Writers from Amsterdam

Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)

Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim. She gained worldwide notability posthumously for keeping a diary documenting her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. In the diary, she regularly described her family's everyday life in their hiding place in an Amsterdam attic from 1942 until their arrest in 1944.

Dutch chess player and mathematician

Dutch writer (1927–2010)

Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 182019 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latin multa tulī, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer best known for his satirical novel Max Havelaar (1860), which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia). He is considered one of the Netherlands' greatest authors.

Dutch film director (1957–2004)

Dutch poet and writer (1587-1679)

Dutch writer (1911-1995)

Dutch writer (1921–1995)

Dutch politician (1933–2025)

Dutch writer (1923-2006)

Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1918-2001)

Dutch-American physicist and science historian (1918–2000)

Dutch historian and writer (1581–1647)

Dutch writer (born 1971)

Dutch poet and writer (1914–1993)

Dutch actor (1917-2004)

Dutch journalist and novelist (born 1943)

Dutch writer (1929–2022)

Dutch prostitute

Dutch politician

Dutch author, journalist, feminist (1954-2018)

Dutch writer, philosopher, translator, politician and theologian (1522-1590)

Dutch poet and playwright (1585-1618)

painter and engraver from the Northern Netherlands (1641-1711)

Dutch activist, editor (1847-1925)

Dutch writer (1741-1804)

Dutch politician (1931–2010)

Dutch actress and writer (born 1975)

Dutch politician and scientist (born 1957)

Dutch writer (born 1945)

Dutch engraver (1649-1712)

Dutch painter, printmaker and architect (1597-1664)

Dutch writer and academic (1792-1857)

Mayor of Amsterdam (1641-1717)

Dutch poet (1859-1938)

Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk (15 September 1924 – 10 May 1994), known professionally as Lucebert (), was a Dutch artist who first became known as the poet of the COBRA movement.

Dutch linguist (1890-1964)

Dutch author

Dutch writer (1884–1965)

Dutch-Italian artist and children's writer (1910-1999)

Dutch writer, politician and director (1802-1868)

Dutch politician, professor and teacher (1911–2018)

Dutch writer; Jewish poet (1798–1860)

Dutch poet (1859–1941)

Dutch politician and academic of contemporary Islam (1942–2015)

Dutch composer, essayist and classicist (1862–1921)

novelist (1858–1942)

Dutch former politician and LGBT rights activist

Dutch Golden Age physician, anatomist, poet and playwright (1649-1713)

Dutch politician (1906-1997)

Dutch poet, writer and archeologist

Dutch writer (1888–1976)

Dutch writer (1858–1916)

Dutch writer and actor (born 1953)

Dutch author and bookbinder (1929–2025)

Dutch writer

Dutch poet, professor, translator and critic (1865 - 1937)

Dutch poet (1877-1924)

Dutch politician (1941–2025)