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

Steven de Jongh is a Dutch former road bicycle racer.

Danny Schenkel is a Dutch former footballer who played as a defender.

Jacobus Duivenvoorde was the Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Merauke, Indonesia.

Max Dresden was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist and historian of physics. He is known for his research in "statistical mechanics, superconductivity, quantum field theory, and elementary particle physics."

Johann Georg Friedrich "Fred" Grim is a Dutch former professional football goalkeeper and the current head coach of RKC Waalwijk. Grim represented Ajax and Cambuur during his playing career.

Aart Staartjes was a Dutch actor, director, television presenter and documentary maker from Amsterdam. He was well known for his role on Sesamstraat, the Dutch co-production of Sesame Street. On this show, his character's name was Meneer Aart and in this persona he authored a book called Meneer Aart: Leven en werken van de man die geen kindervriend wil heten.

Waldemar Govinda Torenstra is a Dutch actor. For several years he worked as an actor at the Noord Nederlands Toneel, a touring theater company in the Netherlands.

Hendrikus "Hendrik" Colijn (22 June 1869 – 18 September 1944) was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party. He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 4 August 1925 until 8 March 1926, and from 26 May 1933 until 10 August 1939.

Patrick Jonker is a retired Australian road bicycle racer from Dutch and German ancestry. He was a professional rider from 1993 to 2004. Jonker represented Australia twice at the Summer Olympics, in 1992 and 1996. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. The highlights of his career include wins in the 1997 Route du Sud, the 1999 Grand Prix de Wallonie and ending his career with a high profile victory in the 2004 Tour Down Under. In 2012, he denied any involvement in doping practices at U.S. Postal Service during his stint in the team in the 2000 season following the Lance Armstrong doping affair. He stated that the seven titles in the Tour de France that Armstrong won should be voided since the doping tests were unreliable at that time in his opinion.