List of Famous people born in Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Erol Erdal Alkan
Erol Erdal Alkan is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Bulgarian club Etar.
Heleen van Royen
Heleen van Royen is a Dutch novelist and columnist. Her novel De gelukkige huisvrouw was best-selling Dutch novel of 2010. The candid descriptions of sexuality found in her books and her columns have drawn considerable attention, as have her personal revelations about sexual fantasies, even to the point of ridicule: Dorine Wiersma won the Annie M.G. Schmidt award for best theatrical song for "Stoute Heleen", a crude pastiche of van Royen's depictions of her own sexuality. Two of van Royen's novels were adapted for film, De gelukkige huisvrouw, and De ontsnapping. She has two children, daughter Olivia and son Sam. In November 2006, van Royen posed nude for Playboy.
Richard Groenendaal
Richard Marinus Anthonius Groenendaal is a Dutch former professional cyclo-cross cyclist. Groenendaal won the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in 2000 and the overall titles in the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup 1997–1998, 2000–2001 and 2003–2004 and in the Cyclo-cross Superprestige in 1997–1998 and 2000–2001.
Peter Debye
Peter Joseph William Debye was a Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry.
Pieter Weening
Pieter Weening is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally for the Rabobank (2004–2011), Orica–GreenEDGE (2012–2015), Roompot–Charles (2016–2019), and Trek–Segafredo (2020) teams.
Hans van Helden
Hans van Helden is a former speed skater, originally competing for the Netherlands, later for France.
Antonie Pannekoek
Antonie “Anton” Pannekoek was a Dutch astronomer, philosopher, Marxist theorist, and socialist revolutionary. He was one of the main theorists of council communism.
Ilka Agricola
Ilka Agricola is a German mathematician who deals with differential geometry and its applications in mathematical physics. She is dean of mathematics and computer science at the University of Marburg, where she has also been responsible for making public the university's collection of mathematical models.
Ben Knapen
Hubertus Petrus Maria "Ben" Knapen is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and historian. He has been a Member of the Senate since 9 June 2015. Starting from June 2019 he is the CDA parliamentary leader in the Senate.
Arnon Grunberg
Arnon Yasha Yves Grunberg is a Dutch writer of novels, essays, and columns, as well as a journalist. He wrote some of his work under the heteronym Marek van der Jagt. He lives in New York.