text: Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), painter
  Jan van Goyen (1596–1656), painter
  Mieke Groot (born 1949), glass artist
  Frans Hals (1580–1666), painter
  Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876–1923), painter, stained glass designer and graphic artist
  Milou Hermus (1947–2021), painter
  Jan van Herwijnen (1889–1965), painter
  Pieter de Hooch (1629–1684), painter
  Helena Klakocar (born 1958), cartoonist
  Willem de Kooning (1904–1997), painter
  Andrea Kruis (born 1962), illustrator
  Jeanne de Loos-Haaxman (1881–1976), art historian
  Han van Meegeren (1889–1947), forger of paintings
  Jacobus Anthonie Meessen (1836–1885), photographer
  Piet Mondrian (1872–1944), painter
  Rien Poortvliet (1932–1995), painter and illustrator
  Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669), painter
  Willem de Rooij (born 1969), contemporary artist
  Jacob van Ruisdael (c. 1628–1682), landscape painter
  Geertgen tot Sint Jans (active 1465–1495), painter
  Carolein Smit (born 1960), ceramic art sculptor
  Peter Spier (1927–2017), illustrator
  Jan Steen (1626–1679), painter
  Marten Toonder (1912–2007), comic creator
  Thierry Veltman (born 1939), painter and sculptor
  Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), painter
  Gisèle d'Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht (1912–2013), painter
  Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman (1882–1945), typographer and illustrator
  Jacob de Wit (1695–1754), painter
  Writers
  A. C. Baantjer (1923–2010), writer of detective fiction
  Paul Biegel (1925–2006), writer of children's books
  Remco Campert (1929–2022), novelist and poet
  Jacob Cats (1577–1660), poet
  Isabelle de Charrière (1740–1805), novelist
  Louis Couperus (1863–1923), novelist and poet