List of people from The Hague
This is a list of people from The Hague.
Politicians
See also: List of mayors of The Hague
- Jozias van Aartsen – former foreign minister; former Mayor of The Hague
- Machiel de Graaf – politician
- Wim Deetman – former Speaker of the Dutch parliament; former Mayor of The Hague
- Willem Drees – former prime minister
- Jan Pronk – United Nations' special representative for Sudan
- Mark Rutte – current prime minister
Royalty (actual heads of state only)
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- Queen Beatrix
- Queen Juliana
- Queen Wilhelmina
- King William I
- King William II
- King William III
- William III, (Stadtholder, King William III of England)
- William V (Stadtholder)
Arts
- 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
- Louis Couperus – writer
- Demiak – artist
- GLOWINTHEDARK – DJ duo
- Jacob Derwig - actor
- 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
- 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
- Anouk Teeuwe – singer
- 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
Sports
- 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
- 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
Miscellaneous
- Lucia de Berk – nurse, convicted in 2003 of three murders and three attempted murders, then exonerated in 2010
- 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.