List of Famous people born in Kingdom of the Netherlands
Jakob Gronovius
Jacobus Gronovius a.k.a. Jacob Gronow was a Dutch classical scholar.
Laurens Bicker
Gerard de Korte
Gerard Johannes Nicolaus de Korte is a Dutch Roman Catholic clergyman. He has been bishop of the diocese of Groningen-Leeuwarden since 13 September 2008. Before that he was auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Utrecht and dean of the deanery IJsellanden. His motto is Confidens in Christo.
Milan van Weelden
Hessel van der Kooij
Hessel van der Kooij is a popular Dutch singer. He is best known as Hessel, but has also recorded as Ray Maccannon.
Victor de Stuers
Victor Eugène Louis de Stuers was a Dutch art historian, lawyer, civil servant and politician. He was highly active in the cultural field – he is widely regarded as the father of historic preservation in the Netherlands, played a notable part in keeping Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring in the Netherlands and chose the architect Pierre Cuypers to design the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
Jacob Willemsz Delff
Jacob Willemszoon Delff the Elder, was a portrait painter active in Delft. He is known by a picture of an 'Archery-feast' in the Hotel de Ville at Delft, dated 1592; and by a Reconciliation of Esau and Jacob, in the Belvedere at Vienna, bearing the date 1584. He also painted The Sportsman's Dinner, and a portrait group of his family. His works display good conception and execution, but are somewhat heavy in colouring.
Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp
Jacob Gerritszoon Cuyp was a portrait and landscape painter, best known for his portraits. He was born and died in Dordrecht, and was the son of the stained glass designer Gerrit Gerritsz Cuyp, who moved to Dordrecht from Venlo. He was the half-brother of Benjamin Gerritsz Cuyp and the father of the much more famous Aelbert Cuyp.
Reinier van Oldenbarnevelt
Reinier van Oldenbarnevelt, lord of Groeneveld, was a Dutch political figure.
John Rädecker
John Rädecker was a painter and sculptor from the northern Netherlands, best known for his Monument on the Dam.