Frequent persons on Netherlands's street signs

Juliana of the Netherlands

587 Juliana was Queen of the Netherlands from 1948 until her abdication in 1980.                       

Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

530 Wilhelmina was Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948. She reigned for nearly 58 years, making her the longest-reigning monarch in Dutch history, as well as the...

Beatrix of the Netherlands

509 Beatrix is a member of the Dutch royal house who reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until her abdication in 2013.

Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld

437 Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld was Prince of the Netherlands from 6 September 1948 to 30 April 1980 as the husband of Queen Juliana. They had four daughters together, including Beatrix, who was...

Princess Irene of the Netherlands

381 Princess Irene of the Netherlands is the second child of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard.

Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont

344 Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont was Queen of the Netherlands and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg as the wife of King-Grand Duke William III. An immensely popular member of the Dutch Royal Family, Queen Emma...

Princess Christina of the Netherlands

326 Princess Christina of the Netherlands was the youngest of four daughters of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. She taught singing in New York and was a...

Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands

284 Willem-Alexander is King of the Netherlands.                                                       

Prince Henry of the Netherlands (1820–1879)

257 Prince William Frederick Henry of the Netherlands was the third son of King William II of the Netherlands and his wife, Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna of Russia. He was born at Soestdijk Palace.

Maurice, Prince of Orange

204 Maurice of Orange was stadtholder of all the provinces of the Dutch Republic except for Friesland from 1585 at the earliest until his death in 1625. Before he became Prince of Orange upon the death...

Rembrandt

199 Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the...

House of Nassau

175 The House of Nassau is a diversified aristocratic dynasty in Europe. It is named after the lordship associated with Nassau Castle, located in present-day Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. With...

Frans Hals

160 Frans Hals the Elder was a Dutch Golden Age painter, chiefly of individual and group portraits and of tronies, who lived and worked in Haarlem.

Princess Margriet of the Netherlands

156 Princess Margriet of the Netherlands is the third daughter of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard. As an aunt of the reigning monarch, King Willem-Alexander, she is a member of the Dutch Royal House...

Johannes Vermeer

147 Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He is considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. During his...

Vincent van Gogh

146 Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created approximately 2100...

Herman Schaepman

146 Herman Johannes Aloysius Maria Schaepman was a Dutch priest, politician and poet.                   

Johan Rudolph Thorbecke

144 Johan Rudolph Thorbecke was a Dutch liberal statesman, one of the most important Dutch politicians of the 19th century. Thorbecke is best known for heading the commission that drafted the revision of...

Michiel de Ruyter

138 Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter was a Dutch admiral. His achievements with the Dutch Navy during the Anglo-Dutch Wars earned him the reputation as one of the most skilled naval commanders in history.

Prince Claus of the Netherlands

135 Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Jonkheer van Amsberg was Prince of the Netherlands from 30 April 1980 until his death in 2002 as the husband of Queen Beatrix.

Ludwig van Beethoven

132 Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music...

William the Silent

132 William the Silent or William the Taciturn, more commonly known in the Netherlands as William of Orange, was the leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

132 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually...

Joost van den Vondel

130 Joost van den Vondel was a Dutch playwright, poet, literary translator and writer. He is generally regarded as the greatest writer in the Dutch language as well as an important figure in the history...

Jan Steen

127 Jan Havickszoon Steen was a Dutch Golden Age painter, one of the leading genre painters of the 17th century. His works are known for their psychological insight, sense of humour and abundance of...

John William Friso

126 John William Friso became the (titular) Prince of Orange in 1702. He was the Stadtholder of Friesland and Groningen in the Dutch Republic until his death by accidental drowning in the Hollands Diep...

Paulus Potter

125 Paulus Potter was a Dutch painter who specialized in animals within landscapes, usually with a low vantage point.

Karel Doorman

125 Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman was a Dutch naval officer who during World War II commanded remnants of the short-lived American-British-Dutch-Australian Command naval strike forces in the Battle...

Johann Sebastian Bach

122 Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific authorship of music across a variety of instruments and forms, including; orchestral...

Abraham Kuyper

117 Abraham Kuyper was the Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905, an influential neo-Calvinist pastor and a journalist. He established the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, which...

Piet Pieterszoon Hein

116 Piet Pieterszoon Hein was a Dutch admiral and privateer for the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War. Hein was the first and the last to capture a large part of a Spanish treasure fleet which...

John F. Kennedy

114 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest...

Pieter Jelles Troelstra

109 Pieter Jelles Troelstra was a Dutch lawyer, journalist and politician active in the socialist workers' movement. He is most remembered for his fight for universal suffrage and his failed call for...

Frédéric Chopin

109 Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era,...

Henry Dunant

108 Henry Dunant, also known as Henri Dunant, was a Swiss humanitarian, businessman, social activist, and co-founder of the Red Cross. His humanitarian efforts won him the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.

Thomas Edison

103 Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These...

Franz Schubert

103 Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a vast oeuvre, including more than 600 secular vocal works,...

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

99 Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. He was among the first major keyboard...

Willem Bilderdijk

98 Willem Bilderdijk was a Dutch poet, historian, lawyer, and linguist.                               

Jacob Cats

97 Jacob Cats was a Dutch poet, humorist, jurist and politician. He is most famous for his emblem books.

Giuseppe Verdi

93 Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the help of...

Maarten Tromp

92 Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp or Maarten van Tromp was an army general and admiral in the Dutch navy during much of the Eighty Years' War and throughout the First Anglo-Dutch War. Son of a ship's...

Johan van Galen

92 Johan "Jan" van Galen was a Commodore of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces of the Netherlands. he participated in the First Anglo-Dutch War.

Meindert Hobbema

91 Meindert Lubbertszoon Hobbema was a Dutch Golden Age painter of landscapes, specializing in views of woodland, although his most famous painting, The Avenue at Middelharnis, shows a different type of...

Hendrik Lorentz

90 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. He derived the Lorentz...

Adriaen van Ostade

87 Adriaen van Ostade was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works, showing everyday life of ordinary men and women.

Jacob van Ruisdael

85 Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He is generally considered the pre-eminent landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, a period of great wealth and...

Guglielmo Marconi

84 Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his creation of a practical radio wave–based wireless telegraph system. This led to...

Saint Joseph

83 Joseph was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who, according to the canonical Gospels, was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.

Anthony of Padua

81 Anthony of Padua, OFM or Anthony of Lisbon was a Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order.

Hieronymus Bosch

81 Hieronymus Bosch was a Dutch painter from Brabant. He is one of the most notable representatives of the Early Netherlandish painting school. His work, generally oil on oak wood, mainly contains...

Winston Churchill

81 Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again...

George Frideric Handel

80 George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos. Handel received his training in Halle and worked as a...

Peter Paul Rubens

80 Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects...

Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft

79 Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft - Knight in the Order of Saint Michael - was a Dutch historian, poet and playwright who lived during the Dutch Golden Age in literature.

Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer

79 Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, was a Dutch politician and historian.                               

Willem Drees

78 Willem Drees Sr. was a Dutch politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later co-founder of the Labour Party (PvdA) and historian who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands...

Alphons Diepenbrock

76 Alphonsus Johannes Maria Diepenbrock was a Dutch composer, essayist and classicist.                 

Gerrit Dou

75 Gerrit Dou, also known as Gerard Douw or Dow, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose small, highly polished paintings are typical of the Leiden fijnschilders. He specialised in genre scenes and is...

Willem Hubert Nolens

75 Mgr. mr. dr. Wilhelmus Hubertus (Wiel) Nolens was a Dutch politician and a Roman Catholic priest.   

Isaac da Costa

75 Isaäc da Costa was a Jewish Dutch poet.                                                             

Hendrik Willem Mesdag

74 Hendrik Willem Mesdag was a Dutch marine painter.                                                   

Dirk van Hogendorp

74 Dirk van Hogendorp was a Dutch military officer, politician, colonial administrator and diplomat. In 1812 he was governor of Vilnius, in 1813 he was appointed as the governor of Hamburg. He was an...

Christiaan Huygens

73 Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem, was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution. In physics, Huygens made...

Jozef Israëls

72 Jozef Israëls was a Dutch painter. He was a leading member of the group of landscape painters referred to as the Hague School and was, during his lifetime, "the most respected Dutch artist of the...

Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange

72 Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange is the heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the constituent countries of Aruba, Curaçao, the Netherlands, and Sint...

Albert Schweitzer

71 Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer was an Alsatian polymath. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. A Lutheran minister, Schweitzer challenged...

Alexander de Savornin Lohman

70 Jhr. Alexander Frederik de Savornin Lohman was a Dutch politician and leader of the Christian Historical Union during the first quarter of the 20th century.

Anthony Christiaan Winand Staring

70 Anthony Christiaan Winand Staring, heer van de Wildenborch was een Nederlandse landheer, landbouwkundige en dichter.

Nicolaas Beets

70 Nicolaas Beets was a Dutch theologian, writer and poet. He published also under the pseudonym Hildebrand.

Antonio Vivaldi

70 Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Along with Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel, Vivaldi ranks amongst the greatest...

Alessandro Volta

69 Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was an Italian physicist and chemist who was a pioneer of electricity and power and is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer...

Hendrick van Brederode

69 Henry (Hendrik), Lord of Bréderode, also styled Count of Brederode, was a member of the Dutch noble family Van Brederode. He was the leader of the allied Dutch nobles, the so-called Compromise of...

Jan Toorop

68 Johannes Theodorus "Jan" Toorop was a Dutch painter who worked in various styles, including Symbolism, Art Nouveau, and Pointillism. His early work was influenced by the Amsterdam Impressionism...

Abel Tasman

67 Abel Janszoon Tasman was a Dutch seafarer and explorer, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).

Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest

66 Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest was a Dutch naval officer from Vlissingen who served as Lieutenant Admiral of Zeeland and Supreme Commander of the Confederated Dutch Navy. Of a family that included...

André-Marie Ampère

66 André-Marie Ampère was a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics". He is also the...

Johannes Brahms

66 Johannes Brahms was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes...

Jacob Maris

66 Jacob Henricus Maris was a Dutch painter, who with his brothers Willem and Matthijs belonged to what has come to be known as the Hague School of painters. He was considered to be the most important...

Albert Einstein

65 Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held to be one of the greatest and most influential scientists of all time. Best known for developing the theory of relativity,...

Witte de With

65 Witte Corneliszoon de With was a Dutch naval officer who served during the Eighty Years' War and the First Anglo-Dutch War.

James Watt

65 James Watt was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the...

Henri Poels

65 Hendrikus Andreas (Henri) Poels, ook bekend als dr. Poels, was een Nederlands rooms-katholiek priester, theoloog en filantroop.

Pieter de Hooch

64 Pieter de Hooch (Dutch: [ˈpitər də ɦoːx], also spelled "Hoogh" or "Hooghe"; 20 December 1629 – after 1683, was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an...

Joseph Haydn

63 Franz Joseph Haydn was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions to musical...

Piet Mondrian

63 Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, after 1906 known as Piet Mondrian, was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of...

Jacob van Lennep

63 Jacob van Lennep was a Dutch poet and novelist.                                                     

Richard Wagner

62 Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the...

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

62 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. He exploited the Hampson–Linde cycle to investigate how materials behave when cooled to nearly absolute zero and later to liquefy...

Hugo Grotius

62 Hugo Grotius, also known as Hugo de Groot or Huig de Groot, was a Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, statesman, poet and playwright. A teenage prodigy, he was born in Delft and...

House of Limburg-Stirum

62 The House of Limburg-Stirum, which adopted its name in the 12th century from the immediate county of Limburg an der Lenne in what is now Germany, is one of the oldest families in Europe. It is the...

Herman Boerhaave

62 Herman Boerhaave was a Dutch botanist, chemist, Christian humanist, and physician of European fame. He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital and is...

John the Apostle

62 John the Apostle, also known as Saint John the Beloved and, in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Saint John the Theologian, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament....

Simon Stevin

61 Simon Stevin, sometimes called Stevinus, was a Flemish mathematician, scientist and music theorist. He made various contributions in many areas of science and engineering, both theoretical and...

Aletta Jacobs

61 Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs was a Dutch physician and women's suffrage activist. As the first woman officially to attend a Dutch university, she became one of the first female physicians in the...

Marie Curie

61 Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie, known simply as Marie Curie, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to...

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

60 Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch microbiologist and microscopist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology. A largely self-taught man in science, he is commonly known as "the...

Alfred Nobel

59 Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer and businessman. He is known for inventing dynamite as well as having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prize. He also made...

Princess Sophie of the Netherlands

59 Princess Sophie of the Netherlands was the only daughter and last surviving child of King William II of the Netherlands and of his wife Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna of Russia. She was heiress...

Willem Barentsz

59 Willem Barentsz, anglicized as William Barents or Barentz, was a Dutch navigator, cartographer, and Arctic explorer.

Martin of Tours

59 Martin of Tours, also known as Martin the Merciful, was the third bishop of Tours. He has become one of the most familiar and recognizable Christian saints in France, heralded as the patron saint of...

Willibrord

58 Willibrord was an Anglo-Saxon missionary and saint, known as the "Apostle to the Frisians" in the modern Netherlands. He became the first Bishop of Utrecht and died at Echternach, Luxembourg.

Louis Pasteur

58 Louis Pasteur was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was...

George Hendrik Breitner

58 George Hendrik Breitner was a Dutch painter and photographer. An important figure in Amsterdam Impressionism, he is noted especially for his paintings of street scenes and harbours in a realistic...

Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer

58 Egbert Bartholomeuszoon Kortenaer or Egbert Meussen Cortenaer was an admiral of the United Provinces of the Netherlands who was killed in the Battle of Lowestoft.

Gerbrand Bredero

57 Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero was a Dutch poet and playwright in the period known as the Dutch Golden Age.

Jan van Goyen

57 Jan Josephszoon van Goyen was a Dutch landscape painter. The scope of his landscape subjects was very broad as he painted forest landscapes, marine paintings, river landscapes, beach scenes, winter...

Ferdinand Bol

56 Ferdinand Bol was a Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman. Although his surviving work is rare, it displays Rembrandt's influence; like his master, Bol favored historical subjects, portraits, numerous...

Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands

56 Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands is the third and youngest son of the former Dutch queen, Beatrix, and her husband, Claus von Amsberg, and is the younger brother of the reigning Dutch king,...

Johan van Oldenbarnevelt

55 Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Heer van Berkel en Rodenrijs (1600), Gunterstein (1611) and Bakkum (1613) was a Dutch statesman and revolutionary who played an important role in the Dutch struggle for...

Erasmus

54 Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic theologian, educationalist, satirist, and philosopher. Through his vast number of translations, books, essays, prayers and...

Guido Gezelle

54 Guido Pieter Theodorus Josephus Gezelle was an influential writer and poet and a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium. He is famous for the use of the West Flemish dialect, but he also wrote in other...

Gioachino Rossini

54 Gioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces and some sacred music. He set new standards...

Aelbert Cuyp

54 Aelbert Jacobszoon Cuyp or Cuijp was one of the leading Dutch Golden Age painters, producing mainly landscapes. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father, Jacob Gerritszoon...

Stadtholder

53 In the Low Countries, a stadtholder was a steward, first appointed as a medieval official and ultimately functioning as a national leader. The stadtholder was the replacement of the duke or count of...

Juliana of Stolberg

53 Juliana, Countess of Stolberg-Wernigerode was the mother of William the Silent, the leader of the successful Dutch Revolt against the Spanish in the 16th century.

Hendrikus Colijn

51 Hendrikus "Hendrik" Colijn was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party. He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 4 August 1925 until 8 March 1926, and from 26 May 1933 until 10...

Franklin D. Roosevelt

51 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He was...

Hendrik Tollens

51 Henricus Franciscus Caroluszoon (Hendrik) Tollens was a Dutch poet best known for Wien Neêrlands Bloed, the national anthem of the Netherlands between 1815 and 1932.

Henriette Roland Holst

51 Henriette Goverdine Anna "Jet" Roland Holst-van der Schalk was a Dutch poet and communist. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Constantijn Huygens

51 Sir Constantijn Huygens, Lord of Zuilichem, was a Dutch Golden Age poet and composer. He was also secretary to two Princes of Orange: Frederick Henry and William II, and the father of the scientist...

House of Orange-Nassau

50 The House of Orange-Nassau is the current reigning house of the Netherlands. A branch of the European House of Nassau, the house has played a central role in the politics and government of the...

Isaac Newton

50 Sir Isaac Newton was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. He was a key...

Paul Kruger

49 Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, better known as Paul Kruger, was a South African politician. He was one of the dominant political and military figures in 19th-century South Africa, and State...

Marga Klompé

49 Margaretha Albertina Maria "Marga" Klompé was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and chemist. She was granted...

Jan Leeghwater

49 Jan Adriaenszoon Leeghwater was a Dutch millwright and hydraulic engineer.                         

Maurice Ravel

49 Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the...

Alfons Ariëns

48 Alphonse Marie Auguste Joseph Ariëns was een Nederlandse priester die een grote rol speelde in de rooms-katholieke arbeidersbeweging in Nederland en voor de ontwikkeling van een katholieke sociale...

Herman Gorter

48 Herman Gorter was a Dutch poet and Council Communist theorist. He was a leading member of the Tachtigers, a highly influential group of Dutch writers who worked together in Amsterdam in the 1880s,...

Govert Flinck

48 Govert Teuniszoon Flinck was a Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age.                               

Salomon van Ruysdael

47 Salomon van Ruysdael was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. He was the uncle of Jacob van Ruisdael.

William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg

47 William Louis of Nassau-Dillenburg was Count of Nassau-Dillenburg from 1606 to 1620, and stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen, and Drenthe.

Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (1761-1825)

46 Rutger Jan graaf Schimmelpenninck, heer van Nijenhuis, Peckedam en Gellicum, was een Nederlands jurist, ambassadeur en politicus, onder andere raadpensionaris van het Bataafs Gemenebest.

Piet Aalberse Sr.

46 Petrus Josephus Mattheus "Piet" Aalberse Sr. was a Dutch politician of the General League of Roman Catholic Caucuses, later the Roman Catholic State Party (RKSP) and later co-founder of the Catholic...

Johan Wagenaar

46 Johan Wagenaar was a Dutch composer and organist.                                                   

Saint Anne

46 According to apocrypha, as well as Christian and Islamic tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary, the wife of Joachim and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the...

Julius Röntgen

46 Julius Engelbert Röntgen was a German-Dutch composer of classical music. He was a friend of Liszt, Brahms and Grieg.

Georges Bizet

46 Georges Bizet was a French composer of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has...

Louise de Coligny

45 Louise de Coligny was a Princess consort of Orange as the fourth and last spouse of William the Silent. She was the daughter of Gaspard II de Coligny and Charlotte de Laval.

Willem Pijper

45 Willem Frederik Johannes Pijper was a Dutch composer, music critic and music teacher. Pijper is considered to be among the most important Dutch composers of the first half of the 20th century.

Louis Couperus

44 Louis Marie-Anne Couperus was a Dutch novelist and poet. His oeuvre contains a wide variety of genres: lyric poetry, psychological and historical novels, novellas, short stories, fairy tales,...

Hendrik Goeman Borgesius

44 Hendrik Goeman Borgesius was a Dutch politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands from 1877 until 1917, representing respectively Winschoten, Veendam, Zutphen,...

Tobias Asser

44 Tobias Michael Carel Asser was a Dutch lawyer and legal scholar. In 1911, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the field of private international law, and in particular for his achievements...

Johan de Witt

44 Johan de Witt, Lord of Zuid- en Noord-Linschoten, Snelrewaard, Hekendorp en IJsselvere, was a Dutch statesman and a major political figure in the Dutch Republic in the mid-17th century, the First...

Cornelis de Houtman

44 Cornelis de Houtman was a Dutch merchant seaman who commanded the first Dutch expedition to the East Indies. Although the voyage was difficult and yielded only a modest profit, Houtman showed that...

Pieter Cort van der Linden

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

Willem Kloos

43 Willem Johannes Theodorus Kloos was a nineteenth-century Dutch poet and literary critic. He was one of the prominent figures of the Movement of Eighty and became editor in chief of De Nieuwe Gids...

Maarten van Heemskerck

43 Maarten van Heemskerck or Marten Jacobsz Heemskerk van Veen was a Dutch portrait and religious painter, who spent most of his career in Haarlem. He was a pupil of Jan van Scorel, and adopted his...

Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy

43 Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy was a Dutch politician and jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 3 September 1940 until 25 June 1945. He oversaw the government-in-exile based in London...

Anthony Fokker

42 Anton Herman Gerard "Anthony" Fokker was a Dutch aviation pioneer, aviation entrepreneur, aircraft designer, and aircraft manufacturer. He produced fighter aircraft in Germany during the First World...

Saint George

42 Saint George, also George of Lydda, was an early Christian martyr who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to tradition, he was a soldier in the Roman army. Of Cappadocian Greek origin,...

Lambert of Maastricht

42 Lambert of Maastricht, commonly referred to as Saint Lambert, was the bishop of Maastricht-Liège (Tongeren) from about 670 until his death. Lambert denounced Pepin's liaison with his mistress or...

Jan van Speyk

42 Jan Carel Josephus van Speyk was a Dutch naval lieutenant commander with the United Netherlands Navy who became a hero in the Netherlands for his opposition to the Belgian Revolution.

Felix Mendelssohn

42 Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include...

C. H. D. Buys Ballot

41 Christophorus Henricus Diedericus Buys Ballot was a Dutch chemist and meteorologist after whom Buys Ballot's law and the Buys Ballot table are named. He was first chairman of the International...

Franz Liszt

41 Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period. With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered to be one of the...

Pieter Zeeman

40 Pieter Zeeman was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect.

Gerrit Rietveld

40 Gerrit Rietveld was a Dutch furniture designer and architect.                                       

Anna van Egmont

40 Anna van Egmont, mainly known as Anna van Buren, was a Dutch heiress who became the first wife of William the Silent, Prince of Orange.

Anna Blaman

40 Anna Blaman, pseudonym of Johanna Petronella Vrugt, was a Dutch writer and poet. She was a recipient of the P. C. Hooft Award. The literary award Anna Blaman Prijs is named after her.

Jacob Obrecht

39 Jacob Obrecht was a Flemish composer of masses, motets and songs. He was the most famous composer of masses in Europe of the late 15th century and was only eclipsed after his death by Josquin des...

Herman Heijermans

39 Herman Heijermans, was a Dutch playwright, novelist and sketch story writer, who is considered to be the greatest Dutch dramatist of the modern era. He is the most notable playwright from the...

Johann Strauss II

39 Johann Baptist Strauss II, also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son, was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas as well as a violinist. He...

Hubertus

39 Hubertus or Hubert was a Christian saint who became the first bishop of Liège in 708 A.D. He is the patron saint of hunters, mathematicians, opticians and metalworkers. Known as the "Apostle of the...

