Famous Dutch people

• Hieronymus Bosch, (1450-1516), painter
  
• Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1587 – 1629), officer of Dutch East India Company (VOC), Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
  
• Cornelis Corneliszoon, (1550-1607), inventor of the sawmill
  
• Vincent van Gogh, (1853-1890), painter
  
• Hugo Grotius, Huig de Groot, Hugo de Groot, (1583-1645), lawyer, philosopher, playwright, & poet
  
• Frans Hals, (1580-1666), painter
  
• Piet Hein (1577-1629), Dutch naval offer
  
• Meindert Hobbema, (1638-1709), painter of landscapes
• Christiaan Huygens, (1629-1695), mathematician and physicist
• Thomas à Kempis, (1380-1471), medieval Christian monk
• Anton van Leeuwenhoek, (1632-1723), scientist
• Piet Mondriaan, (1872-1944), painter
• Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, (1567-1625), general and stadtholder
• John Maurice of Nassau, Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, (1604-1679), general, governor Dutch Brazil
• William of Nassau, "the Silent", Prince of Orange, (1533-1584), stadtholder, founder of The Netherlands
• Johan van Oldenbarneveldt, (1547-1619), statesman
• Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, (1606-1669), painter
• Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter (1607 - 1676), Dutch naval admiral
• Baruch Spinoza, (1632-1677), philosopher
• Jan Steen, (1626(?)-1679), painter
• Peter Stuyvesant, (1592-1672), governor of the New Netherlands, New Amsterdam
• Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp (1598 – 1653), admiral Dutch navy
• Johannes Vermeer, (1632-1675), painter
• Johan de Witt, (1625-1672), statesman