WLaurens Jacobsz Alteras was a 17th-century Dutch vice admiral who distinguished himself as fleet commander under Jacob van Heemskerck in the battle of Gibraltar of 1607.
WCarl Heinrich Wilhelm Anthing was a German officer, in the Dutch Army.
WHans Willem van Aylva was a Dutch soldier.
WRobert Peter "Rob" Bauer is a lieutenant admiral in the Royal Netherlands Navy serving as Chief of Defence since 5 October 2017. He was Vice Chief of Defence of the Armed forces of the Netherlands from 1 September 2015 until 13 July 2017. After the resignation of Tom Middendorp, he became Chief of Defence.
WJacob Binckes was a Dutch commodore.
WChristianus Franciscus Johannes Boers was a captain in the Royal Netherlands Army during World War II who scored one of the few Allied victories during the German invasion of the Netherlands, by rallying his men in holding off and pushing back the German attackers during the Battle of the Afsluitdijk, fought from 12 to 14 May 1940.
WMajor General Patrick Cammaert is a retired Dutch general who served as the United Nations Force Commander for the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was previously the Military Advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Prior to that position, he was the Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), as the Military Adviser in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, and has spent a career in the Royal Netherlands Marines specializing in peacekeeping operations.
WJohan van den Corput (also van Kornput, also Cornput or Johannes de Corput, in German literature Johannes Corputius was a Dutch engineer, cartographer and military leader.
WDominique Jacques de Eerens was a Dutch major general, politician and administrator, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies and knight of the Military William Order.
WAdrianus "Adri" van Es was a Dutch naval officer and vice admiral of the Royal Netherlands Navy.
WGeneral Benjamin Richard Pieter Frans Hasselman (1898–1984) was an officer of the Royal Netherlands Army and chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 1957 to 1958.
WFrederic Adolph Hoefer was a Dutch lieutenant-general, militaria collector and archivist. He trained at the Koninklijke Militaire Academie and is notable for founding the Legermuseum and restoring Doorwerth Castle.
WHubert Hugo was a merchant in Dutch Suratte, a privateer on the Red Sea, and governor of Dutch Mauritius from 1672 to 1677. In 1674 he became one of the last people to document the presence of the dodo on Mauritius.
WGovert Huijser was a Dutch general and Chief of the Defence Staff between 1983 and 1988.
WAbraham van der Hulst was a Dutch admiral in the 17th century.
WGeneral Cornelis "Cor" de Jager was an officer of the Royal Netherlands Army, Chief of the Defence Staff from 1980 to 1983 and Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 1983 to 1986.
WDirk Klop was a Dutch Army intelligence officer who is known for his role in the Venlo incident.
WJohan Harmen Rudolf Köhler was a Dutch general in the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army.
WJan Kooi was a Dutch KNIL military officer from Ghana.
WMart de Kruif MSM is a three-star general in the Royal Netherlands Army and served as its executive commander.
WJohan Evertsen de Liefde was a Dutch naval commander who served as vice admiral of Holland and West Frisia within the Admiralty of Rotterdam. His elder brother, Cornelis de Liefde, was also a naval commander. Johan was killed in the battle of Texel.
WIzaak Herman Reijnders was in charge of the Dutch military high command just prior to World War II. He was replaced by Henri Winkelman after Reijnders had had an argument with Defense Minister Adriaan Dijxhoorn.
WHeije Schaper was a Dutch naval and air force officer and lieutenant general of the Royal Netherlands Air Force.
WPieter Wilhelmus Scharroo was a Dutch military commander in charge during the Battle of Rotterdam. While he was trying to negotiate a ceasefire with his German counterparts, the Rotterdam Blitz took place. He was frustrated after the bombing, and refused to continue the negotiations with the German army.
WRichard Leonard Arnold Schoemaker was a Dutch Olympic fencer, engineer in the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, professor of architecture at Bandung Institute of Technology and Delft University of Technology, and leader of a resistance group during World War II, for which he was executed at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
WVolckert Adriaanszoon Schram was a 17th-century Dutch admiral. His name was also spelled Volkert or Volkhard.
WJoost de Soete or de Zoete, Lord of Villers or Villiers, was a Dutch nobleman and Field Marshal who fought in the early years of the Eighty Years' War.
WAuke Andriesz Stellingwerf was a Dutch admiral who served the Admiralty of Friesland and died while commanding a squadron in the battle of Lowestoft.
WIsaac Sweers was a 17th-century Dutch vice-admiral with the Admiralty of Amsterdam who fought in the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
WPierre Marie Robert Versteegh was a Dutch horse rider who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
WMartin Wijnen is a Dutch Lieutenant-general. He was the Commander of 43 Mechanized Brigade and is now the Vice Chief of defence.
WJohan Arnold Zoutman was a Dutch naval figure and Rear Admiral who fought at the Battle of Dogger Bank in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War. Zoutman also fought in the American Revolutionary War.