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Politicians See also: List of mayors of The Hague Prime Minister of the Netherlands Willem Drees (July 5, 1886-May 14, 1988) was a Dutch politician, prime minister of the Netherlands from 1948 until 1958, as a member of the social-democratic Dutch Labour Party (PvdA). ...
Willem Wim Joost Deetman (born April 3, 1945 in The Hague) is the mayor of The Hague. ...
Jozias Johannes van Aartsen (born December 25, 1947 in The Hague) is a Dutch politician and member of the liberal Peoples Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). ...
This is a list of mayors of The Hague (Burgemeester van Den Haag): 1824-1842: L.C.R. Copes van Cattenburch 1843-1858: Jhr. ...
- Jan Pronk - United Nations' special representative for Sudan
Jan Pronk (left) with Robert Zoellick Johannes Pieter Pronk (born 16 March 1940 in The Hague), better known as Jan Pronk, is a Dutch politician. ...
Royalty (actual heads of state only) William III King of England, Scotland and Ireland William III and II (14 November 1650–8 March 1702; also known as William Henry and William of Orange) was Prince of Orange from his birth, King of England and Ireland from 13 February 1689, and King of Scotland from 11...
William V, stadtholder of The Netherlands (March 8, 1748–April 9, 1806), also known as William V of Orange, was the last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic. ...
King William I of the Netherlands, born William Frederik of Orange-Nassau (The Hague, 24 August 1772 - Berlin, 12 December 1843), was the second King of the Netherlands (the first king was Louis I Napoleon Bonaparte). ...
William II, King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg (William Frederick George Louis) (December 6, 1792 – March 17, 1849) ruled from October 7, 1840 until his death. ...
For other uses, see Wilhelmina (disambiguation). ...
Juliana Queen of the Netherlands Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (Juliana Emma Louise Wilhelmina van Oranje-Nassau) (April 30, 1909 – March 20, 2004), Princess of Orange-Nassau, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld, was Queen of the Netherlands from her mothers abdication in 1948 to her own abdication...
Arts Jurriaan Hendrik Andriessen (November 15, 1925–August 23, 1996) was a Dutch composer, whose father, Hendrik, brother Louis, and uncle Willem have also been notable composers. ...
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Ferdinand Bordewijk (Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 10 October 1884 - The Hague 28 April 1965) was a Dutch author. ...
Remco Campert (born in The Hague on 29 July 1929) is a famous Dutch author, poet and columnist. ...
Simon Carmiggelt (1913-1987) was a Dutch writer who became a well known public figure in The Netherlands because of his daily newspaper columns and his television appearances. ...
Louis Marie-Anne Couperus was a Dutch novelist and poet of the late 19th and early 20th Century. ...
Nederlands Dans Theater (Dutch Dance Theatre) is a contemporary dance company established in 1959 breaking away from a more traditionally oriented ballet company. ...
Di-rect are a rock-oriented boyband from the Hague, Netherlands, which was first formed in 1999. ...
Constantijn Huygens (September 4, 1596 - March 28, 1687) was a Dutch poet and composer, Secretary to two Princes, and the father of Christiaan Huygens. ...
Golden Earring is a Dutch rock/pop group that was founded in 1961 in The Hague as the Golden Earrings (the s was later dropped). ...
Gruppo Sportivo are a Dutch pop band, from The Hague, formed in 1976, who enjoyed some measure of international success in the late 1970s and 1980s. ...
Kane is a Dutch pop group. ...
Shocking Blue: Robbie, Klaasje, Mariska, Cor Shocking Blue was a Dutch rock band from The Hague that existed from 1967 to 1974. ...
Album cover of Together Alone Anouk Teeuwe (born April 8, 1975) is a Dutch singer. ...
This article is about the Dutch director; for the German director, actor, and writer see Paul Verhoeven (Germany). ...
Girl with a Pearl Earring, known as the Mona Lisa of the North Johannes Vermeer or Jan Vermeer (baptized October 31, 1632, died December 15, 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of ordinary bourgeois life. ...
Sports Richard Advocaat (born September 27, 1947 in The Hague, Netherlands) is the Dutch coach of the Russian pro soccer team Zenit. ...
First international Belgium 1 - 4 Netherlands (Antwerp, Belgium; 30 April 1905) Biggest win Netherlands 9 - 0 Norway (Rotterdam, Netherlands; 1 November 1972) Biggest defeat Netherlands 2 - 12 England Amateur (The Hague, Netherlands; 1 April 1907) World Cup Appearances 8 (First in 1934) Best result Runners-up, 1974 and 1978 European...
Raymond van Barneveld (born April 20, 1967 in The Hague, Netherlands), nickname Barney, is a professional darts player. ...
Volleyball is an Olympic sport in which two teams separated by a high net use their hands, arms or (rarely) other parts of their bodies to hit a ball back and forth over the net. ...
The 1996 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and informally known as the Centennial Olympics, were held in 1996 in Atlanta, United States. ...
Michael Boogerd (born May 28 1972, The Hague) is a professional Dutch bicyclist. ...
The Tour de France is the worlds best known cycling race, a three week long road race that covers a circuit of most areas around France, and sometimes neighbouring countries. ...
Dan Gadzuric (Gadžurić in Serbian, pronounced GAH-JOO-REECH) (born February 2, 1978 in The Hague) is a Dutch basketball player on the Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA. Gadzuric, a center, attended Governor Dummer Academy before playing college basketball at UCLA. Gadzurics mother is Serbian and his father...
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Maarten (Martin) Cornelis Jol (born January 16, 1956) is a Dutch former professional football (soccer) player, and current head coach of Tottenham Hotspur in the FA Premier League. ...
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is an English professional football club, who play in the Premier League. ...
Ties Kruize (born on November 17, 1952 in The Hague) is a former field hockey player from The Netherlands, who represented Holland three times at the Summer Olympics: 1972, 1976 and 1984. ...
Erica Georgine Terpstra (born May 26, 1943 in The Hague) is a retired swimmer from the Netherlands, who won two medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo: the bronze medal in the 4x100 metres Freestyle Relay and the silver in the 4x100 metres Medley Relay. ...
Bart Veldkamp (born November 22, 1967) is a Belgian speed skater, but originally a Dutchman from The Hague (The Netherlands). ...
Miscellaneous - Baruch Spinoza - 17th century philosopher, moved to The Hague in 1670, where he finished his Ethics. Spinoza died 7 years later, at age 45.
- Christian Huygens - 17th century astronomer, physicist, mathematician. Member of the Royal Society, inventor of the pendulum clock and the pocket watch.
- Jan Tinbergen - economist, won the Nobel Prize for economy in 1969
- Peter Timofeeff - weatherman
- Erwin Krol - weatherman
- Lucia de Berk - jailed nurse, serial killer?
Benedictus de Spinoza or Baruch de Spinoza (Hebrew: ברוך ×©×¤×™× ×•×–×”) (lived November 24, 1632 – February 21, 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Jewish origin. ...
Christiaan Huygens Christiaan Huygens (approximate pronunciation: HOW-khens; SAMPA /h9yGEns/ or /h@YG@ns/) (April 14, 1629–July 8, 1695), was a Dutch mathematician and physicist; born in The Hague as the son of Constantijn Huygens. ...
The premises of The Royal Society in London (first four properties only). ...
Jan Tinbergen Jan Tinbergen (The Hague, April 12, 1903 – June 9, 1994 The Hague), Dutch economist, was awarded the first Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis...
Lucia de Berk (The Hague, 22 September 1961) is a Dutch nurse who has been convicted of at seven murders and at three attempted murders. ...
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