Willem - Given Name

Given Name

• Willem I (1772–1843), King of the Netherlands
• Willem II (1792–1849), King of the Netherlands
• Willem III (1817–1890), King of the Netherlands
• Willem of the Netherlands (1840–1879), Dutch prince
• Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange (b. 1967), Heir apparent to the Dutch throne
• Willem Aantjes (b. 1923), a Dutch politician
• Willem Adelaar (b. 1948), Dutch linguist
• Willem Andriessen (1887–1964), a Dutch pianist and composer
• Willem Arondeus (1894–1943), a Dutch artist and author
• Willem Barentsz (ca. 1550–1597), Dutch navigator and explorer
• Willem Bilderdijk (1756–1831), Dutch poet
• Willem Blaeu (1571–1638), Dutch cartographer, atlas maker, and publisher
• Willem Boy (1520–1592), a Flemish painter, sculptor, and architect
• Willem Breuker (b. 1944), a Dutch jazz bandleader, composer, arranger, and musician
• Willem Brouwer (b. 1963), Dutch football (soccer) player
• Willem Buiter (b. 1949), an ecomomist of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee
• Willem Claeszoon Heda (1594–ca. 1680), a Dutch Golden Age still-life artist
• Willem Cornelisz Schouten (ca. 1567–1625), a Dutch navigator of the Dutch East India Company
• Willem de Kooning, Abstract expressionist painter
• Willem de Sitter (1872–1934), a Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer
• Willem de Vlamingh (1640–ca. 1698), a Dutch sea-captain and explorer of Australia
• Willem Dafoe (b. 1955), American actor
• Willem Drees (1886–1988), Dutch politician
• Willem Drost (1633–1659), a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker
• Willem Einthoven (1860–1927), a Dutch doctor, physiologist, and inventor of the electrocardiogram
• Willem Elsschot (1882–1960), a Flemish writer and poet (pseudonym of Alfons-Jozef De Ridder)
• Willem Endstra (1953–2004), a Dutch real estate trader
• Willem Frederik Hermans (1921–1995), a Dutch author
• Willem Holleeder (b. 1958), Dutch criminal involved in the kidnapping of Heineken president Freddy Heineken
• Willem Hondius or Willem Hondt (1598–ca. 1652), a Dutch engraver, cartographer and painter
• Willem Hubert van Blijenburgh (1881–1936), a Dutch Olympic fencer
• Willem Jacob Luyten (1899–1994), Dutch-American astronomer
• Willem Jacob 's Gravesande (1688–1742), a Dutch philosopher and mathematician
• Willem Janssen (b. 1984), a Dutch footballer
• Willem Janszoon (ca. 1570–1630), Dutch navigator and colonial governor
• Willem Johan Kolff (1911–2009), inventor of the artificial kidney
• Willem Kes (1856–1934), Dutch conductor and violinist
• Willem Kalf (1619–1693), a Dutch Golden Age painter, art dealer, and appraiser
• Willem Kieft (1597–1647), a Dutch merchant and director-general of New Netherland
• Willem Kloos (1859–1938), a Dutch poet and literary critic
• Willem Konjore (b. 1945), a Namibian politician
• Willem Marinus Dudok (1884–1974), a Dutch modernist architect
• Willem Maris (1844–1910), a Dutch landscape painter
• Willem Meijer (1923–2003), a Dutch botanist and plant collector
• Willem Mengelberg (1871–1951), a Dutch conductor
• Willem Mons (1688–1724), brother of Peter the Great's mistress Anna Mons and secretary to Catherine
• Willem Oltmans (1925–2004), a Dutch journalist
• Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech (1591—1624), a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher
• Willem Pijper (1894–1947), a Dutch composer, music critic, and music teacher
• Willem Roelofs (1822–1897), a Dutch painter, water-colourist, etcher, lithographer and draughtsman
• Willem Sandberg (1897–1984), a Dutch typographer and museum curator
• Willem Sassen (1918–2002), Dutch Nazi collaborator, Waffen-SS officer and journalist
• Willem Siebenhaar (1863–1936), a Dutch-Australian social activist and writer
• Willem Surenhuis (ca. 1664–1729), a Dutch Christian scholar
• Willem Usselincx (1567–1647), a Flemish merchant, investor and diplomat
• Willem van Aelst (1627–1683), a Dutch still-life artist
• Willem Van Biljon (b. 1961), South African entrepreneur and technologist
• Willem van de Velde the Elder (ca. 1611–1693), a Dutch painter
• Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633–1707), a Dutch marine painter, son of above
• Willem van Hanegem (b. 1944), a Dutch football player and coach
• Willem van Mieris (1662–1747), a Dutch painter
• Willem van Otterloo (1907–1978), a Dutch conductor, cellist and composer
• Willem Verhulst (ca. 1625), the second director of the Dutch West India Company
• Willem Verstegen (ca. 1612—1659), merchant of the Dutch East India Company and chief of factory in Deshima
• Willem Willink (1750–1841), a wealthy Amsterdam merchant
• Willem Wilmink (1936–2003), a Dutch poet and writer
• Willem Wissing (1656–1687), a Dutch portrait artist
• Willem Witsen (1860–1923), a Dutch painter and photographer