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

Armin van Buuren

Armin Jozef Jacobus Daniël van Buuren
First Name Armin
Last Name Buuren
Born on December 25, 1976 (age 49)

Armin Jozef Jacobus Daniël van Buuren is a Dutch DJ and record producer from Leiden, South Holland. Since 2001, he has hosted A State of Trance (ASOT), a weekly radio show, which is broadcast to nearly 40 million listeners in 84 countries on over 100 FM radio stations. According to DJs and Festivals, "the radio show propelled him to stardom and helped cultivate an interest in trance music around the world."

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Sander Thoenes

First Name Sander
Last Name Thoenes
Born on November 7, 1968
Died on September 21, 1999 (aged 30)

Sander Thoenes was a Dutch journalist who was killed, near Dili in East Timor, by soldiers of the Indonesian army. He was shot when their paths crossed on a road as the Indonesians withdrew from the territory.

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Gerrit van der Veen

First Name Gerrit
Died on June 10, 1944

Gerrit van der Veen was a Dutch sculptor. He was a member of the Dutch underground, which resisted the German occupation of Amsterdam during World War II. The historian Robert-Jan van Pelt wrote:

In 1940, after the German occupation, van der Veen was one of the few who re-fused to sign the so-called “Arierverklaring,” the Declaration of Aryan Ancestry. In the years that followed, he tried to help Jews both in practical and symbolic ways. Together with the musician Jan van Gilse and the artist, art historian, and critic Willem Arondeus, van der Veen established the underground organization De Vrije Kunstenaar. Van der Veen and the other artists published a newsletter calling for resistance against the occupation. When the Germans introduced identity documents (Persoonsbewijzen) that distinguished between Jews and non-Jews, van der Veen, Arondeus and the printer Frans Duwaer produced some 80,000 false identity papers.

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Cor Edskes

Cornelius Herman Edskes
First Name Cor
Last Name Edskes
Born on August 1, 1925
Died on September 7, 2015 (aged 90)

Cor Edskes was one of the most important authorities on the history of organ building in Northern Europe. He acted as the consultant for the restoration of many of Europe's most important historical organs, including those in the Nieuwe Kerk (Amsterdam) and Roskilde Cathedral.

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Johann Weyer

First Name Johann
Last Name Weyer
Born on February 24, 1515
Died on February 24, 1588 (aged 73)

Johann Weyer or Johannes Wier was a Dutch physician, occultist and demonologist, disciple and follower of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa.

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Jan Wils

First Name Jan
Last Name Wils
Born on February 22, 1891
Died on February 11, 1972 (aged 80)

Jan Wils was a Dutch architect. He was born in Alkmaar and died in Voorburg.

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Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau

Mabel Martine Los

Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau is the widow of Prince Friso and sister-in-law of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands. She is a prominent human rights activist, widely known for her roles in co-founding War Child Netherlands, the European Council on Foreign Relations, Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage, and for having served as the first Chief Executive Officer of The Elders, a grouping founded by Nelson Mandela and chaired by Kofi Annan. In 2005, the World Economic Forum recognised her as a Young Global Leader. Van Oranje is an advisor to several non-profits, including the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, the Malala Fund, Crisis Action and the Open Society Foundations.

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Lidwina

Born on March 18, 1380
Died on April 14, 1433 (aged 53)

Lidwina (1380-1433) was a Dutch mystic who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church. She is also thought to be one of the first documented cases of multiple sclerosis.

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Jan Pieterszoon Coen

First Name Jan
Last Name Coen
Born on January 8, 1587
Died on September 21, 1629 (aged 42)

Jan Pieterszoon Coen was an officer of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the early 17th century, holding two terms as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. He was the founder of Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies. Renowned for providing the impulse that set the VOC on the path to dominance in the Dutch East Indies, he was long considered a national hero in the Netherlands. Since the 19th century, his legacy has become controversial due to the violence he employed, especially during the last stage of the Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands, in order to secure a trade monopoly on nutmeg, mace and clove.

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Oussama Idrissi

Oussama Idrissi is a Dutch-Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a winger for AFC Ajax in the Dutch Eredivisie, on loan from La Liga side Sevilla and for the Morocco national team. Born in the Netherlands to parents from Morocco, he has represented the Netherlands at various youth levels, before declaring his allegiance to Morocco.

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