The Most Famous
DIPLOMATS from Netherlands
This page contains a list of the greatest Dutch Diplomats. The pantheon dataset contains 90 Diplomats, 1 of which were born in Netherlands. This makes Netherlands the birth place of the 16th most number of Diplomats behind Czechia, and Austria.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Dutch Diplomats of all time. This list of famous Dutch Diplomats is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. George Blake (1922 - 2020)
With an HPI of 58.77, George Blake is the most famous Dutch Diplomat. His biography has been translated into 27 different languages on wikipedia.
George Blake (né Behar; 11 November 1922 – 26 December 2020) was a spy with Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and worked as a double agent for the Soviet Union. He became a communist and decided to work for the MGB while a prisoner during the Korean War. Discovered in 1961 and sentenced to 42 years in prison, he escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison in west London in 1966 and fled to the Soviet Union, where he resided until his death in 2020. He was not one of the Cambridge Five spies, although he associated with Donald Maclean and Kim Philby after reaching the Soviet Union.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Dutch diplomats born between 1922 and 1922. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Dutch diplomats include George Blake.