Albert Plesman

38 Albert Plesman was a Dutch pioneer in aviation and the first administrator and later director of the KLM, the oldest airline in the world still operating under its original name. Until his death, he...

Maria Tesselschade Visscher

38 Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, also called Maria Tesselschade Roemersdochter Visscher or Tesselschade was a Dutch poet and glass engraver.

Claude Debussy

38 (Achille) Claude Debussy was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the...

Johannes Diderik van der Waals

38 Johannes Diderik van der Waals was a Dutch theoretical physicist and thermodynamicist famous for his pioneering work on the equation of state for gases and liquids. Van der Waals started his career...

Anna Pavlovna of Russia

38 Anna Pavlovna of Russia was Queen of the Netherlands by marriage to King William II of the Netherlands. She was a Russian patriot who upheld a strict royal etiquette in the Netherlands, where she...

Jan Luyken

37 Johannes or Jan Luyken was a Dutch poet, illustrator, and engraver.                                 

Blaise Pascal

37 Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.   

Martin Luther King Jr.

37 Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Christian minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination...

Béla Bartók

37 Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as...

Roemer Visscher

37 Roemer Pieterszoon Visscher was a successful Dutch merchant, the first Dutch underwriter and writer of the Dutch Golden Age.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

36 Dwight David Eisenhower, nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he was Supreme...

Aagje Deken

36 Agatha ("Aagje") Deken was a Dutch writer.                                                         

Anders Celsius

36 Anders Celsius was a Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician. He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable...

Willem Schouten

36 Willem Cornelisz Schouten was a Dutch navigator for the Dutch East India Company. He was the first to sail the Cape Horn route to the Pacific Ocean.

Anne Frank

36 Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary in which she documented life in hiding under Nazi persecution during the German occupation of the Netherlands. She is a celebrated...

Allard Pierson

36 Allard Pierson was a Dutch theologian, historian, and art historian. He was a leading proponent of radical criticism in the Netherlands.

Jan van Riebeeck

35 Johan Anthoniszoon "Jan" van Riebeeck was a Dutch navigator and colonial administrator of the Dutch East India Company.

Valerius Maximus

35 Valerius Maximus was a 1st-century Latin writer and author of a collection of historical anecdotes: Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX. He worked during the reign of Tiberius.

Gustav Mahler

35 Gustav Mahler was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and...

Willebrord Snellius

35 Willebrord Snellius was a Dutch astronomer and mathematician, commonly known as Snell. His name is usually associated with the law of refraction of light known as Snell's law.

Luigi Galvani

34 Luigi Galvani was an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher, who studied animal electricity. In 1780, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitched when struck by an...

Simon Vestdijk

34 Simon Vestdijk was a Dutch writer.                                                                 

Hector Treub

34 Hector Treub was, na de Leidse HBS en een studie in Leiden, vanaf 1886 hoogleraar verloskunde in Leiden en vanaf 1896 in Amsterdam. Hij volgde er zijn vroeg-overleden collega en vriend Van der Meij...

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

34 Pieter Bruegel the Elder was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes ; he was a pioneer in...

Conrad Helfrich

33 Lieutenant Admiral Conrad Emil Lambert Helfrich of the Royal Netherlands Navy was a leading Dutch naval figure of World War II. He was born in Semarang.

Frederik van Eeden

33 Frederik Willem van Eeden was a late 19th-century and early 20th-century Dutch writer and psychiatrist. He was a leading member of the Tachtigers and the Significs Group, and had top billing among...

Frans Adam van der Duyn van Maasdam

33 Adam Frans Jules Armand, Count van der Duyn, lord of Maasdam and 's-Gravenmoer was Dutch officer and politician. He was part of the Triumvirate of 1813 that invited Prince William Frederick of...

Joke Smit

33 Johanna Elisabeth "Joke" Smit was a well-known Dutch feminist and politician in the 1970s.         

Titus Brandsma

33 Titus Brandsma, OCarm was a Dutch Carmelite friar, Catholic priest and professor of philosophy. Brandsma was vehemently opposed to Nazi ideology and spoke out against it many times before the Second...

Queen Máxima of the Netherlands

33 Máxima is Queen of the Netherlands as the wife of King Willem-Alexander.                           

Robert Koch

32 Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch was a German physician and microbiologist. As the discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis, cholera and anthrax,...

Betje Wolff

32 Elizabeth ("Betje") Wolff-Bekker was a Dutch novelist who, with Agatha "Aagje" Deken, wrote several popular epistolary novels such as Sara Burgerhart (1782) and Willem Levend (1784).

Floris V, Count of Holland

32 Floris V reigned as Count of Holland and Zeeland from 1256 until 1296. His life was documented in detail in the Rijmkroniek by Melis Stoke, his chronicler. He is credited with a mostly peaceful...

Amalia of Solms-Braunfels

32 Amalia of Solms-Braunfels was Princess of Orange by marriage to Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange. She acted as the political adviser of her spouse during his reign, and acted as his de facto deputy...

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

32 Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Jr. was a Dutch physical chemist. A highly influential theoretical chemist of his time, van 't Hoff was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His pioneering...

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

32 Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS was a physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker, born in Poland to a family of German extraction. Fahrenheit invented thermometers accurate and consistent...

Hector Berlioz

32 Louis-Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer and conductor. His output includes orchestral works such as the Symphonie fantastique and Harold in Italy, choral pieces including the Requiem and...

Charlotte of Bourbon

32 Charlotte of Bourbon was a Princess consort of Orange as the third spouse of William the Silent, Prince of Orange, the main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish. She was the fourth daughter...

Jan van Brakel

32 Jan van Brakel was a Dutch rear admiral who distinguished himself on many occasions during the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch wars and the Nine Years War.

Anton Mauve

32 Anthonij "Anton" Rudolf Mauve was a Dutch realist painter who was a leading member of the Hague School. He signed his paintings 'A. Mauve' or with a monogrammed 'A.M.'. A master colorist, he was a...

Jacob van Maerlant

32 Jacob van Maerlant was a Flemish poet of the 13th century and one of the most important Middle Dutch authors during the Middle Ages.

Hannie Schaft

31 Jannetje Johanna (Jo) Schaft was a Dutch resistance fighter during World War II. She became known as "the girl with the red hair". Her secret name in the resistance movement was "Hannie".

Menno van Coehoorn

31 Menno, Baron van Coehoorn was a Dutch soldier and engineer, regarded as one of the most significant figures in Dutch military history. In an era when siege warfare dominated military campaigns, he...

Christiaan de Wet

31 Christiaan Rudolf de Wet was a Boer general, rebel leader and politician.                           

Archimedes

31 Archimedes of Syracuse was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily. Although few details of his life are known, he is...

Martinus Nijhoff

31 Martinus Nijhoff was a Dutch poet and essayist. He studied literature in Amsterdam and law in Utrecht. His debut was in 1916 with his volume De wandelaar. He then gradually expanded his reputation by...

Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen

31 Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen, Count of Doggerbank, was a Dutch naval officer. Having had a good scientific education, Van Kinsbergen was a proponent of fleet modernization and wrote many books about...

Carl Linnaeus

30 Carl Linnaeus, also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known...

Jacobus Schroeder van der Kolk

30 Jacobus Ludovicus Conradus Schroeder van der Kolk was a Dutch anatomist and physiologist and an influential researcher into the causes of epilepsy and mental illness.

Gerard ter Borch

30 Gerard ter Borch, also known as Gerard Terburg, was a Dutch genre painter who lived in the Dutch Golden Age. He influenced fellow Dutch painters Gabriel Metsu, Gerrit Dou, Eglon van der Neer and...

Godfried Bomans

30 Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans was a Dutch author and television personality. Much of his work remains untranslated into English.

Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam

30 Jacob, Banner Lord of Wassenaer, Lord Obdam, Hensbroek, Spanbroek, Opmeer, Zuidwijk and Kernhem was a Dutch nobleman who became lieutenant admiral, and supreme commander of the navy of the Dutch...

Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck

29 Jonkheer Charles Joseph Marie Ruijs de Beerenbrouck was a Dutch politician of the Roman Catholic State Party (RKSP). He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 9 September 1918 until 4...

Jacques Perk

29 Jacques Fabrice Herman Perk was an important Dutch poet of the late 19th century. His crown of sonnets Mathilde, published by Willem Kloos, was the first important announcement of a renewal in Dutch...

Piet Cronjé

29 Pieter Arnoldus "Piet" Cronjé was a South African Boer general during the Anglo-Boer Wars of 1880–1881 and 1899–1902.

Walraven van Hall

29 Walraven "Wally" van Hall was a Dutch banker and resistance leader during the occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. He founded the bank of the Resistance, which was used to distribute funds...

Jacobus Revius

29 Jacobus Revius was a Dutch poet, Calvinist theologian and church historian. His most renowned collection of poems, the Over-ysselsche Sangen en Dichten (1630), forms a high point of Dutch baroque....

J. Slauerhoff

29 Jan Jacob Slauerhoff, who published as J. Slauerhoff, was a Dutch poet and novelist. He is considered one of the most important Dutch language writers.

Anthonie Heinsius

29 Anthonie Heinsius was a Dutch statesman who served as Grand Pensionary of Holland from 1689 to his death in 1720. Heinsius was a tough negotiator and one of the greatest and most obstinate opponents...

Jan Duiker

29 Jan Duiker was a Dutch architect. Partnership with Bernard Bijvoet from 1917 until 1935. For the commission of the Zonnestraal project the architects were recommended by Hendrik Berlage. Bijvoet's...

Arthur van Schendel

29 Arthur van Schendel was a Dutch writer of novels and short stories. One of his best known works is Het fregatschip Johanna Maria. His son Arthur F.E. van Schendel (1910–1979) was General Director of...

Johannes Bosboom

29 Johannes Bosboom was a Dutch painter and watercolorist of the Hague School, known especially for his paintings of church interiors.

Olivier van Noort

29 Olivier van Noort was a Dutch merchant captain and pirate and the first Dutchman to circumnavigate the world.

Hercules

28 Hercules is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, son of Jupiter and the mortal Alcmena. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging...

Saint Nicholas

28 Saint Nicholas of Myra, also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Patara in Anatolia during the time of the Roman Empire. Because of the...

Nicolaus Copernicus

28 Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center....

Annie M.G. Schmidt

28 Anna Maria Geertruida "Annie" Schmidt was a Dutch writer. She is called the mother of the Dutch theatrical song, and the queen of Dutch children's literature, praised for her "delicious Dutch idiom,"...

Anne Zernike

28 Anne Zernike (1887–1972) was a Dutch, liberal theologian, who was the first ordained woman minister of the Netherlands. Though she began her career with the Mennonites, which was the only...

Saint Barbara

28 Saint Barbara, known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian Greek saint and martyr.

César Franck

28 César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a French Romantic composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher born in present-day Belgium.

Maria Theresa

27 Maria Theresa was ruler of the Habsburg dominions from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only woman to hold the position suo jure. She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia,...

Aarnoud van Heemstra

27 Aarnoud Jan Anne Aleid, Baron van Heemstra was a Dutch nobleman, jurist and politician. He served as mayor of Arnhem between 1910 and 1920, and Governor-General of Suriname from 1921 until 1928. Van...

Jan van der Heyden

27 Jan van der Heyden was a Dutch Baroque-era painter, glass painter, draughtsman and printmaker. Van der Heyden was one of the first Dutch painters to specialize in townscapes and became one of the...

Adolf of Nassau (1540–1568)

27 Adolf of Nassau was a count of Nassau, also known as Adolphus of Nassau. He was the fourth son and sixth child of William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen and Juliana of Stolberg. He was the second youngest...

Van Polanen family

27 Van Polanen was a noble family that played an important role in the Netherlands during the Middle Ages. The impact of the family transcended it's dissolution in the 15th century as the House of...

Pieter Cornelis Boutens

27 Pieter Cornelis Boutens was a Dutch poet, classicist, and mystic.                                   

Lord Kelvin

27 William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast. He was the professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow for 53...

Anna Bijns

27 Anna Bijns or Anna Byns was a Flemish poet who wrote in the Dutch language. She was an educator and the administrator of a primary school in Antwerp until the age of 80. Even while as a woman she was...

Jacob Roggeveen

26 Jacob Roggeveen was a Dutch explorer who was sent to find Terra Australis and Davis Land, but instead found Easter Island. Jacob Roggeveen also found Bora Bora and Maupiti of the Society Islands, as...

Henry Hudson

26 Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, best known for his explorations of present-day Canada and parts of the Northeastern United States.

Willem Einthoven

26 Willem Einthoven was a Dutch medical doctor and physiologist. He invented the first practical electrocardiograph in 1895 and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1924 for it.

Peter van Anrooy

26 Peter Gijsbert van Anrooij was a Dutch composer and conductor of classical music.                   

Albert Verwey

26 Albert Verwey was a Dutch poet belonging to the "Movement of Eighty". As a translator, staffer, and literary historian he played an important role in the literary life of The Netherlands in the late...

Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz

26 Ernest Casimir I was a Count of Nassau-Dietz and Stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe.   

Alexander Fleming

26 Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin. His discovery in...

Carel Fabritius

26 Carel Pietersz. Fabritius was a Dutch painter. He was a pupil of Rembrandt and worked in his studio in Amsterdam. Fabritius, who was a member of the Delft School, developed his own artistic style and...

Suze Groeneweg

26 Suzanna "Suze" Groeneweg was a Dutch politician. She was the first woman to be elected into the Dutch parliament.

Bernard Zweers

26 Bernard Zweers was a Dutch composer and music teacher.                                             

Joop den Uyl

26 Johannes Marten den Uijl, better known as Joop den Uyl was a Dutch politician and economist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1973 to 1977. He was a member of the Labour Party...

Servatius of Tongeren

25 Saint Servatius was bishop of Tongeren. Servatius is patron saint of the city of Maastricht and the towns of Schijndel and Grimbergen. He is one of the Ice Saints. His feast day is May 13.

Jean Sibelius

25 Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely regarded as his country's greatest composer, and his music is often credited with having helped...

John of Arkel

25 John of Arkel or Jan van Arkel served as Prince and Bishop of Liège from 1364 until his death in 1378. He had previously served as Bishop of Utrecht from 1342 to 1364.

Johannes Post

25 Johannes Post was a Dutch resistance leader during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. He helped lead part of the Landelijke Knokploegen and hid Jews in his village, Nieuwlande. Post was...

Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint

25 Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint was a Dutch novelist.                                     

H. P. Berlage

25 Hendrik Petrus Berlage was a Dutch architect and designer. He is considered one of the fathers of the architecture of the Amsterdam School.

Nelson Mandela

25 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid activist, politician, and statesman who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black...

Mina Kruseman

25 Wilhelmina Jacoba Pauline Rudolphine "Mina" Kruseman was a 19th-century Dutch feminist, actrice and author who used to call herself Oristorio di Frama.

André Henri Constant van Hasselt

25 André Henri Constant van Hasselt was a Dutch-Belgian writer and poet who wrote mainly in French.   

Galileo Galilei

25 Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei, commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei or simply Galileo, was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. He was born...

Gerlacus van den Elsen

24 Gerlacus van den Elsen, O. Praem. was een Nederlandse pater van de Abdij van Berne te Heeswijk en is de geschiedenis ingegaan als de 'Boerenapostel'.

Bartholomeus van der Helst

24 Bartholomeus van der Helst was a Dutch painter. Considered to be one of the leading portrait painters of the Dutch Golden Age, his elegant portraits gained him the patronage of Amsterdam's elite as...

Alberdingk

24 Alberdingk is the name of a Dutch patrician family.                                                 

Aert Jansse van Nes

24 Aert Jansse van Nes was a 17th-century Dutch naval commander, notable for commanding the second squadron in the raid on the Medway in 1667.

Benjamin Franklin

24 Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath, a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher. Among the most influential intellectuals of his...

Bernard Montgomery

24 Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein,, nicknamed "Monty", was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence and...

Willem Marinus Dudok

24 Willem Marinus Dudok was a Dutch modernist architect. He was born in Amsterdam. He became City Architect for the town of Hilversum in 1928 where he was best known for the brick Hilversum Town Hall,...

Robert Schumann

24 Robert Schumann was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to...

Princess Ariane of the Netherlands

24 Princess Ariane of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau is the third and youngest daughter of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima. Princess Ariane is a member of the Dutch Royal House and...

Ernest Douwes Dekker

24 Ernest François Eugène Douwes Dekker also known as Setyabudi or Setiabudi was an Indonesian-Dutch nationalist and politician of Indo descent. He was related to the famous Dutch anti-colonialism...

Hendrik Marsman

24 Hendrik Marsman was a Dutch poet and writer. He died while escaping to Great Britain, when the ship he was sailing on, the S.S. Berenice, either suffered a fatal engine-room explosion, or was...

Joost Banckert

24 Joost van Trappen Banckert was a Dutch vice admiral who spent most of his career in the service of the admiralty of Zeeland.

Anna of Saxony

24 Anna of Saxony was the heiress of Maurice, Elector of Saxony, and Agnes, eldest daughter of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse. Maurice's only son, Albert, died in infancy. Anna was the second wife of...

Wilhelmina Drucker

24 Wilhelmina Drucker was a Dutch politician and writer. One of the first Dutch feminists, she was also known under her pseudonyms Gipsy, Gitano, and E. Prezcier.

Saint Peter

24 Saint Peter, also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Church. He...

Christopher Columbus

23 Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening...

Mahatma Gandhi

23 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from...

Anthony van Dyck

23 Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy.

Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut

23 Jacqueline, of the House of Wittelsbach, was a noblewoman who ruled the counties of Holland, Zeeland and Hainaut in the Low Countries from 1417 to 1433. She was also Dauphine of France for a short...

Jan Ligthart

23 Jan Ligthart was a Dutch teacher and philosopher. He became known for his innovative educational methods and the modernisation of the Dutch education system. He wrote many articles and books about...

Isabelle de Charrière

23 Isabelle de Charrière, known as Belle van Zuylen in the Netherlands, née Isabella Agneta Elisabeth van Tuyll van Serooskerken, and [Madame] Isabelle de Charrière elsewhere, was a Dutch and Swiss...

Francis of Assisi

23 Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, known as Francis of Assisi, was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. He was inspired to lead a Christian...

James the Great

22 James the Great was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. According to the New Testament, he was the second of the apostles to die, and the first to be martyred. Saint James is the patron saint of...

Saint Sebastian

22 Sebastian was an early Christian saint and martyr. According to traditional belief, he was killed during the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians. He was initially tied to a post or tree and shot...

Nicolaes Maes

22 Nicolaes Maes was a Dutch painter known for his genre scenes, portraits, religious compositions and the occasional still life. A pupil of Rembrandt in Amsterdam, he returned to work in his native...

Aeneas Mackay Jr.

22 Æneas, Baron Mackay was a Dutch Anti-Revolutionary politician who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1888 to 1891. Born into a noble family from Gelderland, he studied law in Utrecht...

Rhijnvis Feith

22 Jhr. Rhijnvis Feith was a Dutch poet.                                                               

Annie Romein-Verschoor

22 Anna Helena Margaretha (Annie) Romein-Verschoor was a Dutch writer and historian. She received the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 1970.

John Dalton

22 John Dalton was an English chemist, physicist and meteorologist. He introduced the atomic theory into chemistry. He also researched colour blindness; as a result, the umbrella term for red-green...

Antoon Coolen

22 Antoon Coolen was a well-known Dutch writer of novels. He wrote the Boekenweekgeschenk for the Boekenweek of 1947 and a novel that was part of the Boekenweekgeschenk in 1939.

Gaspar Fagel

22 Gaspar Fagel was a Dutch politician, jurist, and diplomat who authored correspondence from and on behalf of William III, Prince of Orange, during the English Revolution of 1688.

Louis Botha

22 Louis Botha was a South African politician who was the first prime minister of the Union of South Africa – the forerunner of the modern South African state. A Boer war veteran during the Second Boer...

Gerrit van der Veen

21 Gerrit van der Veen was a Dutch sculptor. He was a member of the Dutch underground, which resisted the German occupation of Amsterdam during World War II. The historian Robert-Jan van Pelt wrote: In...

Pieter Caland

21 Pieter Caland was a Dutch civil engineer in the service of the Rijkswaterstaat. He devised the plan for the Nieuwe Waterweg and implemented it from 1864 to 1872.

Willem Albert Scholten

21 Willem Albert Scholten was a Dutch industrialist and landowner. He established the potato starch factory Eureka in Foxhol which laid the foundation of an industrial empire. Scholten would own 24...

Gerard van Swieten

21 Gerard van Swieten was a Dutch physician who from 1745 was the personal physician of the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa and transformed the Austrian health service and medical university education....

Niccolò Paganini

21 Niccolò Paganini was an Italian violinist and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. His 24 Caprices for...

William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland

20 William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, was a Dutch-born English nobleman who became in an early stage the favourite of William, Prince of Orange, Stadtholder in the Netherlands, and future King of...

Jan van Scorel

20 Jan van Scorel was a Dutch painter, who played a leading role in introducing aspects of Italian Renaissance painting into Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting. He was one of the early painters of...

Albert I, Duke of Bavaria

20 Albert I, Duke of Lower Bavaria, was a feudal ruler of the counties of Holland, Hainaut, and Zeeland in the Low Countries. Additionally, he held a portion of the Bavarian province of Straubing, his...

Felix Timmermans

20 Leopold Maximiliaan Felix Timmermans is a much translated author from Flanders. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.

Louis Braille

20 Louis Braille was a French educator and the inventor of a reading and writing system named after him, braille, intended for use by visually impaired people. His system is used worldwide and remains...

Rudolf Diesel

20 Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was a German inventor and mechanical engineer who is famous for having invented the Diesel engine, which burns Diesel fuel; both are named after him.

Menno ter Braak

20 Menno ter Braak was a Dutch modernist writer, critic, essayist, and journalist.                     

Haya van Someren

20 Haya Victoria van Someren-Downer was a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and journalist.

Maria Montessori

20 Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori was an Italian physician and educator best known for her philosophy of education and her writing on scientific pedagogy. At an early age, Montessori enrolled in...

Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis

20 Ferdinand Jacobus Domela Nieuwenhuis was a Dutch socialist politician and later a social anarchist and anti-militarist. He was a Lutheran preacher who, after he lost his faith, started a political...

Richard Hol

20 Richard Hol was a Dutch composer and conductor, based for most of his career at Utrecht. His conservative music showed the influence of Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, and Robert Schumann...

William III of the Netherlands

20 William III was King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1849 until his death in 1890. He was also the Duke of Limburg from 1849 until the abolition of the duchy in 1866.

Heinrich von Veldeke

20 Heinrich von Veldeke is the first writer in the Low Countries known by name who wrote in a European language other than Latin. He was born in Veldeke, which was a hamlet of Spalbeek, part of the...

Johanna Naber

19 Johanna Wilhelmina Antoinette Naber was a Dutch feminist, historian and author during the first feminist wave. She was one of the three founders of the International Archives for the Women's Movement...

