Jules Deelder (1944–2019), poet, writer, DJ, night mayor. Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536), philosopher and humanist. Pim Fortuyn (1948–2002), assassinated politician. Leo Fuld (1912–1997), singer. Piet Pieterszoon Hein (1577–1629), naval fleet officer and privateer. Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852–1911), Dutch physical chemist, first winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Rem Koolhaas (born 1944), internationally renowned architect. Willem de Kooning (1904–1997), painter. Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733), philosopher, political economist and satirist. Mary Louisa Molesworth (1839–1921), an English writer of children's stories. Coen Moulijn (1937–2011), football player of Feyenoord. Johan van Oldebarnevelt (1547–1619), statesman of the Dutch Revolt. Jan Jacob van Oosterzee (1817–1882), a Dutch divine. Colonel Tom Parker (1909–1997), manager of Elvis Presley. Robin van Persie (born 1983), Feyenoord forward and Dutch international footballer. James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth (1649–1685), English nobleman and military officer. Marten Toonder (1912–2005), comic writer. Maarten Tromp (1598–1653) & Cornelis Tromp (1629–1691), Dutch admirals. Angela Visser (born 1966), model, actress, Miss Holland 1988 and Miss Universe 1989. In popular culture Rotterdam features in Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall" (1835). Rotterdam features in J.T. Sheridan Le Fanu's "Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter" (1839). In season 1, episode 2 of The Golden Girls ("Guess Who's Coming to the Wedding?"), Dorothy reminisces how her ex-husband, Stan, would buy her tulips after they fought. "Towards the end, our house looked like Easter in Rotterdam." In 1996, the British band The Beautiful South recorded a song named after this region titled "Rotterdam (or Anywhere)." Part of Jackie Chan's 1998 film Who Am I? is set in Rotterdam. Ender's Shadow, part of the series Ender's Game is partially set in Rotterdam. In the 2004 video game Hitman: Contracts, the missions "Rendezvous in Rotterdam" and "Deadly Cargo" are both set in Rotterdam. The 2017 Laurence Olivier Award-winning play Rotterdam, written by Jon Brittain, is set in the city. In Battlefield V, this city is used as a map released on its two of its maps on launch, which are Rotterdam and Devastation, and featured the British Army fighting against the Wehrmacht and according to its history, the white building was almost left untouched by the bombing during WWII and that building can be seen on both in-game and real world. See also World's busiest ports, by type of port (a "list of lists") References Footnotes Notes Bibliography External links Rotterdam City Council