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

Willem Drost was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker of history paintings and portraits.

Frederik Kaiser was a Dutch astronomer. He was director of the Leiden Observatory from 1838 until his death.

Samuel Sarphati was a Dutch physician and Amsterdam city planner.

Hendrik van Heuraet was a Dutch mathematician also known as Henrici van Heuraet. He is noted as one of the founders of the integral, and author of Epistola de Transmutatione Curvarum Linearum in Rectus [On the Transformation of Curves into Straight Lines] (1659). From 1653 he studied at Leiden University where he interacted with Frans van Schooten, Johannes Hudde, and Christiaan Huygens. In 1658 he and Hudde left for Saumur in France. He returned to Leiden the next year as a physician. After this his trail is lost.

Jan van den Bergh, was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Jan, Joan, Joannes or Johan Six van Chandelier was a Dutch Golden Age poet from Amsterdam who travelled to Spa, France, Spain, Italy, and England. His collected works were republished in 1991.

Bert Johan Ouëndag, often recorded as B.J. Ouëndag, was an architect from the Netherlands.

Cornelia Catharina de Lange was a Dutch pediatrician. Cornelia de Lange syndrome is named after her.

Nicolaes Eliaszoon Pickenoy was a Dutch painter of Flemish origin. Pickenoy was possibly a pupil of Cornelis van der Voort and presumably Bartholomeus van der Helst was his own pupil.

Willem "Wim" Schermerhorn was a Dutch politician of the defunct Free-thinking Democratic League (VDB) and later co-founder of the Labour Party (PvdA). He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 25 June 1945 until 3 July 1946. According to Harry W. Laidler, the government under Schermerhorn's premiership "achieved important results in the fields of labor, finance, housing, old age pensions, and the social services."