List of Famous people born in Kingdom of the Netherlands
Geert Reuten
Thaddeus Antonius Gerardus Maria (Geert) Reuten is a Dutch economist and former politician. On behalf of the Socialist Party (SP) he was a senator in the First Chamber of the Dutch parliament from June 2007 till June 2015 and again from 26 June 2018 to 11 June 2019. Reuten also teaches economics at the University of Amsterdam, and is internationally recognized as an expert on Marx and Hegel.
Constant Nieuwenhuys
Constant Anton Nieuwenhuys, better known as Constant, was a Dutch painter, sculptor, graphic artist, author and musician.
Henri-Charles Arnauld de Pomponne
Abbot Henri Charles Arnauld de Pomponne was a French ecclesiastic and diplomat.
Johannes Willebrands
Johannes Gerardus Maria Willebrands was a Dutch Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity from 1969 to 1989, and Archbishop of Utrecht from 1975 to 1983. Elevated to the cardinalate in 1969, Willebrands was central to the increased ecumenism of the Church in the second half of the 20th century, and was considered papabile at the two conclaves held in 1978.
Nicolaes Boddingius
Nicolaes Boddingius, Nicolaas Bodding van Laer or Bodding van Laer was a schoolmaster, writer and minister active in Haarlem in the Netherlands.
Dieric Bouts
Dieric Bouts was an Early Netherlandish painter.
Nicholas Robinson
Nicholas Kenneth Robinson is an Irish author, historian, solicitor and cartoonist who is the husband of the 7th President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson.
Melchior Treub
Melchior Treub was a Dutch botanist. He worked at the Bogor Botanical Gardens in Buitenzorg on the island of Java, south of Batavia, Dutch East Indies, gaining renown for his work on tropical flora. He also founded the Bogor Agricultural Institute. He traveled and collected across many areas of Southeast Asia.
Christopher Delphicus zu Dohna
Count and Burgrave Christopher Delphicus zu Dohna zu Carwinden was a German-born soldier and diplomat.
Jan van Goyen
Jan Josephszoon van Goyen was a Dutch landscape painter. Van Goyen was an extremely prolific artist; approximately twelve hundred paintings and more than one thousand drawings by him are known.