Editing Leeuwarden (section)

==Notable residents==
{{Main|List of people from Leeuwarden}}
[[File:Willem Karel Hendrik Friso van Oranje-Nassau, attributed to Johann Valentin Tischbein.jpg|175px|thumb|Willem van Oranje-Nassau, 1751]]
[[File:Mata Hari 13.jpg|175px|thumb|Mata Hari, 1906]]

* [[Lawrence Alma-Tadema]] (1836–1912), knighted painter
* [[Eva and Abraham Beem]] (1932/1934–1944), young Jewish Holocaust victims
* [[Cornelis Botke]] (1887–1954), painter and etcher
* [[Cisca Dresselhuys]] (born 1943), journalist and magazine editor
* [[Esmée van Eeghen]] (1918–1944), resistance fighter in World War II
* [[Dirk van Erp]] (1860–1933), artisan and metalsmith
* [[M. C. Escher]] (1898–1972), graphic artist
*[[Richard Hageman]] (1881–1966), conductor, pianist, composer, and actor<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006119/ IMDb Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240909201810/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006119/ |date=9 September 2024 }} retrieved 11 February 2020</ref>
* [[Willem van Haren]] (1710–1768), poet
* [[Havank]] (1904–1964), writer, journalist, and translator
* [[Wilhelmina van Idsinga]] (1788–1819), painter
* [[Johannes Henricus Gerardus Jansen]] (1868–1936), archbishop
* [[Wijerd Jelckama]] ({{circa}} 1490–1523), military commander
* [[Mata Hari]] (1876–1917), exotic dancer and courtesan, possible double agent<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1299792/  IMDb Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211112103551/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1299792/ |date=12 November 2021 }} retrieved 11 February 2020</ref>
* [[Hendrik Niehoff]] (1495–{{circa}} 1561), pipe organ maker
* [[Piet Paaltjens]] (1835–1894), minister and romantic author
* [[Joachim van Plettenberg]] (1739–1793), colonial governor
* [[Tjitske Reidinga]] (born 1972), actress<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0714921/  IMDb Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200906072316/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0714921/ |date=6 September 2020 }} retrieved 11 February 2020</ref>
*[[Jan Jacob Slauerhoff]] (1898–1936), poet and novelist
* [[Abraham Lambertsz van den Tempel]] (1622–1672), painter
* [[Pieter Jelles Troelstra]] (1860–1930), politician
* [[Cornelis Adriaan Lobry van Troostenburg de Bruyn]] (1857–1904), chemist
* [[Saskia van Uylenburg]] (1612–1642), wife of the painter [[Rembrandt van Rijn]]
* [[Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer]] (1715–1785), classical scholar
* [[Rinskje Visscher]] (1868–1950), first female municipal archivist in the Netherlands
* [[Campegius Vitringa]] (1659–1722), theologian
* [[Hans Vredeman de Vries]] (1527–{{circa}} 1607), architect, painter, and engineer
* [[Harm Wiersma]] (born 1953), draughts player and politician
* [[William IV, Prince of Orange]] (1711–1751), stadtholder
* [[Joost Klein]] (born 1997), rapper/singer and Participant of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024