List of Famous people born in Zeeland, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Sandra Roelofs
Sandra Elisabeth Roelofs–Saakashvili is a Dutch–Georgian activist and diplomat who was the First Lady of Georgia from 2004 to 2013, when her husband Mikheil Saakashvili was president of the country.
Danny Blind
Dirk Franciscus "Danny" Blind is a former Dutch international football player. He played as a defender for Sparta Rotterdam, Ajax and the Netherlands national team.
Lodewijk van den Berg
Lodewijk van den Berg is a Dutch American chemical engineer, specializing in crystal growth, who flew on a 1985 Space Shuttle Challenger mission as a Payload Specialist.
Rutger Bregman
Rutger C. Bregman is a Dutch popular historian and author. He has published four books on history, philosophy, and economics, including Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World, which has been translated into thirty-two languages. His work has been featured in The Washington Post, The Guardian and the BBC. He has been described by The Guardian as the "Dutch wunderkind of new ideas" and by TED Talks as "one of Europe's most prominent young thinkers". His TED Talk, "Poverty Isn't a Lack of Character; It's a Lack of Cash", was chosen by TED curator Chris Anderson as one of the top ten of 2017.
Rasmus Paludan
Rasmus Paludan is a Danish-Swedish politician and former lawyer. He is the leader of the far-right political party Hard Line, which he founded in 2017. He is the older brother of poet Tine Paludan and writer Martin Paludan. Paludan himself has a migration background as his father is Swedish journalist Tomas Polvall and he has lived in Sweden at times, which according to himself gives him the right to Swedish citizenship.
Etty Hillesum
Esther "Etty" Hillesum was the Dutch author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in Amsterdam during the German occupation. In 1943 she was deported and killed in Auschwitz concentration camp.
Volkert van der Graaf
Volkert van der Graaf is a Dutch environmentalist and animal rights activist who was convicted for assassinating politician Pim Fortuyn, the leader of the right-wing Pim Fortuyn List (LPF), on 6 May 2002. This occurred during the political campaign for the Dutch general elections of 2002.
Danny Vera
Danny Polfliet, known professionally as Danny Vera, is a Dutch singer-songwriter and musician.
Johnny Hoogerland
Johnny Hoogerland is a Dutch former professional cyclist, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2016 for the Van Hermet–Eurogifts, Jartazi–7Mobile, Van Vliet–EBH Elshof, Vacansoleil–DCM, Androni Giocattoli–Venezuela and Roompot–Oranje Peloton squads.
Jan Peter Balkenende
Jan Pieter "Jan Peter" Balkenende Jr. KmstkNO CSG is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 22 July 2002 to 14 October 2010.