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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.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Amsterdam during each.
Notable Births by Decade
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1980s with 276 notable births.
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.
- Sports
- Art & Design
- Writing
- Film & TV
- Science
- Politics & Law
- Other
- Filtered to 1910s Clear ×
Leo Lionni
1910 - 1999
Bertus Aafjes
1914 - 1993
Abraham Pais
1918 - 2000
Johan van Hulst
1911 - 2018
Albert Mol
1917 - 2004
Florentine Rost van Tonningen
1914 - 2007
Bep Voskuijl
1919 - 1983
Adriaan Blaauw
1914 - 2010
Loe de Jong
1914 - 2005
Gerrit Schulte
1916 - 1992
Lodewijk Prins
1913 - 1999
Max Kohnstamm
1914 - 2010
Warner T. Koiter
1914 - 1997
Rudolf George Escher
1912 - 1980
Lin Jaldati
1912 - 1988
Gaius de Gaay Fortman
1911 - 1997
Pierre de Bénouville
1914 - 2001
Eugène Brands
1913 - 2002
Ben Bril
1912 - 2003
Marius Flothuis
1914 - 2001
Zerka T. Moreno
1917 - 2016
Max Geldray
1916 - 2004
Jaap van Praag
1911 - 1981
Chris Berger
1911 - 1965
Emiel van Lennep
1915 - 1996
Jan Koetsier
1911 - 2006
Lex van Delden
1919 - 1988
Cor de Groot
1914 - 1993
Anna Rutgers van der Loeff
1910 - 1990
Gale Bruno van Albada
1912 - 1972
Fenny Heemskerk
1919 - 2007
Ernst van der Beugel
1918 - 2004
Abraham Bueno de Mesquita
1918 - 2005
Nico Richter
1915 - 1945
Esmée van Eeghen
1918 - 1944
Jaap Penraat
1918 - 2006
Willem Hofhuizen
1915 - 1986
Jérôme Louis Heldring
1917 - 2013
Bernard Delfgaauw
1912 - 1993
Piet de Boer
1919 - 1984
Nicolaas Cortlever
1915 - 1995
Bertus Caldenhove
1914 - 1983
Machteld Mellink
1917 - 2006
Willem Klein
1912 - 1986
Tini Wagner
1919 - 2004
Dick Been
1914 - 1978
Joop Beek
1917 - 1983
Sem Dresden (écrivain)
1914 - 2002
Ank van der Moer
1912 - 1983
Andreas Peter Cornelius Sol
1915 - 2016
Theo van Scheltinga
1914 - 1994
Wessel Couzijn
1912 - 1984
Boy Edgar
1915 - 1980
Hans van Swol
1914 - 2010
Koos Verdam
1915 - 1998
Selma Vaz Dias
1911 - 1977
Ko van Dijk
1916 - 1978
Henri van Praag
1916 - 1988
Mien Schopman-Klaver
1911 - 2018
Jaap van Praag (football administrator)
1910 - 1987
Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper
1916 - 2003
Carel Kneulman
1915 - 2008
Klaas Ooms
1917 - 1970
Louis Stuyt
1914 - 2000
Guus Dräger
1917 - 1989
Bram Wiertz
1919 - 2013
Ynso Scholten
1918 - 1984
Tante Leen
1912 - 1992
Isabella Henriette van Eeghen
1913 - 1996
Siegfried Adolf Wouthuysen
1916 - 1996
Johnny Meijer
1912 - 1992
Henk Breuker
1918 - 1999
Dick Kattenburg
1919 - 1944
Bibeb
1914 - 2010
Manke Nelis
1919 - 1993
Piet Wijdekop
1912 - 1982
Gerrit Keizer
1910 - 1980
Manuel van Loggem
1916 - 1998
Cor Hund
1915 - 2008
Pierre H. Dubois
1917 - 1999
Kitty ter Braake
1913 - 1991
Herman Musaph
1915 - 1992
Folke Heybroek
1913 - 1983
Kees Wijdekop
1914 - 2008
Ernst van den Berg
1915 - 1989
Piet Schoonenberg
1911 - 1999
Ans Panhorst-Niesink
1918 - 2010
Jan Verleun
1919 - 1944
Enny Meunier
1912 - 1996
Maup Caransa
1916 - 2009
Gerrit Fischer
1916 - 1984
Emile den Tex
1918 - 2012
Ya'akov Arnon
1913 - 1995
Tonny Ahlers
1917 - 2000
Nico Engelschman
1913 - 1988
Piet van Egmond
1912 - 1982
Paul Pruyser
1916 - 1987
Rini Otte
1917 - 1991
Co Bergman
1913 - 1982
Henk van Gemert
1913 - 2002
Fré Focke
1910 - 1989
Reindert Brasser
1912 - 1999
Dolly Mollinger
1911 - 2004
Bob Spaak
1917 - 2011
Sybren Ruurds de Groot
1916 - 1994
Meindert Boekel
1915 - 1989
Leo Schatz
1918 - 2014
Henk Blomvliet
1911 - 1980
Tjeerd Boersma
1915 - 1985
Jenny Kastein
1913 - 2000
Wim Hoddes
1918 - 2012
Stans Scheffer
1914 - 1982
Suzanne Hiltermann-Souloumiac
1919 - 2001
Jan Potharst
1918 - 2008
Willem Paul de Roever
1917 - 2000
William A. S. Ouderland
1917 - 2001
Howard Wing
1916 - 2008
Johnny Roeg
1910 - 2003
Ernst Moltzer
1910 - 1941
Max Dresden
1918 - 1997
Tom Mutters
1917 - 2016
Helena Elisabeth Goudeket
1910 - 1943
Max Möller (luthier)
1915 - 1985
Herman Meyer
1911 - 1993
Ina van der Beugel
1914 - 2003
Willem Frans Daems
1911 - 1994
Johan Bouman
1918 - 1998
Ben Blaisse
1911 - 2006
Liesbeth Messer-Heijbroek
1914 - 2007
Cor Wilders
1914 - 1998
Jaap van der Poll
1914 - 2010
John Selman (Schachkomponist)
1910 - 1978
Joghem van Loghem
1914 - 2005
Rudolf Vleeskruijer
1916 - 1966
Henk de Hoog
1918 - 1973
Gabriel de Jongh
1913 - 2004
Bep du Mée
1914 - 2002
Willem Polak
1915 - 1993
Leo Cremer
1911 - 1989
Paul Goldschmidt (Logopäde)
1914 - 2010
Adriana A. Verhoeven
1918 - 2000
Hans ten Houten
1916 - 1988
Gerard de Josselin de Jong
1915 - 2012
Alfons M. J. Evers
1918 - 1998
Nel Roos-Lodder
1914 - 1996
Eugène Traey
1915 - 2006
Jo van Dijk
1912 - 1988
Dé Stoop
1919 - 2007
Agaath Doorgeest
1914 - 1991
Johannes Brink
1912 - 1976
Piet Bannenberg
1911 - 2002
Gerrit van Voorst
1910 - 1986
Antonius Hogema
1917 - 2013
Henny Scholtz
Born 1911
Petrus Johannes Maan
1913 - 1993
Flip Keegstra
1914 - 1991
Bill Glerum
1911 - 2002
Truid Blaisse-Terwindt
1917 - 2002
Nico Lutkeveld
1916 - 1997
Han Engelsman
1919 - 1990
Jo Stroomberg
1919 - 1984
Antoon Hoevers
1913 - 1978