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

Adolphus Vorstius was a Dutch physician and botanist.

Alexander Rueb was a Dutch lawyer, diplomat, and chess official.

Paulus Lesire (1611-1654) was a Dutch painter who specialised in history paintings and portraits.

Nikolaus Gerhaert, also known as Nikolaus Gerhaert van Leyden, was a Dutch sculptor, although aside from his sculptures, few details are known of his life. He worked in both stone and wood.

Cornelius Richard Anton van Bommel was a Dutch Bishop of Liège, Belgium, from 1829 until his death.

Johannes Paulus Lotsy or Jan Paulus Lotsy was a Dutch botanist, specializing in evolution and heredity. He promoted the idea of evolution being driven by hybridization.

Cornelius Jansen was the Dutch Catholic bishop of Ypres in Flanders and the father of a theological movement known as Jansenism.

Pieter de Hooch was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway. He was a contemporary of Jan Vermeer in the Delft Guild of St. Luke, with whom his work shares themes and style.

Richard Peter Stanislav Krajicek is a Dutch former professional tennis player. In 1996 he won the men's singles title at Wimbledon and is the only Dutch player to have won a Grand Slam tournament. In the quarterfinals of that tournament, he defeated Pete Sampras in straight sets. This was Sampras' only singles defeat at Wimbledon between 1993 and 2000. Since 2004, Krajicek has been the tournament director of the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam. He is also the author of various sports books. Krajicek reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 in March 1999.