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

Rajiv Ramon van La Parra is a Dutch professional footballer who plays for German club Würzburger Kickers. A winger, he can also play as a striker. At international level, he has represented the Netherlands U21.

James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, 1st Duke of Buccleuch, KG, PC was a Dutch-born English nobleman. Originally called James Crofts or James Fitzroy, he was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the eldest illegitimate son of Charles II of England, Scotland, and Ireland with his mistress Lucy Walter.

Noussair Mazraoui is a Dutch-born Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a right back for Dutch club Ajax and the Morocco national team.

Jutta Leerdam is a Dutch speed skater specializing in the sprint events.

Sarina Wiegman, also known as Sarina Wiegman-Glotzbach, is a Dutch football manager, former footballer and current head coach of the Netherlands women's national football team. She played as a central midfielder and, later in her career, as a defender. In 2001, she became the first Dutch female footballer to gain 100 caps.

Arnold Gerrit Henskes, known by the pseudonym Mirin Dajo, was a Dutch performer. He became famous for radically piercing his body with all kinds of objects apparently without injury, even surprising the medical community at the time.

Marjolein Kriek is a Dutch clinical geneticist at the Leiden University Medical Center. In 2008, at age 34, she became the first woman and probably the first European to have her total DNA genome sequenced.

Arantxa Rus is a Dutch tennis player. In 2008, she won the Junior Australian Open defeating Jessica Moore from Australia. With this win she went from 35th to second place on the junior rankings, ultimately becoming the world No. 1 junior player.

Betty Flippina Stöve is a Dutch former professional tennis player. She is best remembered for reaching the ladies' singles final, the ladies' doubles final and the mixed doubles final during the same year at Wimbledon in 1977. She also won ten Grand Slam titles in women's doubles and mixed doubles.

Cornelis de Houtman, brother of Frederick de Houtman, was a Dutch explorer who discovered a new sea route from Europe to the East Indies, and who thus begun the Dutch spice trade. At the time, the Portuguese Empire held a monopoly on the spice trade, and the voyage was a symbolic victory for the Dutch, even though the voyage itself was a disaster. Houtman was also a spy, having worked against the Portuguese by bringing back to the Netherlands privileged nautical information obtained during his stay in Portugal.