List of Famous people born in Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Robert Gesink
Robert Gesink is a Dutch professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Jumbo–Visma. His major victories include the 2012 Tour of California, the 2011 Tour of Oman and the 2010 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal. Gesink also won the Giro dell'Emilia twice and offered some good performances on Grand Tours and one-week stage races, thanks in part to his climbing and time trialing abilities.
Han Polman
Johannes Marcellus Maria "Han" Polman is a Dutch politician of the Democrats 66 (D66) party. He has been the King's Commissioner of Zeeland since 1 March 2013. Previously he was Mayor of Bergen op Zoom and Noordwijkerhout.
Alexander Schrijver
Alexander (Lex) Schrijver is a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist, a professor of discrete mathematics and optimization at the University of Amsterdam and a fellow at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam. Since 1993 he has been co-editor in chief of the journal Combinatorica.
Cisca Dresselhuys
Francisca Wilhelmina "Cisca" Dresselhuys was the first head editor of the Dutch feminist monthly magazine Opzij from 1 November 1981 until 1 April 2008. Her journalistic career started at the daily Trouw.
Adriaan Blaauw
Adriaan Blaauw was a Dutch astronomer.
Petrus Jacobus Kipp
Petrus Jacobus Kipp was a Dutch apothecary, chemist and instrument maker. He became known as the inventor of the Kipp apparatus, chemistry equipment for the development of gases.
Andries Adolf Deutz van Assendelft
Lars Boom
Lars Anthonius Johannes Boom is a professional cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing cyclist. He has also competed professionally in road racing, between 2004 and 2019.
Cornelis Dirk Andriesse
Cornelis Dirk (Cees) Andriesse is a Dutch physicist, writer and historian of science. Internationally he is best known for his scientific biography of Christiaan Huygens.