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

Ronald Kroon was a Dutch freestyle swimmer who won two bronze medals at the 1962 European Aquatics Championships. He also competed at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics with the best achievement of 8th place in the 4×100 meters medley relay. Between 1960 and 1964 he was four times national champion and set 12 national records in the 100 m freestyle event. He was the first Dutch athlete to swim 100 meters within 55 seconds.

Hotze "Harry" Koch was a Dutch-born American businessman who founded the Quanah Tribune-Chief newspaper. He was the father of Fred C. Koch (1900–1967), founder of Koch Industries.

Roberto Vander is a Dutch-Chilean actor and singer.

Marinus van der Lubbe was a Dutch communist who was tried, convicted and executed for setting fire to the German Reichstag building on 27 February 1933, an event known as the Reichstag fire. Nearly 75 years after the event, the German government granted van der Lubbe a posthumous pardon.

Anna van der Leeuw, better known by her stage name Anne Vanderlove, was a Dutch-born French singer and songwriter, known as the French Joan Baez.

Reinhard Günzel is a former German general. He joined the Bundeswehr in 1963. He commanded the parachute battalion in Merzig, a hunting regiment in Trier and the Jägerbrigade in Frankenberg. He also studied history and philosophy in Tübingen. He was the commander of the Kommando Spezialkräfte from November 2000 until November 2003. After sending a letter supporting Martin Hohmann, a former member of the Bundestag, and the speech that Hohmann had made that compared "the actions of Jews in the 1917 Russian revolution with those of the Nazis", Günzel was fired from his position as General by Defence Minister Peter Struck. General Günzel is the author of the “Secret Warriors”, a book in which according to an article in the New York Times "he placed the KSK in the tradition of a notorious special forces unit under the Nazis that committed numerous war crimes, including massacres of Jews. He has been a popular speaker at far-right events".

Rudolphus Franciscus Marie "Ruud" Lubbers was a Dutch politician and diplomat of the Catholic People's Party (KVP) that merged to become the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and businessman who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 4 November 1982 to 22 August 1994, and as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1 January 2001 until 20 February 2005.

Marita Kramer is a Dutch born Austrian ski jumper.

Madiea Ghafoor is a former Dutch female athlete who participated in sprinting and track and field. She mainly competed in the women's 400m sprint, but has also participated in 60m, 100m, 200m and 300m events. She was part of the Netherlands squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She is currently detained in Germany, convicted to an 8.5 year jail term for smuggling 50 kilograms of drugs into the country.

Sharon Janny den Adel is a Dutch singer, songwriter and fashion designer, best known as the lead vocalist and one of the main songwriters in the Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation. She has been a performing musician since the age of 14, and is a founding member of Within Temptation, along with Robert Westerholt, in 1996. She was also elected to be the Dutch chairperson of the jury for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018.