Famous people from The Netherlands

Do you want to know who the most famous people from The Netherlands (Holland) are? This page will give you the answer. Of course it is hard to measure people's fame. Every measuring method will have its drawbacks. We use a simple assumption: people's fame can be measured by the number of times their name appears on the web. This number can be estimated by the page count returned by Google when searching for a name. The page counts can be found in front of the names in the next list.

1. 2,960,000 DJ Tiësto (dj)
2. 2,450,000 Vincent van Gogh (painter)
3. 2,200,000 Adam Curry (vj/Internet pioneer)
4. 2,170,000 Famke Janssen (actress)
5. 2,120,000 Anne Frank (writer)
6. 2,100,000 Theo van Gogh (director)
7. 1,110,000 André Rieu (violinist)
8. 1,090,000 Rutger Hauer (actor)
9.   946,000 André Hazes (singer)
10.   899,000 Ayaan Hirsi Ali (politician)
11.   785,000 Pim Fortuyn (politician)
12.   726,000 Frans Bauer (singer)
13.   726,000 Marco Borsato (singer)
14.   636,000 Wouter Bos (politician)
15.   614,000 Katja Schuurman (actress)
16.   580,000 Ruud van Nistelrooy (soccer player)
17.   541,000 Paul Verhoeven (director)
18.   488,000 Jan Peter Balkenende (politician)
19.   470,000 Jan Marijnissen (politician)
20.   403,000 John de Mol (businessman)

Single-word names often refer to more than one person and therefore people with such a name have not been included in this list: Anouk, Boris, Erasmus, Gordon, Jomanda, Multatuli, Rembrandt and members of the Dutch royal family.

Contributions for the list can be sent to erikt(at)xs4all.nl . Note that the numbers mentioned in the list are measurements made on a certain time point (21 September 2005). They will probably be slightly different at later times.

External links

If you have a web page about famous people from this country or another then mail the url to me and we will make a link to your page.

• Dutch Celebrities Quiz
• Famous Belgians list.