Johannes Chrishostomus "Kick" Smit was a Dutch football player. He earned 29 caps and scored 26 goals for the Netherlands national football team, and played in the 1934 and 1938 World Cups. He is the first Netherlands football player who scored a goal in a World Cup. During his club career, he played for HFC Haarlem.
XerxesDZB is a Dutch football club based in Rotterdam.
Utrechtse Sportvereniging Elinkwijk, known as USV Elinkwijk is a Dutch football club, based in Utrecht. It played professional football during the years 1955–1970. Marco van Basten was a player of the club during his youth years.
Belgium was represented by Bob Benny, with the song "September, gouden roos", at the 1961 Eurovision Song Contest, which took place on 18 March in Cannes, France. The song was chosen in the national final on 29 February. Benny had previously represented Belgium in the 1959 contest. Future Belgian entrant Jacques Raymond finished runner-up in the final.
Netherlands competed at the 1972 Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg, West Germany. The team included 39 athletes, 26 men and 13 women. Competitors from Netherlands won 38 medals, including 14 gold, 13 silver and 11 bronze to finish 5th in the medal table.
Belgium sent a delegation to compete at the 1964 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan. Its athletes finished fourteenth in the overall medal count.
Willem Paul "Wim" van Duyl was a sailor from the Netherlands. He competed in the Dragon class at the 1948, 1952, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and finished in 8th, 6th, 13th and 13th place, respectively. He missed the 1956 Games due to their boycott by the Netherlands.
Women's football in the Netherlands has traditionally had a low profile and female players had to play abroad.
Franz Fuchs was an Austrian professional football manager. He coached ADO Den Haag, BVC Rotterdam, Holland Sport, Blauw-Wit Amsterdam, Feijenoord, Blauw-Wit Amsterdam, SK Sturm Graz, Belenenses and Hamborn 07.
Pieter Abramsen was a Dutch sculptor, and visiting professor at the Delft University of Technology, known for his work in which abstraction and realism are joined.
Gerda Becker is a retired Dutch table tennis player from Rotterdam. She competed at the 1976 and 1980 Summer Paralympics in the individual and team events and won two gold, one silver and one bronze medal.
Nicolaas Pieter "Nick" de Jong is a retired sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his country at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Enoshima. De Jong, as crew on the Dutch Flying Dutchman Daisy (H157), took the 6th place with helmsman Ben Verhagen. During the 1968 Summer Olympics in Acapulco he crewed Daisy (H187), again with helmsman Ben Verhagen to and an 18th place in the Flying Dutchman. For the 1972 Olympics De Jong made the switch from the Flying Dutchman to crew on the Soling with helmsman Heiki Blok and Rolf Kurpershoek. This team was nominated for the games by the KNWV. The nomination however did not resulted in a selection by the Dutch NOC.
Dora Dolz de Herman was a Spanish-Dutch artist, best known for her outdoor ceramic works in the form of chairs and sofas.
Teunis (Teun) Jacob was a Dutch wall painter and sculptor, who lived and worked in Rotterdam since the early 1950s. He made both figure and nonrepresentational art.
Daniël (Daan) van Golden was a Dutch artist, who has been active as a painter, photographer, collagist, installation artist, wall painter and graphic artist. He is known for his meticulous paintings of motives and details of everyday life and every day images.
The Hendrik Chabot Award is an annual award for visual artists presented by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, section South Holland. The prize ceremony is in the city hall of Rotterdam, where the prize is given by The Mayor of Rotterdam and the King's Commissioner in the province. The reward is named after the Rotterdam artist Hendrik Chabot.
Hendrik Everhart (Henk) Tas is a Dutch visual artist, working as a sculptor, photographer, graphic artist, and wall painter.
Gerard Weber is a Dutch former professional footballer for Excelsior Rotterdam. Nicknamed Webertje, Weber was known for his speed. He played both as a midfielder and as a forward. Weber won several championships with Excelsior. He went on to manage football teams in the Rotterdam region, living in Zwijdrecht.
Janine Wegman was a Dutch Hammond-organist and artist based in Rotterdam. She was one of the first Dutch people to be openly transsexual.
Johann Friedrich (Hans) Stöver was a German camp commander.
