List of Famous people born in Kingdom of the Netherlands

Gale Bruno van Albada

First Name Gale
Last Name Albada
Born on March 28, 1912
Died on December 18, 1972 (aged 60)

Gale Bruno van Albada was a Dutch astronomer, known for his orbital observations of binary stars and studies on the evolution of galaxy clusters.

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Ben Van Os

First Name Ben
Last Name Os
Born on December 1, 1944
Died on July 2, 2012 (aged 67)

Ben Van Os was a Dutch production designer and art director. He received two Academy Award for Best Art Direction nominations for his works in Orlando (1993) and Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003). The latter of which also earned him a BAFTA Award for Best Production Design nomination.

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Dov Frohman

First Name Dov
Last Name Frohman
Born on March 28, 1939 (age 87)

Dov Frohman is an Israeli electrical engineer and business executive. A former vice president of Intel Corporation, he is the inventor of the erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM) and the founder and first general manager of Intel Israel. He is also the author of Leadership the Hard Way.

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Jacques Hanegraaf

Jacobus Johannes Henricus Hanegraaf
First Name Jacques
Last Name Hanegraaf
Born on December 14, 1960 (age 65)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Jacobus Johannes Henricus "Jacques" Hanegraaf is a retired road bicycle racer from the Netherlands, who was a professional rider from 1981 to 1994. He twice won the Dutch title in the men's road race. His other major wins include the 1984 Amstel Gold Race. Hanegraaf later became a cycling manager, first for TVM and later for Team Bianchi and Unibet.com. He also competed in the individual road race and team time trial events at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

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Edo de Waart

First Name Edo
Last Name Waart
Born on June 1, 1941 (age 84)

Edo de Waart is a Dutch conductor. He is Music Director Laureate of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, chief conductor of the Royal Flemish Philharmonic, an Artistic Partner with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and music director of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

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Mark Vanderloo

First Name Mark
Last Name Vanderloo
Born on April 24, 1968 (age 58)
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Mark Vanderloo is a Dutch model and actor. He is best known as a top model of Hugo Boss and the face of Commander Shepard in the Mass Effect trilogy. Vanderloo is regarded as a supermodel and achieved international success in the 1990s and 2000s.

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Ronald Plasterk

First Name Ronald
Last Name Plasterk
Born on April 12, 1957 (age 69)

Ronald Hans Anton Plasterk is a Dutch scientist and a retired politician of the Labour Party (PvdA). Being a former Minister of the Dutch government, currently he works as the CSO for the globally active healthcare company myTomorrows and is an appointed professor at the medical faculty of the University of Amsterdam.

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Albertus Geldermans

Albertus "Ab" Geldermans is a former Dutch professional road bicycle racer and directeur sportif. He was professional from 1959 to 1966 and rode seven editions of the Tour de France. In 1962 he finished fifth overall and wore the yellow jersey for two days. In 1960 Geldermans won Liège–Bastogne–Liège and won the Deutschland Tour. In 1962 he was Dutch road race champion. Afterwards he became directeur sportif of the Dutch national cycling team that competed in the 1967 Tour de France and directed Jan Janssen to victory in the 1967 Tour de France.

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Dirck Tulp

First Name Dirck
Born on June 6, 1624
Died on March 6, 1682 (aged 57)

Dirck or Diederik Tulp (1624–1682) was the son of the surgeon professor Nicolaes Tulp and involved in the Dutch East India Company and the Civic guard. Dirck Tulp visited Moscovia with his father-in-law; he was painted in 1653 by Paulus Potter.

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Willem van de Velde the Elder

First Name Willem
Last Name Elder
Born on January 1, 1611
Died on December 13, 1693 (aged 82)

Willem van de Velde the Elder was a Dutch Golden Age seascape painter.

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