Wilhelmus Marinus Bekkers

19 Wilhelmus Marinus Bekkers was een Nederlands rooms-katholiek bisschop. Bekkers werd in 1957 coadjutor en titulair-bisschop van Thasos. Hij was bisschop van het bisdom 's-Hertogenbosch van 27 juni...

Anton van Duinkerken

19 Wilhelmus Johannes Maria Antonius Asselbergs, better known under his pseudonym Anton van Duinkerken, was a Dutch poet, essayist, and academic.

Johannes Zwijsen

19 Johannes Zwijsen was a Dutch Catholic prelate who served as the first Archbishop of Utrecht after the reestablishment of the episcopal hierarchy in the Netherlands in 1853.

Pieter Langendijk

19 Pieter Langendijk was a damask weaver, city artist, dramatist, and poet.                           

Willem Bontekoe

19 Willem Ysbrandtszoon Bontekoe was a skipper in the Dutch East India Company (VOC), who made only one voyage for the company (1618–1625). He became widely known because of the journal of his...

Louis Bouwmeester

19 Louis Frederik Johannes Bouwmeester was a Dutch actor best known for his Shakespeare interpretations. He is also known as Louis Bouwmeester Sr. for distinction from his son.

Duke Ellington

19 Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life.

Herman Bernard Wiardi Beckman

19 Herman Bernard Wiardi Beckman, bijgenaamd Stuuf, was een Nederlands politicus en een Nederlandse verzetsstrijder tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Wiardi Beckman was namens de Sociaal-Democratische...

Catharina van Rennes

19 Catharina van Rennes was a Dutch music educator, soprano singer and composer.                       

Jacob van Heemskerck

19 Jacob van Heemskerck was a Dutch explorer and naval admiral. He is generally known for his victory over the Spanish at the Battle of Gibraltar, where he ultimately lost his life.

Jan Pieterszoon Coen

18 Jan Pieterszoon Coen was an officer of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the early 17th century, holding two terms as governor-general of the Dutch East Indies. He was the founder of Batavia,...

Saint Lawrence

18 Saint Lawrence or Laurence was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the persecution of the Christians that the Roman Emperor Valerian ordered in 258.

Johannes Verhulst

18 Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst was a Dutch composer and conductor. As a composer mainly of songs and as administrator of Dutch musical life, his influence during his lifetime was considerable.

Gerardus Mercator

18 Gerardus Mercator was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer. He is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant...

Jan Campert

18 Jan Remco Theodoor Campert was a Dutch journalist, theater critic and writer who lived in Amsterdam. During the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II Campert was arrested for aiding...

Peter Stuyvesant

18 Peter Stuyvesant was a Dutch colonial officer who served as the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after...

Florence Nightingale

18 Florence Nightingale was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean...

Jan Tinbergen

18 Jan Tinbergen was a Dutch economist who was awarded the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for...

Judith Leyster

18 Judith Jans Leyster was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works, portraits, and still lifes. Her work was highly regarded by her contemporaries, but largely forgotten after her death. Her entire...

Theo Dobbe

18 Theodorus (Theo) Dobbe was een leidende Nederlandse verzetsstrijder tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. In 1943 werd hij hoofd van de zogenaamde 'opruimingsdienst' van de Landelijke Knokploegen, KPO.

Karel de Bazel

18 Karel Petrus Cornelis de Bazel was a modern Dutch architect, engraver, draftsman, furniture designer, carpet designer, glass artist and bookbinding designer. He was the teacher of Adriaan Frederik...

Gerrit Achterberg

18 Gerrit Achterberg was a Dutch poet. His early poetry concerned a desire to be united with a beloved in death.

Melis Stoke

18 Melis Stoke was a Dutch writer who lived in the 13th century.                                       

Marie Koenen

17 Maria Hubertina Jacoba Isabella Koenen was een Nederlands romanschrijfster.                         

Willem Hendrik Keesom

17 Willem Hendrik Keesom was a Dutch physicist who, in 1926, invented a method to freeze liquid helium. He also developed the first mathematical description of dipole–dipole interactions in 1921. Thus,...

Louis Bonaparte

17 Louis Napoléon Bonaparte was a younger brother of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French. He was a monarch in his own right from 1806 to 1810, ruling over the Kingdom of Holland. In that capacity, he was...

Baruch Spinoza

17 Baruch (de) Spinoza, also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin. As a forerunner of the Age of Reason, Spinoza significantly...

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

17 Charles V was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555. He was heir to...

Carry van Bruggen

17 Carry van Bruggen was a Dutch writer. She also wrote under the name Justine Abbing.                 

Aart van der Leeuw

17 Aart van der Leeuw was a Dutch writer of prose fiction and poetry. His reputation rests mostly on two novels, Ik en mijn speelman (1927) and De kleine Rudolf (1930).

Cornelis Drebbel

17 Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel was a Dutch engineer and inventor. He was the builder of the first operational submarine in 1620 and an innovator who contributed to the development of measurement and...

Charles Darwin

17 Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a...

Carel Willink

17 Albert Carel Willink was a Dutch painter who called his style of Magic realism "imaginary realism". 

Gabriël Metsu

17 Gabriël Metsu (1629–1667) was a Dutch painter of history paintings, still lifes, portraits, and genre works. He was "a highly eclectic artist, who did not adhere to a consistent style, technique, or...

Willem Elsschot

17 Alphonsus Josephus de Ridder was a Belgian writer and poet who wrote under the pseudonym Willem Elsschot. One of the most prominent Flemish authors, his most famous work, Cheese (1933) is the most...

Herman de Man

17 Salomon Herman "Sal" Hamburger, known under his pseudonym Herman de Man, was a Dutch novelist.     

Adriaen Brouwer

17 Adriaen Brouwer was a Flemish painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the first half of the 17th century. Brouwer was an important innovator of genre painting through his vivid...

Marco Polo

16 Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295. His travels are recorded in The Travels of Marco Polo, a book that...

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell

16 Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, was a British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Scout Movement, and founder, with...

Jacob van Deventer (general)

16 Lieutenant-General Sir Jacob Louis van Deventer KCB CMG DTD was a South African military commander. 

Jeltje de Bosch Kemper

16 Jkvr. Jeltje de Bosch Kemper was a Dutch feminist.                                                 

John Bosco

16 John Melchior Bosco, SDB, popularly known as Don Bosco, was an Italian Catholic priest, educator and writer of the 19th century. While working in Turin, where the population suffered many of the ill...

Steve Biko

16 Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known...

Simon Carmiggelt

16 Simon Carmiggelt was a Dutch writer, journalist, and poet who became a well known public figure in the Netherlands because of his daily newspaper columns and his television appearances.

Carel Steven Adama van Scheltema

16 Carel Steven Adama van Scheltema was a Dutch socialist poet.                                       

Conrad Busken Huet

16 Conrad Busken Huet was a Dutch pastor, journalist and literary critic.                             

Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg

16 Count John VI of Nassau-Dillenburg was the second son of William the Rich and the younger brother of William the Silent. He has a special place in the history of the Netherlands because he is the...

Plato

16 Plato, born Aristocles, was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic...

Charley Toorop

16 Charley Toorop was a Dutch painter and lithographer. Her full name was Annie Caroline Pontifex Fernhout-Toorop.

Rosa Manus

16 Rosette Susanna "Rosa" Manus (Dutch pronunciation: [roːˈsɛtə syˈsɑnaː ˈroːsaː ˈmaːnʏs] was born 20 August 1881 and died either at Auschwitz or Ravensbruck in 1942. She was a Jewish Dutch pacifist and...

Fridtjof Nansen

16 Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and...

Paul Gabriël

16 Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël or Paul Gabriël was a painter, draftsman, watercolorist, and etcher who belonged to the Hague School.

Betsy Perk

16 Christina Elizabeth (Betsy) Perk, was a Dutch author of novels and plays, and a pioneer of the Dutch women's movement, who wrote under the pen names Philemon, Liesbeth van Altena, and Spirito. She is...

Johannes de Jong

16 Johannes de Jong was a Dutch Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Utrecht from 1936 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII.

Jan Lievens

16 Jan Lievens was a Dutch Golden Age painter who was associated with his close contemporary Rembrandt, a year older, in the early parts of their careers. They shared a birthplace in Leiden, training...

Henriëtte Bosmans

16 Henriëtte Hilda Bosmans was a Dutch composer and pianist.                                           

Jan Sluyters

16 Johannes Carolus Bernardus (Jan) Sluijters, or Sluyters was a Dutch painter and co-founder of the Moderne Kunstkring.

Pope Cornelius

16 Pope Cornelius was the bishop of Rome from 6th or 13th March 251 until his martyrdom in June 253. He was pope during and following a period of persecution of the church, while a schism occurred over...

Lou van den Dries

16 Laurentius Petrus Dignus "Lou" van den Dries is a Dutch mathematician working in model theory. He is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Hugo de Vries

15 Hugo Marie de Vries was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering the laws of heredity in the 1890s while apparently...

Pieter van Vollenhoven

15 Pieter van Vollenhoven Jr. is the husband of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and a member, by marriage, of the Dutch royal house.

Charlemagne

15 Charlemagne was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 800, holding all these titles until his death in 814. Charlemagne succeeded in...

Johan Jongkind

15 Johan Barthold Jongkind was a Dutch painter and printmaker. He painted marine landscapes in a free manner and is regarded as a forerunner of Impressionism.

Thomas à Kempis

15 Thomas à Kempis, CRV was a German-Dutch Catholic canon regular of the late medieval period and the author of The Imitation of Christ, published anonymously in Latin in the Netherlands c. 1418–1427,...

Frans van Mieris the Elder

15 Frans van Mieris the Elder, was a Dutch Golden Age genre and portrait painter. The leading member of a Leiden family of painters, his sons Jan (1660–1690) and Willem (1662–1747) and his grandson...

Andrew the Apostle

15 Andrew the Apostle, also called Saint Andrew, was an apostle of Jesus. According to the New Testament, he was a fisherman and one of the Twelve Apostles chosen by Jesus. The title First-Called stems...

John van Ruysbroeck

15 John van Ruysbroeck, original Middle Dutch name Jan van Ruusbroec, was an Augustinian canon and one of the most important of the medieval mystics of the Low Countries. Some of his main literary works...

Hugo van der Goes

15 Hugo van der Goes was one of the most significant and original Flemish painters of the late 15th century. Van der Goes was an important painter of altarpieces as well as portraits. He introduced...

Socrates

15 Socrates was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure,...

Harriët Freezer

15 Harriët Freezer, pseudoniem van Wilhelmina (Miep) Eybergen was een Nederlandse prozaschrijfster, journaliste en feministe.

Jan van Eyck

15 Jan van Eyck was a Flemish painter active in Bruges who was one of the early innovators of what became known as Early Netherlandish painting, and one of the most significant representatives of Early...

Dorus Rijkers

15 Theodorus "Dorus" Rijkers was a famous Dutch lifeboat captain and folk hero, most famous for his sea rescues of 487 shipwrecked victims over a total of 38 rescue operations, and at least 25 before...

Pieter van Musschenbroek

15 Pieter van Musschenbroek was a Dutch scientist. He was a professor in Duisburg, Utrecht, and Leiden, where he held positions in mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and astronomy. He is credited with...

Robert Schuman

15 Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian democratic political thinker and activist. Twice Prime Minister of France, a reformist Minister of...

Aurelia (mother of Caesar)

15 Aurelia was the mother of the Roman general and statesman Julius Caesar.                           

Dag Hammarskjöld

14 Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September...

Saint Roch

14 Roch, also called Rock in English, was a Majorcan Catholic confessor whose death is commemorated on 16 August and 9 September in Italy; he was especially invoked against the plague. He has the...

Franciscus Donders

14 Franciscus (Franz) Cornelius Donders FRS FRSE was a Dutch ophthalmologist. During his career, he was a professor of physiology in Utrecht, and was internationally regarded as an authority on eye...

George Gershwin

14 George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924)...

Aristotle

14 Aristotle was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the...

Michael (archangel)

14 Michael, also called Saint Michael the Archangel, Archangel Michael and Saint Michael the Taxiarch is an archangel in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Baha'i faith. The earliest surviving...

Charles Richter

14 Charles Francis Richter was an American seismologist and physicist. He is the namesake and one of the creators of the Richter magnitude scale, which, until the development of the moment magnitude...

Van Rechteren

14 The House of Rechteren is the name of an old noble family belonging to the Dutch and German nobility. The German branch of Counts von Rechteren-Limpurg-Speckfeld has been mediatised.

Willem Oltmans

14 Willem Leonard Oltmans was a Dutch investigative journalist and author active in international politics.

Michael Faraday

14 Michael Faraday was a British scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction,...

Janus Henricus Donker Curtius

14 Jan Hendrik Donker Curtius was the last Opperhoofd of the Dutch trading post in Japan (1852-1855), located at Dejima an artificial island in the harbor of Nagasaki. To negotiate with the Japanese...

Frank van Borssele

14 Frank II of Borssele was a 15th-century Zeelandic nobleman.                                         

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

14 Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, later von Schelling, was a German philosopher. Standard histories of philosophy make him the midpoint in the development of German idealism, situating him between...

Fien de la Mar

14 Josephina Johanna (Fien) de la Mar was een Nederlands actrice en cabaretière. Ze werd voor de oorlog meestal aangeduid als Fientje de la Mar.

John III, Lord of Renesse

14 Jan van Renesse was a member of the Zeeland nobility. Together with Wolfert van Borselen he co-led a party favoring Flanders and against Holland, with considerable influence in Zeeland. With the...

Saint Boniface

14 Boniface, OSB was an English Benedictine monk and leading figure in the Anglo-Saxon mission to the Germanic parts of Francia during the eighth century. He organised significant foundations of the...

Saint Lucy

14 Lucia of Syracuse (283–304), also called Saint Lucia was a Roman Christian martyr who died during the Diocletianic Persecution. She is venerated as a saint in Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, and...

William I, Count of Holland

14 William I was count of Holland from 1203 to 1222. He was the younger son of Floris III and Ada of Huntingdon.

Mary Magdalene

14 Mary Magdalene was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion and resurrection. She is mentioned by name...

Johannes Kepler

14 Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music. He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best known for his laws of...

Simon de Vlieger

14 Simon de Vlieger was a Dutch painter, draughtsman and designer of tapestries, etchings, stained glass windows. While he is mainly known for his marine paintings he also painted beach scenes,...

Ina Boudier-Bakker

13 Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker was a Dutch novelist. Her most famous work is De klop op de deur, written in 1930.

Frederick, Crown Prince of Denmark

13 Frederick, Crown Prince of Denmark may refer to:Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (1753–1805), heir presumptive from 1766 to 1768 Frederick IV of Denmark (1671–1730), King of Denmark and...

Jan Olieslagers

13 Lieutenant Jan Olieslagers was a Belgian motorcycle and aviation pioneer who set world records with both types of machinery. He became a flying ace during World War I despite his indifference in...

Leo Gestel

13 Leo Gestel was a Dutch painter. His father Willem Gestel was also an artist. Leo Gestel experimented with cubism, expressionism, futurism and postimpressionism. Along with Piet Mondrian and Jan...

Domenico Scarlatti

13 Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, also known as Domingo or Doménico Scarlatti, was an Italian composer. He is classified primarily as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential...

Vincenzo Bellini

13 Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer, who was known for his long-flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania". Many years later, in 1898,...

Paulus Buys

13 Paulus Buys, heer van Zevenhoven and Capelle ter Vliet was Land's Advocate of Holland between 1572 and 1584.

Lodewijk van Deyssel

13 Lodewijk van Deyssel was the pseudonym of Karel Joan Lodewijk Alberdingk Thijm, a Dutch novelist, prose-poet and literary critic and a leading member of the Tachtigers. He was a son of Joseph...

E. du Perron

13 Charles Edgar du Perron, more commonly known as E. du Perron, was a Dutch poet and author. He is best known for his literary acclaimed masterpiece Land van herkomst of 1935. Together with Menno ter...

Johannes Tak van Poortvliet

13 Johannes Pieter Roetert Tak van Poortvliet, lord of the manor of Poortvliet and Cleverskerke, was a Dutch politician.

Princess Alexia of the Netherlands

13 Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau is the second daughter of Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands. Princess Alexia is a member of the...

Nienke van Hichtum

13 Sjoukje Maria Diderika Troelstra-Bokma de Boer, better known under her pseudonym Nienke van Hichtum, was a well-known Frisian Dutch children's author and translator. Van Hichtum wrote books and...

Helena Kuipers-Rietberg

13 Helena Theodora Kuipers-Rietberg was a Dutch resistance member who played an important role during World War II, when she was one of the driving forces of a national underground organization that...

Ida Gerhardt

13 Ida Gerhardt was a classicist and Dutch poet of a post-symbolist tradition.                         

Willem Landré

13 Guillaume Louis Frédéric (Willem) Landré was een Nederlands componist.                             

Tacitus

13 Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus, was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars.

Wim Sonneveld

13 Willem "Wim" Sonneveld was a Dutch cabaret artist and singer. Together with Toon Hermans and Wim Kan, he is considered to be one of the 'Great Three' of Dutch cabaret. Sonneveld is generally viewed...

Cornelis Dopper

13 Cornelis 'Kees' Dopper was a Dutch composer, conductor and teacher.                                 

Niels Bohr

13 Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr...

Theo van Doesburg

13 Theo van Doesburg was a Dutch artist, who practiced painting, writing, poetry and architecture. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl. He was married to artist, pianist and...

Roald Amundsen

13 Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

Pieter Post

13 Pieter Jansz Post was a Dutch Golden Age architect, painter and printmaker.                         

De Vos van Steenwijk

13 De Vos van Steenwijk is an old Dutch noble family from the Dutch province of Overijssel.           

Beelaerts van Blokland

13 Beelaerts van Blokland is an old Dutch patrician family.                                           

Charles the Bold

13 Charles Martin called The Bold, was the last Duke of Burgundy from the Burgundian cadet branch of House of Valois from 1467 to 1477. He was the only legitimate son of Philip the Good and his third...

Jacob van Campen

13 Jacob van Campen was a Dutch artist and architect of the Golden Age.                               

Johannes Linthorst Homan

13 Johannes (Hans) Linthorst Homan was a Dutch politician and diplomat.                               

Mary Zeldenrust-Noordanus

13 Mary Noordanus, beter bekend als Mary Zeldenrust-Noordanus was psycholoog-psychotherapeut en voorzitter van de NVSH.

Luke the Evangelist

13 Luke the Evangelist is one of the Four Evangelists—the four traditionally ascribed authors of the canonical gospels. The Early Church Fathers ascribed to him authorship of both the Gospel of Luke and...

William I of the Netherlands

13 William I was king of the Netherlands and grand duke of Luxembourg from 1815 until his abdication in 1840.

Henry I van Vianden

12 Henry van Vianden was a bishop of Utrecht from 1249 to 1267.                                       

Augustine of Hippo

12 Augustine of Hippo, also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa. His writings influenced the...

Simon van Slingelandt

12 Simon van Slingelandt, lord of the manor of Patijnenburg was an influential Dutch politician and diplomat during the 18th century. He served as the Grand Pensionary of Holland, the most important...

Catherine of Alexandria

12 Catherine of Alexandria, also spelled Katherine is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early fourth century at the hands of the emperor Maxentius. According...

Fie Carelsen

12 Fie Carelsen, artiestennaam van Sophia de Jong, was een Nederlandse actrice.                       

Petrus Plancius

12 Petrus Plancius was a Dutch-Flemish astronomer, cartographer and clergyman. He was born as Pieter Platevoet in Dranouter, now in Heuvelland, West Flanders. He studied theology in Germany and England....

Vasco da Gama

12 Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira, was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea.

Roosje Vos

12 Roosje Vos was a Dutch seamstress who became an activist in the push for labor protections of working women. Founding trade unions and editing journals, she advocated for suffrage, women's economic...

L. L. Zamenhof

12 L. L. Zamenhof was the creator of Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language.

Van Karnebeek

12 Van Karnebeek is een uit Vreden afkomstig geslacht waarvan leden sinds 1847 tot de Nederlandse adel behoren.

Anna Maria van Schurman

12 Anna Maria van Schurman was a Dutch painter, engraver, poet, classical scholar, philosopher, and feminist writer who is best known for her exceptional learning and her defence of female education....

Hendrick Avercamp

12 Hendrick Avercamp was a Dutch painter during the Dutch Golden Age of painting. He was one of the earliest landscape painters of the 17th-century Dutch school, he specialized in painting the...

A.M. de Jong

12 Adrianus Michiel de Jong was een Nederlandse schrijver. Hij publiceerde zijn meeste werk onder eigen naam, maar enkele werken werden onder pseudoniem uitgegeven.

Glenn Miller

12 Alton Glen "Glenn" Miller was an American big band conductor, arranger, composer, trombone player, and recording artist before and during World War II, when he was an officer in the US Army Air...

Fanny Blankers-Koen

12 Francina Elsje "Fanny" Blankers-Koen was a Dutch track and field athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She competed there as a 30-year-old mother of...

Isidore of Seville

12 Isidore of Seville was a Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian, and archbishop of Seville. He is widely regarded, in the words of 19th-century historian Montalembert, as "the last scholar of the ancient...

Mathilde Berdenis van Berlekom

12 Mathilde Berdenis van Berlekom, ook wel bekend als Mathilde Wibaut, was politica en feministe. Ze was getrouwd met Floor Wibaut, de bekende Amsterdamse wethouder. Zelf is ze vooral bekend als...

Andreas Schelfhout

12 Andreas Schelfhout (1787–1870) was a Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer, known for his landscape paintings.

Jan Huyghen van Linschoten

12 Jan Huygen van Linschoten was a Dutch merchant, traveller and writer.                               

Philip William, Prince of Orange

12 Philip William, Prince of Orange was the eldest son of William the Silent by his first wife Anna van Egmont. He became Prince of Orange in 1584 and Knight of the Golden Fleece in 1599.

Princess Marianne of the Netherlands

12 Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau was the youngest child of King William I of the Netherlands and Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia.

Albrecht Rodenbach

12 Albertus "Albrecht" Petrus Josephus Mansuetus Ferdinandus Rodenbach was a Flemish poet, and a leader in the revival of Flemish literature that occurred in the late 19th century. He is more noteworthy...

Willem Maris

12 Willem Maris was a Dutch landscape painter of the Hague School.                                     

Hélène Swarth

12 Stéphanie Hélène Swarth was a prolific Dutch poet active from 1879 to 1938. She is considered one of the Tachtigers and acquired a reputation as a sonneteer.

Johanna Westerdijk

12 Johanna Westerdijk was a Dutch plant pathologist and the first female professor in the Netherlands. 

Jacob Jordaens

12 Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and a designer of tapestries and prints. He was a prolific artist who created biblical, mythological, and allegorical compositions, genre...

