People from Leeuwarden

Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan and spy (1876-1917)

hereditary stadtholder of the Netherlands (1711-1751)

wife of Rembrandt van Rijn

Dutch musician and videographer (born 1997)

Princess in the house of Orange-Nassau

Dutch renaissance painter

Dutch poet, writer and doctor (1898-1936)

Dutch sexologist (1873-1937)

Dutch politician, chief executive and environmental activist

Countess of Nassau-Dietz by birth, Margravine of Baden-Durlach by marriage (1710-1777)

Dutch art critic (1886-1959)

Dutch botanist (1900-1936)

Dutch conductor (1881-1966)

Dutch classical scholar (1715–1785)

Dutch-American scientist in engineering

short-tracker active in 2023-2024

Dutch engineer (1945–2008)

Mennonite theologian from Friesland

Dutch chess player (1917–2004)

Dutch botanist (1832–1898)

Dutch theologian (1635-1711)

Dutch civil engineer (1843–1939)

Dutch poet (1835-1894)

Dutch physician and professor of physiology (1797-1862)

Dutch scientist and writer (born 1939)

Dutch writer

Dutch classical scholar

Film director and screenwriter (1936-2020)

the first European woman to stay in Japan hermetically sealed off for Europeans, married to Jan Cock Blomhoff (1786-1821)

Dutch actress

Dutch theologian

Dutch businessman

Dutch mathematician and historian of science (born 1955)

thumb|Havank (1942) thumb|Havank memorial in Leeuwarden by Havank, pseudonym of Hendrikus Frederikus (Hans) van der Kallen (February 19, 1904 – June 22, 1964), was a Dutch writer, journalist and translator. He published over 30 crime novels and is considered one of the founding fathers of the Dutch detective genre.

Dutch teacher, feminist and social reformer, editor (1847–1934)

Dutch economist (1910-1996)

Dutch lawyer (1579-1637)

Frisian apothecary and merchant

Dutch journalist and radiopresenter, Nazi collaborator (1884–1946)

Dutch military attache (1882-1948)

Dutch astronomer (1904–1978)

Dutch colonial governor of the Cape of Good Hope (1739-1793)

Dutch poet, writer and politician (1710–1768)

Dutch actress (born 1972)

Dutch archaeologist

Catholic archbishop (1868-1936)

Dutch historian (1910–2004)

Dutch mathematician

early founder of Dutch Anabaptism

Dutch anarchist, activist and resistance fighter in WW-II, 1882–1945

Dutch chemist (1857–1904)

Dutch writer (1912 - 1969)

Dutch journalist (born 1943)

Rosto (14 February 1969 – 7 March 2019), was a Dutch artist and filmmaker best known for his award-winning short film trilogy and online graphic novel Mind My Gap. Rosto is the founder and owner of Studio Rosto A.D, a film production company, animation studio and atelier in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Dutch architect and furniture designer (1885-1946)

Dutch military officer (1940–2020)