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

Ko Rentmeester

First Name Ko
Last Name Rentmeester
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Jacobus Willem Rentmeester, nicknamed "Co" or "Ko", is a Dutch rower. He later became a photojournalist and covered the Vietnam War among other newsworthy events.

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E.G.D. Cohen

First Name E.G.D.
Born on January 16, 1923
Died on September 24, 2017 (aged 94)

Ezechiel Godert David "Eddie" Cohen was a Dutch-American physicist and Professor Emeritus at The Rockefeller University. He is widely recognised for his contributions to statistical physics. In 2004 Cohen was awarded the Boltzmann Medal, jointly with Prof. H. Eugene Stanley. Cohen's citation read "For his fundamental contributions to nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, including the development of a theory of transport phenomena in dense gases, and the characterization of measures and fluctuations in nonequilibrium stationary states."

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Emile Enthoven

Henri Emile Enthoven
First Name Emile
Last Name Enthoven
Born on October 18, 1903
Died on December 27, 1950 (aged 47)
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Leo Beenhakker

Leo Beenhakker is a Dutch international football coach. He has had an extensive and successful career both at club and international level. He led both Ajax and Feyenoord to Dutch championships and also had domestic success with Real Madrid. At international level, he led Trinidad and Tobago to the 2006 FIFA World Cup and Poland to UEFA Euro 2008, both firsts for each nation. His role in Spanish football has earned him the nickname Don Leo, largely due to his fondness of cigars and dry humour.

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Harry Aarts

Henricus Johannes Bernardus Aarts
First Name Harry
Last Name Aarts
Born on March 9, 1930
Died on March 25, 2020 (aged 90)

Henricus Johannes Bernardus "Harry" Aarts was a Dutch politician. He served in the House of Representatives for the Catholic People's Party and later the Christian Democratic Appeal from 23 January 1973 until 1 October 1993.

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Jack Wouterse

First Name Jack
Last Name Wouterse
Born on June 17, 1957 (age 68)

Jack Wouterse is a Dutch actor. His career as a movie actor took off with his role in the 1992 film The Northerners, directed by Alex van Warmerdam. Wouterse made his international debut in an episode of the TV series Band of Brothers. He frequently worked with murdered Dutch director Theo van Gogh.

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Abraham Pais

First Name Abraham
Last Name Pais
Born on May 19, 1918
Died on July 28, 2000 (aged 82)

Abraham Pais was a Dutch-American physicist and science historian. Pais earned his Ph.D. from University of Utrecht just prior to a Nazi ban on Jewish participation in Dutch universities during World War II. When the Nazis began the forced relocation of Dutch Jews, he went into hiding, but was later arrested and saved only by the end of the war. He then served as an assistant to Niels Bohr in Denmark and was later a colleague of Albert Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Pais wrote books documenting the lives of these two great physicists and the contributions they and others made to modern physics. He was a physics professor at Rockefeller University until his retirement.

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Isaac Israëls

First Name Isaac
Last Name Israëls
Died on October 7, 1934

Isaac Lazarus Israëls was a Dutch painter associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement.

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Adriaan Pauw

First Name Adriaan
Born on November 1, 1585
Died on February 21, 1653 (aged 67)

Adriaan Pauw, knight, heer van Heemstede, Bennebroek, Nieuwerkerk etc. was Grand Pensionary of Holland from 1631 to 1636 and from 1651 to 1653.

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Wim Rietveld

First Name Wim
Born on January 1, 1924
Died on January 1, 1985 (aged 61)

Wim Rietveld was a Dutch industrial and furniture designer. His father was the well-known architect and designer Gerrit Rietveld.

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