Public thinking & public service •
Rodolphus Agricola ( in Baflo – 1485) pre-Erasmian humanist, Hebrew scholar, educator, musician and builder of a church organ •
Wigbolt, Baron Ripperda (c. 1535 in Winsum – 1573) city governor of
Haarlem when the city was under siege in the
Eighty Years' War •
Willem Surenhuis (c. 1664 in Rottum – 1729) Dutch Christian scholar of Hebrew •
Hendrik Bulthuis (1865 in Warffum – 1945) Dutch customs official, author and translator of more than thirty works into Esperanto •
Gezina van der Molen (1892 in Baflo – 1978) legal scholar and resistance fighter during WWII •
Cornelis Simon Meijer (1904 in Pieterburen – 1974) Dutch mathematician and academic •
Sicco Mansholt (1908 in Ulrum – 1995) Dutch politician and diplomat •
Aldert van der Ziel (1910 in Zandeweer – 1991) Dutch physicist who studied
electronic noise processes •
Molly Geertsema (1918–1991) politician and jurist, mayor of Warffum 1953–1957 •
Martin Zijlstra (1944 in Eenrum – 2014) Dutch politician •
Gert Hekma (born 1951 in Bedum - 2022) Dutch anthropologist, sociologist and academic •
Klaas Knot (born 1967 in Bedum) Dutch economist, president of the Dutch central bank
De Nederlandsche Bank The arts •
Hermanus Numan (1744 in Ezinge – 1820) painter, draftsman, pastellist, etcher, engraver, watercolorist, art theorist and publisher •
Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman (1882 in Leens – 1945) experimental Dutch artist, typographer and printer •
Frits Peutz (1896 in Uithuizen – 1974) architect •
Seth Gaaikema (1939 in Uithuizen – 2014) cabaret artist, writer, and lyricist •
Ede Staal (1941 in Warffum – 1986) Dutch singer-songwriter, sang mainly in
Gronings dialect •
Freek de Jonge (born 1944 in Westernieland) Dutch cabaret performer and writer
Sport •
Arjen Robben (born 1984 in Bedum) professional
footballer for
FC Bayern Munich and the
Netherlands national football team with 420 and 96 caps respectively •
Ranomi Kromowidjojo (born 1990 in Sauwerd) Dutch swimmer, triple Olympic champion == References ==