List of people from The Hague

This is a list of people from The Hague.

Politicians

Daan van Bunge Cricketer who represented Netherlands in two Cricket World Cup events in 2003 and 2007.
Dick Advocaat – football (soccer) player and former coach of the Dutch national football (soccer) team
Raymond van Barneveld – darts player, four times Embassy/Lakeside champion and 2007 PDC World Champion
Peter Blangé – volleyball player who won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
Michael Boogerd – cyclist, winner of two stages of the Tour de France.
Dan Gadzuric – NBA player
Thom Harinck – legendary kickboxing trainer
Martin Jol – football (soccer) player; former coach of Tottenham Hotspur F.C. and AFC Ajax, current coach of Fulham FC.
Ties Kruize – field hockey player
Tim Krul – football (soccer) player; current goalkeeper Newcastle United F.C.
Alex Lely ("The Plague from The Hague") – pool player, who became World Pool Masters Champion
Aad Mansveld – football (soccer) player
Erica Terpstra – 1964 Olympic Swimming Champion, former Sports minister and current President of the Dutch Olympic Committee
Bart Veldkamp – 1992 Olympic Speed Skating Champion (10km)
Joop Zoetemelk – cyclist, winner of the Tour de France 1980.

Baruch Spinoza - 17th century philosopher, moved to The Hague in 1670, where he finished his Ethics. Spinoza died 7 years later, at age 45.
Christian Huygens - 17th century astronomer, physicist, mathematician. Member of the Royal Society, inventor of the pendulum clock and the pocket watch.
Hendrik Jut - murderer
Jan Tinbergen - economist, won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1969
Peter Timofeeff - weatherman
Erwin Krol - weatherman
Lucia de Berk - jailed nurse, alleged serial killer => was set free beginning of 2010 because there was not enough evidence to prove she had anything to do with the deaths of the people they claimed she killed.
Charles van der Leeuw - journalist