List of Famous people born in Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Ron Groenewoud
Ron Groenewoud is a former Dutch footballer and football manager.
Tjerk Bottema
Tjerk Bottema was a Dutch painter. At age 14 he was sent Rijkskweekschool in Maastricht where he studied drawing. Later Bottema studies are the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, where art-nouveau had just come to hold sway. During this time Bottema also started drawing advertisements, an activity that would later make him famous. In 1909 he has his first major success with the painting “Maaiers”, one year later he wins the prestigious Prix de Rome. During World War I he visited the Western Front to make an illustrated report for De Amsterdammer. After the war he settles in Paris, he finds a job writing travel reports for De Notenkraker. When in 1940 the German army approaches Paris Bottema decides to leave France, dying when the ship he was travelling on was traveling on was sunk by a German U-boat.
Loes Markerink
Loes Markerink is a road cyclist from the Netherlands. She won at the 2003 UCI Road World Championships the junior women's road race and finished second in the women's junior time trial. As a senior, she has won a stage in several stage races: Tour de Bretagne, Damesronde van Drenthe, Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale, Holland Ladies Tour and Gracia-Orlova.
Eduard Cuypers
Eduard Cuypers was a Dutch architect. He worked in Amsterdam and the Dutch East Indies.
Hugo de Jonge
Hugo Mattheüs de Jonge is a Dutch politician serving as first Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands and Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport since 2017 in the Third Rutte cabinet. A member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), he was elected to its leadership in 2020 for the upcoming general election. He withdrew later that year, citing an impossibility to combine his position as Health Minister in charge of the COVID-19 pandemic efforts with his party leadership.
Gerrit Bolkestein
Gerrit Bolkestein was a Dutch politician and member of the Free-thinking Democratic League.
Jacobus Schroeder van der Kolk
Jacobus Ludovicus Conradus Schroeder van der Kolk was a Dutch anatomist and physiologist and an influential researcher into the causes of epilepsy and mental illness.
Sjraar Cox
Kirsten Wild
Kirsten Carlijn Wild is a Dutch professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team Ceratizit–WNT Pro Cycling. Wild competed in two track cycling events at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Kim-Lian
Kim-Lian van der Meij is a Dutch musical actress, presenter and a singer-songwriter.