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

Ramsey Nasr is a Dutch author and actor of mixed descent, half Israeli, half Dutch.

Leroy Johan Fer is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Feyenoord and the Netherlands national football team.

Matthias Maris was a Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer. He was also known as Matthijs Maris or Thijs. He initially belonged to the Hague School, like his two brothers, Jacob and Willem, but his later works deviated more and more from that school into a unique style influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites.

Abbot Henri Charles Arnauld de Pomponne was a French ecclesiastic and diplomat.

Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany.

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist, programmer, software engineer, systems scientist, science essayist, and pioneer in computing science. A theoretical physicist by training, he worked as a programmer at the Mathematisch Centrum (Amsterdam) from 1952 to 1962. A university professor for much of his life, Dijkstra held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin from 1984 until his retirement in 1999. He was a professor of mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology (1962–1984) and a research fellow at the Burroughs Corporation (1973–1984). In 1972, he became the first non-American, non-British, and continental European winner of the Turing Award.

Nelly van Doesburg was a Dutch avant-garde (dada) musician, dancer and artist. As a painter, she used the pseudonym Cupera.

Pieter Wilhelm Adrianus Cort van der Linden was a Dutch politician who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 29 August 1913 to 9 September 1918.

Willem van Oldenbarnevelt, Lord of Stoutenburg was a son of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt. He was born in The Hague, where he was baptised at the court-chapel in November 1590.