Queen Beatrix: Netherlander Queen of the Netherlands

Eddie Van Halen: Netherlander guitarist

Rutger Hauer: Netherlander actor

Jeroen Krabbe: Netherlands actor

Jan De Bont: The Netherlands director

Rik Smits: basketball player

Louis Van Amstel: profession dancer, television personality

About 950 windmills still survive, and some 300 still are used occasionally and have been designated national monuments by the government. As many windmills as possible are in operation on National Windmill Day for the benefit of tourists.

In the Netherlands, Liberation Day is celebrated each year on 5 May, to mark the end of the occupation by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Hugo Grotius: Dutch philosopher and writer