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

Maggie MacNeal

Sjoukje Lucie van 't Spijker

Maggie MacNeal is a Dutch singer. She was a member of Mouth & MacNeal, a pop duo from the Netherlands, who are best known for their million-selling recording of "How Do You Do" in 1972, which topped the Dutch chart and became a US top ten hit, and for representing the Netherlands at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, finishing third with the song "I See a Star", which went on to become a UK top ten hit.

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Jacobus van Looy

First Name Jacobus
Last Name Looy
Born on September 12, 1855
Died on February 24, 1930 (aged 74)

Jacobus (Jac) van Looy was a Dutch painter and writer.

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Willem Abraham Wythoff

First Name Willem
Last Name Wythoff
Born on October 6, 1865
Died on May 21, 1939 (aged 73)

Willem Abraham Wythoff, born Wijthoff, was a Dutch mathematician.

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Willy Dobbe

First Name Willy
Last Name Dobbe
Born on January 2, 1944 (age 82)

Willy Dobbe is a Dutch television announcer and former television presenter. She was the host of the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest and also presented the Dutch national finals for the 1971 and 1972 contests.

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Balthasar van der Pol

First Name Balthasar
Born on January 27, 1889
Died on October 6, 1959 (aged 70)

Balthasar van der Pol was a Dutch physicist.

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Edith Schippers

First Name Edith
Last Name Schippers
Born on August 25, 1964 (age 61)

Edith Ingeborg Schippers is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and businesswoman serving as President of the DSM Company since 1 February 2019.

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Martin van Rijn

First Name Martin
Last Name Rijn
Born on February 7, 1956 (age 70)

Maarten Johannes "Martin" van Rijn is a Dutch politician and businessman who served as Minister for Medical Care from March to July 2020. A member of the Labour Party (PvdA), he previously was CEO and Chairman of the Reinier Haga Groep from 1 December 2017. He served as State Secretary at the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, dealing with nursing and care, elderly policy, youth policy and biotechnology in the Second Rutte cabinet, from November 2012 to October 2017. Prior to this, he was CEO of the PGGM pension fund (2008–2012).

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Wilbert Plijnaar

Wilbert Plijnaar is a Dutch cartoonist and comics artist. He is the winner of the 1995 Stripschapprijs.

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Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem

First Name Nicolaes
Died on February 18, 1683

Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre pieces.

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Jan Saenredam

First Name Jan
Last Name Saenredam
Born on January 1, 1565
Died on April 6, 1607 (aged 42)

Jan Pieterszoon Saenredam was a Dutch Northern Mannerist painter, printmaker in engraving, and cartographer, and father of the painter of church interiors, Pieter Jansz Saenredam. He is noted for the many allegorical images he created from classical mythology and the Bible.

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