Stijn Streuvels

12 Stijn Streuvels, born Franciscus (Frank) Petrus Maria Lateur, was a Flemish Belgian writer.         

Albertine Agnes of Nassau

12 Albertine Agnes of Nassau, was the regent of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe during the minority of her son Henry Casimir II, Count of Nassau-Dietz, between 1664 and 1679. She was the sixth child...

Jan Wolkers

11 Jan Hendrik Wolkers was a Dutch author, sculptor and painter. Wolkers is considered by some to be one of the "Great Four" writers of post-World War II Dutch literature, alongside Willem Frederik...

Immanuel Kant

11 Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and...

Johan Huizinga

11 Johan Huizinga was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history.           

Willem Roelofs

11 Willem Roelofs was a Dutch painter, water-colourist, etcher, lithographer and draughtsman. Roelofs was one of the forerunners of the Dutch Revival art, after the Romantic Classicism of the beginning...

Jac. P. Thijsse

11 Jacobus Pieter Thijsse was a Dutch conservationist and botanist. He founded the Society for Preservation of Nature Monuments in the Netherlands.

Pieter Lastman

11 Pieter Lastman (1583–1633) was a Dutch painter. Lastman is considered important because of his work as a painter of history pieces and because his pupils included Rembrandt and Jan Lievens. In his...

Heinrich Hertz

11 Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves predicted by James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism. The unit of...

J. H. Leopold

11 Jan Hendrik Leopold was a Dutch poet and classicist.                                               

Hendrik Casimir

11 Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir was a Dutch physicist who made significant contributions to the field of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He is best known for his work on the Casimir...

Charles Lindbergh

11 Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator and military officer. On May 20–21, 1927, he made the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris, a distance of 3,600 miles (5,800 km), flying...

Cicero

11 Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the...

Seneca the Younger

11 Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of...

Willem Joseph van Ghent

11 Willem Joseph baron van Ghent tot Drakenburgh was a 17th-century Dutch admiral. His surname is also sometimes rendered Gendt or Gent; he was the first commander of the Dutch marines.

William of Jülich

11 William of Jülich, called the Younger, was one of the Flemish noblemen that opposed the annexation policies of the French king Philip IV, together with Pieter de Coninck.

Harry Bannink

11 Harry Bannink was a Dutch composer, arranger and pianist. He wrote over 3,000 songs.               

Rosa Spier

11 Rozalie (Rosa) Spier was een Nederlands harpiste.                                                   

Gerard Majella

11 Gerard Majella was an Italian lay brother of the Congregation of the Redeemer, better known as the Redemptorists, who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church.

Eduard van Beinum

11 Eduard Alexander van Beinum was a Dutch conductor.                                                 

Bart van der Leck

11 Bart van der Leck was a Dutch painter, designer, and ceramicist. With Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian he founded the De Stijl art movement.

Iman Jacob van den Bosch

11 Iman Jacob van den Bosch was een Nederlandse verzetsstrijder tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.       

Ignaz Semmelweis

11 Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician and scientist of German descent, who was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures, and was described as the "saviour of mothers". Postpartum...

Frans Erens

11 Maria Joseph Franciscus Peter Hubertus Erens was een Nederlandse criticus en prozaschrijver. Hij behoort tot de stroming van de Tachtigers.

Cornelis Jacobus Snijders

11 Cornelis Jacobus Snijders was a Dutch military leader. He was Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Netherlands during World War I.

Suze Robertson

11 Suze Robertson was a Dutch painter. She belonged to a group of artists known as the Amsterdamse Joffers.

Lucas van Leyden

11 Lucas van Leyden, also named either Lucas Hugensz or Lucas Jacobsz, was a Dutch painter and printmaker in engraving and woodcut. Lucas van Leyden was among the first Dutch exponents of genre painting...

Andrei Sakharov

11 Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was a Soviet physicist and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, which he was awarded in 1975 for emphasizing human rights around the world.

Jan Wiegers

11 Jan Wiegers was a Dutch expressionist painter.Wiegers was educated as a sculptor at the Academie Minerva in Groningen, but he also studied painting at the Academies of Rotterdam under A. H. R. Van...

Willem Vliegen

11 Wilhelmus Hubertus Vliegen was een Nederlandse journalist en politicus.                             

Leonard Bernstein

11 Leonard Bernstein was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first...

Willem de Mérode

10 Willem de Mérode was the pseudonym of the Dutch poet, Willem Eduard Keuning.                       

Achilles

10 In Greek mythology, Achilles or Achilleus was a hero of the Trojan War who was known as being the greatest of all the Greek warriors. A central character in Homer's Iliad, he was the son of the...

Agatha of Sicily

10 Agatha of Sicily is a Christian saint. Her feast is on 5 February. Agatha was born in Catania, part of the Roman Province of Sicily, and was martyred c. 251. She is one of several virgin martyrs who...

Cornelis Troost

10 Cornelis Troost was an 18th-century actor and painter from Amsterdam.                               

Folke Bernadotte

10 Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg was a Swedish nobleman and diplomat. In World War II he negotiated the release of about 450 Danish Jews and 30,550 non-Jewish prisoners from many nations from the...

Gerardus Vossius

10 Gerrit Janszoon Vos, often known by his Latin name Gerardus Vossius, was a Dutch classical scholar and theologian.

David Teniers the Younger

10 David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II was a Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman, miniaturist painter, staffage painter, copyist and art curator. He was an extremely versatile...

William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen

10 William I of Nassau-Siegen, nicknamed the Elder or the Rich, was Count of Nassau-Siegen and of half Diez from 1516. He descended from the Ottonian Line of the House of Nassau.

Homer

10 Homer was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer is considered one of the most revered...

Rie Mastenbroek

10 Hendrika "Rie" Wilhelmina Mastenbroek was a Dutch swimmer and a triple Olympic champion.           

Leonardo da Vinci

10 Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame...

Dirk Stork

10 Charles Theodorus (Dirk) Stork was de oprichter van het Nederlandse bedrijf Stork.                 

Anne de Vries

10 Anne de Vries was a Dutch teacher and writer, particularly famous in the Netherlands for his novels of regional life.

Jan Fabricius

10 Jan Fabricius was a Dutch playwright and journalist. He was the father of Johan Fabricius, a writer. Although he wrote continuously from the 1890s to his death, his greatest period of success was...

Johan de Meester (schrijver)

10 Eliza Johannes (Johan) de Meester,, was een Nederlandse journalist, literatuurcriticus en auteur.   

Matthijs Vermeulen

10 Matthijs Vermeulen, was a Dutch composer and music journalist.                                     

Pythagoras

10 Pythagoras of Samos was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graecia and...

Crispin and Crispinian

10 Saints Crispin and Crispinian are the Christian patron saints of cobblers, curriers, tanners, and leather workers. They were beheaded during the reign of Diocletian; the date of their execution is...

Ary Scheffer

10 Ary Scheffer was a Dutch-French Romantic painter. He was known mostly for his works based on literature, with paintings based on the works of Dante, Goethe, Lord Byron and Walter Scott, as well as...

Hans Memling

10 Hans Memling was a German-Flemish painter who worked in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting. Born in the Middle Rhine region, he probably spent his childhood in Mainz. During his...

Pieter Oud

10 Pieter Jacobus Oud was a Dutch politician of the defunct Free-thinking Democratic League (VDB) party and later co-founder of the Labour Party (PvdA) and the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy...

Caro van Eyck

10 Caro van Eyck, pseudoniem van Gerarda Jacoba Everdina Taytelbaum was een Nederlands actrice.       

René Descartes

10 René Descartes was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. Mathematics was paramount to his method of...

Ovid

10 Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the...

Virgil

10 Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues, the...

Livy

10 Titus Livius, known in English as Livy, was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled Ab Urbe Condita, ''From the Founding of the City'', covering the...

Louis Armstrong

10 Louis Daniel Armstrong, nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist. He was among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and...

Abraham Crijnssen

10 Abraham Crijnssen was a Dutch naval commander, notable for capturing the English colony in Suriname in 1667 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, resulting in the establishment of a long-term colony...

Evangelista Torricelli

10 Evangelista Torricelli was an Italian physicist and mathematician, and a student of Galileo. He is best known for his invention of the barometer, but is also known for his advances in optics and work...

Jean Monnet

10 Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet was a French civil servant, entrepreneur, diplomat, financier, administrator, and political visionary. An influential supporter of European unity, he is considered one...

Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen

10 Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen was a German mayor and cooperative pioneer. Several credit union systems and cooperative banks have been named after Raiffeisen, who pioneered rural credit unions.

James Clerk Maxwell

10 James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish physicist with broad interests who was responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity,...

Karel van Mander

10 Karel van Mander (I) or Carel van Mander I (May 1548 – 2 September 1606) was a Flemish painter, playwright, poet, art historian and art theoretician, who established himself in the Dutch Republic in...

Salvador Allende

10 Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens was a Chilean socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile from 1970 until his death in 1973. As a democratic socialist committed to democracy, he...

Anthony Modderman

10 Anthony Ewoud Jan Modderman was a Dutch liberal politician.                                         

Klaas Kater

10 Klaas Kater was een Nederlands vakbondsleider. Hij richtte in 1877 het Nederlandsch Werkliedenverbond Patrimonium op.

Koos de la Rey

10 Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey, better known as Koos de la Rey, was a South African military officer who served as a Boer general during the Second Boer War. De la Rey also had a political career and...

Lieven de Key

10 Lieven de Key was a Flemish renaissance architect who after working in his native Flanders moved to work in the Dutch Republic. He is mostly known today for his works in Haarlem. His style is...

Van Rijckevorsel

10 Van Rijckevorsel is een Nederlandse en Belgische familie waarvan leden vanaf 1829 tot de Nederlandse adel en vanaf 1976 tot de Belgische adel behoren.

Philip the Good

10 Philip III the Good ruled as Duke of Burgundy from 1419 until his death in 1467. He was a member of a cadet line of the Valois dynasty, to which all 15th-century kings of France belonged. During his...

Friedrich Paulus

10 Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II who is best known for his surrender of the German 6th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad. The battle ended in...

Piet Lieftinck

10 Pieter "Piet" Lieftinck (30 September 1902 – 9 July 1989) was a Dutch politician of the Christian Historical Union (CHU) party and later the Labour Party (PvdA) and economist.

Frans Naerebout

10 Frans Naerebout was een vermaarde Nederlandse loods en mensenredder.                               

Odile of Alsace

10 Odile of Alsace, also known as Odilia and Ottilia, born c. 662 - c. 720 at Mont Sainte-Odile), is a saint venerated in the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. She is a patroness saint of...

Floris Verster

10 Floris Hendrik Verster was a Dutch painter.                                                         

Carel Goseling

10 Carolus Maria Joannes Franciscus (Carel) Goseling was a Dutch lawyer and politician for the Roman Catholic State Party (RKSP).

Adriaen van Bergen

9 A Dutch skipper from Leur, Adriaen van Bergen devised the plot to recapture the city of Breda from the Spanish during the Eighty Years' War. In February 1590, he approached Prince Maurice with a...

Willem de Clercq

9 Willem de Clercq was a poet and leader of the Réveil, the Protestant Church Revival in the Netherlands. He is known for his diary entries, which contain extensive reports of the events he witnessed....

Jan van de Cappelle

9 Jan van de Cappelle was a Dutch Golden Age painter of seascapes and winter landscapes, also notable as an industrialist and art collector. He is "now considered the outstanding marine painter of 17th...

Willem Marinus van Rossum

9 Willem Marinus van Rossum, C.Ss.R. was a Dutch prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was made a cardinal in 1911, led the Apostolic Penitentiary from 1915 to 1918, and served as Prefect of the...

M. Vasalis

9 M. Vasalis, was a Dutch poet and psychiatrist.                                                     

Jan Thijssen (verzetsstrijder)

9 Jan Thijssen was een Nederlandse verzetsstrijder tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Zijn schuilnamen waren Lange Jan en Karel. Hij werkte bij de Ordedienst (OD) als hoofd van de Radiodienst. Op 31...

Van Foreest

9 Van Foreest is the name of an aristocratic family that most probably originates from the region of Aachen, Germany, but is already found in the County of Holland in the 13th century. The family was...

Martinus Theunis Steyn

9 Martinus Theunis Steyn was a South African lawyer, politician, and statesman. He was the sixth and last president of the independent Orange Free State from 1896 to 1902.

Martijn Smit

9 Martijn Erasmus Smit is een Nederlands PvdA-politicus en bestuurder. Sinds 18 mei 2017 is hij burgemeester van Beverwijk.

Jacques van Marken

9 Jacob Cornelis (Jacques) van Marken was een vooruitstrevend ondernemer. Hij was de eerste sociaal-ondernemer die tal van op de arbeiders gerichte verbeteringen doorvoerde, zoals een...

Petrus Augustus de Génestet

9 Petrus Augustus de Génestet was a Dutch poet and theologian.                                       

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

9 Giovanni Battista Draghi, usually referred to as Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and organist, leading exponent of the Baroque; he is considered one of the...

Claudio Monteverdi

9 Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered a...

Theo Thijssen

9 Theodorus Johannes Thijssen was a Dutch writer, teacher and socialist politician. He is best known for the book Kees de Jongen.

Thea Beckman

9 Theodora Beckmann, better known by her pen name Thea Beckman, was a Dutch author of children's books.

Hendrikus Chabot

9 Hendrikus "Henk" Chabot was a Dutch painter and sculptor.                                           

Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello

9 Joannes "Jan" Kappeyne van de Coppello was a Dutch liberal politician who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1877 to 1879.

William Booth

9 William Booth was an English Methodist preacher who, along with his wife, Catherine, founded the Salvation Army and became its first General (1878–1912). The Christian movement with a quasi-military...

Coba Ritsema

9 Jacoba Johanna (Coba) Ritsema, was a portrait painter from the Netherlands.                         

Etty Hillesum

9 Esther (Etty) Hillesum was a Dutch Jewish author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in Amsterdam during the German...

Jan van Schaffelaar

9 Jan van Schaffelaar was a cavalry officer in the duchy of Guelders, the Netherlands. Born in the region of Barneveld in the Veluwe Quarter about 1445, he was in the military service of David of...

Frederik Hendrik van Oranje

9 Frederik Hendrik, prins van Oranje en graaf van Nassau, was stadhouder, kapitein-generaal en admiraal-generaal van de Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden. Vanwege zijn succesvolle belegeringen...

George S. Patton

9 George Smith Patton Jr. was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied...

Horatius Cocles

9 Publius Horatius Cocles was an officer in the army of the early Roman Republic who famously defended the Pons Sublicius from the invading army of Etruscan King Lars Porsena of Clusium in the late 6th...

Johan Buziau

9 Johannes Franciscus Buziau was een Nederlandse clowneske komiek en revue-artiest.                   

Alcide De Gasperi

9 Alcide Amedeo Francesco De Gasperi was an Italian politician who founded the Christian Democracy party and served as prime minister of Italy in eight successive coalition governments from 1945 to...

Faust

9 Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust.     

Max Planck

9 Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.

Charlotte van Pallandt

9 Charlotte van Pallandt was a Dutch painter and sculptor.                                           

Willem Witsen

9 Willem Arnoldus Witsen was a Dutch painter and photographer associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement. Witsen's work, influenced by James McNeill Whistler, often portrayed calm urban...

Hercules Seghers

9 Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers or Segers was a Dutch painter and printmaker of the Dutch Golden Age. He has been called "the most inspired, experimental and original landscapist" of his period and an...

Gregor Mendel

9 Gregor Johann Mendel OSA was an Austrian-Czech biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia. Mendel was born in a...

Paul the Apostle

9 Paul, commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world. For his contributions towards the New Testament, he is...

Edward Jenner

9 Edward Jenner was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived...

Pim Mulier

9 Willem Johan Herman Mulier, known as Pim Mulier was one of the leading figures in the sporting history of the Netherlands.

Perseus

9 In Greek mythology, Perseus is the legendary founder of the Perseid dynasty. He was, alongside Cadmus and Bellerophon, the greatest Greek hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles. He...

Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart

9 Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart was a Dutch politician, diplomat and journalist. A member of the Labour Party (PvdA), he was Minister of Justice from 1944 to 1945 under Prime Minister Pieter Sjoerds...

Robert Stolz

9 Robert Elisabeth Stolz was an Austrian songwriter and conductor as well as a composer of operettas and film music.

Jodocus Hondius

9 Jodocus Hondius was a Flemish and Dutch engraver and cartographer. He is sometimes called Jodocus Hondius the Elder to distinguish him from his son Jodocus Hondius II. Hondius is best known for his...

Harry S. Truman

9 Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to...

Clara Wichmann

9 Clara Gertrud Wichmann was a German–Dutch lawyer and anarchist feminist activist, who became a leading advocate of criminal justice reform and prison abolition in the Netherlands.

John Brugman

9 John Brugman, was a 15th-century Franciscan friar who became a renowned preacher in the Netherlands.

Rob Graafland

9 Rob Graafland was a Dutch painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Óscar Romero

9 Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador. He served as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, the Titular Bishop of Tambeae, as Bishop of...

Woodrow Wilson

9 Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president...

Henri Jonas

9 Henri Charles Jonas was een Nederlandse beeldend kunstenaar. Jonas was een representant van de zogenoemde Limburgse School.

Kees van Dongen

9 Cornelis Theodorus Maria "Kees" van Dongen was a Dutch-French painter who was one of the leading Fauves. Van Dongen's early work was influenced by the Hague School and symbolism and it evolved...

Carolus Clusius

9 Charles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius, seigneur de Watènes, was an Artois doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th-century scientific horticulturists.

Dieric Bouts

9 Dieric Bouts was an Early Netherlandish painter. Bouts may have studied under Rogier van der Weyden, and his work was influenced by van der Weyden and Jan van Eyck. He worked in Leuven from 1457...

Ambrose

9 Ambrose of Milan, venerated as Saint Ambrose, was a theologian and statesman who served as Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397. He expressed himself prominently as a public figure, fiercely promoting...

Hildo Krop

8 Hildebrand Lucien (Hildo) Krop was a prolific Dutch sculptor and furniture designer, widely known as the city sculptor of Amsterdam, where his work is well represented.

Lizzy Ansingh

8 Maria Elisabeth Georgina Ansingh was a Dutch painter.                                               

Gijsbrecht IV of Amstel

8 Gijsbrecht IV of Amstel or Gijsbrecht IV van Amstel was a powerful lord in the medieval County of Holland and a member of the Van Aemstel family. His territory was Amstelland, and his son was Jan I...

Jan van Zutphen

8 Johannes Andries van Zutphen was een Nederlands vakbondsbestuurder van de diamantbewerkersbond en oprichter en voorzitter van sanatorium Zonnestraal in Hilversum. Hij is erkend als een inspirerend...

August Snieders

8 August Snieders was a Flemish journalist and writer. He started his career in 's-Hertogenbosch, but later moved to Antwerp. In 1845, he became editor of the newspaper Het Handelsblad, of which he was...

Marius Bauer

8 Marius Alexander Jacques Bauer was a Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer, best known for his Oriental scenes. His style was largely Impressionistic, although it also derived to some extent from...

Clara Eggink

8 Clara Hendrika Catharina Clementine Helène Eggink, was een Nederlands dichteres, prozaschrijfster en vertaalster.

Pliny the Elder

8 Gaius Plinius Secundus, called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He...

Jan Rudolph Slotemaker de Bruïne

8 Jan Rudolph Slotemaker de Bruïne was a Dutch politician of the defunct Christian Historical Union (CHU) party now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and theologian.

Saint Ursula

8 Ursula was a Romano-British virgin and martyr possibly of royal origin. She is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. Her feast day in the pre-1970 General...

Raoul Wallenberg

8 Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg was a Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat, and humanitarian. He saved thousands of Jews in German-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust from German Nazis and Hungarian...

Clément van Maasdijk

8 Clément Guillaume Jean van Maasdijk was een Nederlandse vliegenier en luchtvaartpionier. Hij was de eerste Nederlander die omkwam bij een vliegtuigongeluk.

Henry Purcell

8 Henry Purcell was an English composer of Baroque music.                                             

Herman Willem Daendels

8 Herman Willem Daendels was a Dutch revolutionary, military leader, and statesman. He was 36th Governor General of the Dutch East Indies, a position he held from 1808 to 1811.

Cissy van Marxveldt

8 Sietske de Haan, better known by her pen name Cissy van Marxveldt, was a Dutch writer of children's books. She is best known for her series of Joop ter Heul novels.

Willem Frederik Hermans

8 Willem Frederik Hermans was a Dutch author of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, as well as book-length studies, essays, and literary criticism. His most famous works are The House of Refuge, The...

Van Aerssen

8 Het geslacht Van Aerssen was een van oorsprong uit de Zuidelijke Nederlanden komend geslacht waarvan leden in 1814 tot de adel van het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden ging behoren. Een tak behoort tot de...

Louis Paul Boon

8 Lodewijk Paul Aalbrecht Boon was a Belgian writer of novels, poetry, pornography, columns and art criticism. He was also a painter. He is best known for the novels My Little War (1947), the diptych...

Jan Wils

8 Jan Wils was a Dutch architect. He was born in Alkmaar and died in Voorburg.                       

Hendrick de Keyser

8 Hendrick de Keyser was a Dutch sculptor, merchant in Belgium bluestone, and architect who was instrumental in establishing a late Renaissance form of Mannerism changing into Baroque. Most of his...

Saint Eustace

8 Saint Eustace is revered as a Christian martyr. According to legend, he was martyred in AD 118, at the command of emperor Hadrian. Eustace was a pagan Roman general, who converted to Christianity...

Olof Palme

8 Sven Olof Joachim Palme was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 to 1986. Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until...

Isaäc Dignus Fransen van de Putte

8 Isaäc Dignus Fransen van de Putte was a Dutch politician who briefly served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands in 1866, and as Minister of Colonial Affairs from 1863 to 1866 and 1872 to 1874.

Sophie of Württemberg

8 Sophie of Württemberg was Queen of the Netherlands as the first wife of King William III. Sophie separated from William in 1855 but continued to perform her duties as queen in public. She was known...

René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur

8 René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur was a French entomologist and writer who contributed to many different fields, especially the study of insects. He introduced the Réaumur temperature scale.

Carry Pothuis-Smit

8 Wilhelmina Carolina Benjamina "Carry" Pothuis-Smit was a politician and feminist in the Netherlands. She was the first woman elected to the Senate of the Netherlands on 23 March 1920.

Count Basie

8 William James "Count" Basie was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and...

Sibrand Gratama

8 Sibrand Gratama was een Nederlandse jurist en burgemeester.                                         

Jan Blanken

8 Jan Blanken was een Nederlands waterbouwkundig ingenieur.                                           

Leonard Springer

8 Leonard Antony Springer was een Nederlands tuin- en landschapsarchitect.                           

Jacques Schreurs

8 Jacobus Hubertus (Jacques) Schreurs was een Nederlands priester, dichter en schrijver. Hij dankte zijn bekendheid vooral aan zijn deels autobiografische, driedelige roman Kroniek eener parochie,...

