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

Andries P. Staalman

First Name Andries
Last Name Staalman
Born on November 2, 1858
Died on March 6, 1938 (aged 79)
Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Jan Willem van Nouhuys

First Name Jan
Last Name Nouhuys
Born on December 28, 1869
Died on April 11, 1963 (aged 93)
Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Louis Christiaan Kalff

First Name Louis
Last Name Kalff
Born on November 14, 1897
Died on September 16, 1976 (aged 78)
Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Henri Teixeira de Mattos

First Name Henri
Last Name Mattos
Died on December 19, 1908

Henri Teixeira de Mattos (1856–1908), was a 19th-century Dutch sculptor.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Esaias van de Velde

First Name Esaias
Born on May 17, 1587
Died on November 18, 1630 (aged 43)

Esaias van de Velde was a Dutch landscape painter.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Willem Hendrik van den Bos

First Name Willem
Last Name Bos
Born on September 25, 1896
Died on March 30, 1974 (aged 77)

Willem Hendrik van den Bos was a Dutch astronomer who worked at the Union Observatory in South Africa and became its director in 1941. He discovered nearly 3000 new double stars, made more than 71000 astronomical measurements and compiled a catalogue of Southern hemisphere double stars. He computed the orbits of more than 100 double stars using a method he invented and which later became the accepted standard.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Jacob van Heemskerck

First Name Jacob
Last Name Heemskerck
Born on March 13, 1567
Died on April 25, 1607 (aged 40)

Jacob van Heemskerck was a Dutch explorer and admiral.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Pieter van der Does

First Name Pieter
Last Name Does
Born on January 1, 1562
Died on October 24, 1599 (aged 37)
Net Worth $2.6B

Pieter van der Does was a Dutch admiral. He was the son of Jacob van der Does (c.1500-1577), schepen of Leiden during its siege.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Hugo Koch

First Name Hugo
Last Name Koch
Born on March 9, 1870
Died on March 3, 1928 (aged 57)

Hugo Alexander Koch was a Dutch inventor who conceived of and patented an idea for machine encryption — the rotor machine, although he was not the first to do so. He is sometimes erroneously credited as the originator of the Enigma machine, although this has been shown to be the work of German engineer Arthur Scherbius.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Charles Dankmeijer

First Name Charles
Last Name Dankmeijer
Born on April 8, 1861
Died on March 11, 1923 (aged 61)

Carel Bernardus Dankmeijer, known as Charles (1861-1923) was a Dutch painter; best known for his colorful cityscapes and river scenes.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her
    index: 1x 0.055995941162109s
fmsppl-page-output: 1x 0.04817008972168s
t_/pages/list-of-people: 1x 0.048099040985107s
t_/blocks/list-of-people: 1x 0.03931999206543s
t_/blocks/person-card: 10x 0.029729127883911s
router_page: 1x 0.007133960723877s
list-of-people-content: 1x 0.006476879119873s
t_/common/header: 1x 0.0057358741760254s
headline: 2x 0.0029969215393066s
qids: 2x 0.00093507766723633s
t_/common/head: 1x 0.00038003921508789s
head-facts: 1x 0.00033402442932129s
t_/common/footer: 1x 0.00028800964355469s
t_/blocks/switcher: 1x 1.6927719116211E-5s
related: 1x 5.9604644775391E-6s
using-qids-cache: 1x 1.1920928955078E-6s
----- END OF DUMP (2026-06-19 14:31:06)  -----