List of Famous people born in Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Maggie MacNeal
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.
Jacobus van Looy
Jacobus (Jac) van Looy was a Dutch painter and writer.
Willem Abraham Wythoff
Willem Abraham Wythoff, born Wijthoff, was a Dutch mathematician.
Willy Dobbe
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.
Balthasar van der Pol
Balthasar van der Pol was a Dutch physicist.
Edith Schippers
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.
Martin van Rijn
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).
Wilbert Plijnaar
Wilbert Plijnaar is a Dutch cartoonist and comics artist. He is the winner of the 1995 Stripschapprijs.
Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem
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.
Jan Saenredam
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.