List of Famous people born in Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Carel Struycken
Carel Struycken is a Dutch film, television, and stage actor. He is known for playing the Giant/Fireman in Twin Peaks, Mr. Homn in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1992), and Lurch in the films The Addams Family (1991), Addams Family Values (1993) and Addams Family Reunion (1998). He also appeared in the films Gerald's Game (2017) and Doctor Sleep (2019).
Orkun Kökcü
Orkun Kökçü is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for the Dutch Club Feyenoord in the Eredivisie. Born in the Netherlands, Kökçü represents Turkey internationally.
Melisa Aslı Pamuk
Melisa Aslı Pamuk is a Turkish-Dutch beauty pageant titleholder, actress and model. Her family is from İskenderun, Hatay, Turkey. She won the title of Miss Turkey 2011 on 2 June 2011. Pamuk accepted the crown from Gizem Memiç, Miss Turkey 2010 beauty pageant titleholder. She enrolled on a Psychology degree at University of Amsterdam but abandoned it later due to her desire to focus on her modeling career. She also won the title of "Best Promising" in Best Model of Turkey 2009 and stands 1.76 m. She is fluent in Turkish, English, Dutch and German and speaks a bit of French. She began modeling at the age of 14.
Marco van den Berg
Marco van den Berg is a Dutch retired basketball player and current coach of Gladiators Trier. Born in Veenendaal, van den Berg played for Donar and Red Giants, both of the Eredivisie, in his career. In 1990, he started his coaching career.
Bas Rutten
Sebastian "Bas" Rutten is a Dutch–American actor, retired mixed martial artist, kickboxer and professional wrestler. He was a UFC Heavyweight Champion, a three-time King of Pancrase world champion, and finished his career on a 22 fight unbeaten streak. FightMetric wrote this when Rutten got inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame: "FightMetric, the official statistics provider for the UFC, ran the numbers on Rutten's career. They back up the Dutchman's inclusion into the UFC Hall of Fame and then some. In the 4-hours, 27-minutes and 8-seconds he spent as a pro fighter, Rutten scored 13 knockdowns without getting dropped himself, his significant strike accuracy was 70.6%, the highest FightMetric has ever recorded, attempted a record 53 submissions and successfully swept his opponents a record 46 times." From 2007 to 2016, Rutten was the co-host of Inside MMA on AXS TV. Rutten became a naturalized American citizen receiving citizenship in the late 1990s.
Sanne Wevers
Sanne Wevers is a Dutch artistic gymnast. She has competed internationally as a senior since 2007, primarily as a balance beam and uneven bars specialist. Wevers is the 2016 Olympic and 2018 European champion on balance beam and was the first Dutch female gymnast to become an individual Olympic champion. She is also the 2015 World silver medalist on balance beam and the 2015 European bronze medalist on uneven bars.
Alfred Schreuder
Alfred Schreuder is a Dutch football manager and current FC Barcelona assistant manager, having previously managed TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
Frans Timmermans
Franciscus Cornelis Gerardus Maria Timmermans is a Dutch politician and diplomat serving as First Vice President of the European Commission since 2014, and has served in the von der Leyen Commission as Executive Vice President of the European Commission for the European Green Deal and European Commissioner for Climate Action since 2019.
Jeremain Lens
Jeremain Marciano Lens is a Dutch professional footballer who plays for Turkish club Beşiktaş and the Netherlands national team. He is a versatile attacking player, known for his pace and stamina, primarily being used as a winger or a striker, but he can successfully play as a second striker.
William Troost-Ekong
William Paul Troost-Ekong is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Championship side Watford.