Velde the Elder (1610/11–1693) a Dutch Golden Age seascape painter Frans Post (1612–1680) a Dutch Golden Age painter Gerard Dou (1613–1675) a Dutch Golden Age painter Jan Steen (ca.1626–1679) a Dutch Golden Age genre painter Gabriel Metsu (1629–1667) painter of history paintings, still life, portraits and genre works Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633-1707) a Dutch marine painter Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635–1681) a Dutch Golden Age genre and portrait painter Jan Gaykema Jacobsz. (1798–1875) a Dutch painter, draughtsman and botanical illustrator Jan Elias Kikkert (1843–1925) a Dutch lithographer and watercolorist of street scenes of Leiden Coenraad V. Bos (1875–1955) a Dutch pianist, an accompanist to singers of lieder Theo van Doesburg (1883–1931) a Dutch artist, founder and leader of De Stijl Ernst Winar (1894–1978) a Dutch actor and film director Nina Foch (1924–2008) a Dutch American actress and drama teacher Michel Waisvisz (1949–2008) a Dutch composer, performer, inventor of experimental electronic musical instruments and artistic director of STEIM 1981-2008 Leoni Jansen (born 1955) a TV personality and anchor-woman, singer and stage-director Daniel Reuss (born 1961) a Dutch conductor, primarily a choral conductor Isa Hoes (born 1967) a Dutch actress and voice actress Eva Dorrepaal (born 1970) a Dutch actress Armin van Buuren (born 1976) a Dutch DJ, record producer and remixer Carice van Houten (born 1976) a Dutch actress and singer Dyro (born 1992) a Dutch DJ and Electronic dance music producer Science Rembert Dodoens (1517–1585) botanist, died in Leiden Charles de L'Écluse (1526–1609) botanist, horticulturist and director of Hortus Botanicus Leiden Ludolph van Ceulen (1540–1610) mathematician, computed the number π, pi Willebrord Snellius (1580–1626) a Dutch astronomer and mathematician Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738) a botanist, chemist, Christian humanist and physician Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697–1770) a German-born Dutch anatomist Gerard van Swieten (1700–1772) a Dutch physician, personal physician of Maria Theresa Petrus Camper FRS (1722–1789) a Dutch physician, anatomist, physiologist, midwife, zoologist, anthropologist, palaeontologist and a naturalist Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796–1866) a German physician and botanist, studied Japanese flora and fauna Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837–1923) a Dutch theoretical physicist, winner of the 1910 Nobel prize in Physics Hendrik Lorentz (1853–1928) a Dutch physicist, joint winner of the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853–1926) a Dutch physicist and winner of the 1913 Nobel prize in Physics Willem Einthoven (1860–1927) a Dutch physician and physiologist Pieter Zeeman (1865–1943) a Dutch physicist, joint winner of