Editing Heerenveen (section)

==Notable residents==
[[File:Édouard Manet - Madame Manet ou Piano - 2.jpg|thumb|140px|''Mme Manet at the Piano,'' 1867–1868, [[Musée d'Orsay]], Paris]]
[[File:Cissy van Marxveldt.jpg|140px|thumb|Cissy van Marxveldt, ca.1915]]
[[File:Wim Duisenberg.jpg|140px|thumb|Wim Duisenberg, 2001]]

* [[Wilhelm Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach]] (1691 in Oranjewoud – 1741) a Duke of Saxe-Eisenach
* [[Hendrik Pasma]] (1813–1890), Mennonite pastor, writer, politician and farmer
* [[Suzanne Manet]] (born 'Leenhoff', 1829–1906), pianist and opera singer, wife of [[Édouard Manet]]
* [[Geerhardus Vos]] (1862–1949), a Dutch-American Calvinist theologian of the [[Princeton Theology]]
* [[Cissy van Marxveldt]] (1889 in Oranjewoud – 1948) a Dutch writer of children's books
* [[Albert Gillis von Baumhauer]] (1891–1939) a Dutch aviation pioneer, designed the first Dutch helicopter 
* [[Eelco van Kleffens]] (1894–1983) a Dutch politician and diplomat
* [[Herman Zanstra]] (1894 in Schoterland – 1972) a Frisian/Dutch astronomer
* [[Fedde Schurer]] (1898–1968), journalist, poet and politician and poet in the [[West Frisian language]]
* [[Adrianus van Kleffens]] (1899–1973) a judge at the [[European Court of Justice]] 1952/1958 
* [[Klaas Runia]] (1926 in Oudeschoot – 2006) a Dutch theologian, churchman and journalist
* [[Wim Duisenberg]] (1935–2005), politician and [[President of the European Central Bank]] 1998/2003 
* [[T. S. van Albada]] (born 1936 in Akkrum) a Dutch astronomer and academic
* [[Gretta Duisenberg]] (born 1942) a Dutch pro-Palestinian political activist
* [[Jacob de Haan (composer)|Jacob de Haan]] (born 1959), a Dutch contemporary composer known for wind music
* [[Tineke Postma]] (born 1978), a Dutch saxophonist
* [[Jan Huitema]] (born 1984), politician and [[Member of the European Parliament]] (MEP)

=== Sport ===
[[File:Sven Kramer (2009-01-11) crop-2.jpg|140px|thumb|Sven Kramer, 2009]]
* [[Abe Lenstra]] (1920–1985), a Dutch football player with 730 club caps
* [[Foppe de Haan]] (born 1943), football coach and politician
* [[Margriet Zegers]] (born 1954), a retired Dutch field hockey defender, team gold medallist at the [[1984 Summer Olympics]]
* [[Franke Sloothaak]] (born 1958) a German show jumping Olympic champion
* [[Nico-Jan Hoogma]] (born 1968) a former football defender with 517 club caps
* [[Falko Zandstra]] (born 1971), a former Dutch speed skater, silver medallist at the [[1992 Winter Olympics]] and bronze medallist the [[1994 Winter Olympics]]
* [[Carien Kleibeuker]] (born 1978) a Dutch long-distance speed skater, bronze medallist at the [[2014 Winter Olympics]] 
* [[Epke Zonderland]] (born 1986), a gymnast and gold medallist at the [[2012 Summer Olympics]]
* [[Sven Kramer]] (born 1986), long track speed skater, three time Olympic champion in the 5000 meters
* [[Vladislav Bykanov]] (born 1989) an Israeli Olympic short track speed skater, lives in Heerenveen
* [[Sanne Wevers]] (born 1991), an artistic gymnast, gold medallist at the [[2016 Summer Olympics]]
* [[Antoinette de Jong]] (born 1995) a Dutch speed skater, bronze medallist at the [[2018 Winter Olympics]] 
* [[Lisa Top]] (born 1996), a Dutch artistic gymnast
* [[Aafke Soet]] (born 1997), former short track speed skater, now cyclist
* [[Yasser Seirawan]] (born 1960), American/Syrian chess grandmaster and champion known for his books and commentary on chess games, 
* [[Andries Noppert]] (born 1994), Dutch National Team Goalkeeper World Cup 2022.
* [[Anna-Maja Kazarian]] (born 7 January 2000), a Dutch chess player who holds the titles of FIDE Master (FM) and Woman International Master.