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

Hermann Brockhaus

First Name Hermann
Last Name Brockhaus
Born on January 28, 1806
Died on January 5, 1877 (aged 70)

Hermann Brockhaus was a German Orientalist born in Amsterdam. He was a leading authority on Sanskrit and Persian languages. He was the son of publisher Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus and brother-in-law to composer Richard Wagner. In 1870 he received a combined medal (together with in occasion of the 25th anniversary of the DMG.

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Gerrit de Vries

First Name Gerrit
Born on November 22, 1818
Died on March 4, 1900 (aged 81)

Gerrit Abrahamszoon de Vries was a Dutch jurist and politician who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 4 June 1872 to 27 August 1874. He took office after his predecessor died (Thorbecke).

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Adriaen Hanneman

First Name Adriaen
Born on January 1, 1603
Died on July 11, 1671 (aged 68)

Adriaen Hanneman was a Dutch Golden Age painter best known for his portraits of the exiled British royal court. His style was strongly influenced by his contemporary, Anthony van Dyck.

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Diederik Korteweg

First Name Diederik
Born on March 31, 1848
Died on May 10, 1941 (aged 93)

Diederik Johannes Korteweg was a Dutch mathematician. He is now best remembered for his work on the Korteweg–de Vries equation, together with Gustav de Vries.

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Jan Jacobszoon May van Schellinkhout

First Name Jan
Last Name Schellinkhout
Born on January 1, 1600
Died on January 1, 1700 (aged 100)

Jan Jacobszoon May van Schellinkhout was a Dutch seafarer and explorer.

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Wilhelm von Gennep

First Name Wilhelm
Last Name Gennep
Born on November 30, 1349
Died on September 15, 1362 (aged 12)

Wilhelm von Gennep was Elector-Archbishop of Cologne from 1349 to 1362.

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Dinand Woesthoff

Marco Frank Ferdinand "Dinand" Woesthoff is a Dutch musician best known as the lead singer of the Dutch band Kane.

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Karel Dujardin

First Name Karel
Last Name Dujardin
Born on September 27, 1622
Died on November 20, 1678 (aged 56)

Karel Dujardin was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Although he did a few portraits and a few history paintings of religious subjects, most of his work is small Italianate landscape scenes with animals and peasants, and other genre scenes. Dujardin spent two extended periods, at the beginning and end of his career, in Italy, and most of his paintings and landscape etchings have an Italian or Italianate setting.

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Ludger

Born on November 30, 0741
Died on March 26, 0809 (aged 67)

Saint Ludger was a missionary among the Frisians and Saxons, founder of Werden Abbey and first Bishop of Münster in Westphalia. He has been called the "Apostle of Saxony".

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Jan Bouman

First Name Jan
Last Name Bouman
Born on August 28, 1706
Died on September 6, 1776 (aged 70)

Jan Bouman was a Dutch architect, mainly notable for his work as designer and general contractor on the Dutch Quarter in Potsdam by order of Frederick William I of Prussia.

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