List of Famous people born in Kingdom of the Netherlands

Laurien van der Graaff

First Name Laurien
Last Name Graaff
Born on October 14, 1987 (age 38)
Height 167 cm | 5'6

Laurien van der Graaff is a Swiss cross-country skier.

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Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken

Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken is a Dutch-British billionaire businesswoman, and the owner of a 25% controlling interest in the world's second-largest brewer, Heineken International. She is the richest person in the Netherlands, with a net worth of $16.3 billion as of October 2019, according to the Forbes billionaires list.

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Martinus J. G. Veltman

Martinus Justinus Godefridus Veltman
First Name Martinus
Last Name Veltman
Born on June 27, 1931
Died on January 4, 2021 (aged 89)

Martinus Justinus Godefriedus "Tini" Veltman was a Dutch theoretical physicist. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in physics with his former PhD student Gerardus 't Hooft for their work on particle theory.

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Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

First Name Jacobus
Last Name Hoff
Born on August 30, 1852
Died on March 1, 1911 (aged 58)

Jacobus Henricus "Henry" van 't Hoff Jr. was a Dutch physical chemist. A highly influential theoretical chemist of his time, Van 't Hoff was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His pioneering work helped found the modern theory of chemical affinity, chemical equilibrium, chemical kinetics, and chemical thermodynamics. In his 1874 pamphlet Van 't Hoff formulated the theory of the tetrahedral carbon atom and laid the foundations of stereochemistry. In 1875, he predicted the correct structures of allenes and cumulenes as well as their axial chirality. He is also widely considered one of the founders of physical chemistry as the discipline is known today.

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Wim Suurbier

Wilhelmus Lourens Johannes Suurbier
First Name Wim
Born on January 16, 1945
Died on July 12, 2020 (aged 75)
Height 181 cm | 5'11

Wilhelmus Lourens Johannes Suurbier was a Dutch football player and among others assistant coach of the Albanian national team.

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Karen Mulder

First Name Karen
Last Name Mulder
Born on June 1, 1970 (age 56)
Height 178 cm | 5'10

Karen Mulder is a Dutch model and singer. She is well known for her work with Versace, Dior, and Chanel as a supermodel during the 1990s. Mulder repeatedly was featured on the cover of Vogue and was also a Victoria's Secret model. In the early 2000s, she began to speak out about the dark side of the modeling industry and the dangers faced by underage girls and young women.

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John Bröcheler

First Name John
Last Name Bröcheler
Born on February 21, 1945 (age 81)

John Bröcheler is a Dutch operatic baritone who began as a concert singer, specialising in contemporary music such as the world premiere of Mauricio Kagel's Mare Nostrum. His appearance at De Nederlandse Opera in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda alongside Joan Sutherland was followed by an international operatic career, performing for example as Mandryka in Arabella by Richard Strauss, and again in world premieres such as Menotti's La Loca at the New York City Opera and the complete version of Henze's König Hirsch at the Staatsoper Stuttgart.

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Lau Mazirel

First Name Lau
Last Name Mazirel
Born on November 29, 1907
Died on November 20, 1974 (aged 66)

Laura "Lau" Carola Mazirel was a member of the Dutch resistance during World War II who helped organise the 1943 bombing of the Amsterdam civil registry office. An attorney, she was an early proponent of LGBT rights and the rights of Romani people. She opposed civil marriage due to the then-inferior status of women, and also opposed registration of personal information, which she considered a violation of privacy.

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Jurickson Profar

Jurickson Barthelomeus Profar is a Curaçaoan professional baseball infielder for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Texas Rangers and the Oakland Athletics

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Jakob Roggeveen

First Name Jakob
Last Name Roggeveen
Born on February 1, 1659
Died on January 31, 1729 (aged 69)

Jacob Roggeveen was a Dutch explorer who was sent to find Terra Australis, but instead found Easter Island. Jacob Roggeveen also found Bora Bora and Maupiti of the Society Islands, as well as Samoa. He planned the expedition along with his brother Jan Roggeveen, who stayed in the Netherlands.

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