Rients Dijkstra (1902-1970) was a Dutch lawyer and journalist. He operated a law office and had business dealings with the Tuschinski family; he was also a journalist for the daily newspaper De Telegraaf and part owner of De Groene Amsterdammer . He also played an important role in the country's cultural life, befriending and supporting writers and artists. [1]
The Edmund Burke Foundation is a conservative organization based in The Hague, the Netherlands.
Thijs Berman is a Dutch former journalist. Between 2004 and 2014, he was a Dutch politician and a Member of the European Parliament.
Gerard Nolst Trenité, publishing under the pseudonym Charivarius, was a Dutch writer, teacher, and observer of the English language.
The Anne Vondeling prize, named after the politician Anne Vondeling a member of the Dutch Labour Party, is an annual award in The Netherlands given to journalists who write in a clear manner concerning political subjects.
De Groene Amsterdammer is an independent Dutch weekly news magazine published in Amsterdam. It is one of the five independent opinion magazines in the Netherlands, alongside HP/De Tijd, Vrij Nederland, Elsevier and the Jewish weekly NIW.

Hans Koning was a Dutch American author of over 40 fiction and non-fiction books. Koning was also a prolific journalist, contributing for almost 60 years to many periodicals including The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, Harper's, The New Yorker, and De Groene Amsterdammer. He used the pen name Hans Koningsberger, and from 1972 Hans Koning.
Lodewijk 'Lou' Lichtveld was a Surinamese politician, playwright, poet and resistance fighter who wrote under the pseudonym "Albert Helman".
Abel Jacob Herzberg was a Dutch Jewish lawyer and writer, whose parents were Russian Jews who had come to the Netherlands from Lithuania. Herzberg was trained as a lawyer and began a legal practice in Amsterdam, and became known as a legal scholar also. He was a Zionist from an early age, and around the time of the outbreak of World War II he attempted to emigrate with his family to Palestine. During the war he remained active in Jewish organizations until he was interned, with his wife, in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where his legal background and status as a legal scholar earned him a seat on a prisoners' court. After their captors moved them from Bergen-Belsen, he and his wife were later liberated by the Soviets and made it back to the Netherlands, where they were reunited also with their children. He continued his legal practice in Amsterdam, though he traveled to Palestine and was offered an administrative position in newly-founded Israel.
Evaldo Cabral de Mello is a Brazilian historian, history writer and former diplomat, considered to be one of the most important Brazilian historians of the twentieth century.
Abdelkader Benali is a Moroccan-Dutch writer and journalist.
Johan Coenraad Braakensiek was a Dutch painter, illustrator, caricaturist and political cartoonist. He is the grandfather of Jan van Oort.
Martin Florian van Amerongen was a Dutch journalist, publisher, columnist and author. From 1985 to his death, except for a hiatus in 1997–1999, he served as editor-in-chief of the news weekly De Groene Amsterdammer.
Mathijs Nicolaas Bouman is a Dutch economist and journalist. He is a regular contributor to the TV programs RTL Z and De Wereld Draait Door and writes columns for Het Financieele Dagblad and the business website Z24.nl. A critic of the Dutch Polder model, in which "bad luck is officially forbidden" and "accidents are banned", he is referred to as a market liberalist, and as a prominent opinion builder whose Twitter account is recommended for "peppered" opinions.
De Gids is the oldest Dutch literary periodical still published today. It was founded in 1837 by Everhardus Johannes Potgieter and Christianus Robidé van der Aa. Long regarded as the most prestigious literary periodical in the Netherlands, it was considered outdated by the Tachtigers of the 1880s, who founded De Nieuwe Gids in opposition to the periodical. In 2011, De Gids ceased operations, but has been taken over as De-Gids-nieuwe-stijl by De Groene Amsterdammer.
Martine Postma is a Dutch environmentalist and former journalist. She is best known for introducing the concept of the Repair Café.
Eva Hartog is a Dutch journalist and contributor to De Groene Amsterdammer and Politico Europe. She joined the English language Moscow-based newspaper, The Moscow Times, in 2013 at the age of 25 going on to serve as the publication's editor in chief between 2017 and 2019.
Emy Koopman is a Dutch writer, journalist and presenter. She has written for De Groene Amsterdammer, de Volkskrant, de Correspondent and hard//hoofd.
Annemarie Grewel was a Dutch senator, educator, and columnist. She was an openly lesbian politician. Grewel was usually the chairperson of Labour Party congresses. In 1982, she became a columnist for De Groene Amsterdammer. In 1986, she was elected to the municipal council of Amsterdam. In 1995, she was elected to the Dutch Senate.
Paul Marie Louis Frentrop is a Dutch politician, professor and journalist who has been a member of the Senate for the Forum for Democracy (FvD) party from 2019 to 2022.
Peter Dick Nicolaï is a Dutch lawyer and politician of the Party for the Animals. He has served as a member of the Senate since 11 June 2019.