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

Rick Flens

First Name Rick
Last Name Flens
Born on April 11, 1983 (age 43)
Height 187 cm | 6'2

Rick Flens is a former Dutch professional road bicycle racer who rode for UCI ProTeam LottoNL–Jumbo.

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Roel de Wit

First Name Roel
Born on March 31, 1927
Died on June 3, 2012 (aged 85)

Roelof Josephus "Roel" de Wit was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and a conservationist.

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Bas Hoeflaak

First Name Bas
Last Name Hoeflaak
Born on April 30, 1999 (age 26)
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Daan Jippes

Daniel Jan "Daan" Jippes is a Dutch cartoonist who's known for his work on Disney comics. In the 1980s and 1990s he drew many covers for Gladstone Publishing's Disney magazines. In the 1990s he redrew for Egmont old Junior Woodchucks stories from the 1970s, originally written by Carl Barks and drawn by John Carey, Kay Wright and Tony Strobl.

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Bob van Asperen

First Name Bob
Last Name Asperen
Born on October 8, 1947 (age 78)

Bob van Asperen is a Dutch harpsichordist and early keyboard instrument performer, as well as a conductor. He graduated in 1971 from the Amsterdam Conservatory, where he studied the harpsichord with Gustav Leonhardt and the pipe organ with Albert de Klerk. Since then he has been performing extensively in Europe and the rest of the world, both as a soloist and as an accompanist/conductor.

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Iris Tabeling

Iris Tabeling is a Dutch female badminton player. She is a women's doubles and mixed doubles specialist.

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Gustav de Vries

First Name Gustav
Born on January 22, 1866
Died on December 16, 1934 (aged 68)

Gustav de Vries was a Dutch mathematician, who is best remembered for his work on the Korteweg–de Vries equation with Diederik Korteweg. He was born on 22 January 1866 in Amsterdam, and studied at the University of Amsterdam with the distinguished physical chemist Johannes van der Waals and with Korteweg. While doing his doctoral research De Vries supported himself by teaching at the Royal Military Academy in Breda (1892-1893) and at the "cadettenschool" in Alkmaar (1893-1894). Under Korteweg's supervision De Vries completed his doctoral dissertation: Bijdrage tot de kennis der lange golven, Acad. proefschrift, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1894, 95 pp, Loosjes, Haarlem. The following year Korteweg and De Vries published the research paper On the Change of Form of Long Waves advancing in a Rectangular Canal and on a New Type of Long Stationary Waves, Philosophical Magazine, 5th series, 39, 1895, pp. 422–443. In 1894 De Vries worked as a high school teacher at the "HBS en Handelsschool" in Haarlem, where he remained until his retirement in 1931. He died in Haarlem on 16 December 1934. The Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics is named after him.

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Jan de Vries

First Name Jan
Last Name Vries
Born on February 11, 1890
Died on July 23, 1964 (aged 74)

Jan Pieter Marie Laurens de Vries was a Dutch philologist, linguist, religious studies scholar, folklorist, educator, writer, editor and public official who specialized in Germanic studies.

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Willem Hendrik Keesom

Wilhelmus Hendrikus Keesom
First Name Willem
Last Name Keesom
Born on June 21, 1876
Died on March 24, 1956 (aged 79)

Willem Hendrik Keesom was a Dutch physicist who, in 1926, invented a method to freeze liquid helium. He also developed the first mathematical description of dipole–dipole interactions in 1921. Thus, dipole–dipole interactions are also known as Keesom interactions. He was previously a student of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, who had discovered superconductivity.

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Pieter Oud

First Name Pieter
Last Name Oud
Born on December 5, 1886
Died on August 12, 1968 (aged 81)

Pieter Jacobus Oud was a Dutch politician of the defunct Free-thinking Democratic League (VDB) party and later co-founder of the Labour Party (PvdA) and the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and historian. He was granted the honorary title of Minister of State on 9 November 1963.

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