List of Famous people born in Kingdom of the Netherlands
Frans Wiertz
Franciscus Jozef Maria (Frans) Wiertz is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was bishop of Roermond from 1993 until 2017.
Bartholomeus van der Helst
Bartholomeus van der Helst was a Dutch painter. Considered to be one of the leading portrait painters of the Dutch Golden Age, his elegant portraits gained him the patronage of Amsterdam's elite as well as the Stadtholder's circle. Besides portraits, van der Helst painted a few genre pictures as well as some biblical scenes and mythological subjects.
Anne Sjerp Troelstra
Anne Sjerp Troelstra was a professor of pure mathematics and foundations of mathematics at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam.
Ben van Berkel
Ben van Berkel is a Dutch architect; founder and principal architect of the architectural practice UNStudio. With his studio he designed, among others, the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam, the Moebius House in the Netherlands, the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, Arnhem Central Station, the Singapore University of Architecture and Design, Raffles City in Hangzhou and numerous other buildings.
Job Cohen
Marius Job Cohen is a retired Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and jurist.
Peter Klashorst
Peter Klashorst is a Dutch painter, sculptor, and photographer.
Frederik Ruysch
Frederik Ruysch was a Dutch botanist and anatomist. He is known for developing techniques for preserving anatomical specimens, which he used to create dioramas or scenes incorporating human parts. His anatomical preparations included over 2,000 anatomical, pathological, zoological, and botanical specimens, which were preserved by either drying or embalming. Ruysch is also known for his proof of valves in the lymphatic system, the vomeronasal organ in snakes, and arteria centralis oculi. He was the first to describe the disease that is today known as Hirschsprung's disease, as well as several pathological conditions, including intracranial teratoma, enchondromatosis, and Majewski syndrome.
Lambert Doomer
Lambert Doomer was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
Rogier van Otterloo
Willem Rogier van Otterloo was a Dutch composer and conductor.
Martin Koolhoven
Martinus Wouter "Martin" Koolhoven is a Dutch film director and screenwriter. Internationally he is most known for Schnitzel Paradise (2005), Winter in Wartime (2008) and Brimstone (2016), which was his first film in English. It was released in 2017, after it premiered in the competition of the Venice Film Festival in 2016.