List of Famous people born in Kingdom of the Netherlands
Andrelton Simmons
Andrelton A. Simmons is a Curaçaoan professional baseball shortstop for the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Angels. Drawing considerable attention for his defensive abilities, Simmons has won four Rawlings Gold Glove Awards for shortstops, a Wilson MLB Overall Defensive Player of the Year Award, and six Fielding Bible Awards. As of the end of 2019 season, he ranks first in DRS and UZR against all shortstops played in the stats' respective eras.
Mies Bouwman
Maria Antoinette "Mies" Bouwman was a Dutch television presenter.
Willem Sassen
Wilhelmus Antonius Sassen was a Dutch collaborator, Nazi journalist and a member of the Waffen-SS. He became widely known around 1960 as the interviewer of Adolf Eichmann.
Louis van Dijk
Louis van Dijk, also spelled Louis van Dyke, was a Dutch pianist.
Jan Matthys
Jan Matthys was a charismatic Anabaptist leader of the Münster Rebellion, regarded by his followers as a prophet.
Lotte Verbeek
Lotte Verbeek is a Dutch actress, dancer and model. She is best known for her role as Giulia Farnese in The Borgias television series created by Neil Jordan, and as Geillis Duncan in the Starz series Outlander.
Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
Gustav Georg Friedrich Maria Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach ran the German Friedrich Krupp AG heavy industry conglomerate from 1909 until 1941. He and his son Alfried would lead the company through two world wars, producing almost everything for the German war machine from U-boats, battleships, howitzers, trains, railway guns, machine guns, cars, tanks, and much more. Krupp produced the Tiger I tank, Big Bertha, the Paris Gun, among other inventions under Gustav. Following the war, plans to prosecute Gustav Krupp as a war criminal at the 1945 Nuremberg Trials were dropped because by then he was bedridden and senile.
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Heer van Berkel en Rodenrijs (1600), Gunterstein (1611) and Bakkum (1613) was a Dutch statesman who played an important role in the Dutch struggle for independence from Spain.
Multatuli
Eduard Douwes Dekker, better known by his pen name Multatuli, was a Dutch writer best known for his satirical novel Max Havelaar (1860), which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies. He is considered one of the Netherlands' greatest authors.
Erwin Koeman
Erwin Koeman is a Dutch retired professional football player and football manager who was last head coach of Oman.