List of Famous people born in Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Robbert de Greef
Robbert de Greef was a Dutch cyclist, who rode for Alecto Cycling Team. On 1 April 2019, de Greef suffered a cardiac arrest during the Omloop van de Braakman race. He died on 25 April 2019.
Kees de Vries
Kees de Vries is a German politician. Born in Nibbixwoud, he represents the CDU. Kees de Vries has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saxony-Anhalt since 2013.
Tonny Vilhena
Tonny Emilio Trindade de Vilhena, more commonly known as simply Tonny Vilhena, is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Russian Premier League side FC Krasnodar.
Laurien van der Graaff
Laurien van der Graaff is a Swiss cross-country skier.
Martinus J. G. Veltman
Martinus Justinus Godefriedus "Tini" Veltman was a Dutch theoretical physicist. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in physics with his former PhD student Gerardus 't Hooft for their work on particle theory.
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Jacobus Henricus "Henry" van 't Hoff Jr. was a Dutch physical chemist. A highly influential theoretical chemist of his time, Van 't Hoff was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His pioneering work helped found the modern theory of chemical affinity, chemical equilibrium, chemical kinetics, and chemical thermodynamics. In his 1874 pamphlet Van 't Hoff formulated the theory of the tetrahedral carbon atom and laid the foundations of stereochemistry. In 1875, he predicted the correct structures of allenes and cumulenes as well as their axial chirality. He is also widely considered one of the founders of physical chemistry as the discipline is known today.
M. C. Escher
Maurits Cornelis Escher was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. Despite wide popular interest, Escher was for long somewhat neglected in the art world, even in his native Netherlands. He was 70 before a retrospective exhibition was held. In the late twentieth century, he became more widely appreciated, and in the twenty-first century he has been celebrated in exhibitions across the world.
Danny Vera
Danny Polfliet, known professionally as Danny Vera, is a Dutch singer-songwriter and musician.
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken is a Dutch-British billionaire businesswoman, and the owner of a 25% controlling interest in the world's second-largest brewer, Heineken International. She is the richest person in the Netherlands, with a net worth of $16.3 billion as of October 2019, according to the Forbes billionaires list.
Lau Mazirel
Laura "Lau" Carola Mazirel was a member of the Dutch resistance during World War II who helped organise the 1943 bombing of the Amsterdam civil registry office. An attorney, she was an early proponent of LGBT rights and the rights of Romani people. She opposed civil marriage due to the then-inferior status of women, and also opposed registration of personal information, which she considered a violation of privacy.