List of Famous people born in Friesland, Kingdom of the Netherlands

Marius Hugh Louis Wilhelm Blokzijl or Max Blokzijl; 20 December 1884 – 16 March 1946) was a Dutch singer and journalist. After the German occupation of the Netherlands Blokzijl was sentenced to death and executed for his collaboration with Nazi Germany.

Hotze "Harry" Koch was a Dutch-born American businessman who founded the Quanah Tribune-Chief newspaper. He was the father of Fred C. Koch (1900–1967), founder of Koch Industries.

Abe Minderts Lenstra was a Dutch football player and national football icon in the 1950s who played as a forward. He is regarded as one of the greatest players ever to hail from the Netherlands. He was also a Frisian legend, most notably with the club where he made his name as a football player, Heerenveen.

Halbe Zijlstra is a retired Dutch politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 26 October 2017 to 13 February 2018 in the Third Rutte cabinet. He is a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).

Ids Hylke Postma is a Dutch former speed skater. He is an Olympic gold medalist and former world champion.

Nyck de Vries is a Dutch racing driver currently competing in 2020-21 Formula E season for Mercedes-Benz EQ Formula E Team. He won the 2019 FIA Formula 2 Championship as well as the 2010 and 2011 Karting World Championships and in 2014 the Formula Renault 2.0 Alps and Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup Championships. He was signed to the McLaren young driver programme from January 2010 until May 2019 and Audi Sport racing academy from October 2016 until August 2019.

Doutzen Kroes is a Dutch model, actress, and philanthropist. She began her modelling career in 2003, in the Netherlands and was quickly sent by her agency to New York where she was cast by lingerie brand Victoria’s Secret. She was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 2008 until 2014. She has been a brand ambassador for L'Oréal Paris since 2006. Kroes has been one of the highest-paid models, with an estimated income of more than $5 million per year, since 2008. In 2014, she came in second on the Forbes top-earning models list, estimated to have earned $8 million in one year. As of December 2015, she was ranked as one of the "New Supers" in the fashion industry and dubbed "Helen of Troy of advertising" by Models.com. In 2013, she became the first model to land four different solo international covers of Vogues September issue in a single year.

Epke Jan Zonderland is a Dutch gymnast and 2012 Olympics gold medalist on the high bar. He has also won three World Championships titles on the high bar, at the 2013, 2014, and 2018 World Championships, the first man to achieve the feat on the apparatus. He is nicknamed "The Flying Dutchman.”

Maurits Cornelis Escher was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. Despite wide popular interest, Escher was for long somewhat neglected in the art world, even in his native Netherlands. He was 70 before a retrospective exhibition was held. In the late twentieth century, he became more widely appreciated, and in the twenty-first century he has been celebrated in exhibitions across the world.

Saskia van Uylenburgh was the wife of painter Rembrandt van Rijn. In the course of her life, she was his model for some of his paintings, drawings and etchings. She was the daughter of Rombertus Uylenburg, the mayor as well as the justice of the Court of Friesland.