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:
“London, thou art of townes A per se.
Soveraign of cities, semeliest in sight,
Of high renoun, riches, and royaltie;
Of lordis, barons, and many goodly knyght;
Of most delectable lusty ladies bright;
Of famous prelatis in habitis clericall;
Of merchauntis full of substaunce and myght:
London, thou art the flour of Cities all”
—William Dunbar (c. 1465–c. 1530)
“All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitants ... do not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)