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

Louis-Abraham van Loo ; Amsterdam 1653 - Nice 1712; known as Abraham van Loo until his conversion to Catholicism in 1681: also known as Louis or Ludovic van Loo) was a baroque mannerist painter and a member of the van Loo dynasty of painters. Louis-Abraham was the son of the Dutch Golden Age painter Jacob van Loo and father to the painters Jean-Baptiste van Loo and Charles-André van Loo The majority of Louis-Abraham’s paintings were of religious subject matter. Louis-Abraham received painting and fresco commissions from the church and from a number of enclosed religious orders in Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Grasse, Majorca and Nice. He also received commissions to complete the fine decoration of several ships of the Marine Royale at Toulon. He died in Nice in 1712.

René of Chalon, also known as Renatus of Chalon, was a Prince of Orange and stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht and Gelre.

Schelto Patijn [ˈsxɛɫtoː pɑˈtɛin] was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and jurist. After serving as an elected member of the Dutch and subsequently European Parliament, he served as Queen's Commissioner in the Province of South Holland from June 16, 1984 until June 1, 1994 when he stepped down to become Mayor of Amsterdam, he served from June 1, 1994 until January 1, 2001.

Maria van Arkel was the only daughter and heiress of Lord John V of Arkel and Joanna of Jülich. She inherited the title to Gelderland from her maternal uncle, Duke Reginald IV, and her son became Arnold, Duke of Gelderland. She was the paternal grandmother of Mary of Guelders, who became Queen of Scots.

Pieter de Graeff, was a member of the De Graeff-family from the Dutch Golden Age. He was an Amsterdam Regent during the late 1660s and the early 1670s, and held the titles as Lord of the semi-sovereign Fief Zuid-Polsbroek and 19.th Lord of the Free and high Fief Ilpendam and Purmerland. Pieter de Graeff was a member of a family of regents who belonged to the republican political movement also referred to as the ‘state oriented’, as opposed to the Royalists.

Brilliana, Lady Harley, née Brilliana Conway, was a celebrated English letter-writer.

Constantijn Huygens Jr., Lord of Zuilichem was a Dutch statesman and poet, mostly known for his work on scientific instruments. But, he was also a chronicler of his times, revealing the importance of gossip. Besides he was an amateur draughtsman of landscapes.

Hendrik Pierson was a Dutch Lutheran minister and member of the Réveil religious revival movement. He was president of the Ottho Gerhard Heldringstichting, an asylum for reformed prostitutes, from 1877 to 1914. He was one of the leaders of the campaign to abolish state regulation of prostitution, and in 1898 became president of the International Abolitionist Federation..