James Cook

8 Captain James Cook was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular. He...

Joris van Spilbergen

8 Joris van Spilbergen was a Dutch naval officer. Joris van Spilbergen was born in Antwerp in 1568.   

Peter Canisius

8 Peter Canisius was a Dutch Jesuit priest. He became known for his strong support for the Catholic faith during the Protestant Reformation in Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Switzerland and the...

Louise van Panhuys

8 Louise van Panhuys née von Barckhaus of Wiesenhütten was a German botanical artist and landscape painter.

Max Havelaar

8 Max Havelaar; or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company is an 1860 novel by Multatuli, which played a key role in shaping and modifying Dutch colonial policy in the Dutch East Indies in...

Jan Palach

8 Jan Palach was a Czech student of history and political economics at Charles University in Prague. His self-immolation was a political protest against the end of the Prague Spring resulting from the...

Bertha von Suttner

8 Bertha Sophie Felicitas Freifrau von Suttner was an Austro-Bohemian noblewoman, pacifist and novelist. In 1905, she became the second female Nobel laureate, the first woman to be awarded the Nobel...

Van Teylingen (I)

8 Van Teylingen was de naam van een adellijk geslacht uit Holland, dat in de middeleeuwen een grote rol speelde in de omgeving van de graven van Holland.

Claudius

8 Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus was a Roman emperor, ruling from AD 41 to 54. A member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, Claudius was born to Drusus and Antonia Minor at Lugdunum in Roman...

Louis Davids

8 Louis Davids was a Dutch actor, singer, comedian and revue artist. He is widely considered one of the biggest names in Dutch performing arts.

Abraham van der Hulst

8 Abraham van der Hulst was a Dutch admiral in the 17th century.                                     

Billie Holiday

8 Billie Holiday was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday made a significant contribution to jazz music and pop singing....

Simone de Beauvoir

8 Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was...

Jan Smuts

8 Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, was a South African statesman, military leader and philosopher. In addition to holding various military and cabinet posts, he served as prime minister of the Union...

Joanna, Duchess of Brabant

8 Joanna, Duchess of Brabant, also known as Jeanne, was a ruling Duchess (Duke) of Brabant from 1355 until her death. She was duchess of Brabant until the occupation of the duchy by her brother-in-law...

Robert Boyle

8 Robert Boyle was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of...

Ferdinand Huyck

8 Ferdinand Huyck is een historische avonturenroman uit 1840 van Jacob van Lennep. Het speelt zich af vlak voor 1740. Het boek wordt beschouwd als het meesterwerk van de schrijver en kende in de...

Ferdinand von Zeppelin

8 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin was a German general and later inventor of the Zeppelin rigid airships. His name became synonymous with airships and dominated long-distance flight until the 1930s. He...

Pablo Picasso

8 Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century,...

Jan van Amstel

8 Jan van Amstel, or Jan de Hollander, was a Dutch Northern Renaissance painter.                     

Werner von Siemens

8 Ernst Werner Siemens was a German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist. Siemens's name has been adopted as the SI unit of electrical conductance, the siemens. He founded the electrical and...

Hendrik Conscience

8 Henri (Hendrik) Conscience was a Belgian author. He is considered the pioneer of Dutch-language literature in Flanders, writing at a time when Belgium was dominated by the French language among the...

Robert Fruin

8 Robert Jacobus Fruin was a Dutch historian. A follower of Leopold von Ranke, he introduced the scientific study of history in the Netherlands when he was professor of Dutch national history at Leiden...

Joachim le Sage ten Broek

8 Joachim George le Sage ten Broek was een Nederlands notaris, schrijver, historicus en journalist. Hij was een belangrijke rooms-katholieke emancipator, polemist en apologeet. Voorts schreef hij...

Bertus Aafjes

8 Lambertus Jacobus Johannes "Bertus" Aafjes was a Dutch poet noteworthy for his poems about resistance to German occupation during World War II.

Ko Suurhoff

8 Jacobus Gerardus "Ko" Suurhoff was a Dutch politician of the defunct Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and co-founder of the Labour Party (PvdA) and trade union leader.

Jelle Zijlstra

8 Jelle Zijlstra was a Dutch politician of the defunct Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) now the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and economist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from...

Maria Louise Baldwin

8 Maria Louise Baldwin was an American educator and civic leader born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She lived all her life in Cambridge and Boston. Writing in 1917, W. E. B. Du Bois claimed...

Simon Spoor

7 General Simon Hendrik Spoor was the Chief of Staff of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army and the Royal Dutch Army in the Dutch East Indies, from 1946 to 1949, during the Indonesian National...

Jan Pieter Heije

7 Jan Pieter Heije was een Nederlandse arts, die vooral bekend is geworden om zijn inzet voor dichtkunst en muziek. Liederen van zijn hand, zoals 'Daar zaten zeven kikkertjes' en het sinterklaaslied...

Gregorius

7 Gregorius or The Good Sinner is a Middle High German narrative poem by Hartmann von Aue. Written around 1190 in rhyming couplets, it tells the story of a child born of the incestuous union of a...

Van Hardenbroek

7 Van Hardenbroek is een van de oudste adellijke geslachten van Nederland en leden ervan behoren sinds 1814 tot de Nederlandse adel van het koninkrijk.

Gerard Heymans

7 Gerardus Heymans was a Dutch philosopher and psychologist. From 1890 to 1927, he worked as a professor of philosophy at the University of Groningen (UG). He also served as rector magnificus...

Bavo of Ghent

7 Saint Bavo of Ghent is a Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint. He was the son of Pepin of Landen and the brother of saints Begga and Gertrude of Nivelles.

Abraham Rademaker

7 Abraham Rademaker was an 18th-century painter and printmaker from the Northern Netherlands.         

Saint Stephen

7 Stephen is traditionally venerated as the protomartyr or first martyr of Christianity. According to the Acts of the Apostles, he was a deacon in the early church at Jerusalem who angered members of...

Paul Steenbergen

7 Paul Jozef Steenbergen was een Nederlands acteur en toneelregisseur.                               

Alexander Graham Bell

7 Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone...

Nikola Tesla

7 Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC)...

Marcellus Emants

7 Marcellus Emants was a Dutch novelist whose work is considered one of the few examples of Dutch Naturalism. His writing is seen as a first step towards the renewing force of the Tachtigers towards...

Johannes Stalpaert van der Wiele

7 Johannes Stalpaert van der Wiele studeerde in Rome en Leuven en werd priester in Delft. Naast het priesterschap was hij schrijver. Hij schreef lofzangen op heiligen. Daarnaast was hij een belangrijke...

Teding van Berkhout

7 Teding van Berkhout is een Nederlands geslacht, waarvan leden vanaf 1815 behoren tot de Nederlandse adel.

Cornelis van Tienhoven

7 Cornelis van Tienhoven was an official of New Amsterdam from 1638 to 1656, and one of the more prominent people in New Netherland. He served in the administrations of three governors: Wouter van...

Marcus Aurelius

7 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher. He was a member of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty, the last of the rulers later known as the Five Good Emperors and...

Julius Caesar

7 Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war,...

Anna Reijnvaan

7 Johanna Paulina (Anna) Reijnvaan, ook gespeld met een Y als Reynvaan, was een Nederlandse verpleegster en adjunct-directrice in het Buitengasthuis en in het Wilhelmina Gasthuis in Amsterdam, de...

Charlie Parker

7 Charles Parker Jr., nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird", was an American jazz saxophonist, band leader, and composer. Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of...

Jan van Ravesteyn

7 Jan Anthonisz van Ravesteyn was a successful portrait painter to the Dutch court in The Hague.     

Ko van Dijk jr.

7 Ko van Dijk (junior) (Amsterdam, 25 juli 1916 – Den Haag, 6 mei 1978) was een Nederlands toneel-, televisie-, film- en hoorspelacteur en daarnaast toneelregisseur. Hij speelde in 46 jaar ruim 300...

Gerard Reve

7 Gerard Kornelis van het Reve was a Dutch writer. He started writing as Simon Gerard van het Reve and adopted the shorter Gerard Reve in 1973. Together with Willem Frederik Hermans and Harry Mulisch,...

Syb Talma

7 Aritius Sybrandus (Syb) Talma was a Dutch politician.                                             

Charles Dickens

7 Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the...

David Bles

7 David Bles, was a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.                               

Jan Greshoff

7 Jan Greshoff was a Dutch journalist, poet, and literary critic. He was the 1967 recipient of the Constantijn Huygens Prize.

Neil Armstrong

7 Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who in 1969 became the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor.

François de Casembroot

7 François de Casembroot was an officer of the Royal Netherlands Navy.                               

Albertus Jacobus Duymaer van Twist

7 Albertus Jacobus Duymaer van Twist was the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1851 to 1856.

Mary of Burgundy

7 Mary of Burgundy, nicknamed the Rich, was a member of the House of Valois-Burgundy who ruled a collection of states that included the duchies of Limburg, Brabant, Luxembourg, the counties of Namur,...

Willem van Abcoude

7 Willem van Abcoude en Duurstede was een edelman uit het Sticht. Hij was heer van Abcoude, Wijk bij Duurstede, Gaasbeek, Putten en Strijen.

Gerard Bruning (beeldhouwer)

7 Gerard Marie (Gerard) Bruning was een Nederlandse beeldhouwer, schrijver, graficus, fotograaf en schilder.

George Martens

7 George William Martens was an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1928 to 1946, representing the electorate of Herbert.

Elizabeth (biblical figure)

7 Elizabeth was the mother of John the Baptist, the wife of Zechariah, and maternal aunt of Mary, mother of Jesus, according to the Gospel of Luke and in Islamic tradition. She was past normal...

Gerard David

7 Gerard David was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color. Only a bare outline of his life survives, although some facts are known. He may have...

Anne Vondeling

7 Anne Vondeling was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and agronomist.                   

Saint Cecilia

7 Saint Cecilia, also spelled Cecelia, was a Roman virgin martyr and is venerated in Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden. She became the patroness of...

Charles II, Duke of Guelders

7 Charles II was a member of the House of Egmond who ruled as Duke of Guelders and Count of Zutphen from 1492 until his death. He had a principal role in the Frisian peasant rebellion and the Guelders...

Hector

7 In Greek mythology, Hector is a Trojan prince, and one of four sons to the King of Troy, he was a hero and the greatest warrior for Troy during the Trojan War. He is a major character in Homer's...

Karel Appel

7 Christiaan Karel Appel was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of...

Augusta de Wit

7 Augusta de Wit was a Dutch writer, born in the Dutch East Indies and best known for writing about Java.

Tom Manders (Dutch artist)

7 Antoon (Tom) Manders was a Dutch artist, comedian and cabaret performer. In later role, he became better known as Dorus.

John Amos Comenius

7 John Amos Comenius was a Moravian philosopher, pedagogue and theologian who is considered the father of modern education. He served as the last bishop of the Unity of the Brethren before becoming a...

Saint Vitus

7 Vitus, whose name is sometimes rendered Guy or Guido, was a Christian martyr from Sicily. His surviving hagiography is pure legend. The dates of his actual life are unknown. He has for long been tied...

Andries Pretorius

6 Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius was a leader of the Boers who was instrumental in the creation of the South African Republic, as well as the earlier but short-lived Natalia Republic, in...

Albert Hahn

6 Albert Pieter Hahn was a Dutch political cartoonist, caricaturist, poster artist and book cover designer; well known for his socialist and antimilitaristic viewpoints. Some of his drawings,...

Maarten van Rossum

6 Maarten van Rossum was a military tactician of the duchy of Guelders who became field marshal in the service of Charles, Duke of Guelders. He was greatly feared outside his home country for the...

John Lennon

6 John Winston Ono Lennon was an English singer, songwriter and musician. He gained worldwide fame as the founder, co-songwriter, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. His work included...

Augustus

6 Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, also known as Octavian, was the founder of the Roman Empire. He reigned as the first Roman emperor from 27 BC until his death in AD 14. The reign of Augustus initiated...

Van Boetzelaer

6 Van Boetzelaer is an old aristocratic family that stems from the region of Kalkar, Germany.         

Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt

6 Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt was a Dutch painter and draftsman of the Dutch Golden Age.           

Joannes van der Brugghen

6 Joannes van der Brugghen, known in France as Jean vander Bruggen, was a Flemish painter, engraver, art dealer and publisher who was active in Antwerp and Paris.

Willem Bloys van Treslong

6 Willem Bloys van Treslong was a nobleman from the Southern Netherlands and military leader during the Dutch war of Independence. He was best known as one of the leaders of the Sea Beggars who...

Cornelis de Witt

6 Cornelis de Witt was a Dutch politician and naval commander of the Golden Age. During the First Stadtholderless Period De Witt was an influential member of the Dutch States Party, and was in...

Cornelis Tromp

6 Cornelis Maartenszoon Tromp, Count of Sølvesborg was a Dutch naval officer who served as lieutenant-admiral general in the Dutch Navy, and briefly as a general admiral in the Royal Danish-Norwegian...

Hadrian

6 Hadrian was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. Hadrian was born in Italica, close to modern Seville in Spain, an Italic settlement in Hispania Baetica; his branch of the Aelia gens, the Aeli Hadriani,...

Mother Teresa

6 Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu MC, better known as Mother Teresa, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity. Born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, at the age...

J. L. C. Pompe van Meerdervoort

6 Johannes Lijdius Catharinus Pompe van Meerdervoort was a Dutch physician based at Nagasaki, in Bakumatsu period Japan. While in Japan, he briefly taught medicine, chemistry and photography at the...

Rogier van der Weyden

6 Rogier van der Weyden or Roger de la Pasture was an early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces, and commissioned single and diptych...

Jan Arnoldus Schouten

6 Jan Arnoldus Schouten was a Dutch mathematician and Professor at the Delft University of Technology. He was an important contributor to the development of tensor calculus and Ricci calculus, and was...

Jan III van Montfoort

6 Jan III van Montfoort, was Viscount of Montfoort, Free Lord of Zuid-Polsbroek, Free Lord of Purmerend-Purmerland, and a leader of the Hook Party in the Bishopric of Utrecht.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

6 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging...

Albert van Dalsum

6 Albertus Wilhelmus van Dalsum was een Nederlands toneelspeler, toneelleider, decorontwerper en kunstschilder.

Iseult

6 Iseult, alternatively Isolde and other spellings, is the name of several characters in the legend of Tristan and Iseult. The most prominent is Iseult of Ireland, the wife of Mark of Cornwall and the...

Orpheus and Eurydice

6 The ancient legend of Orpheus and Eurydice concerns the fateful love of Orpheus of Thrace for the beautiful Eurydice. Orpheus was the son of Oeagrus and the muse Calliope. It may be a late addition...

Leendert van der Vlugt

6 Leendert Cornelis van der Vlugt was a Dutch architect in Rotterdam. In the architects office Brinkman & Van der Vlugt he was responsible for the architecture of the Van Nelle Factory, a listed...

Othello

6 Othello is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, around 1603. The story revolves around two characters, Othello and Iago.

Franz Lehár

6 Franz Lehár was an Austro-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is The Merry Widow.

Mien Ruys

6 Wilhelmina Jacoba Moussault-Ruys, was a Dutch landscape and garden architect. Her gardening legacy is maintained in the Dutch town of Dedemsvaart, which is home to the Tuinen Mien Ruys. With people...

Ernest Rutherford

6 Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, was a New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. Rutherford has been described as "the father of...

Henri Winkelman

6 Henri Gerard Winkelman was a Dutch military officer who served as Commander-in-chief of the Armed forces of the Netherlands during the German invasion of the Netherlands.

Piet Paaltjens

6 François Haverschmidt, also written as HaverSchmidt, was a Dutch minister and writer, who wrote prose under his own name but remains best known for the poetry published under the pen name of Piet...

Thérèse Schwartze

6 Thérèse Schwartze was a Dutch portrait painter.                                                     

Hugo Verriest

6 Hugo Nestor Verriest was een Vlaams priester, dichter, schrijver en redenaar. Hij was een van de belangrijkste exponenten van het cultuurflamingantisme alsook bevorderaar van de politieke Vlaamse...

Cornelia Catharina de Lange

6 Cornelia Catharina de Lange was a Dutch pediatrician and neuropathologist who along with Winfried Brachmann first described the genetic disorder named after her, the Cornelia de Lange syndrome.

Ralph Bunche

6 Ralph Johnson Bunche was an American political scientist, diplomat, and leading actor in the mid-20th-century decolonization process and US civil rights movement, who received the 1950 Nobel Peace...

Selma Lagerlöf

6 Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish writer. She published her first novel, Gösta Berling's Saga, at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was...

House of La Marck

6 The House of La Marck was a noble family, which from about 1200 appeared as the counts of Mark.     

Adriaan Roland Holst

6 Adriaan Roland Holst was a Dutch writer, nicknamed the "Prince of Dutch Poets". He was the second winner, in 1948, of the Constantijn Huygens Prize. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in...

Alexander Gogel

6 Isaac Jan Alexander Gogel was a Dutch politician, who was the first minister of finance of the Batavian Republic and the Kingdom of Holland. He married Catharina van Hasselt in 1800, and had three...

Abe Lenstra

6 Abe Minderts Lenstra was a Dutch footballer and national football icon in the 1950s who played as a forward. He is regarded as one of the greatest players ever to hail from the Netherlands. He was...

Melchior (magus)

6 Melchior, or Melichior, was purportedly one of the Biblical Magi who visited the infant Jesus after he was born. Melchior was often referred to as the oldest member of the Magi. He was traditionally...

Benny Goodman

6 Benjamin David Goodman was an American clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing".     

Rosa Luxemburg

6 Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary socialist, orthodox Marxist, and anti-War activist during the First World War. She became a key figure of the revolutionary socialist...

Philips Vingboons

6 Philips Vingboons was a Dutch architect. He was part of the school of Jacob van Campen, that is, Dutch Classicism. Vingboons was especially highly regarded in his native city of Amsterdam.

Cornelis Outshoorn

6 Cornelis Outshoorn was een Nederlandse ingenieur en architect.                                     

Hendrik Andriessen

6 Hendrik Franciscus Andriessen was a Dutch composer and organist. He is remembered most of all for his improvisation at the organ and for the renewal of Catholic liturgical music in the Netherlands....

Aert de Gelder

6 Aert de Gelder was a Dutch painter. He was the only Dutch artist to paint in the tradition of Rembrandt's late style into the 18th century.

Jan de Quay

6 Jan Eduard de Quay was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) now the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and psychologist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands...

Adriaan Poirters

6 Adriaan Poirters was a Brabantian Jesuit poet and prose writer who was active in the Counter Reformation.

Nellie van Kol

6 Nellie van Kol was a Dutch feminist, educator, and children's author also active in Belgium. She contributed to the cause of women and had a great influence on the development of children's...

Ed. Hoornik

6 Eduard (Ed) Jozef Antonie Marie Hoornik was een Nederlandse dichter, behorend tot de Amsterdamse school. Aanvankelijk was zijn werk sociaal-kritisch. Zijn latere werk is sterk getekend door zijn...

Jan Voerman

6 Jan Voerman, also known as Jan Voerman Sr., was a Dutch painter.                                   

Ernest Claes

6 Andreas Ernestus Josephus Claes was a Belgian author. He is best known for his regional novels, including De Witte ("Whitey"), which was the source material for the first Flemish movie: De Witte...

Paul van Ostaijen

6 Paul van Ostaijen was a Belgian Dutch-language poet and writer.                                     

Johan Evertsen

6 Johan Evertsen was a Dutch admiral who was born in the 17th century.                               

Arnold, Duke of Guelders

6 Arnold of Egmond was Duke of Guelders, Count of Zutphen.                                           

Ludger

6 Ludger was a missionary among the Frisians and Saxons, founder of Werden Abbey and the first Bishop of Münster in Westphalia. He has been called the "Apostle of Saxony".

Toon Hermans

6 Antoine Gerard Theodore "Toon" Hermans was a noted Dutch comedian, singer and writer.               

Steven Jacobsz Vennekool

6 Steven Jacobsz Vennekool (1656/57–1719) was an 18th-century architect from the Northern Netherlands. He was born and died in Amsterdam.

Hans Vredeman de Vries

6 Hans Vredeman de Vries was a Dutch Renaissance architect, painter, and engineer. Vredeman de Vries is known for his publication in 1583 on garden design and his books with many examples on ornaments...

René Daniëls

6 René Daniëls is a Dutch artist.                                                                     

Karl Marx

6 Karl Marx was a German-born philosopher, economist, political theorist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His best-known works are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist...

Pancras of Rome

6 Pancras was a Roman citizen who converted to Christianity and was beheaded for his faith at the age of fourteen, around the year 304. His name is Greek (Πανκράτιος) and means "the one that holds...

Buzz Aldrin

6 Buzz Aldrin is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11...

Yuri Gagarin

6 Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first human to journey into outer space. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin...

William Damasus Lindanus

6 William Damasus Lindanus or Van der Lindt was a 16th-century Bishop of Roermond and Bishop of Ghent.

Henri Polak

5 Henri Polak was a Dutch trade unionist and politician. Polak is best remembered as a longtime president of the General Diamond Workers' Union of the Netherlands (ANDB) and as a founder of the Dutch...

Jane Addams

5 Laura Jane Addams was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author. She was a very important leader in the history of social...

Ank van der Moer

5 Anna Maria (Ank) van der Moer was een Nederlands actrice.                                           

Tristan

5 Tristan, also known as Tristram, Tristyn or Tristain and similar names, is the hero of the legend of Tristan and Iseult. In the legend, he is tasked with escorting the Irish princess Iseult to wed...

Jan Mankes

5 Jan Mankes was a Dutch painter. He produced around 200 paintings, 100 drawings and 50 prints before dying of tuberculosis at the age of 30. His restrained, detailed work ranged from self-portraits to...

Johanna van Buren

5 Johanna Frederika van Buren was een dichteres die schreef in het Hellendoorns, een overgangsdialect tussen het Sallands en Twents.

Jacob Gilles

5 Jacob Gilles was Grand Pensionary of Holland from 23 September 1746 to 18 June 1749.               

Marnix Gijsen

5 Marnix Gijsen was a Belgian writer. His real name was Joannes Alphonsius Albertus Goris; his pseudonym relates to Marnix van Sint Aldegonde and the surname of his mother (Gijsen).

David Ben-Gurion

5 David Ben-Gurion was the primary national founder of the State of Israel as well as its first prime minister. As head of the Jewish Agency from 1935, and later president of the Jewish Agency...

Cole Porter

5 Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Many of his songs became standards noted for their witty, urbane lyrics, and many of his scores found success on Broadway and in Hollywood...

Thomas More

5 Sir Thomas More, venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, amateur theologian, and noted Renaissance humanist. He...

Epicurus

5 Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher and sage who founded Epicureanism, a highly influential school of philosophy. He was born on the Greek island of Samos to Athenian parents. Influenced by...

