page_title: Bergen, North Holland
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Bergen, North Holland / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: Female athlete
context_page_description: Bergen is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Its North Sea beaches make it a popular destination for tourists. In 2001, the municipality was formed from a merger of the former municipalities of Egmond, Schoorl, and the smaller community of Bergen proper that had existed since 1811.
  Since about 1900, Bergen has been the home of many painters, writers and architects. Some of the work of this "Bergen School" is on exhibit at Museum Kranenburgh. The neighbourhood of Park Meerwijk, constructed in 1915, is made up entirely of villas in Amsterdam School style. There are regular art fairs in Bergen, as well as an annual music festival and arts festival.
  North of the town of Bergen are the Schoorlse Duinen, a nature area with the highest and widest dunes of the Netherlands, which reach about 59m above sea level, and are more than 5 km wide in some places.
  Other points of interest in the municipality include the aquarium in the seaside village of Bergen aan Zee, the Auto Union Museum in Bergen with a collection of classic cars, and the historical museums Het Sterkenhuis and Museum van Egmond.
context_section_description: Saint Adalbert of Egmond (died ca. 710 in Egmond) a Northumbrian Anglo-Saxon missionary
  Egmond family (1310 - 1574) one of the principal noble families of the County of Holland
  Arnold, Duke of Guelders  (1410 in Egmond-Binnen – 1473) Duke of Guelders & Count of Zutphen
  Jan van Scorel (1495 in Schoorl – 1562) a Dutch painter
  Pierre Golle (1620 in Bergen - 1684) a cabinetmaker and designer
  Adriaan Roland Holst (1888 – 1976 in Bergen) a writer and poet, lived in Bergen from 1918
  Charley Toorop (1891 – 1955 in Bergen) a painter and lithographer, lived in Bergen from 1932
  Edgar Fernhout (1912 in Bergen - 1974) a Dutch painter
  Simeon ten Holt (1923 in Bergen – 2012) a Dutch contemporary classical composer
  Saskia Weishut-Snapper (born 1938) a Dutch fiber artist, grew up in Bergen
  Elly de Waard (born 1940 in Bergen) poet and music reviewer
  Adriaan van Dis (born 1946 in Bergen aan Zee) a Dutch author
  Thé Lau (1952 in Bergen - 2015) a Dutch musician and writer
  Saskia Noort (born 1967 in Bergen) a Dutch crime-writer and freelance journalist
  Jan Roos (born 1977 in Bergen), journalist and politician
  Jim Bakkum (born 1987 in Egmond-Binnen) a singer, actor, and TV personality 
  Maan de Steenwinkel (born 1997 in Bergen), singer, winner of The Voice of Holland
caption: Marja Wokke, 2012
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