List of Famous people born in Kingdom of the Netherlands
Michel van der Aa
Michel van der Aa is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music.
Wouter Olde Heuvel
Wouter olde Heuvel is a Dutch former speed skater who participates in international competitions. His older brother Remco is also a speed skater.
Letitia de Jong
Letitia de Jong is a Dutch speed skater who is specialized in the sprint distances.
Albert Heijn
Albert Heijn was a Dutch entrepreneur, major stock holder and founder and chairman of the board of Ahold.
Kees Schouhamer Immink
Kornelis Antonie "Kees" Schouhamer Immink is a Dutch scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur, who pioneered and advanced the era of digital audio, video, and data recording, including popular digital media such as Compact Disc, DVD and Blu-ray Disc. He has been a prolific and influential engineer, who holds more than 1100 U.S. and international patents. A large portion of the commonly used audio and video playback and recording devices use technologies based on his work. His contributions to coding systems assisted the digital video and audio revolution, by enabling reliable data storage at information densities previously unattainable.
Arnold Marc Gorter
Arnold Marc Gorter, was a 19th-century landscape painter from the Northern Netherlands.
Pieter Kuijpers
Pieter Kuijpers is a Dutch film director, producer and screenwriter.
Huub Duyn
Hubertus Martinus "Huub" Duyn is a Dutch former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2006 and 2019 for the Rabobank Continental Team, Garmin–Slipstream, Team NetApp, Donckers Koffie–Jelly Belly, Cyclingteam de Rijke, Vérandas Willems–Crelan and Roompot–Charles teams. His best result in his career was winning the Paris–Tours Espoirs in 2006.
Peter Post
Peter Post was a Dutch professional cyclist whose career lasted from 1956 to 1972. Post competed in road and track racing. As a rider he is best remembered for Six-day racing, having competed in 155 races and won 65. Because of this success he was known as “De Keizer van de Zesdaagse” or “The Emperor of the Six Days”. In road racing his main achievements were winning the 1964 Paris–Roubaix and becoming national road race champion in 1963. He was on the podium three times at the La Flèche Wallonne but never won. Post’s other nickname was “de Lange” or “Big Man” because he was tall for a cyclist. After retiring from racing he had success as a Directeur sportif. Peter Post died in Amstelveen on 14 January 2011.
Bernard D. H. Tellegen
Bernard D.H. Tellegen was a Dutch electrical engineer and inventor of the pentode and the gyrator. He is also known for a theorem in circuit theory, Tellegen's theorem.