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Johan Kremers (born 1933 in Nieuwenhagen) a Queen's Commissioner of Limburg from 1977 to 1990 •
Harry Kempen (1937 in Nieuwenhagen – 2000) a cultural psychologist and academic •
Joep Lange (1954 in Nieuwenhagen – 2014) a Dutch clinical researcher in HIV therapy,
International AIDS Society from 2002 to 2004 •
Annemarie Mol (born 1958 in Schaesberg) a Dutch ethnographer, philosopher and academic •
Henk Blezer (born 1961 in Schaesberg) a Dutch
Tibetologist,
Indologist, and scholar of
Buddhist studies •
Sharon Walraven (born 1970 in Schaesberg) a Dutch wheelchair tennis player, silver medallist at the
2000 Paralympics and gold medallist at the
2008 Paralympics •
Carach Angren (formed 2003 in Landgraaf) is a
symphonic black metal band == See also ==