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

Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël

First Name Paul
Last Name Gabriël
Born on July 5, 1828
Died on August 23, 1903 (aged 75)

Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël or Paul Gabriël was a painter, draftsman, watercolorist, and etcher who belonged to the Hague School.

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Jean Henri van Swinden

First Name Jean
Last Name Swinden
Born on June 8, 1746
Died on March 9, 1823 (aged 76)

Jean Henri van Swinden was a Dutch mathematician and physicist who taught in Franeker and Amsterdam.

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Piet Klijnveld

First Name Piet
Last Name Klijnveld
Born on August 16, 1874
Died on February 9, 1945 (aged 70)

Pieter 'Piet' Klijnveld was a Dutch accountant who started a practice that after several mergers would grow into the international accounting firm KPMG.

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Peter van Anrooy

Peter Gijsbert van Anrooij
First Name Peter
Last Name Anrooy
Born on October 13, 1879
Died on December 31, 1954 (aged 75)

Peter Gijsbert van Anrooij was a Dutch composer and conductor of classical music.

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Nicolaes Maes

First Name Nicolaes
Born on December 31, 1633
Died on December 24, 1693 (aged 59)

Nicolaes Maes was a Dutch painter known for his genre scenes, portraits, religious compositions and the occasional still life. A pupil of Rembrandt in Amsterdam, he returned to work in his native city of Dordrecht for 20 years. In the latter part of his career he returned to Amsterdam where he became the leading portrait painter of his time. Maes contributed to the development of genre painting in the Netherlands and was the most prominent portrait painter working in Amsterdam in the final three decades of the 17th century.

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Gerardus J. Sizoo

First Name Gerardus
Born on November 8, 1900
Died on January 4, 1994 (aged 93)

Gerardus Johannes Sizoo was the first professor of physics at the Vrije Universiteit. He is notable for the establishment and development of the applied physics laboratory in 1930 and the establishment of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the Vrije Universiteit.

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Herman Heijenbrock

First Name Herman
Last Name Heijenbrock
Died on March 18, 1948

Herman Heijenbrock, was a Dutch writer, painter, pastel draughtsman, and lithographer. He founded the "Museum van den Arbeid" in 1923, which later became NEMO Science Museum.

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Paul Bodifée

First Name Paul
Last Name Bodifée
Born on June 29, 1866
Died on January 23, 1938 (aged 71)
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Jacobus de Rhoer

First Name Jacobus
Last Name Rhoer
Born on January 1, 1722
Died on December 12, 1813 (aged 91)
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Albert Heijn

First Name Albert
Last Name Heijn
Born on October 15, 1865
Died on November 13, 1945 (aged 80)

Albert Heijn was a Dutch entrepreneur who was the original founder of Albert Heijn, which is now the largest food retailer in the Netherlands. On his wedding day in 1887, he took over the grocery store of his father, Jan Simonsz Heijn, and the supermarket chain founded by his grandson still carries his name to this day.

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