Hilversum is a city and municipality in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. Located in the heart of the Gooi, it is the largest urban centre in that area. It is surrounded by heathland, woods, meadows, lakes, and smaller towns. Hilversum is part of the Randstad, one of the largest conurbations in Europe, and the Amsterdam metropolitan area.
Velsen is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is located on both sides of the North Sea Canal.
Zandvoort is a municipality in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It is one of the major beach resorts of the Netherlands; it has a long sandy beach. It is bordered by coastal dunes of Zuid-Kennemerland National Park and the Amsterdam water supply dunes. It hosts the country's most prominent motor racing circuit, Circuit Zandvoort.
The Fool were a Dutch design collective and band in the psychedelic style of art in British popular music in the late 1960s. The group was named in reference to the Fool tarot card.
Karen Mulder is a Dutch model and singer. She is well known for her work with Versace, Dior, and Chanel as a supermodel during the 1990s. Mulder repeatedly was featured on the cover of Vogue and was also a Victoria's Secret model, making her one of the original "Angels" and the first from both the brand and from her country. In the early 2000s, she began to speak out about the dark side of the modeling industry and the dangers faced by underage girls and young women.
Corine Spier-Rottschäfer was a Dutch model and beauty queen who won the 1959 Miss World contest, representing the Netherlands. She was the first woman from her country to win the title. The pageant was held in London, United Kingdom.
Yfke Sturm is a Dutch model.
Cecile Sinclair is a British-Dutch model. She is best known as the winner of the third cycle of Holland's Next Top Model.
Elisabeth Dorathea List, generally known as Liesbeth List was a Dutch singer, stage actress and television personality. She became popular during the 1960s and frequently collaborated with Ramses Shaffy. She also sang Jacques Brel's chansons in Dutch translation.
Olcay Gülşen, also known as OJ Gulsen, is a Dutch fashion designer. She was the owner of fashion label "SuperTrash" from 2009 to 2018.
Ralf J. J. Mackenbach is a Dutch plasma physicist, artist and former child star who rose to prominence after winning the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Kyiv, Ukraine with the song "Click Clack". He is the first and so far only Dutch winner of the contest.
Miles Aldridge is a British fashion photographer and artist.
Bart van Leeuwen was a Dutch photographer and author.
Hendrik Evert Koot was a Dutch collaborator with the German occupying forces during World War II. A member of the WA, the paramilitary wing of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB), he was beaten up by members of a local knokploeg in Amsterdam on 11 February 1941. His injuries were so severe that he died a few days later. His death was seized by the German authorities to start raids in the Jodenbuurt, the Amsterdam Jewish quarters, which in turn led to the February strike. Another element of Nazi retaliation was the installation of a Judenrat in Amsterdam: the Jewish Council of Amsterdam.
The Weerbaarheidsafdeling was the paramilitary arm of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB), the fascist political party that collaborated with the German occupiers of the Netherlands during World War II. The organization, roughly equivalent to the German SA, was founded in 1932 by Anton Mussert, co-founder of the NSB in 1931 and its leader until the end of the war. Members wore and marched in black uniforms and were thus called "blackshirts". In 1933 the Dutch government banned the wearing of uniforms, and the WA was disbanded in 1935 in order to forestall the Dutch government's banning it. In 1940, after the German invasion, the WA became openly active again, and more ruthless than before. They specialized in violent attacks, particularly on the Dutch Jewish population.
Jkvr. Corinne Elisabeth de Jonge van Ellemeet is a Dutch politician.
Cécile Dreesmann was a Dutch textile artist known for her innovative embroidery. She was particularly fond of working with silk, adding precious or semi-precious stones to the work of thread, creating volumes, like thread sculpture. She always defended embroidery as a form of personal art, in which everyone has to find their own way. She also published a number of books on textile art. She was a member of the wealthy Dutch Dreesmann family, connected to the Vroom & Dreesmann department stores.
Maria Antonia (Mies) Merkelbach (1904–1985) was a professional photographer, designer, and painter. In photography she followed her father, Jacob Merkelbach, a famous fashion photographer in Amsterdam, by working in his well-known studio called "Atelier J. Merkelbach" that he established in April 1913. She also worked for the studio as a high-fashion clothing model. She directed the studio after her father's death in 1942 until 1969. She and her husband took many portrait pictures of Queen Wilhelmina out of which one portrait was chosen as a state photograph.
Casparus Bernardus Oorthuys, known as Cas Oorthuys, was a Dutch photographer and designer active from the 1930s until the 1970s.
