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

Vital João Geraldo Wilderink was a Dutch-born Brazilian who presides as the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Itaguaí, Brazil.

Cornelis Lely was a Dutch politician of the Liberal Union (LU) and civil engineer. He oversaw the passage of an act of parliament authorising construction of the Zuiderzee Works, a huge project – designed to his own plans – that turned the Zuiderzee into a lake and made possible the conversion of a vast area of former seabed into dry land.

Pieter Jan Brugge is a Dutch film producer.

Leo Gestel was a Dutch painter. His father Willem Gestel was also an artist. Leo Gestel experimented with cubism, expressionism, futurism and postimpressionism. Along with Piet Mondrian he was among the leading artists of Dutch modernism.

Johannes Meursius was a Dutch classical scholar and antiquary.

Jetse Bol is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Burgos BH. As a young boy, Bol was a talented speed skater but later switched to cycling.

Marc Lotz is a Dutch former racing cyclist.

John Talen is a former road racing cyclist from the Netherlands, who was a professional from 1987 to 2000. As an amateur he won the world title in the 100 km team time trial, alongside Rob Harmeling, Tom Cordes and Gerrit de Vries, and finished second in the individual road race.

Pieter van der Aa was a Dutch publisher best known for preparing maps and atlases, though he also printed pirated editions of foreign bestsellers and illustrated volumes. He also printed many maps that were often out of print, which he reissued. Some of his most popular maps were of the African continent, detailing locations such as Morocco and Madagascar. Many of his later works were printed for the general public in French and Dutch.