List of Famous people born in Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands

Catharina Hooft

First Name Catharina
Born on December 28, 1618
Died on September 30, 1691 (aged 72)

Catharina Pietersdr. Hooft was a woman of the Dutch Golden Age. She became famous at a very early age, when she was painted by Frans Hals. At the age of sixteen she married Cornelis de Graeff, nineteen years her senior and the most powerful regent and mayor of Amsterdam. Thus she became first lady of Soestdijk, one of the family's country houses. Catharina Hooft was also a Lady of the High and free Fief of Purmerland and Ilpendam.

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Alexander von Siebold

First Name Alexander
Last Name Siebold
Born on August 16, 1846
Died on January 23, 1911 (aged 64)

Alexander George Gustav von Siebold was a German translator and interpreter active in Japan during the Bakumatsu period and early Meiji period. He was the eldest son of Japanologist Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold.

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Johan de Witt

First Name Johan
Born on September 24, 1625
Died on August 20, 1672 (aged 46)

Johan de Witt was a Dutch statesman and a major political figure in the Dutch Republic in the mid-17th century, when its flourishing sea trade in a period of globalization made the republic a leading European trading and seafaring power – now commonly referred to as the Dutch Golden Age. De Witt controlled the Dutch political system from around 1650 until shortly before his death in 1672, working with various factions from nearly all the major cities, especially his hometown, Dordrecht, and the hometown of his wife, Amsterdam.

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Franciscus Dousa

First Name Franciscus
Last Name Dousa
Died on December 11, 1630

Franciscus Dousa was a Dutch classical scholar at Leiden University. He was a younger son of Janus Dousa, a pupil of Justus Lipsius, and a friend of Joseph Justus Scaliger.

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Ulbo de Sitter

First Name Ulbo
Born on March 6, 1902
Died on May 12, 1980 (aged 78)

Lamoraal Ulbo de Sitter was a Dutch geologist at Leiden University, where he was the founder of the school of structural geology. De Sitter was known for his research on the geology of the Alps and Pyrenees. His father was the astronomer Willem de Sitter (1872–1934), and one of his sons was the Dutch sociologist Ulbo de Sitter (1930–2010).

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Jacques Vaillant

First Name Jacques
Last Name Vaillant
Born on December 1, 1643
Died on January 1, 1691 (aged 47)

Jacques Vaillant, was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

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Rombertus van Uylenburgh

First Name Rombertus
Born on November 30, 1553
Died on June 4, 1624 (aged 70)

Rombertus van Uylenburgh or Rombout van Uylenborgh is best known as the father of Saskia van Uylenburgh, the wife of Rembrandt. Rombertus was one of the founders of the University of Franeker in 1585. Gerrit van Uylenburgh, who may have been Rombertus' brother, tended to Mennonitism, left for Poland to become the royal furniture maker in Crakow, and became the father of the art-dealer Hendrick van Uylenburgh.

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Arjen K. Lenstra

Arjen Klaas Lenstra
First Name Arjen
Born on March 2, 1956 (age 70)

Arjen Klaas Lenstra is a Dutch mathematician, cryptographer and computational number theorist. He is currently a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) where he heads of the Laboratory for Cryptologic Algorithms.

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Izaak Enschedé

First Name Izaak
Born on January 1, 1681
Died on January 1, 1761 (aged 80)

Izaak Enschedé was the founder of the printing company Royal Joh. Enschedé in 1703.

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Niko Tinbergen

First Name Niko
Born on April 15, 1907
Died on December 21, 1988 (aged 81)

Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen was a Dutch biologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior patterns in animals. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior.

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