List of Famous people born in Kingdom of the Netherlands
Davy Pröpper
David Petrus Wenceslaus Henri Pröpper is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a central or attacking midfielder for English Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion and the Netherlands national team.
Willem Holleeder
Willem Frederik Holleeder is a Dutch criminal. He is nicknamed De Neus because of the size of his nose.
Lara Stone
Lara Catherina Stone is a Dutch fashion model.
Boudewijn Zenden
Boudewijn Zenden is a Dutch former footballer who played as a left winger or as an attacking midfielder.
Richairo Zivkovic
Richairo Juliano Zivkovic is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a forward for Chinese Super League club Guangzhou R&F on loan from Changchun Yatai.
Nourdin Boukhari
Nourdin Boukhari is a Moroccan former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. After retiring, he worked as a youth coach.
Dylan Groenewegen
Dylan Groenewegen is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Jumbo–Visma. He has won four individual Tour de France stages and one team time trial stage. He has also won the Dutch National Road Race Championships, five stages of the Tour of Norway, five stages of the Tour of Britain and three stages of Paris-Nice. In 2020, Groenewegen received much attention for causing a serious crash at the Tour de Pologne, which put Fabio Jakobsen in hospital and got him a nine-month ban from racing.
Rutger Bregman
Rutger C. Bregman is a Dutch popular historian and author. He has published four books on history, philosophy, and economics, including Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World, which has been translated into thirty-two languages. His work has been featured in The Washington Post, The Guardian and the BBC. He has been described by The Guardian as the "Dutch wunderkind of new ideas" and by TED Talks as "one of Europe's most prominent young thinkers". His TED Talk, "Poverty Isn't a Lack of Character; It's a Lack of Cash", was chosen by TED curator Chris Anderson as one of the top ten of 2017.
Ezra Walian
Ezra Harm Ruud Walian is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga 1 club PSM Makassar.
Bibian Mentel
Bibian Mentel-Spee was a Dutch three-fold Winter Paralympics gold-medalist, and five-times world champion para-snowboarding athlete. Bibian Mentel won the paralympic gold medal in the snowboard cross discipline in the 2014 and 2018 Paralympic Winter Games, as well as in the banked slalom in 2018, despite battling cancer nine times since the beginning of the century. She won her 2018 medals at age 45.