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De Grootste Nederlander In 2004, the broadcasting company, KRO (Publieke Omroep) conducted a vote to discover the greatest Dutchmen/Dutchwomen of all time (De Grootste Nederlander). The series is based on BBC's 100 Greatest Britons. During the series, it included individual programmes on the top ten, with viewers having further opportunities to vote after each programme. The assassinated politician Pim Fortuyn was announced as the winner in a live television broadcast on November 15, 2004. This was said to be an "embarrassing" choice by several journalists and historians. The amount of calls was so large that not all could be counted before the end of the show; later it was announced that if all calls had counted, William of Orange would have won. The top ten Pim Fortuyn Willem van Oranje Willem Drees Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Desiderius Erasmus Johan Cruijff Michiel de Ruyter Anne Frank Rembrandt van Rijn Vincent van Gogh From 11-50 11 Aletta Jacobs 12 Christiaan Huygens 13 Annie M.G. Schmidt 14 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands 15 Johan Rudolf Thorbecke 16 Majoor Bosshardt 17 Anton Philips 18 Freddy Heineken 19 Hannie Schaft 20 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands 21 Baruch de Spinoza 22 Toon Hermans 23 Prince Claus 24 Johan van Oldenbarnevelt 25 Marco van Basten 26 Piet Hein 27 Joop den Uyl 28 Jan Adriaenszoon Leeghwater 29 Fanny Blankers-Koen 30 van Kooten en de Bie 31 Hugo de Groot 32 Johan de Witt 33 Anthony Fokker 34 Multatuli 35 Prince Bernhard 36 Wim Kok 37 M.C. Escher 38 Marco Borsato 39 Eric Hazelhoff Roelfzema 40 DJ Tiësto 41 Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands 42 Titus Brandsma 43 Cornelis Lely 44 Hans Teeuwen 45 Joseph Luns 46 Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel 47 Willem Kolff 48 Godfried Bomans 49 Hendrik Lorentz 50 Abel Tasman From 51-100 51 Joop van den Ende 52 André van Duin 53 Joost van den Vondel 54 Rinus Michels 55 Mies Bouwman 56 Willem Barentsz 57 Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis 58 Ruud Lubbers 59 Jan Tinbergen 60 Wim Sonneveld 61 Joke Smit 62 Frits Bolkestein 63 Jeroen Bosch 64 Johnny Kraaykamp, sr 65 Marga Klompé 66 Johannes Vermeer 67 Dick Bruna 68 Albert Plesman 69 Joop Zoetemelk 70 Hella Haasse 71 Thomas à Kempis 72 Koning-Stadhouder Willem III of Orange 73 Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer 74 Johannes Diderik van der Waals 75 Wubbo Ockels 76 Anna Maria van Schurman 77 Herman Boerhaave 78 Ruud Gullit 79 Monique van der Ven 80 Freek de Jonge 81 Anton Pieck 82 Boudewijn de Groot 83 Willem Frederik Hermans 84 Pieter Jelles Troelstra 85 Albert Heijn 86 Paul de Leeuw 87 Jac. P. Thijsse 88 Jan Wolkers 89 Piet Mondriaan 90 Simon Stevin 91 Willem Groen van Prinsterer 92 Rutger Hauer 93 Harry Mulisch 94 Abraham Kuyper 95 Maarten Tromp 96 Wim Kan 97 Paul Verhoeven 98 Belle van Zuylen 99 Ramses Shaffy 100 Abe Lenstra From 101-202 101 Gerard Reve 102 Anton de Kom 103 Max Euwe 104 Ko van Dijk 105 Gerrit Jan van der Veen 106 Hendrik Petrus Berlage 107 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes 108 Anton Geesink 109 Bert Haanstra 110 Claudius Civilis 111 C.H.D. Buys Ballot 112 Jan Pieterszoon Coen 113 Samuel van Houten 114 Ard Schenk 115 Nico Tinbergen 116 King Willem I of the Netherlands 117 Mary Dresselhuys 118 Simon Carmiggelt 119 John de Mol 120 Gerrit Rietveld 121 Frank Martinus Arion 122 Hans van Mierlo 123 Hadewych 124 Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck 125 Geert Groote 126 Sonja Barend 127 Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol 128 Jan van Speijk 129 Anton Corbijn 130 Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft 131 Bernard Haitink 132 Willem van Loon 133 Karel Appel 134 Johan Huizinga 135 Suze Groeneweg 136 Graaf Floris V 137 Koning Lodewijk Napoleon 138 L.E.J. Brouwer 139 Tobias Asser 140 Rem Koolhaas 141 Jacob Cats 142 Alexandra Radius 143 Eva Besnyö 144 Jan Rutgers 145 Reinier Paping 146 Paul Huf 147 P. J. H. Cuypers 148 Paul Crutzen 149 Samuel Sarphati 150 Frits Fentener van Vlissingen 151 Joris Ivens 152 Pieter Brueghel 153 Frans Hals 154 Simon Vestdijk 155 Olivier van Noort 156 Hendrik Colijn 157 Willem Beukelszoon 158 Viktor en Rolf 159 Cornelis Verolme 160 Lucebert 161 Sjoukje Dijkstra 162 Henri Polak 163 Loe de Jong 164 Ed van der Elsken 165 Hans van Manen 166 Theo Thijssen 167 Jan Steen 168 Anton Dreesmann 169 Jaap Eden 170 Willem Marinus Dudok 171 Johnny Jordaan 172 Benno Premsela 173 Louis Davids 174 Marlene Dumas 175 Erwin Olaf 176 Martinus Nijhoff 177 Christina Deutekom 178 Jacob Olie 179 Willem de Kooning 180 Remco Campert 181 Herman Gorter 182 Faas Wilkes 183 W.A. Visser ‘t Hooft 184 Ada Kok 185 Herman Daendels 186 Rudi Carrell 187 Pierre Bokma 188 Louis Andriessen 189 Henk Hofland 190 Jacob van Campen 191 Pieter Willem Adriaan Cort van der Linden 192 Jacob van Ruisdael 193 Theo van Doesburg 194 Pieter Saenredam 195 Ootje Oxenaar 196 Rineke Dijkstra 197 Hendrik Doeff 198 Fons Rademakers 199 Reinbert de Leeuw 200 Erik de Vries 201 Jan Dibbets 202 Johan van der Keuken External links The Greatest Dutchman Other Great People 100 Greatest Britons, Unsere Besten, The Greatest Canadian, Great South Africans, and Suuret Suomalaiset. 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