Driehuis is a town in the Dutch

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 province of North Holland

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. It is a part of the municipality of Velsen

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, and lies about 8 km north of Haarlem

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The statistical area "Driehuis", which also can include the surrounding countryside, has a population of around 3320.

Native from Driehuis

• Pim Fortuyn
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   (1948–2002), Author
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  , Professor
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   and Politician
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   assassinated during Dutch general election of 2002
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• Stella de Heij (1968), former field hockey
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The ashes of Anthony Fokker

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Anton Herman Gerard "Anthony" Fokker was a Dutch aviation pioneer and an aircraft manufacturer. He is most famous for the fighter aircraft he produced in Germany during the First World War such as the Eindecker monoplanes, the Fokker Triplane the and the Fokker D.VII, but after the collapse of...

 were brought in 1940 to Westerveld Cemetery in Driehuis, where they were buried in the family grave.