List of Famous people born in Kingdom of the Netherlands
Marc Klok
Marc Anthony Klok is a Dutch-born Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liga 1 club Persib Bandung.
Michel Velleman
Michel Velleman, known by his stage name Professor Ben Ali Libi, was a Dutch magician who was murdered in the Sobibor extermination camp during World War II. Dutch poet Willem Wilmink wrote a poem about his being murdered by the Nazis.
Marianne Vos
Marianne Vos is a Dutch multi-discipline cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team Team Jumbo–Visma. Vos has drawn comparison to Eddy Merckx as being "the finest cyclist of [her] generation".
Selma Engel-Wijnberg
Selma Engel-Wijnberg was one of only two Dutch Jewish Holocaust survivors of the Sobibor extermination camp. She escaped during the 1943 uprising, hid in Poland, and survived the war. Engel-Wijnberg immigrated to the United States from Israel with her family in 1957, settling in Branford, Connecticut. She returned to Europe again only to testify against the war criminals of Sobibor. In 2010 she was in the Netherlands to receive the governmental honor of Knight in the Order of Oranje-Nassau.
Arantxa Rus
Arantxa Rus is a Dutch tennis player. In 2008, she won the Junior Australian Open defeating Jessica Moore from Australia. With this win she went from 35th to second place on the junior rankings, ultimately becoming the world No. 1 junior player.
Ben Bril
Barend "Ben" Bril was a Dutch boxer who competed in the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Olympics in Flyweight boxing, and became an accomplished European boxing referee and judge in the 1960s.
Betty Stöve
Betty Flippina Stöve is a Dutch former professional tennis player. She is best remembered for reaching the ladies' singles final, the ladies' doubles final and the mixed doubles final during the same year at Wimbledon in 1977. She also won ten Grand Slam titles in women's doubles and mixed doubles.
Pim Fortuyn
Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn, was a Dutch politician, academic, author and businessman who formed his own party, Pim Fortuyn List in 2002.
Frieda Belinfante
Frieda Belinfante was a Dutch cellist, conductor, a prominent lesbian and a member of the Dutch resistance during World War II. After the war, Belinfante immigrated to the United States and continued her career in music. She was the founding artistic director and conductor of the Orange County Philharmonic.
Estavana Polman
Estavana Polman is a Dutch handball player for Team Esbjerg and the Dutch national team.