Which famous people come from the Netherlands?

Question

Artists, actors, etc.
... as long as they're Dutch

Answer 1

dj Tiësto

Rutger Hauer (actor)
Jeroen Krabbe (actor)
Famke Janssen (actress)

Paul verhoeven
made RoboCop, Total Recall and Basic Instinct

Mata Hari
alleged spy during the first world war

Anton Corbijn
Photographer

Candy Dulfer
Sax player

Ruud Gullit
soccer player

Answer 2

Famous people: The Netherlands is known for its artists, including 17th-century painters Rembrandt and Vermeer,
Van Gogh, M. C. Escher, Willem de Kooning, Piet Mondriaan.

It was also home to Anne Frank, the young girl whose famous diary told of the time she and her family spent hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II.

And Henrik Hudson who explored the river in New Amsterdam, later named New York City... The river is named after him...

Answer 3

Artists ~

Hieronymus Bosch, (1450-1516), painter
Aelbert Cuyp, (1620-1691), painter
M. C. Escher, (1898-1972), graphical artist
Vincent van Gogh, (1853-1890), painter
Jan van Goyen, (1596-1656), painter
Frans Hals, (1580-1666), painter
Pieter de Hooch, (1629-1684), painter
Piet Mondrian, (1872-1944), painter
Rembrandt van Rijn, (1606-1669), painter
Johannes Vermeer, (1632-1675), painter
Jacob de Wit, (1695-1754), painter


Actors / Directors ~

Audrey Hepburn, (born 1929, died in 1993), actress
Jan de Bont, (born 1943), cinematographer, director (Speed)
Rutger Hauer, (born 1944), actor
Famke Janssen, (born 1965), actress
Jeroen Krabbé, (born 1944), actor, director
Sylvia Kristel, (born 1952), actress
Terri Summers, (born 1976), porn-actress
Paul Verhoeven, (born 1938), director


Explorers ~

Willem Barents, (1550?—1597), several expeditions to Arctic waters. Discovered Spitsbergen
Hendrik Brouwer (1580-1643), discovered the Roaring Forties
Cornelis de Houtman, (1565—1599), brother to Frederick, established Dutch trading route to the Spice Islands
Frederick de Houtman, (1571—1627), brother to Cornelis, charted several constellations in the southern skies, explored coast of Western Australia
Willem Janszoon, (c.1570—1630), first European expedition to make landfall on the Australian continent
Jacob Le Maire (c.1585-1616), Cape Horn, 1616 circumnavigation
Jacob Quaeckernaeck (died 1606), reached Japan via Street of Magellan and Moluccas
Matthijs Quast (died 1641), Japan, Bonin Islands, and legendary islands East of Japan
Jakob Roggeveen (1659-1729), Easter Island
Abel Tasman, (1603—1659), extensive voyages around Australia and southwest Pacific, discovered a.o. Tasmania, New Zealand & Tonga
Sebald de Weert (died 1602), discovered Falkland Islands


See the Wikipedia link below for a full list.

Answer 4

How about Henrik Hudson who explored the river in New York that is named after him? Another would be Rip Van Winkle (if fictional counts too).

Answer 5

artists:
Rembrandt
Vermeer
van Gogh
M. C. Escher
Willem de Kooning
Piet Mondriaan

Answer 6

rembrant,van gogh,rubins,anne frank

Answer 7

sorry!it wasn,t me!