page_title: Nissewaard
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Nissewaard / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: Dirk van Hogendorp as the gouvernor of Hamburg, with a map of the cities fortifications and a bust of Napoleon. Restored in 2005
context_page_description: Nissewaard is a municipality in the Netherlands, located on the island of Voorne-Putten, in the south of the province of South Holland. It was created through a merger of the municipalities of Spijkenisse and Bernisse on 1 January 2015.
  Nissewaard has a population of about 85,000 as of 2014.
context_section_description: Dirk van Hogendorp (1761 in Heenvliet – 1822) a somewhat "troublesome" Dutch officer and author
  Jan Campert  (1902 in Spijkenisse –  1943) a journalist, theater critic and writer
  Marleen de Pater-van der Meer (1950 in Hekelingen – 2015) a Dutch politician
  Jan Bechtum (born 1958 in Spijkenisse) a Dutch guitarist and composer
  Erik de Jong (born 1961 in Spijkenisse) known as Spinvis, a Dutch one-man music project
  Medy van der Laan (born 1968 in Spijkenisse) a retired Dutch politician
  Alexander van Oudenaarden (born 1970 in Zuidland) a Dutch biophysicist and systems biologist
  Sied van Riel (born 1978) a Dutch trance music DJ and producer, lives in Spijkenisse
  Björn Franken (born 1983 in Spijkenisse) known as Vato Gonzalez, DJ and producer
  Nick van de Wall (born 1987 in Spijkenisse) known as Afrojack, DJ and producer
  Duncan Laurence (born 1994 in Spijkenisse) singer, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2019
caption: Dirk van Hogendorp, ca.1813
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