List of Famous people born in North Brabant, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Jelle Klaasen
Jelle Klaasen is a Dutch professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. Nicknamed The Cobra. In 2006 he became the youngest darts player to win the World Darts Championship, aged 21 at the time.
Ruud van Nistelrooy
Rutgerus Johannes Martinus van Nistelrooy is a Dutch football coach and former player. He is currently the coach of the PSV Eindhoven under-19s team and assistant manager for Netherlands.
Willemijn Verkaik
Willemijn Verkaik is a Dutch singer and actress. She is best known for her stage roles in Wicked and Elisabeth, and for providing the singing voice for Elsa in both the German and Dutch versions of Disney's Frozen. She was the longest running Elphaba in the musical Wicked, having played the role over 2,000 times, and is the only person to have played the role in three languages. Her first performance as Elphaba was on 31 October 2007, in Stuttgart, Germany, and her final performance was on 22 July 2017 in the West End of London.
Daniëlle van de Donk
Daniëlle van de Donk is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a midfielder and a winger for Arsenal in the FA Women's Super League and the Netherlands national team. She has over 105 caps with the national team and helped win the UEFA Women's Euro 2017 and finish second at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.
Patrick van Aanholt
Patrick John Miguel van Aanholt is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Premier League club Crystal Palace and the Netherlands national team.
Bas Rutten
Sebastian "Bas" Rutten is a Dutch–American actor, retired mixed martial artist, kickboxer and professional wrestler. He was a UFC Heavyweight Champion, a three-time King of Pancrase world champion, and finished his career on a 22 fight unbeaten streak. FightMetric wrote this when Rutten got inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame: "FightMetric, the official statistics provider for the UFC, ran the numbers on Rutten's career. They back up the Dutchman's inclusion into the UFC Hall of Fame and then some. In the 4-hours, 27-minutes and 8-seconds he spent as a pro fighter, Rutten scored 13 knockdowns without getting dropped himself, his significant strike accuracy was 70.6%, the highest FightMetric has ever recorded, attempted a record 53 submissions and successfully swept his opponents a record 46 times." From 2007 to 2016, Rutten was the co-host of Inside MMA on AXS TV. Rutten became a naturalized American citizen receiving citizenship in the late 1990s.
Sjoerd Marijne
Sjoerd Marijne is a Dutch field hockey coach of the Indian women's national team.
Jesse Klaver
Jesse Feras Klaver is a Dutch politician serving as a member of the House of Representatives since 2010 and Leader of GroenLinks since 2015. Prior to this, he chaired the youth union of the Christelijk Nationaal Vakverbond from 2009 to 2010.
Floor Jansen
Floor Jansen is a Dutch singer, songwriter, and vocal coach. She is currently the lead vocalist of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish.
Adrie van der Poel
Adrie van der Poel is a retired Dutch cyclist. Van der Poel was a professional from 1981 to 2000. His biggest wins included six classics, two stages of the Tour de France and the World Cyclo-Cross Championships in 1996. He also obtained the second place and silver medal in the World Road Championships in 1983 behind Greg LeMond and five second places in the World Cylo-Cross championships. The Grand Prix Adrie van der Poel is named after him.