List of Famous people born in Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Jorden van Foreest
Jhr. Jorden van Foreest is a Dutch chess grandmaster. He was Dutch Chess Champion in 2016, and won the Tata Steel Masters in 2021. As of January 2021, Van Foreest is the No. 2 ranked Dutch player.
Cornelis Hin
Cornelis Nicolaas Hin was a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Ostend, Belgium.
Tooske Ragas
Antonia Grietje "Tooske" Ragas-Breugem, is a Dutch actress and television host. She played a stewardess in 06/05, a movie by Theo van Gogh about the murder of Pim Fortuyn. She was video jockey (VJ) at TMF Netherlands and presented two seasons of the Dutch and German version of Idols.
Stefano Lilipaly
Stefano Jantje Lilipaly is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays for Liga 1 club Bali United and the Indonesia national team. He mostly plays as an attacking midfielder, but he can also play on the wing. Born in the Netherlands, Lilipaly represented his country of birth at youth level. Lilipaly made his debut for the Indonesia national team in 2013. His father is Indonesian of Moluccan descent, while his mother is Dutch.
Linda de Mol
Linda Margaretha de Mol is a Dutch actress and television presenter in the Netherlands and Germany. She is the sister of Endemol co-founder John de Mol. She has her own magazine called LINDA.
Karim El Ahmadi
Karim El-Ahmadi Aroussi is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Al-Ittihad from Saudi Arabia. El-Ahmadi was born in the Netherlands and played for FC Twente and Feyenoord before moving to the Premier League with Aston Villa in 2012 and subsequently returning to Feyenoord in September 2014.
Pim Mulier
Willem Johan Herman Mulier, known as Pim Mulier was one of the leading figures in sporting history of the Netherlands.
Pieter Nieuwland
Pieter Nieuwland was a Dutch nautical scientist, chemist, mathematician, and poet. During his life he was known as a child prodigy and has been called the Dutch Isaac Newton.
Nicolaas Bloembergen
Nicolaas "Nico" Bloembergen was a Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy. During his career, he was a professor at Harvard University and later at the University of Arizona and at Leiden University in 1973.
Dirk Hartog
Dirk Hartog was a 17th-century Dutch sailor and explorer. Dirk Hartog's expedition was the second European group to land in Australia and the first to leave behind an artefact to record his visit, the Hartog plate. His name is sometimes alternatively spelled Dirck Hartog or Dierick Hartochszch. Ernest Giles referred to him as Theodoric Hartog. Hartog is named after the Western Australian island, Dirk Hartog Island.