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

Jay-Roy Jornell Grot is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a Striker or right winger for Leeds United. He also plays for Netherlands U21's.

Marita Kramer is a Dutch born Austrian ski jumper.

Kevin Diks Bakarbessy is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a full-back for Danish Superliga club F.C. Copenhagen.

Edward Gal is a Dutch dressage rider. He and the stallion Totilas, were triple gold medalists at the 2010 FEI World Equestrian Games, becoming the first horse-rider partnership ever to sweep the three available dressage gold medals at a single FEI World Games. Going into the 2010 Games, they had amassed multiple world-record scores in international competition, leading one American journalist to call them "rock stars in the horse world". After the World Equestrian Games, Totilas was sold to German trainer Paul Schockemöhle. Gal continues to be successful training and competing dressage horses at the international level.

Fredericus (Fred) Jacobus Rutten is a football coach and a former footballer. As a player, Rutten spent his entire career with Twente during the years 1979 to 1992. Following his playing career he also managed FC Twente, before moving on to clubs like FC Schalke 04, PSV, Vitesse Arnhem, Feyenoord, Al Shabab, Maccabi Haifa and more recently Anderlecht.

Robert Hans van Gulik was a Dutch orientalist, diplomat, musician, and writer, best known for the Judge Dee historical mysteries, the protagonist of which he borrowed from the 18th-century Chinese detective novel Dee Goong An.

Willie Smits is a trained forester, a microbiologist, conservationist, animal rights activist, wilderness engineer and social entrepreneur. He has lived in Indonesia since 1985 and is an Indonesian citizen. He is married to Adrienne C. Watson since March 2016.

Andy van der Meijde, anglicised to van der Meyde is a Dutch retired footballer who played as a winger.

Nacer Barazite is a Dutch professional footballer who can play either as an attacking midfielder or striker. Most recently, he played for Thai club Buriram United.