List of Famous people born in North Holland, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Yoeri Havik
Yoeri Havik is a Dutch cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team BEAT Cycling.
David Jacob van Lennep
Dennis Lens
Dennis Paul Andrew Lens is a former Dutch badminton player. He competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the men's doubles event partnered with Quinten van Dalm. Lens won the boys' singles bronze at the 1995 European Junior Championships in Nitra, and was part of the Netherlands national team that won the mixed team bronze at the 2000 European Championships in Glasgow. He had collected 10 times national titles, 9 in the men's doubles event and once in the mixed doubles event.
Jan Verkolje
Jan Verkolje or Johannes Verkolje was a Dutch painter, draughtsman and engraver. He is mainly known for his portraits and genre pieces of elegant couples in interiors and, to a lesser extent, for his religious and mythological compositions. He was a gifted mezzotint artist. Trained in Amsterdam, Verkolje spent his active professional career in Delft where he had access to powerful patrons.
Johannes Schenck
Johannes Schenck was a Dutch musician and composer.
Gerrit Zalm
Gerrit Zalm is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and businessperson.
Nicolaas Laurens Burman
Nicolaas Laurens Burman was a Dutch botanist.
C. B. van Niel
Cornelis Bernardus van Niel was a Dutch-American microbiologist. He introduced the study of general microbiology to the United States and made key discoveries explaining the chemistry of photosynthesis.
Jan Saenredam
Jan Pieterszoon Saenredam was a Dutch Northern Mannerist painter, printmaker in engraving, and cartographer, and father of the painter of church interiors, Pieter Jansz Saenredam. He is noted for the many allegorical images he created from classical mythology and the Bible.
Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem
Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre pieces.