List of Famous people born in Kingdom of the Netherlands

Robert Jacobus Forbes

First Name Robert
Last Name Forbes
Born on April 21, 1900
Died on January 13, 1973 (aged 72)

Robert Jacobus Forbes or Robert James Forbes was a Dutch chemist and historian of science and professor in the history of applied science and technology at the University of Amsterdam.

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Pieter Willem Korthals

First Name Pieter
Last Name Korthals
Born on September 1, 1807
Died on February 8, 1892 (aged 84)

Pieter Willem Korthals was a Dutch botanist. Korthals was the official botanist with the Dutch East India Service from 1831 to 1836. Among his many discoveries was the medicinal plant Kratom . Korthals wrote the first monograph on the tropical pitcher plants, "Over het geslacht Nepenthes", published in 1839.

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Wouter Salomon Johannes Tenkink

First Name Wouter
Born on August 28, 1867
Died on July 9, 1922 (aged 54)
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Wilhelm von Gennep

First Name Wilhelm
Last Name Gennep
Born on November 30, 1349
Died on September 15, 1362 (aged 12)

Wilhelm von Gennep was Elector-Archbishop of Cologne from 1349 to 1362.

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Cornelis Brouwer

First Name Cornelis
Last Name Brouwer
Born on January 1, 1634
Died on August 24, 1681 (aged 47)

Cornelis Brouwer, was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

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Cornelis Ketel

First Name Cornelis
Last Name Ketel
Born on March 18, 1548
Died on August 8, 1616 (aged 68)

Cornelis or Cornelius Ketel was a Dutch Mannerist painter, active in Elizabethan London from 1573 to 1581, and in Amsterdam till his death. Ketel, known essentially as a portrait-painter, was also a poet and orator, and from 1595 a sculptor as well.

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Anton de Haen

First Name Anton
Last Name Haen
Born on December 8, 1704
Died on September 5, 1776 (aged 71)

Anton de Haen was an Austrian physician of Dutch ancestry born in the Hague.

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Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy

First Name Pieter
Last Name Gerbrandy
Born on April 13, 1885
Died on September 7, 1961 (aged 76)

Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy was a Dutch politician of the defunct Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP), now merged into Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), and a jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 3 September 1940 until 25 June 1945, based in London during the German occupation of the Netherlands.

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Ben Richardson

First Name Ben
Last Name Richardson
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Petrus Leyten

First Name Petrus
Last Name Leyten
Born on July 16, 1834
Died on May 17, 1914 (aged 79)

Petrus Leyten was a Dutch clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Breda. He was ordained in 1859. He was appointed in 1885. He died in 1914.

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