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

Naomi van As

First Name Naomi
Last Name As
Born on July 26, 1983 (age 42)
Height 179 cm | 5'10

Naomi van As is a Dutch field hockey player who plays as a forward/midfield for a Dutch club MHC Laren.

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Pim Verbeek

Peter Tim Dirk Verbeek
First Name Pim
Last Name Verbeek
Born on March 12, 1956
Died on November 28, 2019 (aged 63)

Peter Tim Dirk Verbeek, more commonly known as Pim Verbeek, was a Dutch football manager who last coached the Oman national football team. Verbeek was a part of the board of Sparta Rotterdam. His brother Robert Verbeek is also a football coach.

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Edsilia Rombley

Edsilia Francisca Rombley is a Dutch singer and television presenter. She began her career in 1995, as a member of the Dutch girl group Dignity. Rombley began her solo career in 1996, after winning the Dutch talent show Soundmixshow, later winning the European Soundmix Show as well the following year.

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Rick van den Hurk

Henricus "Rick" Nicolas van den Hurk is a Dutch professional baseball pitcher for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has also pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Florida Marlins, Baltimore Orioles, and Pittsburgh Pirates, and in the KBO League for the Samsung Lions and in NPB for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. In international play, he is a member of the Netherlands national baseball team.

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Lieke Wevers

Lieke Wevers is a Dutch artistic gymnast. She competed internationally as a senior from 2009 to 2016. She was the first Dutch woman to win a European title in gymnastics: at the 2015 European Games, she won the gold medal on the balance beam and was the bronze medalist with the Dutch team, in the individual all-around final, and on floor exercise. She also competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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Dick Bruna

Hendrikus Magdalenus Bruna
First Name Dick
Last Name Bruna
Born on August 23, 1927
Died on February 16, 2017 (aged 89)

Dick Bruna was a Dutch author, artist, illustrator and graphic designer.

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Thekla Reuten

Thekla Simona Gelsomina Reuten is a Dutch actress.

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Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

First Name Wilhelmina
Last Name Netherlands
Born on August 31, 1880
Died on November 28, 1962 (aged 82)

Wilhelmina was Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948. She reigned for nearly 58 years, longer than any other Dutch monarch. Her reign saw the First and the Second World Wars, as well as the Dutch economic crisis of 1933.

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Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd

First Name Hendrik
Last Name Verwoerd
Born on September 8, 1901
Died on September 6, 1966 (aged 64)

Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, also commonly referred to as Dr. H.F. Verwoerd, was a South African politician, a scholar of applied psychology and sociology, and chief editor of "Die Transvaler" news paper. Verwoerd played an instrumental role in socially engineering apartheid, the country's system of institutionalized racial segregation and white supremacy, and implementing its policies as Minister of Native Affairs (1950–1958) and then as prime minister (1958–1966). Furthermore, Verwoerd played a vital role in helping the far-right National Party come to power in 1948, serving as their political strategist and propagandist, becoming party leader upon his premiership. He was the Union of South Africa's last prime minister, from 1958 to 1961, when he proclaimed the founding of the Republic of South Africa, remaining its prime minister until his assassination in 1966.

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Thomas Bernhard

Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard
First Name Thomas
Last Name Bernhard
Born on February 9, 1931
Died on February 12, 1989 (aged 58)

Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet. Bernhard's body of work has been called "the most significant literary achievement since World War II." He is widely considered to be one of the most important German-speaking authors of the postwar era.

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