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AMSTERDAM

Most Famous People Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Notable people
3,253
Peak decade
1980s
Median birth year
1921
Most distinctive
Rower 4.9×

The Dutch Golden Age, and what came after. Amsterdam's distinctive shelves are painters at more than four times the global rate, alongside conductors, rowers, swimmers, and poets — the trades of a 17th-century capital that built one of the great European art markets and a 20th-century city that built a Concertgebouw conductor lineage going back to Mengelberg. The 1600s account for a tenth of all notable births here, and the modern half adds footballers, cyclists, and the long shadow of Rembrandt and Spinoza.

Through the Centuries

One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Amsterdam during each.

What Amsterdam Is Known For

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Football is Amsterdam's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (438).

Amsterdam over-indexes on rower4.9× the global rate.

Amsterdam under-produces politician — only 0.6× the global rate.

  1. Football438
  2. Painter372
  3. Politician212
  4. Actor166
  5. Writer106
  6. Poet72
  7. Singer67
  8. Sport67
  1. Rower594.9×
  2. Conductor384.6×
  3. Painter3724.3×
  4. Swimmer533.4×
  5. Poet722.1×
  6. Mathematician342.1×
  1. Politician2120.6×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Amsterdam's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

15001550160016501700175018001850190019502000
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Showing 44 of 3,253 notable people

0135 WRITER

Jacob van Lennep

1802 - 1868

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0301 COMPOSER

Henry Cohen (numismatist)

1806 - 1880

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0304 ASTRONOMER

Frederik Kaiser

1808 - 1872

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0391 PAINTER

Louis Meijer

1809 - 1866

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0419 ZOOLOGIST

Wilhem de Haan

1801 - 1855

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0453 ORIENTALIST

Hermann Brockhaus

1806 - 1877

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0463 POLITICIAN

Pieter Philip van Bosse

1809 - 1879

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0515 BOTANIST

Pieter Willem Korthals

1807 - 1892

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0551 MILITAR

Jan van Speyk

1802 - 1831

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0597 COMPOSER

Johannes Bernardus van Bree

1801 - 1857

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0725 THEOLOGIAN

Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrugge

1803 - 1874

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0734 PAINTER

Jacob Abels

1803 - 1866

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0804 POET

Jan Pieter Heye

1809 - 1876

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0812 ANATOMIST

Willem Vrolik

1801 - 1863

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0873 THEOLOGIAN

Bernard ter Haar

1806 - 1880

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0918 WRITER

Jan Schenkman

1806 - 1863

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0931 PHOTOGRAPHER

Eduard Isaac Asser

1809 - 1894

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0939 LIBERAL

Heinrich Brockhaus

1804 - 1874

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1209 POLITICIAN

Charles Ferdinand Pahud

1803 - 1873

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1343 ACTOR

Maria Francisca Bia

1809 - 1889

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1663 PAINTER

Pieter Frederik van Os

1808 - 1892

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1826 HISTORIAN

Heinrich Wilhelm Grauert

1804 - 1852

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2029 ENGINEER

Jacobus Johannes van Ronzelen

1800 - 1865

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2145 PAINTER

Arnoldus Johannes Eymer

1803 - 1863

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2161 VETENSKAP

Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper

1808 - 1876

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2188 PAINTER

Ab Salm

1801 - 1876

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2219 POET

Isaac Marcus Calisch

1808 - 1884

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2260 THEOLOGIAN

Jan Hendrik Stuffken

1801 - 1881

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2273 ENGRAVER

Elisabeth Barbara Schmetterling

1801 - 1882

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2313 ENTREPRENEUR

Emil Pfeifer

1806 - 1889

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2737 PAINTER

Hendrik Gerrit ten Cate

1803 - 1856

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2783 ENGINEER

Paul Bouvy Schorenberg

1807 - 1867

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2797 BOTANIST

Frederik Louis Splitgerber

1801 - 1845

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2885 ENGRAVER

David van der Kellen Jr.

1804 - 1879

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2887 WRITER

Jehuda de Mordechai Cassuto

1808 - 1893

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2888 KAUFMAN

Johannes Bolongaro Crevenna

1807 - 1871

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2891 ACTOR

Jacoba Maria Majofski

1807 - 1847

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2947 ACTOR

Christina da Silva

1809 - 1881

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3083 BUSINESS

Louis Marchand (1800-1881)

1800 - 1881

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3104 ENTOMOLOGIST

Carlo Bassi

1807 - 1856

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3111 FILANTROP

Petronella Voute

1804 - 1877

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3113 PAINTER

David Laurent de Lara

1806 - 1876

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3115 ZOOLOGIST

Anton Brants

1805 - 1862

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3201 OFFICER

Guillaume-Adolphe Nerenburger

1804 - 1869

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