List of Famous people born in Kingdom of the Netherlands

Alexander Arthur Van Halen is an American musician who is the drummer and co-founder of the rock band Van Halen. The band was formed in 1972 by Alex Van Halen; his younger brother, Eddie Van Halen; David Lee Roth; and Mark Stone under the name Mammoth before adding Michael Anthony in 1974 and changing their name to Van Halen. Warner Brothers signed the band in 1977, and its debut album was released in 1978. Prior to their disbandment in 2020, following Eddie's death, Van Halen released eleven more albums, and the brothers were the only two constant members of the band.

Joran Andreas Petrus van der Sloot is a Dutch convicted murderer who killed Stephany Flores Ramírez in Lima, Peru, in 2010. He is also the prime suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in 2005.

Noa Lang is a Dutch professional footballer of partial Surinamese descent, who plays as winger for Club Brugge on loan from Ajax in the Belgian Pro League.

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus was a Dutch philosopher and Christian scholar who is widely considered to have been one of the greatest scholars of the northern Renaissance. As a Catholic priest, Erasmus was an important figure in classical scholarship who wrote in a pure Latin style. Among humanists he enjoyed the sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists", and has been called "the crowning glory of the Christian humanists". Using humanist techniques for working on texts, he prepared important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament, which raised questions that would be influential in the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation. He also wrote On Free Will, In Praise of Folly, Handbook of a Christian Knight, On Civility in Children, Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style, Julius Exclusus, and many other works.

Mark Peter Gertruda Andreas van Bommel is a Dutch football coach and former player who played as a midfielder.

Badr Hari is a Moroccan-Dutch kickboxer from Amsterdam, fighting out of Morocco. He is a former K-1 Heavyweight champion (2007–2008), It's Showtime Heavyweight world champion (2009–2010), and a K-1 World Grand Prix 2008 and 2009 finalist. Nicknamed The Golden Boy, he is regarded as one of the greatest professional kickboxers of all time.

Peter Rudolf de Vries is a Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter. His television program Peter R. de Vries, misdaadverslaggever (1995−2012) covered high-profile cases and set a Dutch television viewing record. In 2005, he started his own political party which was disbanded soon after. On 6 July 2021, he was shot after leaving the television studio of RTL Boulevard in Amsterdam where he had appeared as a guest. He was taken to hospital in a critical condition.

Francina "Fanny" Elsje Blankers-Koen was a Dutch track and field athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She competed there as a 30-year-old mother of two, earning her the nickname "the flying housewife", and was the most successful athlete at the event.

Colonel Thomas Andrew "Tom" Parker was a Dutch-born American musical entrepreneur who was the manager of Elvis Presley.

Xander Jan Bogaerts, nicknamed "the X-Man" and "Bogey" or "Bogie", is an Aruban professional baseball shortstop for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Netherlands national baseball team.