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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 ...
Dutch family names were not required until 1811 when emperor Napoleon annexed the Netherlands; [1] prior to 1811, the use of patronymics was much more common. In Dutch linguistics , many names use certain qualifying words (prepositions) which are positioned between a person's given name and their surname .
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 ...
This is a list of Dutch painters who were born and/or were primarily active in the Netherlands. For artists born and active in the Southern Netherlands , see the List of Flemish painters . The artists are sorted by century and then alphabetically by last name.
List of Dutch people of Turkish descent; U. List of Dutch people in the United Kingdom This page was last edited on 6 February 2018, at 17:17 (UTC). ...
This is a chronological list of the most notable people from Rotterdam, ... (voice of the Dutch Scrooge McDuck) Rie Mastenbroek (1919–2003), Olympic 3-time gold ...
This list compiles the names of notable Dutch Euro-Indonesian people, i.e. individuals of mixed Indonesian and European ancestry or full Indonesian ancestry in the Netherlands, or individuals of Dutch ancestry in Indonesia (the former Dutch East Indies). For more context see the article "Indo people".