Piet Pieterszoon Hein (1577 – 1629) was a Dutch admiral and privateer for the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War. Hein was the first and the last to capture a large part of a Spanish treasure fleet which transported huge amounts of gold and silver from Spanish America to Spain. The amount of silver taken was so big that it resulted in the rise of the price of silver worldwide and the near bankruptcy of Spain.

Pieter Louwerse (1840 – 1908) was een Nederlandse schrijver en dichter, en tekstdichter van bekende liedteksten als 'Waar de blanke top der duinen', 'Op de grote stille heide' en 'Bloemen, koop bloemen'.