List of Famous people born in Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Rob Houwer
Robert Piet Houwer is a Dutch film producer. Houwer frequently collaborated with Paul Verhoeven and produced most of his Dutch films. However, they shared a very antagonistic relationship that came to a definitive end in 1983. Houwer never quite enjoyed the artistic and commercial successes he had during the Verhoeven years. In fact, three films which he produced are considered among the worst in Dutch cinema: De gulle Minnaar (1990), De Zeemeerman (1996) and Het woeden der gehele wereld (2006).
Liesbeth Spies
Jantje Wilhelmina Elisabeth "Liesbeth" Spies is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party. She is the Mayor of Alphen aan den Rijn since 15 December 2014.
Leroy Fer
Leroy Johan Fer is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Feyenoord and the Netherlands national football team.
Carel Polak
Carel Hendrik Frederik Polak was a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and jurist.
Hendrik Albertus Brouwer
Milly Scott
Marion Henriëtte Louise Molly, known professionally as Milly Scott, is a Dutch singer and actress of Surinamese origin, best known for her participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 1966. She is recognised as the first black singer ever to take part in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Henriette Roland Holst
Henriette Goverdine Anna "Jet" Roland Holst-van der Schalk (1869–1952) was a Dutch poet and communist. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Abraham Asscher
Abraham Asscher was a Dutch Jewish businessman from Amsterdam, a politician, and a leader of his community who attained notoriety for his role during the German occupation of the Netherlands (1940–1945).
Constantinus Cornelis Huysmans
Constant Cornelis Huijsmans was a Dutch art teacher and painter, whose roots go back to the seventeenth-century Antwerp of the landscape painter Cornelis Huysmans (1648–1727). Paintings of the latter are to be found at the Louvre in Paris and at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Earlier generations of the Huijsmans family used to spell their family name slightly differently, as Huysmans.
Dick Maas
Dirk Herman Willem Maas (Dick) is a Dutch film director, screenwriter, film producer and film composer.