Science
- Jan Leeghwater (1575–1650) hydraulic engineer
- Hugo Grotius (1583–1645) laid the foundations for international law
- René Descartes French philosopher lived in Holland from 1628 till 1649.
- Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695) was a famous mathematician, physicist and astronomer
- Simon Stevin (1548–1620), mathematician and engineer, credited for being the first to accept negative numbers as a solution to equations, and for having laid the basic laws of modern hydrostatics.
- Baruch de Spinoza (1632–1677) philosopher
- Anton van Leeuwenhoek who invented or greatly improved the microscope (opinions differ) and was the first to methodically study microscopic life, thus laying the foundations for the field of cell biology.
- Nicolaes Tulp (1593–1674) Doctor, Magistrate, and Mayor of Amsterdam, wrote a book on diseases and human & animal anatomy
- Cornelis Corneliszoon (1550 – ca. 1600) Inventor of the sawmill
- Govert Bidloo (1649–1713) physician, anatomist and author who wrote the anatomical atlas Anatomia Humani Corporis
- Frederik de Wit (1630–1706) engraver, cartographer and publisher
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)