th place). During the early 1980s he was overshadowed by his fellow countryman Gerard Nijboer. Vriend twice won the Amsterdam Marathon, in 1983 and 1984. <br
- Jochem de Gruijter
Jochem de Gruijter (born April 18, 1978 in Leidschendam, Zuid-Holland) is a volleyball player from the Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch national men's team that won the gold medal at the 1997 European Championships om home soil (Eindhoven and Den Bosch). De Gruijter made his international debut for the Netherlands in 1995 against Italy. He obtained a total number of 120 caps for the national team. Later on he started a career in beach volleyball, …
- Theo Eltink
Theo Eltink (born November 27 1981 in Eindhoven) is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Rabobank.
- Tineke Bartels
Martina ("Tineke") Maria Anna Antonia Bartels-de Vries (born February 6, 1951 in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant) is an equestrian from The Netherlands, who won the silver medal in the Team Dressage Event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. She did so alongside Annemarie Sanders, Ellen Bontje, and Anky van Grunsven. In the Individual Competition she finished in fifteenth position.
- Rob Reckers
Rob Reckers (born August 29, 1981 in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant) is a field hockey player from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal with the Dutch national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. The striker made his debut on May 1, 2002 in a friendly match against Germany. He plays for Oranje Zwart in the Dutch League ("Hoofdklasse"), and scored twice in the final (best-of-three) of the 2004-2005 saison against HC Bloemendaal, …
- Dorette Corbey
Dorette Corbey (born 19 July 1957 in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant) is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Partij van de Arbeid (Dutch Labour Party), which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. She is also a substitute for the Committee on Industry, …
- Joost Swarte
Joost Swarte (born 24 December, 1947, Heemstede) is a Dutch comic artist and graphical designer. He is best known for his ligne claire or "clear line" style of drawing, and in fact coined the term. Joost Swarte studied industrial design in Eindhoven and started drawing comics in the late sixties. In 1971 he started his own comic magazine 'Modern Papier' and made regular contributions to the Dutch comic magazine 'Tante Leny Presenteert'.
- Henk Duut
Henk Duut (born 14 January, 1964 in Rotterdam) is a retired Dutch footballer who was active as a defender. Currently he is active as an assistent manager at Feyenoord Rotterdam. Duut started his football career at amateur side Transvalia ZW in his hometown Rotterdam before being scouted by Feyenoord. At Feyenoord he made his professional debut on 13 March 1982 when Feyenoord won 1-2 in Eindhoven against PSV.
- Jan Snijders
Jan Snijders (born September 14, 1943 in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant) is a retired judoka from the Netherlands. Together with his twin brother Peter Snijders, Anton Geesink, Hein Essink, Tonni Wagenaar, Coos Bontje, Jan van Ierland, Martin Poglajen, Joop Gouweleeuw, Wim Ruska, Ernst Eugster, Henk Numan, Peter Adelaar, Willy Wilhelm, Ben Spijkers, Anthony Wurth and Theo Meyer he belongs to the generation of Dutch top judoka which gained their successes in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Jules de Corte
Julius (Jules) de Corte (March 29 1924, Deurne - February 16 1996, Eindhoven) was a famous blind singer-songwriter from the Netherlands.