List of Famous people born in Kingdom of the Netherlands

Frans Wiertz

Franciscus Jozef Maria Wiertz
First Name Frans
Born on December 2, 1942 (age 83)

Franciscus Jozef Maria (Frans) Wiertz is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was bishop of Roermond from 1993 until 2017.

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Bartholomeus van der Helst

First Name Bartholomeus
Born on January 1, 1613
Died on December 16, 1670 (aged 57)

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.

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Anne Sjerp Troelstra

First Name Anne
Last Name Troelstra
Born on August 10, 1939
Died on March 7, 2019 (aged 79)

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.

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Ben van Berkel

First Name Ben
Last Name Berkel
Born on January 25, 1957 (age 69)

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.

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Job Cohen

First Name Job
Last Name Cohen
Born on October 18, 1947 (age 78)

Marius Job Cohen is a retired Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and jurist.

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Peter Klashorst

Peter Klashorst is a Dutch painter, sculptor, and photographer.

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Frederik Ruysch

First Name Frederik
Died on February 22, 1731

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.

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Lambert Doomer

First Name Lambert
Last Name Doomer
Born on February 11, 1624
Died on July 2, 1700 (aged 76)

Lambert Doomer was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.

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Rogier van Otterloo

First Name Rogier
Last Name Otterloo
Born on December 11, 1941
Died on January 29, 1988 (aged 46)

Willem Rogier van Otterloo was a Dutch composer and conductor.

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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.

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