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.
Annelies Marie Frank was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history.
Hendrik Johannes Cruijff OON was a Dutch professional football player and coach. As a player, he won the Ballon d'Or three times, in 1971, 1973, and 1974.
Anne van Dam is a Dutch professional golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour. She has won multiple events on the Ladies European Tour.
William I, Prince of Orange was a stadtholder of several provinces of the Netherlands, the Prince of Orange from birth, and the founder of the branch House of Orange-Nassau.
Margaretha Geertruida "Margreet" MacLeod, better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I and executed by firing squad in France.
Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi origin, one of the early thinkers of the Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe.
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, known as Erasmus or Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch philosopher and Christian scholar who is widely considered to have been one of the greatest scholars of the northern Renaissance.
Christiaan Huygens was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and inventor, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time and a leading figure in the scientific revolution.