Notable People
- See also People from Arnhem
- Graphic artist M. C. Escher moved to Arnhem when he was five and spent most of his youth there.
- Dutch/British actress Audrey Hepburn attended Arnhem Conservatory during the war years 1939–45.
- Arnhem was the birthplace of physicist and Nobel Prize laureate Hendrik Lorentz in 1853.
- Cirque du Soleil artist (Love, 2006) Goos Meeuwsen was born in Arnhem.
- The English poet Sir Philip Sidney died in 1586 in Arnhem.
- Dutch water polo player Rik Toonen, winner of Olympic bronze in 1976, was born in Arnhem.
- The film comedienne Truus van Aalten was born in Arnhem in 1910.
- Arnhem was the deathplace of the architect Jan van der Jagt.
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