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

Joran van der Sloot

Joran Andreas Petrus van der Sloot

Joran Andreas Petrus van der Sloot is a Dutch convicted murderer who killed Stephany Flores Ramírez in Lima, Peru, in 2010. He is also the prime suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in 2005.

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Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus was a Dutch philosopher and Christian scholar who is widely considered to have been one of the greatest scholars of the northern Renaissance. As a Catholic priest, Erasmus was an important figure in classical scholarship who wrote in a pure Latin style. Among humanists he enjoyed the sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists", and has been called "the crowning glory of the Christian humanists". Using humanist techniques for working on texts, he prepared important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament, which raised questions that would be influential in the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation. He also wrote On Free Will, In Praise of Folly, Handbook of a Christian Knight, On Civility in Children, Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style, Julius Exclusus, and many other works.

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Mark van Bommel

Mark Peter Gertruda Andreas van Bommel

Mark Peter Gertruda Andreas van Bommel is a Dutch football coach and former player who played as a midfielder.

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Badr Hari

First Name Badr
Last Name Hari
Born on December 8, 1984 (age 41)
Height 197 cm | 6'6

Badr Hari is a Moroccan-Dutch kickboxer from Amsterdam, fighting out of Morocco. He is a former K-1 Heavyweight champion (2007–2008), It's Showtime Heavyweight world champion (2009–2010), and a K-1 World Grand Prix 2008 and 2009 finalist. Nicknamed The Golden Boy, he is regarded as one of the greatest professional kickboxers of all time.

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Peter R. de Vries

Peter Rudolf de Vries
First Name Peter
Last Name Vries
Born on November 14, 1956
Died on July 15, 2021 (aged 64)

Peter Rudolf de Vries is a Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter. His television program Peter R. de Vries, misdaadverslaggever (1995−2012) covered high-profile cases and set a Dutch television viewing record. In 2005, he started his own political party which was disbanded soon after. On 6 July 2021, he was shot after leaving the television studio of RTL Boulevard in Amsterdam where he had appeared as a guest. He was taken to hospital in a critical condition.

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Fanny Blankers-Koen

First Name Fanny
Last Name Blankers-Koen
Born on April 26, 1918
Died on January 25, 2004 (aged 85)
Height 174 cm | 5'9

Francina "Fanny" Elsje Blankers-Koen was a Dutch track and field athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She competed there as a 30-year-old mother of two, earning her the nickname "the flying housewife", and was the most successful athlete at the event.

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Colonel Tom Parker

First Name Colonel
Born on June 26, 1909
Died on January 21, 1997 (aged 87)

Colonel Thomas Andrew "Tom" Parker was a Dutch-born American musical entrepreneur who was the manager of Elvis Presley.

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Karin Prien

First Name Karin
Last Name Prien
Born on June 26, 1965 (age 60)

Karin Prien is a German politician (CDU) and was a member of the Hamburg Parliament. Since 28 June 2017 she is Minister of Education, Science and Culture of Schleswig-Holstein in the Cabinet Günther.

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Freddie Oversteegen

First Name Freddie
Born on September 6, 1925
Died on September 5, 2018 (aged 92)

Freddie Nanda Dekker-Oversteegen was a Dutch communist resistance member during the occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

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Rembrandt

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history. Unlike most Dutch masters of the 17th century, Rembrandt's works depict a wide range of style and subject matter, from portraits and self-portraits to landscapes, genre scenes, allegorical and historical scenes, and biblical and mythological themes as well as animal studies. His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch Golden Age, when Dutch art, although in many ways antithetical to the Baroque style that dominated Europe, was extremely prolific and innovative and gave rise to important new genres. Like many artists of the Dutch Golden Age, such as Jan Vermeer of Delft, Rembrandt was also an avid art collector and dealer.

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