List of Famous people born in Kingdom of the Netherlands
Stefania Liberakakis
Stefania Liberakakis, known simply as Stefania, is a Greek-Dutch singer, (voice) actress and YouTuber. She is a former member of the girl group Kisses, which represented the Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016. In 2020, she was internally selected to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with the song "Supergirl", but this edition of the contest was later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Greek broadcaster ERT decided that Liberakakis will represent Greece in the 2021 contest instead.
Davy Klaassen
Davy Klaassen is a Dutch professional footballer who plays for Eredivisie club Ajax and the Netherlands national team. He is usually deployed as an midfielder for both club and country.
Loiza Lamers
Loiza Lamers is a Dutch model and businesswoman, best known for being the winner of the eighth cycle of Holland's Next Top Model, and the world's first transgender winner of the global Top Model TV-franchise.
Steven Cheung
Steven Cheung Chi-hang is a Hong Kong singer and actor. Steven Cheung was a member of the Cantopop duo, Sun Boy'z from 2002 to 2006, where William Chan joined in and the group was renamed Sun Boy'z. It was officially disbanded in December 2008.
Sven Kramer
Sven Kramer is a Dutch long track speed skater who has won an all time record nine World Allround Championships as well as a record ten European Allround Championships. He is the Olympic champion of the 5000 meters at the Vancouver 2010, Sochi 2014 and Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics, and won a record 21 gold medals at the World Single Distance Championships; eight in the 5000 meters, five in the 10,000 meters, and eight in the team pursuit. Kramer is the current world record holder in the team pursuit, and broke the world records in the 5000 meter and 10,000 meter events three times. By winning the 2010 World Allround Championship, Kramer became the first speed skater in history to win four consecutive world allround championships, and eight consecutive international allround championships. He was undefeated in the 18 international allround championships he participated in from the 2006/2007 season until the 2016/2017 season. From November 2007 to March 2009 he was ranked first in the Adelskalender, but despite his dominance as an all-round skater he has since been overtaken on that list by Shani Davis and, more recently, by his team mate Patrick Roest.
Bert van Marwijk
Lambertus van Marwijk is a Dutch football manager who is head coach of the United Arab Emirates national team. As a footballer, he played for the Go Ahead Eagles, AZ, MVV and Fortuna Sittard amongst other clubs, and represented the Netherlands once.
Willemijn Verkaik
Willemijn Verkaik is a Dutch singer and actress. She is best known for her stage roles in Wicked and Elisabeth, and for providing the singing voice for Elsa in both the German and Dutch versions of Disney's Frozen. She was the longest running Elphaba in the musical Wicked, having played the role over 2,000 times, and is the only person to have played the role in three languages. Her first performance as Elphaba was on 31 October 2007, in Stuttgart, Germany, and her final performance was on 22 July 2017 in the West End of London.
Halil Dervişoğlu
Halil İbrahim Dervişoğlu is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Turkish club Galatasaray, on loan from Brentford. He began his career in his native Netherlands with Sparta Rotterdam and transferred to Brentford in 2020. Of Turkish descent, he is a current Turkey U21 international.
Jan Smit
Jan Smit is a Dutch singer, television host, actor and football director. Smit mostly sings Dutch songs in a genre known as Volendam music. In addition to his solo career, in 2015 Smit joined the schlager trio KLUBBB3, and in 2017 The Toppers. As a TV presenter, he has worked on programs like the best singers in the Netherlands and Music Festival on the square. Since 1999, Smit has been serving as an ambassador for the SOS Children's Villages, and is member of the board for the football club FC Volendam.
Michiel Vos
Michiel Vos is a Dutch-American journalist, lawyer, jurist and United States-based correspondent. He is married to filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi. They met in Amsterdam when Vos was working for the broadcasting station VPRO, as a presenter for special film nights. The couple have two children.