William II of Holland

5 William II was the Count of Holland and Zeeland from 1234 until his death. He was elected anti-king of Germany in 1248 and ruled as sole king from 1254 onwards.

Pope Leo XIII

5 Pope Leo XIII was head of the Catholic Church from 20 February 1878 until his death in July 1903. Living until the age of 93, he was the oldest pope, whose age can be validated, holding office, and...

Quarles van Ufford

5 Quarles van Ufford is the name of a Dutch family of English descent whose members have belonged to Dutch nobility since 1815.

Paul Rodenko

5 Paul Thomas Basilius Rodenko was een Nederlands dichter, criticus, essayist en vertaler. Hij was de zoon van een Russische vader en een Engelse moeder, en een broer van schrijfster Olga Rodenko....

Marie Jungius

5 Hendrika Maria Aleida (Marie) Jungius was medeorganisator van de Nationale Tentoonstelling van Vrouwenarbeid en grondlegster en eerste directrice van het Nationaal Bureau voor Vrouwenarbeid. Zij was...

Boy Edgar

5 Boy Edgar, pseudonyms of George Willem Fred Edgar, was a Dutch jazz conductor, pianist and trumpeter. He was also a member of the resistance who saved Jewish children during WW2 and was promoted as a...

Wessel Ilcken

5 Wessel Ilcken was a Dutch jazz drummer.                                                             

Jaap Bakema

5 Jacob Berend "Jaap" Bakema was a Dutch modernist architect, notable for design of public housing and involvement in the reconstruction of Rotterdam after the Second World War.

Truus Schröder-Schräder

5 Truus Schröder-Schräder (1889–1985) was a Dutch socialite and trained pharmacist who was closely involved with avant-garde artists and architects of the De Stijl movement. Together with Gerrit...

Willem Kes

5 Willem Kes (Dordrecht, 16 February 1856 – München, 22 February 1934, was a Dutch conductor, composer, violist, and violinist. He was the first principal conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra of...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5 Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher (philosophe), writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects...

Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn

5 Philip de Montmorency, also known as Count of Horn, Horne, Hoorne or Hoorn, was a victim of the Inquisition in the Spanish Netherlands.

Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands

5 Wilhelmine of Prussia was the first Queen consort of the Netherlands as the first wife of King William I of the Netherlands. She had a modest public role but acted as a patron of the arts.

Jan Ritzema Bos

5 Jan Ritzema Bos was a Dutch plant pathologist and zoologist. He served as the first director of the Willie Commelin Scholten Foundation and founder of the Plant Protection Service in 1899 in...

Elise van Calcar

5 Elise van Calcar-Schiotling, geboren als Eliza Carolina Ferdinanda Fleischacker, was een Nederlandse schrijfster, publiciste, pedagoge en feministe. Ze kreeg bij haar geboorte de familienaam van haar...

Theo Mann-Bouwmeester

5 Theodora Antonia Louisa Cornelia Bouwmeester was een Nederlandse actrice in de periode 1880-1926. Zij was driemaal getrouwd en trad daardoor onder verschillende namen op. Dat was chronologisch als...

Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje

5 Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje was a Dutch scholar of Oriental cultures and languages and advisor on native affairs to the colonial government of the Dutch East Indies.

Johannes Hendricus van der Palm

5 Johannes Hendricus van der Palm was a Dutch Assyriologist, linguist, professor of (i) oriental languages and Hebrew antiquities and (ii) sacred poetry and rhetoric at Leiden University, educationist,...

Bernardus Johannes Alfrink

5 Bernardus Johannes Alfrink was a Dutch Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Utrecht from 1955 to 1975, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1960.

Johan Brouwer

5 Johan Brouwer was een Nederlandse hispanoloog en auteur, actief als verzetsstrijder tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Victor de Stuers

5 Victor Eugène Louis de Stuers was a Dutch art historian, lawyer, civil servant and politician. Widely regarded as the father of historic preservation in the Netherlands, he played a notable part in...

Pierre Corneille

5 Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.

Jean de La Fontaine

5 Jean de La Fontaine was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists...

Kea Bouman

5 Cornelia "Kea" Tiedemann-Bouman was a female tennis player from the Netherlands. She won the singles title at the 1927 French Championships, beating Irene Bowder Peacock of South Africa in the final....

Etta Palm d'Aelders

5 Etta Lubina Johanna Palm d'Aelders, also known as the Baroness of Aelders, was a Dutch spy and feminist, outspoken during the French Revolution. She gave the address Discourse on the Injustice of the...

Jules Verne

5 Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling...

Elvis Presley

5 Elvis Aaron Presley, also known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Known as the "King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the...

Renate Rubinstein

5 Renate Ida Rubinstein was a German-Dutch writer, journalist and columnist.                         

Hans Lodeizen

5 Hans Lodeizen, born Johannes August Frederik Lodeizen, was a Dutch poet. He was the author of one book of poems and a quantity of miscellaneous work. Despite his short life and modest output, his...

Jacques Urlus

5 Jacques Urlus, was a Dutch dramatic tenor. He sang to great critical acclaim at major opera houses on both sides of the Atlantic, and his recordings of the music of Richard Wagner are considered to...

Anton Geesink

5 Antonius Johannes Geesink was a Dutch 10th dan judoka. He was the first non-Japanese judoka to win gold at the World Judo Championships, a feat he accomplished in 1961 and 1965. He was also an...

Pieter Vreede

5 Pieter Vreede was a Dutch politician of the Batavian Republic in the 18th century. Vreede was born in Leiden and died in Heusden. He was a prominent critic of stadholderian misrule and of the urban...

Father Damien

5 Father Damien or Saint Damien of Molokai or Saint Damien De Veuster, born Jozef De Veuster, was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and...

Irene Vorrink

5 Irene Vorrink was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA).                                   

Rie Cramer

5 Marie "Rie" Cramer was a Dutch writer and prolific illustrator of children's literature whose style is considered iconic for the interwar period. For many years, she was one of the two main...

Marten Toonder

5 Marten Toonder was a Dutch comic strip creator, born in Rotterdam. He was probably the most successful comic artist in the Netherlands and had a great influence on the Dutch language by introducing...

Stanisław Maczek

5 Lieutenant General Stanisław Maczek was a Polish tank commander of World War II, whose division was instrumental in the Allied liberation of France, closing the Falaise pocket, resulting in the...

Louis of Nassau

5 Louis of Nassau was the third son of William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen and Juliana of Stolberg, and the younger brother of Prince William of Orange Nassau.

Jan de Rooij

5 Jan de Rooij of Jan de Rooy kan verwijzen naar:Jan de Rooy (verzetsstrijder) (1923-1945), Nederlands verzetsstrijder tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog Jan de Rooij (bokser) (1932-2008), Nederlands...

Willem Passtoors (1856-1916)

5 Willem Caspar Joseph Passtoors was een Nederlands vakbondsbestuurder en politicus van de Algemeene Bond van RK-kiesverenigingen.

Anke Servaes

5 Anke Servaes was een Nederlandse schrijfster.                                                       

Jo Vincent

5 Johanna Maria Vincent was a Dutch soprano who appeared mostly in oratorio and concert, and is internationally known. She appeared regularly with Willem Mengelberg and the Royal Concertgebouw...

Clare Lennart

5 Clare Lennart, pseudoniem van Clara Helena Klaver, was een Nederlands romanschrijfster en vertaler. 

Willem Andriessen

5 Willem Andriessen was a Dutch pianist and composer. His compositional output was small due to the demands of performance and teaching, but he was nonetheless awarded a number of compositional prizes...

Haakon VII

5 Haakon VII was King of Norway from November 1905 until his death in September 1957.                 

John Coltrane

5 John William Coltrane was an African-American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music.

Menso Alting

5 Menso Alting was a Dutch Reformed preacher and reformer.                                           

Lidwina

5 Lidwina (1380–1433) was a Dutch mystic who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church. She is the patroness saint of the town of Schiedam, of chronic pain, and of ice skating.

Michelangelo

5 Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his...

Bertha van Heukelom

5 Bertha van Heukelom, was a Dutch noble, the legendary heroine of the Siege of IJsselstein Castle in 1296. She was the daughter of Otto I van Arkel lord of Heukelom and married around 1280 to...

John I, Duke of Brabant

5 John I, also called John the Victorious was Duke of Brabant (1267–1294), Lothier and Limburg (1288–1294). During the 13th century, John I was venerated as a folk hero. He has been painted as the...

Merijntje Gijzen

5 Merijntje Gijzen is de hoofdfiguur uit een serie streekromans van de Brabantse schrijver A.M. de Jong. De Jong verwerkte veel eigen jeugdherinneringen in het verhaal rond Merijntje Gijzen. In totaal...

Pope Pius X

5 Pope Pius X was head of the Catholic Church from 4 August 1903 to his death in August 1914. Pius X is known for vigorously opposing modernist interpretations of Catholic doctrine, and for promoting...

Felix Rutten

5 Felix Jean Joseph Hubert (Felix) Rutten was een Limburgse schrijver en dichter. Hij publiceerde zowel in het Nederlands als in het Sittards dialect. Hij stierf op dezelfde dag als zijn grote vriend,...

Rogier van Otterloo

5 Willem Rogier van Otterloo was a Dutch composer and conductor.                                     

Hella Haasse

5 Hélène "Hella" Serafia Haasse was a Dutch writer, often referred to as the "Grande Dame" of Dutch literature, and whose novel Oeroeg (1948) was a staple for generations of Dutch schoolchildren. Her...

Menno Simons

5 Menno Simons was a Roman Catholic priest from the Friesland region of the Low Countries who was excommunicated from the Catholic Church and became an influential Anabaptist religious leader. Simons...

Jo Smeets

4 Jozef Gerard (Jo) Smeets was een Nederlands burgemeester en politicus van de KVP en later het CDA. 

Trix Terwindt

4 Beatrice Wilhelmina Marie Albertina (Trix) Terwindt was een Nederlands verzetsstrijdster en geheim agente voor de Britse inlichtingendienst tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Zij was een van de agenten...

Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer

4 Jonkheer Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer was a Dutch nobleman and statesman, primarily noted for being the last colonial Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, now...

Ubbo Emmius

4 Ubbo Emmius was a German historian and geographer.                                                 

Regnier de Graaf

4 Regnier de Graaf, original Dutch spelling Reinier de Graaf, or Latinized Reijnerus de Graeff, was a Dutch physician, physiologist and anatomist who made key discoveries in reproductive biology. He...

Gerard I, Count of Guelders

4 Gerard I, Count of Guelders was Count of Guelders. He was the son of Theodoric of Wassenberg.       

Willem van Otterloo

4 Jan Willem van Otterloo was a Dutch conductor, cellist and composer.                               

Gerard Brandt

4 Gerard Brandt was a Dutch preacher, playwright, poet, church historian, biographer and naval historian. A well-known writer in his own time, his works include a Life of Michiel de Ruyter and a...

Wessel Gansfort

4 Wessel Harmensz Gansfort was a theologian and early humanist of the northern Low Countries. Many variations of his last name are seen and he is sometimes incorrectly called Johan Wessel.

Cornelis Jol

4 Cornelis Corneliszoon Jol, nicknamed Houtebeen ("pegleg"), was a 17th-century Dutch corsair and admiral in the Dutch West India Company during the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Dutch...

Jan Stuyt

4 Jan Stuyt was a Dutch architect.                                                                   

Maria van Oosterwijck

4 Maria van Oosterwijck, also spelled Oosterwyck, (1630–1693) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, specializing in richly detailed flower paintings and other still lifes.

Van Kinschot

4 Van Kinschot is een uit Turnhout afkomstig geslacht waarvan leden sinds 1848 tot de Nederlandse adel behoren.

Gerda Brautigam

4 Gerarda (Gerda) Brautigam was een Nederlands journaliste en politica. Van 1963 tot 1971 was ze namens de Partij van de Arbeid lid van de Tweede Kamer. Tevens was ze werkzaam als redacteur bij het...

Boris Pasternak

4 Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator.       

Willem van Duvenvoorde

4 Willem van Duvenvoorde or van Duvoorde (1290–1353), also known as Willem Snikkerieme, was a 14th-century nobleman and financier who served as a financial and political adviser to four successive...

Chris Lebeau

4 Joris Johannes Christiaan (Chris) Lebeau was een Nederlands veelzijdig ontwerper, kunstschilder, verzetsstrijder en anarchist.

Harm Tiesing

4 Harm Tiesing was een Drents volksschrijver. In Borger staat sinds 1976 een standbeeld van Harm Tiesing van de hand van Geert Santing.

Maartje Offers

4 Maartje Offers was a Dutch contralto classical singer.                                             

Reina Prinsen Geerligs

4 Reina Prinsen Geerligs was a member of the Dutch Resistance during World War II. After the war the literary Reina Prinsen Geerligs Award was created in her memory.

Tuyll

4 Tuyll is the name of a noble Dutch family, with familial and historical links to England, whose full name is Van Tuyll van Serooskerken. Several knights, members of various courts, literary figures,...

Heintje Davids

4 Hendrika David was een Nederlandse variétéartieste die vanaf 1907 tot aan haar dood onder de naam Henriëtte Davids carrière maakte als zangeres en bijdehante grappenmaakster. Ze was het bekendst...

Anna de Waal

4 Anna de Waal, was a Dutch politician. She was state secretary of education in 1953–1957. De Waal was the first female government secretary or minister in the Netherlands.

Mulier (geslacht)

4 Mulier is een geslacht van Franse oorsprong waarvan leden zich in de eerste helft van de 18e eeuw in Nederland vestigden en tot het patriciaat gingen behoren. De familie werd in 1917 opgenomen in het...

Prince Pieter-Christiaan of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven

4 Prince Pieter-Christiaan Michiel of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven, is the third son of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and Pieter van Vollenhoven.

Anthon van der Horst

4 Anthon van der Horst was een Nederlands organist, dirigent en componist. Hij werd vooral bekend door zijn werk voor de Nederlandse Bachvereniging en de uitvoering van de Matthäus-Passion in Naarden....

Lancelot

4 Lancelot du Lac, also written as Launcelot and other variants, is a character in some versions of Arthurian legend where he is typically depicted as King Arthur's close companion and one of the...

Albertus Magnus

4 Albertus Magnus, also known as Saint Albert the Great, Albert of Swabia or Albert of Cologne, was a German Dominican friar, philosopher, scientist, and bishop, considered one of the greatest medieval...

John Calvin

4 John Calvin was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called...

Vitruvius

4 Vitruvius was a Roman architect and engineer during the 1st century BC, known for his multi-volume work titled De architectura. As the only treatise on architecture to survive from antiquity, it has...

Confucius

4 Confucius, born Kong Qiu (孔丘), was a Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages, as well as the first teacher in China to...

Andrea Palladio

4 Andrea Palladio was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily Vitruvius, is widely considered to be one of the...

Kees van Baaren

4 Kees van Baaren was a Dutch composer and teacher.                                                   

Philippus Rovenius

4 Philippus Rovenius was apostolic vicar of the Dutch Mission from 1614 to 1651.                     

Duchy of Guelders

4 The Duchy of Guelders is a historical duchy, previously county, of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the Low Countries.

Thomas Aquinas

4 Thomas Aquinas was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, an influential philosopher and theologian, and a jurist in the tradition of scholasticism from the county of Aquino in the Kingdom of Sicily.

Voltaire

4 François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of...

Pedro Álvares Cabral

4 Pedro Álvares Cabral was a Portuguese nobleman, military commander, navigator and explorer regarded as the European discoverer of Brazil. He was the first recorded human in history to ever be on four...

Bernardus IJzerdraat

4 Bernardus IJzerdraat was a Dutch resistance fighter in the Second World War.                       

Willem Royaards

4 Dr. Willem Cornelis Royaards was een Nederlands acteur, regisseur en toneelleider.                 

Lien Gisolf

4 Carolina Anna "Lien" Gisolf was a Dutch high jumper. She won a silver medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics and finished fourth in 1932.

J. C. Bloem

4 Jakobus Cornelis (Jacques) Bloem was a Dutch poet and essayist. Between 1921 and 1958 he published fourteen volumes of poetry. In 1949 he won the Constantijn Huygensprijs, one of the country's...

Reinier Cornelis Bakhuizen van den Brink

4 Reinier Cornelis Bakhuizen van den Brink was in zijn tijd een van de invloedrijkste intellectuelen in Nederland. Als literatuurcriticus, filosoof en historicus wierp hij zich op voor de moderne,...

Jacobus van Looy

4 Jacobus (Jac) van Looy was a Dutch painter and writer.                                             

Justus van Maurik

4 Justus van Maurik, was a Dutch author and cigar maker. He was the grandson of Justus van Maurik Sr. 

Theo Bunjes

4 Pieter Theodorus (Theo) Bunjes was een Nederlands politicus van de CHU en later het CDA.           

Hans Kolfschoten

4 Henri Anthony Melchior Tieleman "Hans" Kolfschoten was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).

Catharine van Tussenbroek

4 Catharine van Tussenbroek was a Dutch physician and feminist. She was the second woman to qualify as a physician in the Netherlands and the first physician to confirm evidence of the ovarian type of...

Emilie Knappert

4 Emilie Knappert (1860–1952) was a Dutch social worker who founded several important social work organizations in the Netherlands, including the Leiden Volkshuis, and was the director of the Amsterdam...

Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo

4 Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo was a popular Roman general, brother-in-law of the emperor Caligula and father-in-law of Domitian. The emperor Nero, highly fearful of Corbulo's reputation, ordered him to...

Herman Coster

4 Hermanus 'Herman' Jacobus Coster was a Dutch lawyer and State Attorney of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek.

Anton Koolhaas

4 Anthonie "Anton" Koolhaas was a Dutch journalist, novelist, and scenario writer.                   

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

4 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the...

Marianne Philips

4 Marianne Philips was a Dutch writer and politician. In 1919, she became one of the first female municipal council members of the Netherlands. Philips wrote psychological novels. Philips survived...

Molière

4 Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature. His extant...

Henriëtte Ronner-Knip

4 Henriëtte Ronner-Knip was a Dutch-Belgian artist chiefly in the Romantic style who is best known for her animal paintings; especially cats.

Herman Brood

4 Hermanus "Herman" Brood was a Dutch musician, painter, actor and poet. As a musician he achieved artistic and commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, and was called "the greatest and only Dutch...

Adriaan Kluit

4 Adriaan Kluit was a Dutch scholar, important in Dutch linguistics. He was born in Dordrecht. He was rector of the Latin school in Alkmaar and Middelburg. In 1779 he became the professor of history at...

Ella Fitzgerald

4 Ella Jane Fitzgerald was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella". She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction,...

Friedrich Engels

4 Friedrich Engels was a German philosopher, political theorist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He was also a businessman and Karl Marx's closest friend and collaborator.

Aaltje Noordewier–Reddingius

4 Aaltje Noordewier–Reddingius was a Dutch classical soprano who had an active performance career in the concert repertoire from 1888 through the 1930s. She was also a celebrated voice teacher.

Stan Kenton

4 Stanley Newcomb Kenton was an American popular music and jazz artist. As a pianist, composer, arranger and band leader, he led an innovative and influential jazz orchestra for almost four decades....

Nico Engelschman

4 Nico (Niek) Engelschman was een Nederlandse acteur, homo-activist en Nederlandse verzetsstrijder tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Dirk Hartog

4 Dirk Hartog was a 17th-century Dutch sailor and explorer. Dirk Hartog's expedition was the second European group to land in Australia and the first to leave behind an artefact to record his visit,...

Jacob van Oudenhoven

4 Jacob van Oudenhoven was een Nederlands gereformeerd predikant en historicus. Hij behoorde tot de stroming van de Nadere Reformatie.

Pieter de Swart

4 Pieter de Swart was een Nederlands architect uit de 18e eeuw.                                       

Dirk I, Count of Holland

4 Dirk I was count of West Frisia, later known as the County of Holland. He is thought to have been in office from c. 896 to c. 928 or 939.

Philip IV of France

4 Philip IV, called Philip the Fair, was King of France from 1285 to 1314. By virtue of his marriage with Joan I of Navarre, he was also King of Navarre as Philip I from 1284 to 1305, as well as Count...

Ignatius of Loyola

4 Ignatius of Loyola, venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Spanish Catholic priest and theologian, who, with six companions, founded the religious order of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), and...

Taets van Amerongen

4 Taets van Amerongen is een oud adellijk, Stichts geslacht waarvan leden sinds 1814 tot de Nederlandse adel behoren.

Geert van Wou

4 Geert van Wou was a well-known Dutch bellfounder. He is best known today for the Maria Gloriosa (1497) of Erfurt Cathedral. The son of a bellfounder, he is considered one of the most important...

Pieter Bor

4 Pieter Bor, or Pieter Christiaensz Bor (1559-1635) was a Dutch Golden Age writer and historian. His portrait was painted by Frans Hals in 1634, and it was engraved for his book in 1637.

Wil Huygen

4 Willibrord Joseph Huygen was a Dutch book author. He is best known for the picture books on gnomes, illustrated by Rien Poortvliet.

Anna Dresden-Polak

4 Anna "Ans" Dresden-Polak was a Jewish Dutch gymnast.                                               

Otto Eerelman

4 Otto Eerelman was a Dutch painter; best known for his depictions of dogs and horses. He was also a court painter and did several portraits of Wilhelmina, as Princess and Queen.

Petronella Moens

4 Petronella Moens was a blind Dutch writer, editor, and feminist. She managed a paper in 1788–1797, in which she spoke for political issues such as slavery and women suffrage.

Agatha Christie

4 Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives...

Pieter Pauw

4 Pieter Pauw, was a Dutch botanist and anatomist. He was a student of Hieronymus Fabricius. He was the first Anatomy Professor at University of Leiden.

Pope Pius XII

4 Pope Pius XII was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2 March 1939 until his death in October 1958. Before his election to the papacy, he served as secretary of...

Hippocrates

4 Hippocrates of Kos, also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician of the classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is traditionally...

Willy Sluiter

4 Jan Willem "Willy" Sluiter was a Dutch painter. He was best known for his paintings of Dutch villages and its dwellers, and also did portraits of members of Dutch high society. His work was part of...

Waling Dykstra

4 Waling Gerrits Dykstra of Dijkstra was een Fries schrijver, dichter en voordrachtskunstenaar.       

Anton Pieck

4 Anton Franciscus Pieck was a Dutch painter, artist and graphic artist. His works are noted for their nostalgic or fairy tale-like character and are widely popular, appearing regularly on cards and...

Prince Floris of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven

4 Prince Floris Frederik Martijn of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven is the fourth and youngest son of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and Pieter van Vollenhoven.

Indira Gandhi

4 Indira Gandhi was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984. She was India's first and, to date, only...

Mimi Boesnach

4 Mimi Boesnach, pseudoniem van Maria Alida Pieters, was een Nederlandse actrice en zangeres. Haar carrière overspande meer dan zestig jaar. Ze won verschillende toneelprijzen.

