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

Agneta Matthes

First Name Agneta
Born on October 4, 1847
Died on October 5, 1909 (aged 62)

Agneta Wilhelmina Johanna van Marken-Matthes was a Dutch entrepreneur. She and her husband Jacques van Marken were involved in the manufacture of yeast throughout their lives, and were engaged in the cooperative movement, taking care of their workers. Matthes and Van Marken created living quarters for workers in her hometown, Delft in South Holland, named Agnetapark after her. These are considered a model for the cooperative development and construction of garden cities for workers. Matthes founded and ran a Delft perfume factory, Maison Neuve, to take advantage of a by-product from the yeast factory.

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Edward Gal

First Name Edward
Last Name Gal
Born on March 4, 1970 (age 56)
Height 182 cm | 6'0

Edward Gal is a Dutch dressage rider. He and the stallion Totilas, were triple gold medalists at the 2010 FEI World Equestrian Games, becoming the first horse-rider partnership ever to sweep the three available dressage gold medals at a single FEI World Games. Going into the 2010 Games, they had amassed multiple world-record scores in international competition, leading one American journalist to call them "rock stars in the horse world". After the World Equestrian Games, Totilas was sold to German trainer Paul Schockemöhle. Gal continues to be successful training and competing dressage horses at the international level.

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Ricky van Wolfswinkel

Ricky van Wolfswinkel is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a striker for Swiss Super League club Basel. He has played top-flight football in the Netherlands, Portugal, England, France, Spain and Switzerland and has been capped twice by the Netherlands national team.

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Piet Keizer

First Name Piet
Last Name Keizer
Born on June 14, 1943
Died on February 10, 2017 (aged 73)

Petrus Johannes "Piet" Keizer was a Dutch professional footballer who played as a left winger.

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Hugo Grotius

Hugo Grocio, Hugo Grotius eller Hugo de Groot
First Name Hugo
Last Name Grotius
Died on August 28, 1645

Hugo Grotius, also known as Huig de Groot and in Dutch as Hugo de Groot, was a Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, poet and playwright.

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Steven van de Velde

First Name Steven
Last Name Velde
Born on August 8, 1994 (age 31)

Steven van de Velde is a Dutch beach volleyball player and convicted rapist. Van de Velde won the Dutch national championships Under-20 in 2011. With partner Michiel van Dorsten he represented the Netherlands at the 2015 European Games. Together with partner Dirk Boehlé, he finished 3rd at the Blooming Beach Aalsmeer of the 2018 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. In 2016, he was accused of raping a minor while travelling to England.

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Hardwell

Robbert van de Corput, known professionally as Hardwell, is a Dutch DJ, record producer, and remixer from Breda, North Brabant. Hardwell was voted the world's number one DJ on DJ Mag in 2013 and again in 2014. He was ranked at number twelve in the top 100 DJs 2019 poll by DJ Mag. Hardwell is best known for his sets at music festivals, including Ultra Music Festival, Sunburn and Tomorrowland.

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Louis Davids

First Name Louis
Last Name Davids
Born on December 19, 1883
Died on July 1, 1939 (aged 55)

Simon David better known as Louis Davids was a Dutch cabaretier and revueartist and is widely considered one of the Netherlands biggest names in performing arts.

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Jules Schelvis

First Name Jules
Last Name Schelvis
Born on January 7, 1921
Died on April 3, 2016 (aged 95)

Jules Schelvis was a Dutch Jewish historian, writer, printer, and Holocaust survivor. Schelvis was the sole survivor among the 3,005 people on the 14th transport from Westerbork to Sobibor extermination camp, having been selected to work at nearby Dorohucza labour camp. He is known for his memoirs and historical research about Sobibor, for which he earned an honorary doctorate from the University of Amsterdam, Officier in the Order of Orange-Nassau, and Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.

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Tess Wester

First Name Tess
Born on May 19, 1993 (age 32)
Height 178 cm | 5'10

Tess Wester is a Dutch handballer who plays as goalkeeper for Odense Håndbold and the Dutch national team.

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