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

Johan Simons

Johan Simons is a Dutch theatre director.

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Serdar Gözübüyük

Serdar Gözübüyük is a Dutch professional football referee in the Netherlands. He has officiated in 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, beginning with the match between Malta and Italy on 26 March 2013.

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Kea Bouman

Katerina Cornelia Bouman
First Name Kea
Born on November 23, 1903
Died on November 17, 1998 (aged 94)

Cornelia "Kea" Tiedemann-Bouman was a female tennis player from the Netherlands. She won the singles title at the 1927 French Championships, beating Irene Bowder Peacock of South Africa in the final. Bouman was the first, and so far the only, Dutch woman to win a Grand Slam singles tournament.

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Cornelis Jacobus Gorter

First Name Cornelis
Last Name Gorter
Born on August 14, 1907
Died on March 30, 1980 (aged 72)

Cornelis Jacobus (Cor) Gorter was a Dutch experimental and theoretical physicist. Among other work, he discovered paramagnetic relaxation and was a pioneer in low temperature physics.

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Adriaen van de Velde

First Name Adriaen
Died on January 21, 1672

Adriaen van de Velde, was a Dutch animal and landscape painter, son of Willem van de Velde the Elder and brother of Willem van de Velde the Younger, the marine painter.

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Henk Timmer

Hendrik Timmer

Hendrik "Henk" Timmer is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Ton Koopman

First Name Ton
Born on October 2, 1944 (age 81)

Antonius Gerhardus Michael (Ton) Koopman is a Dutch conductor, organist and harpsichordist. He is also professor at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In April 2003 he was knighted in the Netherlands, receiving the Order of the Netherlands Lion.

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Tjalling Koopmans

Tjalling Charles Koopmans
First Name Tjalling
Born on August 28, 1910
Died on February 26, 1985 (aged 74)

Tjalling Charles Koopmans was a Dutch-American mathematician and economist. He was the joint winner with Leonid Kantorovich of the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on the theory of the optimum allocation of resources. Koopmans showed that on the basis of certain efficiency criteria, it is possible to make important deductions concerning optimum price systems.

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Hans Janmaat

First Name Hans
Last Name Janmaat
Born on November 3, 1934
Died on June 9, 2002 (aged 67)

Johannes Gerardus Hendrikus "Hans" Janmaat was a Dutch politician of the Centre Party (CP) and later founder of the Centre Democrats (CD) party and businessman.

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Luuk Tinbergen

First Name Luuk
Born on September 7, 1915
Died on September 1, 1955 (aged 39)

Luuk Tinbergen was a Dutch ornithologist and ecologist.

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