Annie van Ees

4 Johanna Martina (Annie) van Ees was een Nederlandse filmactrice. Door haar huwelijk met toneelleider Cor van der Lugt Melsert stond ze ook bekend als Annie van der Lugt Melsert-Van Ees.

Mark the Evangelist

4 Mark the Evangelist also known as John Mark or Saint Mark, is the person who is traditionally ascribed to be the author of the Gospel of Mark. Modern Bible scholars have concluded that the Gospel of...

Anton Philips

4 Anton Frederik Philips co-founded Royal Philips Electronics N.V. in 1912 with his older brother Gerard Philips in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. His father and Gerard had founded the Philips Company in...

Van Sasse van Ysselt

4 Van Sasse van Ysselt is een geslacht waarvan leden sinds 1814 tot de Nederlandse adel behoren.     

Kees Boeke

4 Cornelis "Kees" Boeke was a Dutch reformist educator, Quaker missionary and pacifist. He is best known for his popular essay/book Cosmic View (1957) which presents a seminal view of the universe,...

Gemma Frisius

4 Gemma Frisius was a Dutch physician, mathematician, cartographer, philosopher, and instrument maker. He created important globes, improved the mathematical instruments of his day and applied...

Adrie de Graaf

4 Adriaan Cornelis (Adrie) de Graaf was een Nederlandse verzetsstrijder in West-Friesland. De Graaf overleed op 42-jarige leeftijd. De A.C. de Graafweg (N241) is vanwege zijn verdiensten in het verzet...

Catharina Elderink

4 Catharina (Cato) Elderink was een Nederlandse schrijfster en dichteres in de Twentse streektaal.   

Peter Donders

4 Petrus Norbertus Donders was a Dutch Roman Catholic priest and member of the Redemptorist Congregation. He served in various missions in the Dutch colony of Surinam. He started working in the capital...

Demeter

4 In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Demeter is the Olympian goddess of the harvest and agriculture, presiding over crops, grains, food, and the fertility of the earth. Although Demeter is mostly...

Pieter Nuyts

4 Pieter Nuyts or Nuijts was a Dutch explorer, diplomat and politician.                               

Romulus and Remus

4 In Roman mythology, Romulus and Remus are twin brothers whose story tells of the events that led to the founding of the city of Rome and the Roman Kingdom by Romulus, following his fratricide of...

Romulus

4 Romulus was the legendary founder and first king of Rome. Various traditions attribute the establishment of many of Rome's oldest legal, political, religious, and social institutions to Romulus and...

John IV of Glymes

4 John IV of Glymes, 2nd Marquess of Berghes (1528–1567), Grand Huntsman of Brabant, was a noble from the Low Countries.

Nannie van Wehl

4 Susanna Jacoba Adriana Lugten-Reys, pseudoniem Nannie van Wehl, was Nederlandse onderwijzeres, jeugdboekenschrijfster en publiciste.

William I, Duke of Bavaria

4 William I, Duke of Bavaria-Straubing, was the second son of Emperor Louis IV and Margaret II of Hainaut. He was also known as William V, Count of Holland, as William III, Count of Hainaut and as...

Karel van de Woestijne

4 Carolus Petrus Eduardus Maria "Karel" van de Woestijne was a Flemish writer and brother of the painter Gustave van de Woestijne. He went to highschool at the Koninklijk Athenaeum at the Ottogracht in...

Karel Lotsy

4 Karel Johannes Julianus Lotsij, bekend onder de naam Lotsy was een Nederlandse sportbestuurder.     

Søren Kierkegaard

4 Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical texts on...

Reginald III, Duke of Guelders

4 Reginald III was Duke of Guelders and Count of Zutphen from 1343 to 1361, and again in 1371. He was the son of Reginald II of Guelders and of Eleanor of Woodstock, daughter of Edward II of England.

Saint Remigius

4 Remigius was the Bishop of Reims and "Apostle of the Franks". On 25 December 496, he baptised Clovis I, King of the Franks. The baptism, leading to about 3000 additional converts, was an important...

Harmen Sytstra

4 Harmen Sytses Sytstra wie in Fryske skriuwer en skoalmaster.                                       

Gysbert Japiks

4 Gysbert Japiks Holckema, better known as simply Gysbert Japiks (1603–1666), was a West Frisian writer, poet, schoolmaster, and cantor.

Van Citters

4 Van Citters is een regentenfamilie waarvan telgen gedurende eeuwen bestuurlijke functies vervulden in met name de stad Middelburg en de provincie Zeeland. Enkele leden van de familie hadden een...

Amandus

4 Amandus, commonly called Saint Amand, was a bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht and one of the catholic missionaries of Flanders. He is venerated as a saint, particularly in France and Belgium.

Marie Baron

4 Mietje "Marie" Baron was a Dutch swimmer and diver who competed at the 1924 and 1928 Olympics. In 1924 she was sixth in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay. She was disqualified in the first round of the...

Agnes of Rome

4 Agnes of Rome is a virgin martyr, venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, Oriental Orthodox Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, as well as the Anglican Communion and Lutheran Churches. She...

Henri Van der Noot

4 Henri van der Noot, in Dutch Hendrik van der Noot, and popularly called Heintje van der Noot or Vader Heintje, was a jurist, lawyer and politician from Brabant. He was one of the main figures of the...

James Prescott Joule

4 James Prescott Joule was an English physicist, mathematician and brewer, born in Salford, Lancashire. Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work. This led to...

Pierre-Lambert Goossens

4 Pierre-Lambert Goossens was a Belgian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Mechelen from 1884 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1889.

Herman Kruyder

4 Herman Kruyder (1881–1935) was a Dutch painter.                                                     

Vincent of Lérins

4 Vincent of Lérins was a Gallic monk and author of early Christian writings. One example was the Commonitorium, c. 434, which offers guidance in the orthodox teaching of Christianity. Suspected of...

René of Chalon

4 René of Chalon, also known as Renatus of Chalon, was a Prince of Orange and stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht and Gelre.

Jan Willem Berix

4 Jan Willem Berix, in het verzet Giel genoemd was een Nederlandse verzetsstrijder tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Boudewijn Büch

4 Boudewijn Maria Ignatius Büch was a Dutch writer, poet and television presenter.                   

Lambert van der Burch

3 Lambert van der Burch (1542–1617) was a clergyman and historian from the Habsburg Netherlands.     

Théophile de Bock

3 Théophile Emile Achille de Bock was a Dutch painter belonging to the Hague School. Although many denigrate De Bock's work as too gray and too sketchy, Hague School champions love his work. Even Van...

Alexine Tinne

3 Alexandrine "Alexine" Pieternella Françoise Tinne was a Dutch explorer in Africa who was the first European woman to attempt to cross the Sahara. She was an early photographer.

Anton de Kom

3 Cornelis Gerhard Anton de Kom was a Surinamese resistance fighter and anti-colonialist author. He was arrested in Surinam and the protest against his arrest resulted in two deaths. De Kom was...

Cornelis Schuyt

3 Cornelis Floriszoon Schuyt was a Dutch organist and Renaissance composer.                           

George Washington

3 George Washington was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Second Continental...

Johan Thorn Prikker

3 Johan Thorn Prikker was a Dutch artist who worked in Germany after 1904. His activities were very eclectic, including architecture, lithography, furniture, stained-glass windows, mosaics, tapestries...

Peter the Great

3 Peter I, commonly known as Peter the Great, was Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia from 1721 until his death in 1725. He reigned jointly with his half-brother Ivan V...

Anthony the Great

3 Anthony the Great was a Christian monk from Egypt, revered since his death as a saint. He is distinguished from other saints named Anthony, such as Anthony of Padua, by various epithets: Anthony of...

Samuel Esmeijer

3 Samuel Esmeijer, was een Nederlandse verzetsstrijder tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.               

Amerigo Vespucci

3 Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence, from whose name the term "America" is derived.

Catullus

3 Gaius Valerius Catullus, known as Catullus, was a Latin neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic. His surviving works remain widely read due to their popularity as teaching tools and because of their...

Emile Seipgens

3 Emile Anton Hubert Seipgens was een Nederlandse schrijver van korte verhalen en toneelstukken. Doorgaans schreef hij over Limburg, de provincie waar hij opgroeide.

Zeno of Elea

3 Zeno of Elea was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He was a student of Parmenides and one of the Eleatics. Born in Elea, Zeno defended his instructor's belief in monism, the idea that only one single...

Odulf

3 Odwulf of Evesham was a ninth century saint, monk and Frisian missionary.                           

Arthur Schopenhauer

3 Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher. He is known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, which characterizes the phenomenal world as the manifestation of a blind and...

Gustave Van de Woestijne

3 Gustave Van de Woestijne was a Belgian expressionist painter.                                       

Gerhard Noodt

3 Gerhard Noodt was a Dutch jurist, born in Nijmegen. Educated at Leiden, Utrecht, and Franeker, he became a professor of law at the Nijmegen and the Franeker. As a writer on jurisprudence he acquired...

Hendrik Mande

3 Hendrik Mande was a Dutch mystical writer, an early member of the Brethren of the Common Life, and an Augustinian Canon.

Henri Vullinghs

3 Henri Vullinghs was pastoor in Grashoek en Grubbenvorst in Limburg en Nederlands verzetsstrijder tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Hij was een van de grootste organisatoren van pilotenhulp en onderduik...

Thomas de Keyser

3 Thomas de Keyser was a Dutch portrait painter and a dealer in Belgium bluestone and stone mason. He was the most in-demand portrait painter in the Netherlands until the 1630s, when Rembrandt eclipsed...

Lambertus Hortensius

3 Lambertus Hortensius was een Nederlandse geschiedschrijver en humanist. Hij studeerde in Utrecht en aan de universiteit van Leuven. In 1527 kreeg hij de taak geschiedenisles te geven aan de...

Dante Alighieri

3 Dante Alighieri, most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa...

Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau

3 Louise Henriette of Nassau was a Countess of Nassau, granddaughter of William I, Prince of Orange, "William the Silent", and an Electress of Brandenburg.

Alexandre Dumas

3 Alexandre Dumas, also known as Alexandre Dumas père, was a French novelist and playwright.         

Jan Nieuwenhuyzen

3 Jan Nieuwenhuijzen was a Dutch Mennonite teacher and minister.                                     

Herman Collenius

3 Herman Collenius was een Groninger portret- en historieschilder. Hij maakte portretten en doeken van historische gebeurtenissen en was daarnaast ook actief als interieurschilder. Zijn bekendste werk...

Theo Koomen

3 Theodorus Wilhelmus (Theo) Koomen was een Nederlands sportverslaggever.                             

Joris Ivens

3 Georg Henri Anton "Joris" Ivens was a Dutch documentary filmmaker. Among the notable films he directed or co-directed are A Tale of the Wind, The Spanish Earth, Rain, ...A Valparaiso, Misère au...

David of Burgundy

3 David of Burgundy was the bishop of Utrecht from 1456. The illegitimate son of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, David was made bishop by his father in an attempt to enforce more centralised...

Vos de Wael

3 De Wael is een geslacht van Vlaamse oorsprong waarvan leden sinds 1822 tot de Belgische adel behoren en waarvan een niet geadelde tak in 1933 en in 1984 werd opgenomen in het Nederland's Patriciaat.

Plechelm

3 Plechelm, O.S.B., is honoured in both the Catholic Church and the Old Catholic Church as a patron saint of the Netherlands. He is also venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Gerrit Kastein

3 Dr. Gerrit Willem Kastein was a Dutch communist, neurologist and resistance fighter and leader during World War II.

Willem Wilmink

3 Willem Wilmink was a Dutch poet and writer. He was best known for the large number of songs he wrote for popular children programs and his accessible, straightforward poetry.

Han Stijkel

3 Johan Aaldrik (Han) Stijkel was an academic and a Dutch Resistance activist.                       

Jan van Hout (stadssecretaris)

3 Jan van Hout was stadssecretaris van Leiden, secretaris van de universiteit, Nederlandstalig dichter en vernieuwer.

Anthonie van der Heim

3 Anthonie van der Heim was Grand Pensionary of Holland from 4 April 1737 to 17 July 1746.           

Charles de Gaulle

3 Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French army officer and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French...

Kurt Weill

3 Kurt Julian Weill was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best...

Arturo Toscanini

3 Arturo Toscanini was an Italian conductor. He was one of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of the late 19th and early 20th century, renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear...

Ada, Countess of Holland

3 Ada was Countess regnant of Holland between 1203 and 1207, ruling jointly with her husband, Louis II of Loon. She was deposed and exiled by her paternal uncle, William I.

Maria van Reigersberch

3 Maria van Reigersberch was the wife of Hugo Grotius, who helped him escape in 1621 from Loevestein Castle during his incarceration there after his 1619 trial.

Pierre de Coubertin

3 Charles Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, also known as Pierre de Coubertin and Baron de Coubertin, was a French educator and historian, co-founder of the International Olympic Committee, and its...

Helena, mother of Constantine I

3 Flavia Julia Helena, also known as Helena of Constantinople and in Christianity as Saint Helena, was an Augusta of the Roman Empire and mother of Emperor Constantine the Great. She was born in the...

Pál Maléter

3 Pál Maléter was the military leader of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.                               

Schimmelpenninck family

3 Schimmelpenninck is the name of the family belonging to the Dutch and German nobility, whose members played important political and military roles in the history of the Netherlands, Prussia and later...

Adam Frans van der Meulen

3 Adam Frans van der Meulen or Adam-François van der Meulen was a Flemish painter and draughtsman who was particularly known for his scenes of military campaigns and conquests. Van der Meulen also...

Gezina van der Molen

3 Gezina Hermina Johanna van der Molen was a Dutch legal scholar and resistance fighter during the Second World War. From 1924 to 1929, she studied law at the Free University of Amsterdam — the first...

Margaretha Roosenboom

3 Margaretha Roosenboom, was a 19th-century Dutch flower painter.                                     

Van Haersolte

3 Van Haersolte is een oud adellijk geslacht uit Overijssel waarvan leden sinds 1814 behoren tot de Nederlandse adel van het koninkrijk.

Jan III van Diest

3 John or Jan van Diest served as Bishop of Utrecht from 1322 until his death in 1340.               

Laurens Janszoon Coster

3 Laurens Janszoon Coster, or Laurens Jansz Koster, is the purported inventor of a printing press from Haarlem. He allegedly invented printing simultaneously with Johannes Gutenberg and was regarded by...

Rudolf Steiner

3 Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a...

Van Raesfelt

3 Van Raesfelt is een oud-adellijk geslacht uit Gemen waarvan een lid sinds 1814 tot de Nederlandse adel behoort en dat met hem in 1828 uitstierf.

Eduard Verkade

3 Eduard Rutger (Eduard) Verkade was een Nederlands toneelleider, acteur en regisseur.               

Terence

3 Publius Terentius Afer, better known in English as Terence, was a playwright during the Roman Republic. He was the author of six comedies based on Greek originals by Menander or Apollodorus of...

Herodotus

3 Herodotus was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He is known for having written...

John the Baptist

3 John the Baptist was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early 1st century AD. He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy, John the Immerser in...

Heer Halewijn

3 Heer Halewijn is a Dutch folk tale which survives in folk ballad. Although the first printed version of the song only appears in an anthology published in 1848, the ballad itself is first written...

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

3 Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian sculptor and architect. While a major figure in the world of architecture, he was more prominently the leading sculptor of his age, credited with creating the...

Diogenes

3 Diogenes, also known as Diogenes the Cynic or Diogenes of Sinope, was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynicism. He was born in Sinope, an Ionian colony on the Black Sea coast of...

J. J. P. Oud

3 Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud was a Dutch architect. His fame began as a follower of the De Stijl movement.

Johannes Bernardus van Loghem

3 Johannes Bernardus (Han) van Loghem (1881–1940) was a Dutch architect, furniture designer and town planner.

Hendrik Verhees

3 Hendrik Verhees was een Nederlands politicus, architect, tekenaar, aquarellist, cartograaf en aannemer.

M. C. Escher

3 Maurits Cornelis Escher was a Dutch graphic artist who made woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints, many of which were inspired by mathematics. Despite wide popular interest, for most of his life...

Paul Schuitema

3 Geert Paul Hendrikus Schuitema was a Dutch graphic artist. He also designed furniture and expositions and worked as photographer, film director, and painter, and as a teacher of 'publicity design' at...

Toon Dupuis

3 Antonius Stanislaus Nicolaas Ludovicus Dupuis was a Dutch sculptor and medallist of Belgian origin. He's the son of the sculptor Louis Dupuis (1842-1921).

Fré Cohen

3 Frederika Sophia "Fré" Cohen was a Dutch artist and graphic designer.                               

Van Asch van Wijck

3 Van Asch van Wijck is een Nederlands geslacht waarvan leden sinds 1833 tot de Nederlandse adel behoren.

Calypso (mythology)

3 In Greek mythology, Calypso was a nymph who lived on the island of Ogygia, where, according to Homer's Odyssey, she detained Odysseus for seven years. She promised Odysseus immortality if he would...

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

3 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher and one of the most influential figures of German idealism and 19th-century philosophy. His influence extends across the entire range of...

Ptolemy

3 Claudius Ptolemy was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later...

Joan Maetsuycker

3 Joan Maetsuycker was the Governor of Zeylan during the Dutch period in Ceylon, and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1653 to 1678.

Isaac van Goudoever

3 Isaac van Goudoever was a colonel of the Amsterdam schutterij who in April 1787 played a leading role in the conversion of the Amsterdam vroedschap to the cause of the Patriot faction in the...

Josine Reuling

3 Josine Reuling was the pen name of the Dutch writer, Gerardina Anna Reuling. Known for her psychological novels, her characters called into question conservative societal behaviors. Her novel Terug...

Ietje Kooistra

3 Ietje (Ytsje) Kooistra was directrice en pedagoge aan de Rijkskweekschool voor Onderwijzeressen. Ze was de dochter van Folkert Kooistra en Ymkjen Pieters Keuning.

William of Nassau (1601–1627)

3 Willem van Nassau, Lord of De Lek was a Dutch soldier from 1620 until 1627. He was the illegitimate son of stadholder Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange and his mistress Margaretha van...

Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange

3 Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange was the second child and eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain and his consort Caroline of Ansbach. She was the wife of William IV, Prince of...

Zacharias Janssen

3 Zacharias Janssen; also Zacharias Jansen or Sacharias Jansen; 1585 – pre-1632) was a Dutch spectacle-maker who lived most of his life in Middelburg. He is associated with the invention of the first...

Johannes de Beke

3 Johannes de Beke was a 14th-century Dutch priest and historian. He was probably a monk of Egmond Abbey. In 1346, he wrote a Latin Chronographia of the County of Holland and Diocese of Utrecht from...

Samuel Pieter Bentinck

3 Samuel Pieter (Sam) baron Bentinck was een Nederlands burgemeester.                                 

Peter Paludanus

3 Peter Paludanus was a French theologian and archbishop.                                             

Josephus Jacobus van Geen

3 Josephus Jacobus baron van Geen was een Nederlands generaal, ridder en officier in het Legioen van Eer en ridder en commandeur in de Militaire Willems-Orde.

Jan Houtman

3 Jan Houtman was een Nederlands verzetsstrijder, die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog werd vermoord.   

Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig

3 Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig was a Dutch painter and Theosophist. He was one of the first artists who introduced luminism to the Netherlands. Hart was his mother's maiden name. He adopted it in 1884 when...

Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk

3 Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk was a Dutch jurist and politician. He was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1888 until 1893.

Wim van Est

3 Willem "Wim" van Est was a Dutch racing cyclist. He is best known for being the first Dutch cyclist to wear the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification in the Tour de France of 1951,...

Mari Andriessen

3 Mari Silvester Andriessen was a Dutch sculptor, best known for his work memorializing victims of the Holocaust. Born and died in Haarlem, Andriessen is buried at the RK Begraafplaats Sint Adelberts...

Anna van Gogh-Kaulbach

3 Anna Maria van Gogh-Kaulbach was a Dutch writer and translator. She published a number of works under the pen names Wilhelmina Reynbach, Erna, Mac Peter and Wata.

Jacob Geel

3 Jacob Geel was a Dutch scholar, critic and librarian.                                               

Frederik Ruysch

3 Frederik Ruysch was a Dutch botanist and anatomist. He is known for developing techniques for preserving anatomical specimens, which he used to create dioramas or scenes incorporating human parts....

Johann Weyer

3 Johannes Wier was a Dutch physician who was among the first to publish a thorough treatise against the trials and persecution of people accused of witchcraft. His most influential work is De...

Heinrich Böll

3 Heinrich Theodor Böll was a German writer. Considered one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers, Böll is a recipient of the Georg Büchner Prize (1967) and the Nobel Prize for Literature...

Alex Verrijn Stuart

3 Adolf Alexander Verrijn Stuart was a Dutch computer scientist, and the first Professor in computer science at the Leiden University from 1969 tot 1991.

Gerardus Johannes Berenschot

3 Lieutenant General Gerardus Johannes Berenschot was Commander-in-Chief of the Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger. An Indo – as Eurasians of Indonesian and Dutch descent – Berenschot was the son of a...

Lucie van Dam van Isselt

3 Lucie van Dam van Isselt or Lucie Dam van Isselt later Lucie Ekker was a Dutch artist known for her floral paintings.

Herman Robbers

3 Herman Johan Robbers was een Nederlands romanschrijver, dichter en tijdschriftredacteur. Op 18 juli 1893 huwde hij te Amsterdam met Wilhelmina Henriëtte Liernur

Johan Braakensiek

3 Johan Coenraad Braakensiek was a Dutch painter, illustrator, caricaturist and political cartoonist. He is the grandfather of Jan van Oort.

Johannes Graadt van Roggen

3 Johannes Mattheus Graadt van Roggen was een Nederlands tekenaar, schilder en grafisch kunstenaar. Hij wordt beschouwd als een voorloper van de Bergense School. Hij wordt ook wel Job Graadt van Roggen...

Harry Mulisch

3 Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch was a Dutch writer. He wrote more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections. Mulisch's works have been translated into 38 languages so far.

Hugo Claus

3 Hugo Maurice Julien Claus was a leading Belgian author who published under his own name as well as various pseudonyms. Claus' literary contributions spanned the genres of drama, novels, and poetry;...

Jan Goeverneur

3 Jan Jacob Antonie Goeverneur, in de Groninger Volksalmanak van 1890 Jan Jacob Anthony genoemd was een Nederlandse letterkundige, dichter, (kinderboeken)schrijver en vertaler.

Nico van Suchtelen

3 Nicolaas Johannes (Nico) van Suchtelen was een Nederlands schrijver, dichter, vertaler en uitgever. 

Jan van Hoof

3 Jan Jozef Lambert van Hoof was a member of the Dutch resistance in World War II, who cooperated with Allied Forces during Operation Market Garden. He is credited with disabling explosives placed by...

