text: Bart Veldkamp (born 1967), speed skater
  Kees Verkerk (born 1942), speed skater
  Martin Verkerk (born 1978), tennis player
  Jos Verstappen (born 1972), F1 Grand Prix racing driver
  Max Verstappen (born 1997), F1 Grand Prix racing driver
  Koen Verweij (born 1990), speed skater
  Bert van Vlaanderen (born 1964), long-distance runner
  Gregory van der Wiel (born 1988), football player
  Harm Wiersma (born 1953), checkers player
  Hans Wouda (born 1941), water polo player
  Marcel Wouda (born 1972), swimmer
  Joop Zoetemelk (born 1946), cyclist
  Epke Zonderland (born 1986), gymnast
  Anish Giri (born 1994), chess player
  Other
  Willem Doorn (1836–1908), for 33 years vicar of Nobel Street Church in The Hague
  Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1165–1197), King of Germany (1190–1197), Holy Roman Emperor (1191–1197), King of Sicily (1194–1197)
  Pope Adrian VI (1522–1523), pope from 1522 to 1523
  Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper (1890–2005), oldest person in the world from 29 May 2004 to 30 August 2005
  Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983), Christian activist during the Holocaust
  Aaron Abbas (18th century), Jewish editor and printer
  Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, (1788–1899) officially first ever validated supercentenarian
  Evert Dudok (born 1959), president of EADS Astrium Space Transportation
  Gretta Duisenberg (born 1942), pro-Palestinian activist and the wife of Wim Duisenberg
  Esmée van Eeghen (1918–1944), Dutch resistance member