Editing Den Helder (section)

=== Public thinking and public service ===
* [[Frans van Anraat]] (born 1942), businessman, sold raw materials to produce chemical weapons to [[Saddam Hussein]]
* [[Marleen Barth]] (born 1964), politician, trade union leader and journalist
* [[Petrus Johannes Blok]] (1855–1929) a Dutch historian
* [[Edward W. Bok]] (1863–1930), Dutch-American editor, [[Pulitzer Prize]] winner
* [[Esther Welmoet Wijnaendts Francken-Dyserinck]] (1876–1956) a journalist, feminist and co-founder of Dutch Girl Guiding
* [[Cornelis Giles]] (1675–1722), a navigator and cartographer
* [[Rijkman Groenink]] (born 1949), banker, CEO of [[ABN-Amro]]
* [[Gerard 't Hooft]] (born 1946), physicist and academic, shared the 1999 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]
* [[William Lonsdale (colonist)|William Lonsdale]] (1799–1864), soldier, colonialist, helped found [[Melbourne, Australia]]
* [[Theo de Meester]] (1851–1919) politician, [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands]] 1905 to 1908 
* [[Ed Nijpels]] (born 1950), former minister of Housing (1986–1989) and former mayor of [[Breda]]
* [[Dorus Rijkers]] (1847–1928), lifeboat captain and folk hero
* [[Paul Rosenmöller]] (born 1956), a TV presenter and former politician and trade unionist
* [[René Schoof]] (born 1955), mathematician and academic in Rome
* [[Aletta Stas-Bax]] (born 1965) an entrepreneur in Swiss watches and an author