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

Halina Reijn

Halina Reijn is a Dutch actress, writer and film director.

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Frans Brüggen

First Name Frans
Born on October 30, 1934
Died on August 13, 2014 (aged 79)

Franciscus ("Frans") Jozef Brüggen was a Dutch conductor, recorder player and baroque flautist.

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Saskia van Uylenburgh

First Name Saskia
Last Name Uylenburgh
Born on August 2, 1612
Died on June 14, 1642 (aged 29)

Saskia van Uylenburgh was the wife of painter Rembrandt van Rijn. In the course of her life, she was his model for some of his paintings, drawings and etchings. She was the daughter of Rombertus Uylenburg, the mayor as well as the justice of the Court of Friesland.

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Cees Nooteboom

Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria Nooteboom

Cees Nooteboom is a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist. After the attention received by his novel Rituelen, which received the Pegasus Prize, it was the first of his novels to be translated into an English edition, published in 1983 by Louisiana State University Press of the United States. LSU Press published his first two novels in English in the following years, as well as other works through 1990. Harcourt and Grove Press have since published some of his works in English.

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Paul Cox

First Name Paul
Last Name Cox
Born on April 16, 1940
Died on June 18, 2016 (aged 76)

Paulus Henrique Benedictus Cox as Paul Cox, was a Dutch-Australian filmmaker, who has been recognized as "Australia's most prolific film auteur".

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Pia Douwes

First Name Pia
Last Name Douwes
Born on August 5, 1964 (age 61)

Pia Douwes is a Dutch actress in musical theatre in Europe. She is best known for having created the title role in the German-language musical Elisabeth.

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Gerrit Rietveld

First Name Gerrit
Died on June 25, 1964

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld was a Dutch furniture designer and architect. One of the principal members of the Dutch artistic movement called De Stijl, Rietveld is famous for his Red and Blue Chair and for the Rietveld Schröder House, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje

First Name Christiaan
Died on June 26, 1936

Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje was a Dutch scholar of Oriental cultures and languages and Advisor on Native Affairs to the colonial government of the Dutch East Indies.

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Nacer Barazite

Nacer Barazite is a Dutch professional footballer who can play either as an attacking midfielder or striker. Most recently, he played for Thai club Buriram United.

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Anner Bylsma

First Name Anner
Born on February 17, 1934
Died on July 25, 2019 (aged 85)

Anner Bylsma was a Dutch cellist who played on both modern and period instruments in a historically informed style. He took an interest in music from an early age. He studied with Carel van Leeuwen Boomkamp at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and won the Prix d'excellence in 1957.

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