Schiedam - People From Schiedam

People From Schiedam

• Maarten Biesheuvel (born 1939) - Dutch writer
• Rob Cordemans (born 1974) - Dutch baseball player
• Luc Castaignos (born 1992) - footballer, currently playing for Internazionale FC.
• Rinus Gosens (born 1920) - footballer
• Herman Heinsbroek (born 1951) - Dutch entrepreneur and former Minister of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands
• Erik Jazet (born 1971) - hockey player and coach
• Ali El Khattabi (born 1977) - footballer
• Danny Koevermans (born 1978) - footballer
• Saint Lidwina (1380–1433) - Catholic saint
• Robert Maaskant (born 1969) - footballer
• Piet Paaltjes pen name of Francois Haverschmidt (1835–1894) - Protestant clergyman and romantic author
• Patricia Paay - singer and now TV juror
• Rien Poortvliet (1932–1995) - sketcher and painter
• Jan van Riebeeck - (1619–1677), colonial administrator and founder of Cape Town (South Africa). Van Riebeeck grew up in Schiedam, although he was born in Culemborg, Netherlands.
• Andre van Troost (born 1972) - English County cricket player (Somerset)
• Pieter van Vollenhoven (born 1939) - husband of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
• Pauline van der Wildt (born 1944) - swimmer
• Elizabeth Witmer (born 1946) - member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada
• John de Wolf (born 1962) - footballer