52.3831° N, 4.8999° E
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.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Amsterdam during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Amsterdam Is Known For
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Football is Amsterdam's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (438).
Amsterdam over-indexes on rower — 4.9× the global rate.
Amsterdam under-produces politician — only 0.6× the global rate.
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.
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- Filtered to 1860s Clear ×
Johanna van Gogh-Bonger
1862 - 1925
Isaac Israëls
1865 - 1934
Henri Deterding
1866 - 1939
Alphons Diepenbrock
1862 - 1921
Albert Verwey
1865 - 1937
Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita
1868 - 1944
Andries Bonger
1861 - 1936
Willem Witsen
1860 - 1923
Ernst Cohen
1869 - 1944
Lodewijk van Deyssel
1864 - 1952
Joseph Mendes da Costa
1863 - 1939
Gustav de Vries
1866 - 1934
Richard Roland Holst
1868 - 1938
Frits Went
1863 - 1935
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
1865 - 1921
Henri Polak
1868 - 1943
Sophia Goudstikker
1865 - 1924
Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig
1866 - 1915
Theodor Rehbock
1864 - 1950
Henrik Sillem
1866 - 1907
Rudolf Loman
1861 - 1932
Henri Albers
1866 - 1926
M.H. Laddé
1866 - 1932
Willem Bastiaan Tholen
1860 - 1931
Baruch Lopes Leão de Laguna
1864 - 1943
Hermanus Willem Koekkoek
1867 - 1929
Carrie Daumery
1863 - 1938
Willem Abraham Wythoff
1865 - 1939
Eduard Karsen
1860 - 1941
Carel Adolph Lion Cachet
1864 - 1945
Johannes van Dijk
1868 - 1938
Roosje Vos
1860 - 1932
Ernst Wilhelm Moes
1864 - 1912
Bernard de Hoog
1866 - 1943
Hendrik de Vries
1867 - 1954
J. T. Grein
1862 - 1935
Gijs Bosch Reitz
1860 - 1938
Martinus Sieveking
1867 - 1950
Gerard Muller
1861 - 1929
Charles Dankmeijer
1861 - 1923
Alfred Rudolph Zimmerman
1869 - 1937
Jan van der Linde
1864 - 1945
Sarah Bosmans-Benedicts
1861 - 1949
Emanuel Moresco
1869 - 1945
Johannes Bloemen
1864 - 1939
Bert Johan Ouëndag
1861 - 1932
Karel Rudolph Gallas
1868 - 1956
Alfred Labouchere
1867 - 1953
Christiaan Benjamin Nieuwenhuis
1863 - 1922
Bartholomeus Roodenburch
1866 - 1939
Pieter Waller
1869 - 1938
Adriaan Schade van Westrum
1865 - 1917
Reinier Blom
1867 - 1943
Sylvain de Jong
1868 - 1928
Janus Ooms
1866 - 1924