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

Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken is a Dutch-British billionaire businesswoman, and the owner of a 25% controlling interest in the world's second-largest brewer, Heineken International. She is the richest person in the Netherlands, with a net worth of $16.3 billion as of October 2019, according to the Forbes billionaires list.

Urby Vitorrio Diego Emanuelson is a Dutch professional footballer of Surinamese descent who plays for Eredivisie side FC Utrecht and the Netherlands national team.

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

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

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.

Bilal Başaçıkoğlu is a Turkish footballer who plays as a winger for Gaziantep. He formerly played for SC Heerenveen, Feyenoord and Kayserispor.

Baki Mercimek is a Turkish footballer.

Rudolf Canesius Soemolang Wowor, better known as Rudy Wowor was a Dutch Indonesian dancer and actor of Indonesian cinema, often playing the role of Dutch antagonist. Wowor was of Indo descent and a citizen of Netherlands and Indonesia.

Gerard Stigter, known by the pseudonym K. Schippers, was a Dutch poet, prose writer and art critic. Credited with having introduced the readymade as a poetic form, the whole of his work is dedicated to looking at everyday objects and events in a new way.

Frédéric Devreese was a Belgian composer of mostly orchestral, chamber and piano works that have been performed throughout the world; he was also active as a conductor. Devreese is known for his film scores, including Benvenuta by André Delvaux and The Cruel Embrace by Marion Hänsel.