List of people from The Hague

This is a list of people from The Hague.

Politicians

Valensia - composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, known for his song "Gaia"
Jurriaan Andriessen – composer
Hendrik Berlage – architect
Theo Bitter – artist
Ferdinand Bordewijk – writer
Erik Braun – artist, designer
Lodewijk Bruckman – painter
Dirk Bus – sculptor
Dash Berlin - DJs trio
Blasterjaxx - DJs Duo
Remco Campert – writer
Simon Carmiggelt – writer
Thomas Cletcher – jeweller and gem dealer
Louis Couperus – writer
Demiak – artist
GLOWINTHEDARK – DJ duo
Jacob Derwig - actor
Diddo - conceptual artist and designer
Golden Earring – music group
Gruppo Sportivo – music group
Constantijn Huygens – poet
Kane – music group
Imran Khan – Punjabi singer
Sander Kleinenberg – dance music DJ and producer
Legowelt – electronic musician
Jacques van Lier - musician
Mark Norman – DJ duo
Shocking Blue – music group, known for the song "Venus"
Marinus Snoeren – classical musician (cello)
Carel Struycken – actor, Addams Family and Star Trek
Marjo Tal - composer
Anouk Teeuwe – singer
Nancy van Overveldt - artist
Martin Koolhoven - movie director
Wieteke van Dort – actress, singer
Marcel van Eeden – artist
Theo van Gogh - director, producer, actor and author[1]
Van Kooten en de Bie – humorist
Adrian Vandenberg – guitarist
Max Velthuijs – illustrator
Georgina Verbaan – actress
Paul Verhoeven – movie director
Johannes Vermeer – painter
Flore Zoé – photographer

Dick Advocaat – football (soccer) player and former coach of the Dutch national football (soccer) team
Peter Blangé – volleyball player who won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
Michael Boogerd – cyclist, winner of two stages of the Tour de France
Niels Feijen - pool player, 2014 nine ball world champion
Dan Gadzuric – NBA player
Robin Haase – professional tennis player
Thom Harinck – legendary kickboxing trainer
David Huddleston Bulgarian gymnast
Martin Jol – football (soccer) player; former coach of Tottenham Hotspur F.C. and AFC Ajax.
Ties Kruize – field hockey player
Tim Krul – football (soccer) player; current goalkeeper Norwich City F.C.
Alex Lely ("The Plague from The Hague") – pool player, who became World Pool Masters Champion
Aad Mansveld – football (soccer) player
Erica Terpstra – 1964 Olympic swimming champion, former sports minister and current President of the Dutch Olympic Committee
Raymond van Barneveld – darts player, four times Embassy/Lakeside champion and 2007 PDC World Champion
Daan van Bunge – cricketer who represented Netherlands in two Cricket World Cup events in 2003 and 2007
Bart Veldkamp – 1992 Olympic Speed Skating Champion (10 km)
Joop Zoetemelk – cyclist, winner of the Tour de France 1980

Lucia de Berk – nurse, convicted in 2003 of three murders and three attempted murders, then exonerated in 2010
Samuel Goudsmit (1902 –1978) - Dutch-American physicist
Christiaan Huygens – 17th-century astronomer, physicist, mathematician; member of the Royal Society; inventor of the pendulum clock and the pocket watch
Hendrik Jut – murderer
Baruch Spinoza – 17th-century philosopher, moved to The Hague in 1670, where he finished his Ethics; died 7 years later, at age 44
Jan Tinbergen – economist, won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1969
Charles van der Leeuw – journalist
Roland Greefkes - blacksmith
Zacharias Janssen - 17th-century spectacle-maker; often credited with the first known creation of a compound microscope, otherwise previously credited with the optical telescope.
Walter Lewin - Astrophysicist and former professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Simon van der Meer, Nobel laureate (Physics, 1984)
Guido van Rossum - designer of Python (programming language)
Niko Tinbergen Nobel laureate (Physiology, 1973)

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