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Dutch people who are famous or notable include: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The most famous Dutch composers of the 17th century were: Jan P. Sweelinck (1562–1621), composer and organ player, major force in the development of 17th century organ music Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687), more famous as a poet, member of the famous chamber of rhetoric De Muiderkring , composed some 800 pieces, most of which got lost ...
Jan Schilt (1894–1982), Dutch-born astronomer, inventor of the Schilt photometer, Rutherford Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University; Maarten Schmidt (1929–2022), Dutch-born astronomer who measured the distances of astronomical objects called quasars; Hubert Schoemaker (1950–2006), chemist and biotechnological pioneer [29]
Dutch sportspeople who are famous or notable include: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Hella Haasse (1918–2011), writer, the "Grande Dame" of Dutch literature; Femke Halsema (born 1966), politician, Mayor of Amsterdam since 2018; Eddy Hamel (1902–1943), Jewish-American soccer player for Dutch club AFC Ajax who was killed by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp; Johannes Heesters (1903–2011), actor of stage, TV and film ...
Pages in category "Lists of Dutch people" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
By taking the total of all people with full Dutch ancestry, according to the current CBS definition (both parents born in the Netherlands), resulting in an estimated 16,000,000 Dutch people, [note 1] or by the sum of all people worldwide with both full and partial Dutch ancestry, which would result in a number around 33,000,000.
This is a list of monarchs of the Netherlands (Dutch: Koningen der Nederlanden). By practical extension, the list includes the stadtholders of the House of Orange Nassau since 1556. However, they were voted into office by, and were civil servants and generals of, the semi-independent provinces of the Dutch Republic and