Category
page 120th-century Dutch women writers
Anne Frank
Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim. She gained worldwide notability posthumously for keeping a diary documenting her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. In the diary, she regularly described her family's everyday life in their hiding place in an Amsterdam attic from 1942 until their arrest in 1944.
Sylvia Kristel
Dutch actress, model, recording artist (1952-2012)
Hella Haasse
Dutch writer (1918–2011)
Etty Hillesum
Jewish diarist (1914-1943)
Xaviera Hollander
Dutch prostitute
Rita Verdonk
Dutch politician
Khadija Arib
Dutch former politician, civil servant, educator and social worker
Anna Enquist
Dutch writer (born 1945)
Els de Groen
Dutch journalist, writer and politician
Lulu Wang
Dutch writer
Connie Palmen
Dutch writer
Erica Terpstra
Dutch politician and swimmer
Marga Minco
Dutch journalist and writer (1920–2023)
Nienke van Hichtum
Frisian Dutch children's author (1860–1939)
Marion Bloem
Dutch writer (born 1952)
Gloria Wekker
Surinamese-Dutch university professor
Catharina van Rees
Dutch poet, writer and composer, editor (1831-1915)
Charlotte Mutsaers
Dutch author and painter (born 1942)
Jet Bussemaker
Dutch politician of the Labour Party
Hedy d'Ancona
Dutch politician
Margriet de Moor
Dutch writer and pianist
Ina Boudier-Bakker
Dutch writer (1875-1966)
Tessa de Loo
Dutch author
Naima El Bezaz
Moroccan-Dutch writer
Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot
Dutch journalist and economist (1897-1989)
Fanny Schoonheyt
Dutch resistance fighter, photographer (1912–1961)
Yvonne Keuls
Dutch writer (1931-2025)
Jo van Ammers-Küller
Dutch writer (1884–1966)
Clara Gertrud Wichmann
German pundit and anarcho-syndicalist, editor (1885–1922)
Willy Corsari
Dutch writer (1897–1998)
Laura Bromet
Dutch politician
Anna Woltz
Dutch writer and journalist
Diana Lebacs
Curaçaoan writer and actress
Isa Hoes
Dutch actress
Clairy Polak
Dutch presenter / journalist (1956–2023)
Annie Nicolette Zadoks-Josephus Jitta
Dutch numismatist (1904–2000)
Maria Dermoût
Dutch-Indian writer (1888-1962)
Hermine de Graaf
Dutch writer (1951–2013)
Joke van Leeuwen
Dutch writer, illustrator and performer (born 1952)
Anna Rutgers van der Loeff
Dutch writer (1910–1990)
Elma van Haren
Dutch poet and writer
Joke Swiebel
Dutch politician (born 1941)
Ina Brouwer
Dutch politician
Helga Ruebsamen
Dutch writer (1934–2016)
Els Pelgrom
Dutch writer
Mensje van Keulen
Dutch writer
Doeschka Meijsing
Dutch novelist (1947-2012)
Winnie Sorgdrager
Dutch politician
Maria Aletta Hulshoff
Dutch politician (1781-1846)
Miep Diekmann
Dutch writer (1925–2017)
Ida Simons
Dutch writer
Henriëtte Laman Trip-de Beaufort
Dutch historian (1890–1982)
Renate Rubinstein
Dutch journalist and writer (1929-1990)
Véronique Renard
Dutch writer
Thea Doelwijt
writer and journalist from Suriname
Annemarie Grewel
Dutch columnist, politician and writer (1935-1998)
Irene Vorrink
Dutch politician (1918-1996)
Mineke Schipper
Dutch writer, Professor emeritus Literary studies at Leiden University, country specialization: Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso and Africa in general
Jacqueline Cramer
Dutch politician and biologist
Anna van Gogh-Kaulbach
Dutch writer, playwright and translator (1869-1960), editor