text: Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (1567–1625), general and stadtholder
  Michiel de Ruyter (1607–1676), naval officer
  Cornelis Tromp (1629–1691), naval officer
  Maarten Tromp (1598–1653), naval officer
  Witte Corneliszoon de With (1599–1658), naval officer
  Cornelis de Witt (1623–1672), naval officer and statesman
  Philosophy
  Jacobus Arminius (1560–1609), philosopher and theologian
  Isaac Beeckman (1588–1637)
  Evert Willem Beth (1908–1964)
  Cornelius van Bynkershoek (1673–1743), jurist and legal theorist
  Pieter de la Court (1618–1685), economist and political theorist
  Herman Dooyeweerd (1894–1977), philosopher, Vrije Universiteit
  Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536), writer, polemicist, humanist, Protestant Reformation
  Hugo Grotius (1583–1645), also lawyer, playwright, and poet
  François Hemsterhuis (1721–1790)
  Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733), philosopher, political economist and satirist
  Johannes Jacobus Poortman (1896–1970)
  Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677), philosopher
  Cornelis Petrus Tiele (1830–1902), theologian and historian of religion
  Politics
  Before 20th century
  Pier Gerlofs Donia (1480–1520), warrior and freedom fighter
  William the Silent (1533–1584), stadtholder
  Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (1547–1619), statesman
  Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (1567–1625), general and stadtholder
  Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (1584–1647), general and stadtholder
  Andries Bicker (1586–1652), regent of Amsterdam, statesman
  Cornelis de Graeff (1599–1664), regent of Amsterdam, statesman
  Andries de Graeff (1611–1678), regent of Amsterdam, statesman
  Jan van Riebeeck (1619–1677), administrator and colonizer of Cape Town
  Cornelis de Witt (1623–1672), statesman