Editing Meppel (section)

==Notable people==
[[File:Fresco Louise Foto Henk Thomas.jpg|100px|thumb|Louise Fresco]]
[[File:Petrus Kiers (1807-1875).jpg|100px|thumb|Petrus Kiers]]
* [[Jan Jansen Bleecker]] (1641–1732) a merchant and political figure, [[List of mayors of Albany, New York|Mayor of Albany, New York]]
* [[Arent Magnin]] (1825–1888) a Dutch politician in the administration on the [[Dutch Gold Coast]]
* [[Petrus Johannes Waardenburg]]  (1886 in Nijeveen – 1979) a Dutch ophthalmologist and geneticist; [[Waardenburg syndrome]] is named after him
* [[Ben Nijboer]] (1915–1999) a Dutch physicist and academic in [[optics]] and [[solid-state physics]]
* [[Louise Fresco]] (born 1952) a Dutch scientist and writer on globally [[sustainable food production]] 
* [[Catrien Santing]] (born 1958) a Dutch [[Medieval studies|medievalist]]
* [[Erik Kwakkel]] (born 1970) a Dutch scholar who specialises in medieval manuscripts, [[paleography]] and [[codicology]]
* [[Albert van der Haar]] (born 1975) is a Dutch former footballer with almost 500 club caps

===The arts===
* [[Petrus Kiers]] (1807–1875) a Dutch painter, graphic artist and photographer
* Sir [[Joseph Joel Duveen]] (1843–1908) an art dealer and benefactor of art galleries.<ref>{{Cite DNB12 |wstitle= Duveen, Joseph Joel |volume= 1 |pages= 539-540 |last= Roberts |first= William |author-link= |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Henry J. Duveen]] (1854–1919) an art dealer
* [[Eduard Frankfort]] (1864–1920) a Dutch Jewish painter 
* [[Jan Mankes]] (1889–1920) a Dutch painter, sometimes categorized as a symbolic realist
* [[Jelle Taeke de Boer]] (1908–1970) a Dutch art collector
* [[Roelof Frankot]] (1911–1984) a Dutch painter, a strong relation with the [[CoBrA]] movement
* [[Emmanuel Ohene Boafo]] (1993) a Dutch-Ghanaian actor, and winner of the Louis d'Or 2021
* [[Marcel Vos]] (born 1997) a Dutch [[YouTuber]]<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=3&v=1vFoUnlQInU&feature=youtu.be |title=Meppel's Kwartiertje - Marcel Vos |date=2025-03-03 |last=Meppel's Kwartiertje |language=Dutch |access-date=2025-03-08 |via=YouTube}}</ref>