page_title: Beverwijk
section_title: Notable residents
hierarchical_section_title: Beverwijk / Notable residents
caption_attribution_description: Laurien Hoos during Papendal Games 2007
context_page_description: Beverwijk is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The town is located about 20 kilometres northwest of Amsterdam in the Randstad metropolitan area, north of the North Sea Canal very close to the North Sea coast. A railway tunnel and two motorway tunnels cross the canal between Beverwijk and the nearby city of Haarlem on the south bank.
  Around 1640, a town called Beverwyck was founded in the Dutch colony of New Netherland. That town's modern name is Albany, New York.
context_section_description: Gerard van Velsen (died 1296) Lord of Beverwijk, Noordwijk, and Velsen
  Richard Aertsz (1482–1577) a Dutch Renaissance painter of historical allegories
  Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (1500-1559) a Dutch Northern Renaissance painter
  Thomas Wijck (1616-1677) a Dutch painter of port views and genre paintings
  Rochus van Veen (1630–1693) was a Dutch Golden Age painter
  Isaac Johannes Lamotius (1646–1718) Governor of Mauritius 1677 to 1692 and an ichthyologist
  Wil Velders-Vlasblom (1930-2019) a politician and woman's rights activist, Mayor of Beverwijk 1986 to 1995
  Albert Boer (1935–2002) the author of Kamp Schoorl
  Henk Tijms (born 1944) a Dutch mathematician and academic
  Jan Baas (born 1950) a Dutch politician, alderman of Beverwijk 1990 to 1996
  Peter Pontiac (1951–2015) a Dutch cartoonist, comics artist and illustrator
  Peter de Wit (born 1958) a Dutch comics artist and cartoonist
  Astrid Joosten (born 1958) a Dutch TV personality and presenter
  Ilse Huizinga (born 1966) a Dutch jazz singer
  Willem de Rooij (born 1969) mixed media artist
  Kim-Lian van der Meij (born 1980) a musical actress, presenter and singer-songwriter
caption: Laurien Hoos, 2007
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