Famous Inhabitants
- The football player Marco van Basten
- Olympic speed skating champion Jochem Uytdehaage.
- Author Geert van Istendael spent part of his childhood in the area.
- Publisher Willem Anton Hart was born here in 1946
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or inhabitants:
“The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)
“We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)