Francina ElsjeBlankers-Koen was a Dutch track and field athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She competed there as a 30-year-old mother of two, earning her the nickname "the Flying Housewife", and was the most successful athlete at the event.
Margaretha Guidone is a housewife from Helmond living in Kapellen (Belgium) who became famous in Flanders because of her campaign for the environment and against global warming. She successfully urged politicians to go see the new climate documentary by Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth. 200 politicians and political staff accepted her invitation, among whom were Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt and Minister-President of Flanders, Yves Leterme.
Paula van der Oest is a Dutch film director and screenwriter. Her 2001 film Zus & Zo was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
The following is a list of winners of the Golden Calf for best actor/actress at the Nederlands Film Festival. From 2021 onwards the award became a gender-neutral award.
The Saved is a Dutch documentary released in 1998. It was directed by Paul Cohen and Oeke Hoogendijk.
De Heidebloem is a smock mill in Erica, Netherlands. It was built in 1895. The mill is listed as a Rijksmonument, number 14962.
Ric Launspach is a Dutch actor, writer and director. He is married to actress Marjolein Beumer and is the brother-in-law to Famke Janssen and Antoinette Beumer.
Wim Verstappen was a Dutch film director and producer, television director, and screen writer.
The Rembrandt Award was a Dutch film award. Initially created in 1993, it was not awarded between 1999 and 2006, but was recreated in 2007 by René Mioch. It has not been awarded since 2015.
Waldemar Govinda Torenstra is a Dutch actor. For several years he worked as an actor in the Noord Nederlands Toneel, a touring theater company.
Heleen van Royen is a Dutch novelist and columnist. Her novel De gelukkige huisvrouw was best-selling Dutch novel of 2010. The candid descriptions of sexuality found in her books and her columns have drawn considerable attention, as have her personal revelations about sexual fantasies, even to the point of ridicule: Dorine Wiersma won the Annie M.G. Schmidt award for best theatrical song for "Stoute Heleen", a crude pastiche of van Royen's depictions of her own sexuality. Two of van Royen's novels were adapted for film, De gelukkige huisvrouw, and De ontsnapping. She has two children, daughter Olivia and son Sam. In November 2006, van Royen posed nude for Playboy.
Theodorus Johannes Thijssen was a Dutch writer, teacher and socialist politician. He is best known for the book Kees de Jongen.
Leona Philippo is a Canadian-born Dutch singer-songwriter of Jamaican origin. On 14 December 2012, she won the title for season 3 of the Dutch reality television music competition The Voice of Holland. She is also often credited simply as Leona.
Beatrix de Rijke, was a Dutch foundling in Dordrecht in 1421.
Hans Münstermann is a Dutch novelist, writer of almost a dozen novels. About half of them form a generational novel sequence that follows the life of a baby boomer named Andreas Klein, the son of a Dutch mother and a German man. His 2006 novel, De Bekoring, the fifth in that series, won the AKO Literatuurprijs in 2006; the sixth, Ik kom je halen als het zomer is, was published in 2010. Münstermann has a doctorate in theatrical studies and has worked at an academy in Maastricht since the 1980s, and from 1990 to 1995 he was a coordinator in actor training. He has also written a number of novels together with Jacques Hendrikx, under the pseudonym Jan Tetteroo.
Judith Magdolna Laqueur-Révész was a Hungarian-Dutch potter and sculptor.
Marit Törnqvist is a Swedish-Dutch author, artist and illustrator. She was best known for her illustrations in the books of Astrid Lindgren.
The Boekenpauw, also known as the Yvonne Gillé-Decoeneprijs, is a Flemish award for a Flemish or Dutch illustrator for the best illustrations in a children's book. The award is given by Boek.be and the winner receives €2,500.
HNLMS Krakatau was a minelayer of the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNN). She was built in the Dutch East Indies and served between 1924 and 1942 in the RNN.
The Real Housewives of Amsterdam, aka RHOAMS, is a Dutch reality television series that debuted on Videoland on November 24, 2022. Developed as the 18th international installment of The Real Housewives franchise, it documents the personal and professional lives of several women residing in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
