List of people from The Hague
This is a list of people from The Hague.
Politicians
See also: List of mayors of The Hague
- Jozias van Aartsen – former foreign minister; former Mayor of The Hague
- Machiel de Graaf – politician
- Wim Deetman – former Speaker of the Dutch parliament; former Mayor of The Hague
- Willem Drees – former prime minister
- Jan Pronk – United Nations' special representative for Sudan
- Mark Rutte – current prime minister
- Ivo Daalder - permanent representative to NATO
Royalty (actual heads of state only)
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Arts
Golden Earring, band
- Valensia - composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, known for his song "Gaia"
- Jurriaan Andriessen – composer
- Hendrik Berlage – architect
- Theo Bitter – artist
- Ferdinand Bordewijk – writer
- Erik Braun – artist, designer
- Lodewijk Bruckman – painter
- Dirk Bus – sculptor
- Dash Berlin - DJs trio
- Blasterjaxx - DJs Duo
- Remco Campert – writer
- Simon Carmiggelt – writer
- Thomas Cletcher – jeweller and gem dealer
- Louis Couperus – writer
- Demiak – artist
- GLOWINTHEDARK – DJ duo
- Jacob Derwig - actor
- Diddo - conceptual artist and designer
- Golden Earring – music group
- Gruppo Sportivo – music group
- Constantijn Huygens – poet
- Kane – music group
- Imran Khan – Punjabi singer
- Sander Kleinenberg – dance music DJ and producer
- Legowelt – electronic musician
- Jacques van Lier - musician
- Mark Norman – DJ duo
- Shocking Blue – music group, known for the song "Venus"
- Marinus Snoeren – classical musician (cello)
- Carel Struycken – actor, Addams Family and Star Trek
- Marjo Tal - composer
- Anouk Teeuwe – singer
- Ernest Thoen - photographer
- Nancy van Overveldt - artist
- Martin Koolhoven - movie director
- Wieteke van Dort – actress, singer
- Marcel van Eeden – artist
- Theo van Gogh - director, producer, actor and author[1]
- Van Kooten en de Bie – humorist
- Adrian Vandenberg – guitarist
- Max Velthuijs – illustrator
- Georgina Verbaan – actress
- Paul Verhoeven – movie director
- Johannes Vermeer – painter
- Flore Zoé – photographer
Sports
Raymond van Barneveld, darts player
- Dick Advocaat – football (soccer) player and former coach of the Dutch national football (soccer) team
- Peter Blangé – volleyball player who won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
- Michael Boogerd – cyclist, winner of two stages of the Tour de France
- Niels Feijen - pool player, 2014 nine ball world champion
- Dan Gadzuric – NBA player
- Robin Haase – professional tennis player
- Thom Harinck – legendary kickboxing trainer
- David Huddleston Bulgarian gymnast
- Martin Jol – football (soccer) player; former coach of Tottenham Hotspur F.C. and AFC Ajax.
- Ties Kruize – field hockey player
- Tim Krul – football (soccer) player; current goalkeeper Norwich City F.C.
- Alex Lely ("The Plague from The Hague") – pool player, who became World Pool Masters Champion
- Aad Mansveld – football (soccer) player
- Erica Terpstra – 1964 Olympic swimming champion, former sports minister and current President of the Dutch Olympic Committee
- Raymond van Barneveld – darts player, four times Embassy/Lakeside champion and 2007 PDC World Champion
- Daan van Bunge – cricketer who represented Netherlands in two Cricket World Cup events in 2003 and 2007
- Bart Veldkamp – 1992 Olympic Speed Skating Champion (10 km)
- Joop Zoetemelk – cyclist, winner of the Tour de France 1980
Miscellaneous
- Lucia de Berk (born 1961) nurse, convicted in 2003 of three murders and three attempted murders, then exonerated in 2010
- Conrad Busken Huet (1826–1886) a pastor, journalist and literary critic.[2]
- Samuel Goudsmit (1902 –1978) - Dutch-American physicist
- Roland Greefkes (1941-2021) blacksmith
- Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695) astronomer, physicist, mathematician; member of the Royal Society; inventor of the pendulum clock and the pocket watch.[3]
- Zacharias Janssen (1585 – pre-1632) a spectacle-maker; often credited with the first known creation of a compound microscope, otherwise previously credited with the optical telescope.
- Hendrik Jut (1851–1878) murderer
- Charles van der Leeuw (born 1952) journalist
- Walter Lewin (born 1936) Astrophysicist and former professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Simon van der Meer (1925–2011) Nobel Prize in Physics, 1984
- Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) philosopher, moved to The Hague in 1670, where he finished his Ethics; died aged 44.[4]
- Guido van Rossum (born 1956) designer of Python (programming language)
- Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994) economist, won the Nobel Prize for economics, 1969
- Niko Tinbergen (1907–1988) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1973
References
- "Theo van Gogh". 4 November 2004.
- Gosse, Edmund William (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). p. 874.
- Clerke, Agnes Mary (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 14 (11th ed.). pp. 21–22.
- Pringle-Pattison, Andrew Seth (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). pp. 687–691.
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