List of Famous people born in Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Max Euwe
Machgielis "Max" Euwe was a Dutch chess player, mathematician, author, and chess administrator. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion, a title he held from 1935 until 1937. Euwe served as President of FIDE, the World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978.
Botic van de Zandschulp
Botic van de Zandschulp is a Dutch tennis player. Van de Zandschulp has a career high ATP singles ranking of World No. 117 achieved on 30 August 2021. He also has a career high doubles ranking of World No. 232 achieved on 23 October 2017. Van de Zandschulp is the current Dutch No. 1 men's singles player. Van de Zandschulp has won 1 ATP Challenger singles title in Hamburg and 1 ATP Challenger doubles title in Alphen.
Mark Rutte
Mark Rutte is a Dutch politician, historian and teacher currently serving as Prime Minister of the Netherlands since 2010 and Leader of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) since 2006.
Steven Bergwijn
Steven Charles Bergwijn is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a winger for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the Netherlands national team.
Karsu Dönmez
Karsu Dönmez is a Turkish-Dutch singer from Amsterdam. While her music style is a blend of various genres, jazz pop is probably the best description for it. At age 7 her parents bought a piano with money they had put aside for buying a car. At 14 she was making a name for herself by performing at her parents' restaurant. She came to prominence after performances at the Carnegie Hall in New York and several appearances on Dutch television.
Johnny Young
Johnny Young is a Dutch Australian singer, composer, record producer, disc jockey, television producer and host. Originally from Rotterdam, Netherlands, his family settled in Perth, Western Australia in the early 1950s. Young had a career in the 1960s as a pop singer and had a number one hit with the double-A-side, "Step Back" and a cover of The Strangeloves' "Cara-lyn" in 1966, at the time the second biggest selling record locally after Normie Rowe's upbeat cover version of Doris Days Que Sera Sera, Young's profile was enhanced by a concurrent stint as host of the TV pop program The Go!! Show.
Aletta Jacobs
Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs was a Dutch physician and women's suffrage activist. As the first woman officially to attend a Dutch university, she became one of the first female physicians in the Netherlands. In 1882, she founded the world's first birth control clinic and was a leader in both the Dutch and international women's movements. She led campaigns aimed at deregulating prostitution, improving women's working conditions, promoting peace and calling for women's right to vote.
Sylvia Hoeks
Sylvia Hoeks is a Dutch actress and former model best known internationally for her roles in Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018).
Justin Kluivert
Justin Dean Kluivert is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a winger for RB Leipzig, on loan from Roma, and the Netherlands national team.
Dave
Wouter Otto Levenbach, known as Dave, is a Dutch Francophone singer who had a string of number one hits in France in the 1970s.