page_title: Noordwijk
section_title: Personalities and public figures in Noordwijk
hierarchical_section_title: Noordwijk / Personalities and public figures in Noordwijk
context_page_description: Noordwijk is a town and municipality in the west of the Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of 51.45 km² of which 15.97 km² is water and had a population of 42,859 in 2019.
  On 1 January 2019, the former municipality of Noordwijkerhout became part of Noordwijk.
  Besides its beaches, Noordwijk is also known for its bulb flower fields. It is located in an area called the "Dune and Bulb Region".
  Noordwijk is also the location of the headquarters for the European Space Research and Technology Centre, part of the European Space Agency. ESA's visitors' centre Space Expo is a permanent space exhibition.
context_section_description: Public figures who lived in Noordwijk or sought recovery were Thomas Mann, Maria Montessori (buried in Noordwijk) among others, the entrepreneur Alfred Heineken, ex-Empress Soraya, the poet Henriette Roland Holst, the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, the writer Stefan George, the pianist Pia Beck , the tenor Jacques Urlus, the writer Margriet de Moor as well as painters and artists such as Marinus Gidding, Gerard van der Laan, Max Liebermann, Daniël Noteboom, Jan Hillebrand Wijsmuller and known film actors.
  The landscape painter Ludolph Berkemeier (buried in Noordwijk) moved in 1896 to Noordwijk. His paintings are in the style of the Hague School.
  Noordwijk is also home of football coach Louis van Gaal.
  In March 2014, the US President Barack Obama and President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping stayed in Noordwijk
  Part of Martin Ritt's adaptation of John le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), starring Richard Burton, was filmed at Koningin Astrid Boulevard in Noordwijk. This is where Burton's character Alec Leamas is taken for initial interrogation after appearing to defect to the East.
caption: Max Liebermann (1906): Dune near Nordwijk with child.
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