List of Famous people born in Overijssel, Kingdom of the Netherlands

Azra Akın is a Turkish-Dutch actress, dancer, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World 2002 in London on December 7, 2002.

Antonia Grietje "Tooske" Ragas-Breugem, is a Dutch actress and television host. She played a stewardess in 06/05, a movie by Theo van Gogh about the murder of Pim Fortuyn. She was video jockey (VJ) at TMF Netherlands and presented two seasons of the Dutch and German version of Idols.

Karim El-Ahmadi Aroussi is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Al-Ittihad from Saudi Arabia. El-Ahmadi was born in the Netherlands and played for FC Twente and Feyenoord before moving to the Premier League with Aston Villa in 2012 and subsequently returning to Feyenoord in September 2014.

Anna van der Breggen is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam SD Worx. She won the gold medal in the women's road race at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and has won the Giro d'Italia Femminile on three occasions. In 2018, and 2020, she won the women's road race at the UCI Road World Championships.

Gertjan Verbeek is a Dutch former professional footballer who last managed A-League side Adelaide United.

Jonnie Boer is a Dutch Michelin star winning head chef and co-owner of the restaurant De Librije in Zwolle, Netherlands.

Roméo Antonius Dallaire is a Canadian humanitarian, author, and retired senator and Land Force Command lieutenant-general. Dallaire served as force commander of UNAMIR, the ill-fated United Nations peacekeeping force for Rwanda between 1993 and 1994, and attempted to stop the genocide that was being waged by Hutu extremists against the Tutsi people and Hutu moderates.

Deniz Türüç is a Turkish footballer who plays as a midfielder for İstanbul Başakşehir on loan from Fenerbahçe.

Johanna ter Steege is a Dutch actress.

Robin van Helsum is a Dutch citizen who went missing on 2 September 2011 and appeared in the Berlin city hall Rotes Rathaus three days later, claiming his mother had died in an automobile crash when he was 12 and that he had lived with his father for five years in the forests of Germany, where he buried his father after the latter died in August 2011. Dubbed "Forest Boy" by the media, van Helsum later admitted that the disappearance was a hoax and was sentenced to 160 hours of community service. Van Helsum was believed to have vanished before he was discovered working in Berlin.