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page 1People from Leeuwarden
Mata Hari
Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan and spy (1876-1917)
William IV, Prince of Orange
hereditary stadtholder of the Netherlands (1711-1751)
Saskia van Uylenburgh
wife of Rembrandt van Rijn
Joost Klein
Dutch musician and videographer (born 1997)
Caroline of Orange-Nassau
Princess in the house of Orange-Nassau
Hans Vredeman de Vries
Dutch renaissance painter
J. Slauerhoff
Dutch poet, writer and doctor (1898-1936)
Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde
Dutch sexologist (1873-1937)
Diederik Samsom
Dutch politician, chief executive and environmental activist
Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz
Countess of Nassau-Dietz by birth, Margravine of Baden-Durlach by marriage (1710-1777)
Jacob Baart de la Faille
Dutch art critic (1886-1959)
Christine Buisman
Dutch botanist (1900-1936)
Richard Hageman
Dutch conductor (1881-1966)
Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer
Dutch classical scholar (1715–1785)
Jan D. Achenbach
Dutch-American scientist in engineering
Tineke den Dulk
short-tracker active in 2023-2024
Hans Monderman
Dutch engineer (1945–2008)
Dirk Philips
Mennonite theologian from Friesland
Haije Kramer
Dutch chess player (1917–2004)
Willem Frederik Reinier Suringar
Dutch botanist (1832–1898)
Wilhelmus à Brakel
Dutch theologian (1635-1711)
George Arnold Escher
Dutch civil engineer (1843–1939)
Piet Paaltjens
Dutch poet (1835-1894)
Jacobus Schroeder van der Kolk
Dutch physician and professor of physiology (1797-1862)
Cornelis Dirk Andriesse
Dutch scientist and writer (born 1939)
Annejet van der Zijl
Dutch writer
Siwart Haverkamp
Dutch classical scholar
Nikolai van der Heyde
Film director and screenwriter (1936-2020)
Titia Bergsma
the first European woman to stay in Japan hermetically sealed off for Europeans, married to Jan Cock Blomhoff (1786-1821)
Nynke Laverman
Dutch actress
Campegius Vitringa
Dutch theologian
Cor Boonstra
Dutch businessman
Jan Hogendijk
Dutch mathematician and historian of science (born 1955)
Havank
thumb|Havank (1942)
thumb|Havank memorial in Leeuwarden by
Havank, pseudonym of Hendrikus Frederikus (Hans) van der Kallen (February 19, 1904 – June 22, 1964), was a Dutch writer, journalist and translator. He published over 30 crime novels and is considered one of the founding fathers of the Dutch detective genre.
Mietje Rutgers-Hoitsema
Dutch teacher, feminist and social reformer, editor (1847–1934)
Albert Winsemius
Dutch economist (1910-1996)
Dominicus Arumaeus
Dutch lawyer (1579-1637)
Jeronimus Cornelisz
Frisian apothecary and merchant
Max Blokzijl
Dutch journalist and radiopresenter, Nazi collaborator (1884–1946)
Bert Sas
Dutch military attache (1882-1948)
Pieter Oosterhoff
Dutch astronomer (1904–1978)
Joachim van Plettenberg
Dutch colonial governor of the Cape of Good Hope (1739-1793)
Willem van Haren
Dutch poet, writer and politician (1710–1768)
Tjitske Reidinga
Dutch actress (born 1972)
L. Bouke van der Meer
Dutch archaeologist
Johannes Henricus Gerardus Jansen
Catholic archbishop (1868-1936)
Bernard Slicher van Bath
Dutch historian (1910–2004)
Wim Cohen
Dutch mathematician
Obbe Philips
early founder of Dutch Anabaptism
Wieke Bosch
Dutch anarchist, activist and resistance fighter in WW-II, 1882–1945
Cornelis Adriaan Lobry van Troostenburg de Bruyn
Dutch chemist (1857–1904)
Bert Bakker
Dutch writer (1912 - 1969)
Cisca Dresselhuys
Dutch journalist (born 1943)
Rosto
Rosto (14 February 1969 – 7 March 2019), was a Dutch artist and filmmaker best known for his award-winning short film trilogy and online graphic novel Mind My Gap. Rosto is the founder and owner of Studio Rosto A.D, a film production company, animation studio and atelier in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Henk Wouda
Dutch architect and furniture designer (1885-1946)
Arie van der Vlis
Dutch military officer (1940–2020)