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

Koen Ridder is a Dutch badminton player. The left handler Ridder, was a part of the Duinwijck badminton club. He won the men's doubles title at the national championships in 2009, 2011, and 2013 partnered with Ruud Bosch. Together with Bosch, they won some international tournament in Portugal, Belgium, Canada, Slovenia, Norway, Peru and Tahiti. He also play for the Düren 57 club in German. His parents, Rob and Marjan Ridder also a professional badminton players. Koen Ridder was elected vice-chair of the athlete commission of the BWF for a 4-year term in May 2015. In 2017 Ridder was chosen as Chair by his fellow commission members. He achieved his personal best world ranking of 22 in 2013. Koen retired as a professional player in 2014 after representing The Netherlands for more than 10 years at international level.

Frits Goldschmeding is a Dutch billionaire businessman, founder of Randstad Holding, the world's largest staffing company.The Netherlands-based company had revenue of 23.7 billion euros in 2019.

Simon Kuipers is a retired Dutch speed skater. He won a 1500 meters World Cup competitions on 3 December 2005. It was his first World Cup victory. He participated in two events at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, finishing 23rd in the 500 metres, and 4th in the 1500 metres, less than four-tenths of a second off the podium, as well as being the fastest Dutchman in that event. He officially retired in March 2012.

Floris Goesinnen is a Dutch former professional road cyclist.

Selena Piek is a Dutch badminton player who specializes in doubles. Her current partner is Cheryl Seinen for women's doubles and Robin Tabeling for mixed doubles. She won the 2014 and 2015 editions of Dutch National Badminton Championships with Eefje Muskens. She has also won the mixed doubles national championships title since 2012 with three different partners. Piek was the gold medalist at the 2019 European Games in the women's doubles event with Cheryl Seinen.

Johan Martin Schröder is a Dutch pilot and founder of Martinair, the second Dutch airline and the first Dutch air charter company. At the founding in 1958 the company was known as Martin's Air Charter (MAC).

Dov J. Elkabas, known professionally as DJ The Prophet, is a Israeli-Dutch gabber and hardstyle DJ and producer. The Prophet is also the owner of one of the largest hardstyle record labels, Scantraxx.

Tine "Tineke" Netelenbos-Koomen is a retired Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and businesswoman.

Johan Kappelhof is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a defender for Major League Soccer club Chicago Fire.