List of Famous people born in Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Brenda Beenhakker
Jan Bols
Jan Bols is a former Dutch long track speed skater. Bols was among the top all-rounders in the late 60s and early 70s, this period overlapped the glory days of Kees Verkerk and Ard Schenk, so that he tends to be known as the third best Dutch skater of his time.
Rop Gonggrijp
Robbert (Rop) Valentijn Gonggrijp is a Dutch hacker and one of the founders of XS4ALL.
Bas Mulder
Sebastianus "Bas" Adrianus Wilhelmus Rudolfus Mulder was a Dutch-Surinamese Catholic priest.
Koen Ridder
Koen Ridder is a Dutch badminton player. The left handler Ridder, was a part of the Duinwijck badminton club. He won the men's doubles title at the national championships in 2009, 2011, and 2013 partnered with Ruud Bosch. Together with Bosch, they won some international tournament in Portugal, Belgium, Canada, Slovenia, Norway, Peru and Tahiti. He also play for the Düren 57 club in German. His parents, Rob and Marjan Ridder also a professional badminton players. Koen Ridder was elected vice-chair of the athlete commission of the BWF for a 4-year term in May 2015. In 2017 Ridder was chosen as Chair by his fellow commission members. He achieved his personal best world ranking of 22 in 2013. Koen retired as a professional player in 2014 after representing The Netherlands for more than 10 years at international level.
Arjen Anthony Lucassen
Arjen Anthony Lucassen is a Dutch singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer best known for his long-running progressive metal/rock opera project Ayreon. Lucassen started his career in 1980 as the guitarist and backing vocalist of Dutch band Bodine as Iron Anthony, before joining Vengeance in 1984. After eight years he left the band, wanting to go into a more progressive direction, and released two years later an unsuccessful solo album entitled Pools of Sorrow, Waves of Joy under the nickname Anthony.
Tess Gaerthé
Tess Gaerthé, better known as simply Tess, is a Dutch singer and former child star. Gaerthé rose to fame as the Dutch representative at the third Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2005. Singing "Stupid", she finished in 7th place with 82 points, which would stay the best result of the country until 2009.
Cornelis Bloemaert
Bram de Groot
Bram de Groot is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer who last rode for UCI ProTour team Rabobank.
Gerben Karstens
Gerben Karstens is a former professional racing cyclist from the Netherlands, who won the gold medal in the 100 km team trial at the 1964 Summer Olympics, alongside Bart Zoet, Evert Dolman, and Jan Pieterse. At the same Olympics he finished 27th in the individual road race.