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

Cees See was a Dutch jazz drummer.

Jan Vermeer van Haarlem, or Jan van der Meer II was a Dutch Golden Age painter from Haarlem. A landscape painter primarily, he was baptized there on November 29, 1656.

Bartholomeus van der Helst was a Dutch painter. Considered to be one of the leading portrait painters of the Dutch Golden Age, his elegant portraits gained him the patronage of Amsterdam's elite as well as the Stadtholder's circle. Besides portraits, van der Helst painted a few genre pictures as well as some biblical scenes and mythological subjects.

Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst was a Dutch painter, draftsman, lithographer, book cover designer, etcher and writer. Many of his works were in a modified Symbolist style.

Ezechiel Godert David "Eddie" Cohen was a Dutch-American physicist and Professor Emeritus at The Rockefeller University. He is widely recognised for his contributions to statistical physics. In 2004 Cohen was awarded the Boltzmann Medal, jointly with Prof. H. Eugene Stanley. Cohen's citation read "For his fundamental contributions to nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, including the development of a theory of transport phenomena in dense gases, and the characterization of measures and fluctuations in nonequilibrium stationary states."

Hendrick van Anthonissen was a Dutch marine painter.

Chedric Seedorf is a Dutch footballer who plays as a midfielder, and who is currently a Free Agent.

Rudolf Lucieer is a Dutch actor. He has appeared in 36 films and television shows since 1966. He starred in the 1967 film Paranoia, which was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1992 he won the Golden Calf for Best Actor for his role in the movie The Northerners.

Gerard Valck was a Dutch engraver, publisher and cartographer.