Issue No. 2 · September 2026
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    Issue No. 2 · September 2026

    NLThe Most Famous People from Netherlands

    Top 36 of 36 ranked · September 2026 · See today's live standing →

    Everyone, living or dead, on one scale: 32 of the 36 listed are living.

    First issue under methodology v5.70. Movement begins with the next issue frozen under the same version.

    The Most Famous People from Netherlands is the September 2026 edition of the ranking, frozen and published by iFAMOUS, the monthly journal of the iFANN Global Fame Rankings.

    RankNameScore
    124.2
    2
    Memphis Depay
    NLcelebrityAlive
    19.4
    3
    Virgil van Dijk
    NLcelebrityAlive
    18.9
    4
    Johan Cruyff
    NLcelebrity
    17.3
    5
    Mark Rutte
    NLpoliticianAlive
    16.6
    6
    Dean Huijsen
    NLcelebrityAlive
    15.2
    7
    Cody Gakpo
    NLcelebrityAlive
    15.2
    8
    Robin van Persie
    NLcelebrityAlive
    14.0
    9
    Frenkie de Jong
    NLcelebrityAlive
    13.7
    10
    Ronald Koeman
    NLcelebrityAlive
    13.6
    11
    Arne Slot
    NLcelebrityAlive
    13.6
    12
    Arjen Robben
    NLcelebrityAlive
    13.5
    13
    Famke Janssen
    NLcelebrityAlive
    13.2
    14
    Crysencio Summerville
    NLcelebrityAlive
    12.5
    15
    Ruud van Nistelrooy
    NLcelebrityAlive
    12.3
    16
    Marco van Basten
    NLcelebrityAlive
    12.2
    17
    Tijjani Reijnders
    NLcelebrityAlive
    11.8
    18
    Dennis Bergkamp
    NLcelebrityAlive
    11.8
    19
    Frank Rijkaard
    NLcelebrityAlive
    11.7
    20
    Donyell Malen
    NLcelebrityAlive
    11.2
    21
    Xavi Simons
    NLcelebrityAlive
    10.9
    22
    Louis van Gaal
    NLcelebrityAlive
    10.8
    23
    Wesley Sneijder
    NLcelebrityAlive
    10.8
    24
    Edwin van der Sar
    NLcelebrityAlive
    10.4
    25
    Rutger Hauer
    NLcelebrity
    9.7
    26
    JP van Hecke
    NLcelebrityAlive
    9.7
    27
    Micky van de Ven
    NLcelebrityAlive
    9.4
    28
    Paul Verhoeven
    NLcelebrityAlive
    9.2
    29
    Carice van Houten
    NLcelebrityAlive
    9.0
    309.0
    31
    Denzel Dumfries
    NLcelebrityAlive
    8.0
    32
    Frimpong
    NLcelebrityAlive
    7.9
    33
    Sidny Lopes Cabral
    NLcelebrityAlive
    7.3
    34
    Michiel Huisman
    NLcelebrityAlive
    7.2
    35
    Femke Bol
    NLcelebrityAlive
    5.5
    36
    Mexx Meerdink
    NLcelebrityAlive
    3.3

    About this list

    This list ranks people from Netherlands by their overall worldwide fame rather than local attention, as assessed for September 2026: the top 36 of 36 names, frozen as the permanent record of that edition. This is the standard reading: everyone, living or dead, on one scale. 32 of the 36 listed are living; the Alive reading restricts the same ranking to living people.

    Vincent van Gogh is No. 1 on this list for September 2026. Behind Vincent van Gogh come Memphis Depay and Virgil van Dijk.

    What famous means here

    Fame, in iFAMOUS, is how widely the world knows a name: how recognisable a person's name, face or work is, and how well people know who they are. It is assessed from extensive historical and current public data, some of it reaching back more than twenty years, and it is not merit, talent, importance or popularity on iFANN. The rankings model real-world global fame, not internet fame; the data is the instrument, not the subject. Activity on iFANN itself is excluded.

    The month in the title is the date of this edition, not the period measured. The list is a snapshot of overall fame as it stood when the issue was frozen: a name does not lose its place because one month was quiet, and a trending moment alone does not put a name here. Trending attention is published separately on ifann.net.

    How the list was ranked

    The iFANN Global Fame Rankings combine worldwide Wikipedia readership across languages, worldwide news coverage and search interest anchored against stable reference names, with search history reaching back to 2004. A twelve-month baseline sits behind the current reading and short-lived surges are capped, so the list reflects durable recognition rather than one week of headlines. Rankings are computed daily on ifann.net and frozen on the second day of the following month as that month's issue; a published issue never changes.

    About Netherlands

    Netherlands is one of the countries and regions the journal ranks every month. Country lists use the same rankings and the same scale as The 100, so a name can be compared with its neighbours and against the world.

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    iFAMOUS is published by iFANN and powered by the iFANN Global Fame Rankings v5.70. Today's live standing for this list is on ifann.net; the journal freezes it once a month so it can be cited permanently.

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    Cite as
    "Vincent van Gogh, No. 1 on The Most Famous People from Netherlands", iFAMOUS No. 2 (September 2026), ifamous.org

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