List of Famous people born in Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Neelie Kroes
Neelie Kroes is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and businessperson who served as European Commissioner from 22 November 2004 to 1 November 2014.
Arnoud van Doorn
Arnoud van Doorn is a politician. He was a member of the Dutch political party, Dutch Freedom Party (PVV), before converting to Islam.
Jorrit Hendrix
Jorrit Hendrix is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Russian club Spartak Moscow and the Netherlands national team.
Terence Kongolo
Terence Kongolo is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for Premier League club Fulham. A product of the Feyenoord youth system, he made his Eredivisie debut for them during the 2011–12 season, remaining there until 2017, when he signed for Monaco.
Willie Smits
Willie Smits is a trained forester, a microbiologist, conservationist, animal rights activist, wilderness engineer and social entrepreneur. He has lived in Indonesia since 1985 and is an Indonesian citizen. He is married to Adrienne C. Watson since March 2016.
Aykut Demir
Aykut Demir is a Turkish professional footballer who plays for Boluspor.
Jos van Kemenade
Josephus Antonius van Kemenade was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and sociologist. He was granted the honorary title of Minister of State on 5 April 2002.
Epke Zonderland
Epke Jan Zonderland is a Dutch gymnast and 2012 Olympics gold medalist on the high bar. He has also won three World Championships titles on the high bar, at the 2013, 2014, and 2018 World Championships, the first man to achieve the feat on the apparatus. He is nicknamed "The Flying Dutchman.”
Doutzen Kroes
Doutzen Kroes is a Dutch model, actress, and philanthropist. She began her modelling career in 2003, in the Netherlands and was quickly sent by her agency to New York where she was cast by lingerie brand Victoria’s Secret. She was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 2008 until 2014. She has been a brand ambassador for L'Oréal Paris since 2006. Kroes has been one of the highest-paid models, with an estimated income of more than $5 million per year, since 2008. In 2014, she came in second on the Forbes top-earning models list, estimated to have earned $8 million in one year. As of December 2015, she was ranked as one of the "New Supers" in the fashion industry and dubbed "Helen of Troy of advertising" by Models.com. In 2013, she became the first model to land four different solo international covers of Vogues September issue in a single year.
Maria van Oosterwijck
Maria van Oosterwijck, also spelled Oosterwyck, (1630–1693) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, specializing in richly detailed flower paintings and other still lifes.