Notable People From Groningen
- Etta Palm d'Aelders (1743), early feminist and spy
- Willem Arnold Alting (1724), Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1780 until 1797
- Joseph Ascher (1829), composer and pianist
- Jacob B. Bakema (1914) modernist architect
- Daniel Bernoulli (1700), mathematician and physicist
- Dirk Bolt (1930), architect and town planner
- Roche Braziliano (ca. 1635), pirate
- Volcher Coiter (1534), anatomist, founder of comparative osteology and first to identify cerebrospinal meningitis
- Julia Culp (1880), mezzo-soprano, the "Dutch nightingale"
- Albert Eckhout (1610), painter
- Jaap Eden (1873), only male athlete to have won world championships in both speed skating and cycling
- Dirk Jan de Geer (1870), Jonkheer, conservative statesman and Dutch Prime Minister (1926–1929, 1939–1940), disgraced for advocating a peace settlement between the Netherlands and Nazi Germany in 1940
- John Goodricke (1764), astronomer
- Nico Habermann (1932), computer scientist
- Tiberius Hemsterhuis (1685), philologist
- Pete Hoekstra (1953), American Republican member of Congress representing Michigan's 2nd congressional district
- Samuel van Houten (1837), politician, cabinet minister and founder of the short lived Liberal Party
- Johan Huizinga (1872), historian
- Jozef Israëls (1824), painter
- Dirk Janssen (1881), gymnast in the 1908 Summer Olympics who was 105 at the time of his death in 1986, making him the longest-lived Olympic competitor in history
- Gerard Kemkers (1967), speed skating bronze medalist at 1988 Winter Olympics
- Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer (1604), Dutch admiral
- Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831), painter
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853), Nobel laureate physicist who pioneered refrigeration techniques and discovered superconductivity
- Wim T. Schippers (1942), artist, comedian
- Maarten Schmidt (1929), astronomer who named and was the first to optically identify a quasar
- Jan Sloot (ca. 1945), inventor, claimed to have invented a revolutionary data compression technique
- Rutger Smith (1981), track and field athlete competing in shot put and discus throw, the first athlete to win medals at World Championships in both events
- A. W. L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer (1888), Dutch nobleman and last colonial Governor-General of the Netherlands East Indies, now Indonesia
- Jan C. Uiterwijk (1915), entrepreneur and shipping line owner
- Stephan Veen (1970), two-time Olympic gold medalist in field hockey with the Dutch national squad in the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Ida Vos (1931), writer and poet
- Corrie Winkel (1944), backstroke swimmer and silver medalist in the 4x100 m medley relay at the 1964 Summer Olympics
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