Top 50 most important and famous people from The Netherlands - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Painter of The Starry Night and The Potato Eaters	Vincent van Gogh	96%
Painter of The Night Watch and The Return of the Prodigal Son	Rembrandt	86%
One of the greatest footballers of all time, three times winner of Ballon d'Or, legend of Ajax and Barcelona	Johan Cruyff	75%
Painter of Girl with a Pearl Earring	Johannes Vermeer	73%
Exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I and executed in France	Mata Hari	72%
One of the best football defenders of the world, Liverpool player	Virgil van Dijk	72%
Explorer, the first known European to reach New Zealand and Tasmania	Abel Tasman	69%
Driver, champion of Formula 1 in 2021 and 2022	Max Verstappen	67%
Footballer, three times winner of Ballon d'Or, legend of AC Milan	Marco van Basten	64%
Footballer, winner of Ballon d'Or in 1987, legend of AC Milan	Ruud Gullit	58%
Businessman, chairman of one of the largest beer companies and one of the richest people in the Netherlands	Freddy Heineken	56%
One of the greatest guitarists and songwriter, founder of a famous rock band	Eddie van Halen	53%
Prime Minister from 2010	Mark Rutte	52%
The Father of Microbiology, famous for his pioneering work for the establishment of microbiology as a scientific discipline	Antonie van Leeuwenhoek	51%
Philosopher and Catholic theologian who is considered one of the greatest scholars of the northern Renaissance	Erasmus of Rotterdam	51%
Founder of one of the largest electronics companies, founded in Eindhoven in 1891	Anton Philips	48%
The main leader of the Dutch Revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs, considered the Father of the Fatherland	William The Silent/William of Orange	47%
Painter of The Arnolfini Portrait and Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban	Jan van Eyck	44%
Stadtholder of Holland and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland	William III of Orange	44%
Holy Roman Emperor, Lord of the Netherlands and King of Spain, the empire on which the sun never sets	Charles V	41%
Painter of Composition with Red Blue and Yellow and Evening; Red Tree	Piet Mondrian	41%
King from 2013	William-Alexander	40%
Painter of The Elevation of the Cross and The Judgement of Paris	Pieter Paul Rubens	39%
Actor, famous for his roles in Blade Runner and The Hitcher	Rutger Hauer	39%
Painter of Self-Portrait with a Sunflower and Lord John Stuart and his Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart	Antoon van Dyck	36%
Director of RoboCop and Basic Instinct	Paul Verhoeven	36%
Football coach of Ajax and the Netherlands national team. He is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all-time	Rinus Michels	34%
Graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts and lithographs	M. C. Escher	33%
One of the most skilled admirals in history, famous for his achievements with the Dutch Navy during the Anglo-Dutch Wars	Michiel de Ruyter	33%
Painter of The Hunters in the Snow and Netherlandish Proverbs	Pieter Bruegel	33%
Philosopher, one of the greatest exponents of XVII century Rationalism and one of the early thinkers of the Enlightenment	Baruch Spinoza	32%
Politician killed in 2002	Pim Fortuyn	31%
Painter of The Lute Player and Laughing Cavalier	Frans Hals	28%
Mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer who is regarded as one of the most important figures in the Scientific Revolution	Christiaan Huygens	27%
Actress famous for her role as Melisandre on the HBO television series Game of Thrones	Carice van Houten	23%
Female writer of XX century, the mother of the Dutch theatrical song and the queen of Dutch children's literature	Annie M. G. Schmidt	18%
Officer of the Dutch East India Company in the early XVII century, considered a national hero	Jan Pieterszoon Coen	18%
Architect, one of the significant architectural thinkers and urbanists of his generation, key figure of Deconstructivism	Rem Koolhaas	17%
Physicist who described the combined electric and magnetic forces acting on a charged particle in an electromagnetic field, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1902	Hendrik Lorentz	16%
Philosopher, a major figure in the fields of political theory and law during the XVI/XVII centuries	Hugo Grotius/Huig de Groot	16%
Theoretical physicist and thermodynamicist famous for his pioneering work on the equation of state for gases and liquids, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1910	Johannes van der Waals	14%
Cyclist, winner of Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana	Joop Zoetemelk	14%
Chemist, one of the founders of physical chemistry, the first winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry	Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff	11%
Architect of XVI/XVII century, most of his works appeared in Amsterdam	Hendrick de Keyser	10%
Meteorologist, who studied the ozone layer and climate change, he popularized the term Anthropocene to describe a proposed new epoch in the Quaternary period. Winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995	Paul Crutzen	10%
Founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital and is sometimes referred to as the father of physiology	Herman Boerhaave	9%
Writer, considered one of the greatest figures in Dutch literature of XX century, author of Eline Vere	Louis Couperus	9%
Biologist, the founder of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior. Winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1973	Nikolaas Tinbergen	9%
The most prominent Dutch poet and playwright of the XVII century. Author of Joannes de Boetgezant	Joost van den Vondel	5%
Prime Minister from 1948 to 1958	Willem Drees	5%

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