List of Famous people born in Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Frederik Schuh
Frederik Schuh was a Dutch mathematician.
Abram van Rijckevorsel
Barend Wijnveld
Barend Wijnveld, was a Dutch painter.
Germ de Jong
Germ de Jong was a Dutch painter. De Jong studied art at Quellinus, a school for the poor. In 1918 de Jong’s gets his first solo-exhibition, all his works are sold in ten days. When de Jong’s also won the Willink van Collen award for young artists his reputation was made. De Jong moved to Paris, where he became acquainted to Picasso, Mondriaan, Jos Crion, Conrad Kickert and Simon Carmiggelt. Among de Jong’s paintings were many colourful still lifes, focusing mostly on colourful depictions of flowers. His work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
Volkert Simon Maarten van der Willigen
Volkert Simon Maarten van der Willigen, sometimes referred to as Volcardus Simon Martinus van der Willigen, was a Dutch mathematician, physicist and professor.
Claus Sluter
Claus Sluter was a Dutch sculptor. He was the most important northern European sculptor of his age and is considered a pioneer of the "northern realism" of the Early Netherlandish painting that came into full flower with the work of Jan van Eyck and others in the next generation.
Metius
Adriaan Adriaanszoon, called Metius,, was a Dutch geometer and astronomer born in Alkmaar. The name "Metius" comes from the Dutch word meten ("measuring"), and therefore means something like "measurer" or "surveyor."
Adriaan van Royen
Adriaan van Royen was a Dutch botanist. He was a professor at Leiden University and is associated with Carl Linnaeus.
Cornelius Richard Anton van Bommel
Cornelius Richard Anton van Bommel was a Dutch Bishop of Liège, Belgium, from 1829 until his death.
Adriaen Coorte
Adriaen Coorte was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes, who signed works between 1683 and 1707. He painted small and unpretentious still lifes in a style more typical of the first half of the century, and was "one of the last practitioners of this intimate category".