List of Famous people born in Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Steven Horsting
Max Heymans
Herman Tillemans
Sophie van der Stap
Piet Ouborg
Piet or Pieter Ouborg was a Dutch artist. He started out in life as a teacher; this profession was threatened with interruption by the outbreak of World War I when Ouborg was liable to enlistment. He managed to evade military service by taking up a teaching position in the Dutch East Indies. While there, Ouborg took up drawing and painting. Returning to the Netherlands after the war, Ouborg found himself drawn to the work of Vincent van Gogh. In 1923 he began to experiment with painting in the Cubist style. In 1931, Ouborg visited Brussels and found himself drawn towards surrealism. During World War II and its immediate aftermath, Ouborg was drawn increasingly into the circle of the COBRA and its members such as Karel Appel and Corneille.
Jan Roelfs
Jan Roelfs is a production designer of Dutch descent. Roelfs was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction twice for the 1992 film Orlando and for the 1997 film Gattaca. He shared the Orlando nomination with fellow production designer Ben Van Os and the Gattaca nomination with set decorator Nancy Nye. Roelfs also worked as an art director in the 1980s and the 1990s.
Philip de Chiese
Eric van der Burg
Eric van der Burg is a Dutch politician, who has served as State Secretary for Justice and Security in the fourth Rutte cabinet since 10 January 2022. A member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), he was elected to the Senate in 2019. Van der Burg previously had a lengthy political career in the municipality of Amsterdam which culminated in his brief service as ad interim Mayor of Amsterdam in 2017.
Isaac Sweers
Isaac Sweers was a 17th-century Dutch vice-admiral with the Admiralty of Amsterdam who fought in the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
Nick Kuipers
Nick Anna Maria Francois Kuipers is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Indonesian club Persib Bandung. He formerly played for MVV Maastricht and ADO Den Haag. Besides the Netherlands, he has played in Indonesia.