Girolamo Frescobaldi

3 Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi was an Italian composer and virtuoso keyboard player. Born in the Duchy of Ferrara, he was one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late...

Evert Cornelis

3 Evert Cornelis was een Nederlandse dirigent en organist.                                           

Hendrika van Tussenbroek

3 Hendrika Cornelia van Tussenbroek was a Dutch composer and teacher who is best remembered today for her music for children.

Victor Hugo

3 Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo, sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of...

William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg

3 William of Jülich-Cleves-Berge was a Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1539–1592). William was born in and died in Düsseldorf. He was the only son of John III, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, and Maria,...

Willy den Ouden

3 Willemijntje den Ouden was a competitive swimmer from the Netherlands, who held the 100-meter freestyle world record for nearly 23 years, from 1933 to 1956.

Cornelis Anthony Fannius Scholten

3 Cornelis Anthony Fannius Scholten was een advocaat en politicus in Den Haag.                       

George Orwell

3 Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition...

Jan Mens

3 Jan Mens was een Nederlandse schrijver.                                                             

Roald Dahl

3 Roald Dahl was a British author of popular children's literature and short stories, a poet, screenwriter and a wartime fighter ace. His books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. Dahl...

Wessel Couzijn

3 Wessel Couzijn was een Nederlandse expressionistisch beeldhouwer. Hij heeft zich tijdens zijn carrière met vele vormen van kunst beziggehouden; van schilderen en tekenen tot beeldhouwen.

Bob Marley

3 Robert Nesta Marley was a Jamaican reggae singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Considered one of the pioneers of the genre, Marley fused elements of reggae, ska, and rocksteady in his music and was...

Jane Austen

3 Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots...

Jan Hilgers

3 Johan Willem Emile Louis Hilgers, more commonly known as Jan Hilgers or John Hilgers, was an Indo (Eurasian) aviator and one of the leading pioneers of Dutch aviation. He was the first Dutch pilot to...

Orlando di Lasso

3 Orlando di Lasso was a composer of the late Renaissance. The chief representative of the mature polyphonic style in the Franco-Flemish school, Lassus stands with William Byrd, Giovanni Pierluigi da...

Nicolaes Tulp

3 Nicolaes Tulp was a Dutch surgeon and mayor of Amsterdam. Tulp was well known for his upstanding moral character and as the subject of Rembrandt's famous painting The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes...

Michael Ophovius

3 Michael van Ophoven O.P., ook Michael Ophovius genaamd, was een Nederlands geestelijke en een bisschop van de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk.

Arnulf I, Count of Flanders

3 Arnulf I, called "the Great", was the first Count of Flanders.                                     

The Four Sons of Aymon

3 The Four Sons of Aymon, sometimes also referred to as Renaud de Montauban is a medieval tale spun around the four sons of Duke Aymon: the knight Renaud de Montauban, his brothers Guichard, Allard and...

Pieter Paulus

3 Pieter Paulus was a Dutch jurist, fiscal (prosecutor) of the Admiralty of the Maze and politician. He was one of the ideologues of the Dutch Patriot movement and is considered by many Dutch as the...

Joachimus Pieter Fockema Andreae

3 Joachimus Pieter Fockema Andreae was burgemeester van Utrecht en commissaris van de Koningin in Groningen.

Nicholas Pieck

3 Nicholas Pieck, O.F.M., "Nicolaas" or "Claes Pieck" in Dutch, was a Franciscan friar who was one of a group of Catholic clergy and lay brothers, the Martyrs of Gorkum, who were executed for refusal...

Gerard van Spaendonck

3 Gerard van Spaendonck was a Dutch painter.                                                         

Lucas Gassel

3 Lucas Gassel or Lucas van Gassel was a Flemish Renaissance painter and draughtsman known for his landscapes. He helped further develop and modernize the landscape tradition in Flanders. He also...

Saint Apollonia

3 Saint Apollonia was one of a group of virgin martyrs who suffered in Alexandria during a local uprising against the Christians prior to the persecution of Decius. According to church tradition, her...

Helena Mercier

3 Helena Mercier (1839–1910) was a Dutch social-liberal feminist, a social reformer, a writer, and one of the founders of the idea of social work in the Netherlands.

Earl Van Dorn

3 Earl Van Dorn was an American major-general who started his military career as a United States Army officer and became famous for successfully leading a defense of a Native American settlement from...

Rudyard Kipling

3 Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.

Arminius

3 Arminius was a chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe who is best known for commanding an alliance of Germanic tribes at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in AD 9, in which three Roman legions...

Anna van Ewsum

3 Anna van Ewsum was a rich Dutch noblewoman.                                                         

Bessie Smith

3 Bessie Smith was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues", she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1930s. Inducted into...

Miles Davis

3 Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a...

Henric Piccardt

3 Henric Piccardt was an ambitious Dutch lawyer who made good at the court of young king Louis XIV of France in Paris where he became a published poet in French. Returning to the Netherlands, he rose...

Galen

3 Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus, often anglicized as Galen or Galen of Pergamon, was a Roman and Greek physician, surgeon, and philosopher. Considered to be one of the most accomplished of all...

Carel Gerretson

3 Doctor Frederik Carel Gerretson was a Dutch writer, essayist, historian, and politician.           

Martin Van Buren

3 Martin Van Buren was an American lawyer, diplomat, and statesman who served as the eighth president of the United States from 1837 to 1841. A primary founder of the Democratic Party, he served as New...

Simon Hoogenboom

3 Simon Hoogenboom was een Nederlands politicus van de ARP.                                           

Nicolaas III van Putten

3 Nicolaas III van Putten was heer van Putten, veldheer van Holland (1299-1304) en het Sticht (1311). Hij komt ook wel voor als: Nikolaes, Nicolaus, Nicolaes, Clais, Claes, Clais, Niclays of Niclayse,...

Jacob van Gaasbeek

3 Jacob van Gaesbeek ook genaamd Jacob van Gaesbeke/Gaesbeeck en Jacob van Abcoude was heer (baron) van Gaasbeek, Abcoude, Putten, Strijen en Coelhorst. Tevens was hij stadhouder van Holland,...

Erik the Red

3 Erik Thorvaldsson, known as Erik the Red, was a Norse explorer, described in medieval and Icelandic saga sources as having founded the first European settlement in Greenland. Erik most likely earned...

Francisco Pizarro

3 Francisco Pizarro, Marquess of the Atabillos was a Spanish conquistador, best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.

Bartolomeu Dias

3 Bartolomeu Dias was a Portuguese mariner and explorer. In 1488, he became the first European navigator to round the southern tip of Africa and to demonstrate that the most effective southward route...

Godfried Schalcken

3 Godfried Schalcken was a Dutch artist who specialized in genre paintings and portraits. Schalcken was noted for his night scenes and mastery in reproducing the effect of candlelight. He painted in...

Lawrence Alma-Tadema

3 Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a Dutch painter who later settled in the United Kingdom, becoming the last officially recognised denizen in 1873. Born in Dronryp, the Netherlands, and trained at the...

Coba Pulskens

3 Jacoba Maria (Coba) Pulskens,, was een Tilburgse verzetsstrijder. Ze bood in de Tweede Wereldoorlog onderdak aan onderduikers: aan Joden, verzetslieden en piloten. Pulskens werd op 9 juli 1944 door...

Emanuel de Witte

3 Emanuel de Witte (1617–1692) was a Dutch perspective painter. In contrast to Pieter Jansz Saenredam, who emphasized architectural accuracy, De Witte was more concerned with the atmosphere of his...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

3 Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that...

Salvador Dalí

3 Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol, known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the...

Pieter Aertsen

3 Pieter Aertsen, called Lange Piet because of his height, was a Dutch painter in the style of Northern Mannerism. He is credited with the invention of the monumental genre scene, which combines still...

Joos van Cleve

3 Joos van Cleve was a leading painter active in Antwerp from his arrival there around 1511 until his death in 1540 or 1541. Within Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, he combines the traditional...

Willem van Enckevoirt

3 William of Enckevoirt, also spelled as Enckenvoirt was a Dutch Cardinal, bishop of Tortosa from 1524 to 1524, and bishop of Utrecht from 1529 to 1534.

Van Coeverden

3 Van Coevorden is one of the oldest aristocratic families in the Netherlands.                       

Piet Wolters

3 Pieter Abel Wolters was een Nederlands burgemeester.                                               

Willem Sluyter

3 Willem Sluyter was een Nederlandse predikant en dichter.                                           

Gerard III van Heemskerk

3 Gerard (III) van Heemskerk, Lord of Heemskerk was a leader of the Cod Alliance during the opening phases of the Hook and Cod wars

Simon van der Stel

3 Simon van der Stel was the first Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony (1691), the settlement at the Cape of Good Hope. He was interested in botany, establishing vineyards Groot and Klein Constantia, and...

Jan Gossaert

3 Jan Gossaert was a French-speaking painter from the Low Countries also known as Jan Mabuse or Jennyn van Hennegouwe (Hainaut), as he called himself when he matriculated in the Guild of Saint Luke, at...

Cornelis Kruseman

3 Cornelis Kruseman was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, etcher, lithographer, silhouettist, paper-cut artist, and art collector. His works included portraits, biblical scenes, and depictions of Italian...

Henry de Nassau, Lord Overkirk

3 Henry, Count of Nassau, Lord of Overkirk was a Dutch military general and second cousin of King William III of England. He would come to play a prominent role in the wars against Louis XIV of France,...

Lotte Stam-Beese

3 Charlotte Ida Anna "Lotte" Stam-Beese was a German-Dutch architect, photographer and urban planner who helped with the reconstruction of Rotterdam after World War II.

Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken

3 Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken was a Dutch poet and playwright. Born in Amsterdam, she began writing occasional poetry and in her early twenties had published her first tragedy. Influenced by the...

Maria Dermoût

3 Maria Dermoût was an Indo-European novelist, considered one of the greats of Dutch literature and as such an important proponent of Dutch Indies literature. In December 1958 Time magazine praised the...

Wilhelmina Bladergroen

3 Wilhelmina Johanna Bladergroen was een Nederlands hoogleraar in de orthopedagogiek.                 

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Sigrid Undset

3 Sigrid Undset was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.

Jan Altink

3 Jan Altink was a Dutch expressionist painter and cofounder of De Ploeg.                             

J.A.R. Bosma

3 Jan Antonie Reinders Bosma (Ruinerwold, 20 december 1872 - Assen, 23 december 1948 was een Nederlands burgemeester.

Trajan

3 Trajan was a Roman emperor from AD 98 to 117, the second of the Five Good Emperors of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty. He was a philanthropic ruler and a successful soldier-emperor who led the Roman...

Godfrey the Hunchback

3 Godfrey IV, known as the Hunchback, was Duke of Lower Lorraine from 1069 until his death in 1076, succeeding his father Godfrey the Bearded.

Albert Luthuli

3 Albert John Luthuli was a South African anti-apartheid activist, traditional leader, and politician who served as the President-General of the African National Congress from 1952 until his death in...

Willem Hubert Pijls

3 Willem Hubert Pijls was een Nederlandse ondernemer, politicus en bestuurder. Hij was onder meer burgemeester van Maastricht, lid van de Eerste en Tweede Kamer, voorzitter van de Kamer van Koophandel...

Jan Mostaert

3 Jan Mostaert was a Dutch Renaissance painter who is known mainly for his religious subjects and portraits. One of his most famous creations was the Landscape with an Episode from the Conquest of...

Jacobus Joännes van Deinse

3 Jacobus Joännes van Deinse wordt wel de primus inter pares genoemd onder de Twentse regionalisten van voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog vanwege zijn onderzoek en publicaties maar vooral vanwege de vele...

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

3 Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was a French officer, engineer, and physicist. He is best known as the eponymous discoverer of what is now called Coulomb's law, the description of the electrostatic force...

Lyndon B. Johnson

3 Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the...

Abraham Lincoln

3 Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman, who served as the 16th president of the United States, from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the United States...

Kornelis ter Laan

3 Kornelis ter Laan, also referred to as Kees ter Laan and Klaas ter Laan, was a Dutch politician and linguist. He published as K. ter Laan.

Robert Baelde

3 Robert Baelde was een Nederlands jurist en maatschappelijk werker die als gijzelaar werd gefusilleerd.

Lamoral, Count of Egmont

3 Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavere was a general and statesman in the Spanish Netherlands just before the start of the Eighty Years' War, whose execution helped spark the national uprising...

Willem van Konijnenburg

3 Willem Adriaan van Konijnenburg was een Nederlands beeldend kunstenaar. Hij behoorde tijdens het interbellum (1919-1939) samen met Jan Toorop en Jan Sluijters tot de nationale boegbeelden van de...

Lorenzo Perosi

3 Monsignor Lorenzo Perosi was an Italian composer of sacred music and the only member of the Giovane Scuola who did not write opera. In the late 1890s, while he was still only in his twenties, Perosi...

Altiero Spinelli

3 Altiero Spinelli was an Italian communist politician, political theorist and European federalist, referred to as one of the founding fathers of the European Union. A communist and militant...

Adonis

3 In Greek mythology, Adonis was the mortal lover of the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone, who was famous for having achieved immortality. He was widely considered to be the ideal of male beauty in...

Jan Naarding

3 Jan Naarding was een neerlandicus. Daarnaast was hij een Drentse schrijver en taalkundige.         

Erroll Garner

3 Erroll Louis Garner was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His instrumental ballad "Misty", his best-known composition, has become a jazz standard. It was...

John of Beaumont

3 John of Beaumont was a younger brother of count William III of Holland. He was the lord of Beaumont and count of Soissons by virtue of his marriage.

Van Hugenpoth

3 Van Hugenpoth is een Nederlandse, van oorsprong Duitse familie waarvan leden vanaf 1814 benoemd werden in de ridderschappen en dus tot de Nederlandse adel gingen behoren. Andere leden werden daarna...

Jeremias van Riemsdijk

3 Jeremias van Riemsdijk was a Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1775 to 1777.

William Tell

3 William Tell is a folk hero of Switzerland. According to the legend, Tell was an expert mountain climber and marksman with a crossbow who assassinated Albrecht Gessler, a tyrannical reeve of the...

Jacques Gubbels

3 J.M.W. (Jacques) Gubbels was een Nederlands politicus; eerst van de KVP en later partijloos.       

Dominique Pire

3 Dominique Pire, O.P. was a Belgian Dominican friar whose work helping refugees in post-World War II Europe saw him receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1958. Pire delivered his Nobel lecture, entitled...

Nelly Bodenheim

3 Nelly Bodenheim or Johanna Cornelia Hermana Van Bodenheim was a Dutch illustrator known for her silhouettes.

Gaius Julius Civilis

3 Gaius Julius Civilis was the leader of the Batavian rebellion against the Romans in 69 AD. His nomen shows that he was made a Roman citizen by either Augustus or Caligula.

Leendert Valstar

3 Leendert Marinus Valstar was een leidend Nederlands verzetsstrijder in de Tweede Wereldoorlog en pleegde tientallen succesvolle overvallen en was medeoprichter van de Landelijke Knokploegen.

Adriaan Metius

3 Adriaan Adriaanszoon, called Metius,, was a Dutch geometer and astronomer born in Alkmaar. The name "Metius" comes from the Dutch word meten ("measuring"), and therefore means something like...

Claude Monet

3 Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his...

Frida Katz

3 Cornelia Frida Katz, was a Dutch lawyer and Christian Historical Union politician. She was the first female member of Parliament to come from a Protestant Christian party (1922). She was also a...

Hindericus Scheepstra

3 Hindericus Scheepstra was a Dutch writer best known for his children's book series Ot en Sien (1902).

Titian

3 Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio, Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian, was an Italian (Venetian) Renaissance painter of Lombard origin, considered the most important member of the...

Thomas Ainsworth

3 Thomas Ainsworth (1795–1841) was an Englishman and the founding father of Nijverdal, a small town in the Netherlands, during the 19th century. He laid the basis for the Royal Steam Weaving Mill (KSW)...

Eduard Flipse

3 Eduard Flipse was a Dutch conductor and composer, the son of Cornelis Flipse and Geertje Kruis. He was noted as a champion of the music of Dutch composers, such as Léon Orthel. He prepared the chorus...

Adam Smith

3 Adam Smith was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the thinking of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. Seen by some as "The Father of Economics"...

Cornelis Floris de Vriendt

3 Cornelis Floris or Cornelis (II) Floris De Vriendt was a Flemish sculptor, architect, draughtsman, medallist and designer of prints and luxury. He operated a large workshop in Antwerp from which he...

Chico Mendes

3 Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, better known as Chico Mendes, was a Brazilian rubber tapper, trade union leader and environmentalist. He fought to preserve the Amazon rainforest, and advocated for the...

Louis Raemaekers

3 Louis Raemaekers was a Dutch painter, caricaturist and editorial cartoonist for the Amsterdam newspaper De Telegraaf during World War I, noted for his anti-German stance.

Hendrick van Berckenrode

3 Hendrick van Berckenrode, was a Dutch Golden Age mayor of Haarlem.                                 

Plautus

3 Titus Maccius Plautus was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre...

Willem Claesz. Heda

3 Willem Claeszoon Heda was a Dutch Golden Age artist from the city of Haarlem devoted exclusively to the painting of still life. He is known for his innovation of the late breakfast genre of still...

Emanuel Mendes da Costa

3 Emanuel Mendes da Costa was an English botanist, naturalist, philosopher, and collector of valuable notes and of manuscripts, and of anecdotes of the literati. Da Costa became infamous for embezzling...

Job (biblical figure)

3 Job is the central figure of the Book of Job in the Bible. In rabbinical literature, Job is called one of the prophets of the Gentiles. In Islam, Job is also considered a prophet.

Fritz Conijn

3 Fritz Gerhard Marie Conijn was een Nederlands verzetsstrijder tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.       

Frans Duwaer

3 Franciscus (Frans) Duwaer was directeur van een drukkerij in Amsterdam. Hij zat in het verzet tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Saint Eligius

3 Eligius, venerated as Saint Eligius, was a Frankish goldsmith, courtier, and bishop who was chief counsellor to Dagobert I and later Bishop of Noyon–Tournai. His deeds were recorded in Vita Sancti...

Quirinus

3 In Roman mythology and religion, Quirinus is an early god of the Roman state. In Augustan Rome, Quirinus was also an epithet of Janus, as Janus Quirinus.

August Vermeylen

3 August Vermeylen was a Belgian writer and literature critic. In 1893 he founded the literary journal Van Nu en Straks. He studied history at the Free University of Brussels (ULB), and became a...

Schenck van Nijdeggen

3 De familie Schenck van Nijdeggen was een adellijke familie in Blerick en bewoonde van 1569 tot 1674 het kasteel Boerlo, dat ongeveer stond op de plek waar nu het industrieterrein Groot Boller ligt.

Anna Barbara van Meerten-Schilperoort

3 Anna Barbara van Meerten-Schilperoort, was a Dutch women's rights activist.                         

Audrey Hepburn

3 Audrey Kathleen Hepburn was a British actress. Recognised as a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical...

Alphonse Olterdissen

3 Alphonse (Alfons) Olterdissen was a Dutch writer, poet and composer who wrote extensively in the Maastrichtian dialect. The final stanza of his opera Trijn de Begijn eventually became the local...

Gerard Boedijn

3 Gerard (Gerardus) Hendrik Boedijn was een Nederlands componist, wiens grote verdienste was dat hij "authentieke" literatuur schreef voor harmonie- en fanfare-orkesten. Hij publiceerde zijn werken ook...

Diederik Louis van Brakell tot den Brakell

3 Diederik Louis baron van Brakell tot den Brakell, heer van Vredestein en Over- en Nederasselt was een Nederlandse advocaat, rechter en politicus voor de Liberalen.

Jan de Beijer

3 Jan de Beijer, also given as Jan de Beyer, was a Dutch draughtsman and painter known for this drawings of towns and buildings in the present-day countries of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. In...

Tjerk Hiddes de Vries

3 Tjerk Hiddes de Vries was a naval hero and Dutch admiral from the seventeenth century. The French, who could not pronounce his name, called him Kiërkides. His name was also given as Tsjerk, Tierck or...

Duke of Brabant

3 The Duke of Brabant was the ruler of the Duchy of Brabant since 1183/1184. The title was created by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in favor of Henry I of the House of Reginar, son of...

Edith Stein

3 Edith Stein, OCD was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun. She is canonized as a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church; she is also one of...

John Franklin

3 Sir John Franklin was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. After serving in wars against Napoleonic France and the United States, he led two expeditions into the Canadian Arctic and...

Frans Frencken

3 Monseigneur Franciscus Bernardus Josephus Frencken was een rooms-katholieke geestelijke. Als priester vergaarde hij bekendheid door zijn inspanningen om het kerkelijke en sociaal-maatschappelijke...

Cornelis Gerardus Roos

3 Cornelis Gerardus Roos was de burgemeester van Lekkerkerk van 1928 tot 1938. Zijn ambtsperiode werd gekenmerkt door levendigheid en veel activiteiten. Na zijn burgemeesterschap werd hij lid van...

Bert Haanstra

3 Albert Haanstra was a Dutch director of films and documentaries. His documentary Glass (1958) won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in 1959. His feature film Fanfare (1958) was the most...

Vincent van den Heuvel

3 Vincentius Adrianus Maria (Vincent) van den Heuvel was een Nederlands fabrikant, politicus en bestuurder.

Michel de Klerk

3 Michel de Klerk was a Dutch architect. Born to a Jewish family, he was one of the founding architects of the movement Amsterdam School

Philip Houben (politicus)

3 Philippus Josephus Ignatius Maria (Philip) Houben was een Nederlands burgemeester en bestuurder. Hij was onder andere burgemeester van Maastricht.

Jules de Corte

3 Julius "Jules" de Corte was probably one of the most famous blind singer-songwriters from the Netherlands.

Doude van Troostwijk

3 Doude van Troostwijk is een uitgestorven Nederlandse familie waarvan de familienaam nog voortleeft door naamswijziging in 1860 via matrimoniale lijn van een tak van de familie Van Beusekom; deze...

Jan Bijhouwer

3 Jan Tijs Pieter Bijhouwer was een Nederlands plantensocioloog en tuin- en landschapsarchitect.     

Pablo Neruda

3 Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old and wrote in a variety of styles, including...

Rachel Ruysch

3 Rachel Ruysch was a Dutch still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime. Due to a long and...

Beatrix de Rijk

3 Beatrix de Rijk (1883–1958) was a pioneering Dutch aviator. On receiving her pilot's licence from the Aéro-Club de France on 6 October 1911, she became the first Dutch woman pilot.

Marius Antoon Reinalda

3 Marius Antoon Reinalda was een Nederlands politicus van de PvdA.                                   

Rosalind Franklin

3 Rosalind Elsie Franklin was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite. Although her...