This list of people includes all persons mentioned in the book and the notes. For each person, their full name, birth and death dates, nationality, and occupation are provided. Note: this list can be searched by any part of a person’s name, birth or death date, nationality, or occupation.
- (Antione Louis) Camille Lemonnier, 1844-1913; Belgian writer
- (Antoine) Gustave Droz, 1832-1895; French writer
- (Benjamin) Eugène Fichel, 1826-1895; French artist
- (David Pierre Giottin) Humbert de Superville, 1770-1849; Dutch artist and scholar
- (Eugène Henri) Paul Gauguin, 1848-1903; French artist
- (François Marie Arouet) Voltaire, 1694-1778; French writer and philosopher
- (Hilaire Germain) Edgar Degas, 1834-1917; French artist
- (Hugues) Félicité Robert de Lamennais, 1782-1854; French writer
- (Jacques) Alfred van Muyden, 1818-1898; Swiss artist
- (Jacques) Eugène Feyen, 1815-1908; French artist
- (Jean Auguste) Henri (Hendrik) Leys, 1815-1869; Belgian artist
- (Jean Baptiste) Armand Guillaumin, 1841-1927; French artist
- (Jean Louis André) Théodore Géricault, 1791-1824; French artist
- (Jean) Félix Rey, 1865-1932; assistant physician in the hospital in Arles
- (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) Molière, 1622-1673; French playwright
- (Jean-Louis) Charles Garnier, 1825-1898; French architect
- (Joseph-Ernest) Ernest Renan, 1823-1892; French writer
- (Jules) Théophile Schuler, 1821-1878; French artist
- (Louis Charles) Alfred de Musset, 1810-1857; French poet
- (Louis) Rodolphe Salis, 1851-1897; founder of Le Chat Noir in Paris
- (Madame) Baize, no dates; no known status
- (Miss) Applegarth, no dates; acquaintance of sister Anna
- (Miss) Strunck, no dates; acquaintance of sister Anna van Gogh
- (Valentin Louis Georges Eugène) Marcel Proust, 1871-1922; French writer
- (Wilhelm) Richard Wagner, 1813-1883; German composer
- Aeschylus, 525 BCE-456 BCE; Greek playwright
- Anna, Duchess of Brittany (Anna of Brittany, Anne de Bretagne, Anna Vreizh), 1477-1514; duchess of Brittany
- Antoine, no dates; healer in Jemeppe-sur-Meuse or Roux
- Aussoleil, no dates; no known status
- Bersier (Bercier), no dates; French clergyman
- Charlemagne (Charles the Great), 747-814; king of the Franks and Holy Roman emperor
- Chevalier, no dates; French writer
- Constantine the Great, 272-337 CE; Roman emperor
- Deschanel (Sister Épiphane), no dates; mother superior of the asylum of Saint Paul de Mausole in Saint-Rémy
- Dussauze, no dates; French clergyman
- Fabian, no dates; artist
- Fles, no dates; headmaster of the Tilburg Academy before the artist arrived
- Fra Angelico, c 1395/1400-1455; Italian artist
- Frédéric Régamey, 1849-1925; French artist
- Gaius Marius, 157-86 BCE; Roman general
- Gendre, no dates; French? art collector
- Giotto di Bondone, 1267/75-1337; Italian artist
- Hannibal, 248-183/2 BCE; Carthaginian general
- Hannicks, 1808-?; wife of J. Hannicks, boardinghouse owner in Tilburg
- Hippocrates of Cos, c. 460 BCE-c. 370 BCE; Greek physician
- Homer, c 800-750 BCE; Greek poet
- Honorius, 384-423 CE; Byzantine emperor
- Höring, no dates; German physician
- Irene, no dates; sister of Gustave Arosa
- Jacobszoon, no dates; no known status
- Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc), 1412-1431; French saint
- Jos. Smulders & Co, no dates; stationers and lithographers in The Hague
- Legrand, no dates; French art dealer
- Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, 1808-1873; French emperor
- Lycurgus, c. 800-730 BCE.; Greek lawgiver
- M. Manzy, no dates; no known status
- Marcus Aurelius Marius, no dates; emperor of the Gallic Empire in the 3rd century
- Marinier, no dates; no known status
- Martinez, no dates; artist
- Mary Duchess of Burgundy (Mary the Rich), 1457-1482; duchess of Burgundy
- Mastenbroek, no dates; inhabitant of Zundert
- Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564; Italian artist
- Montezuma (Moctezuma, Moteczoma, Motecuhzoma, Moteuczomah), c. 1466-1520; Aztec ruler
- Muhammed (Muhammad), c. 570/571-632; prophet of Islam
- Myron, c. 480-440 BCE; Greek sculptor
- Naillé, no dates; Dutch governess living in England
- Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleone Bonaparte), 1769-1821; French general and emperor
- Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus), 37-68; Roman emperor
- Nino?, no dates; Charles Laval's brother
- Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), 1304-1374; Italian poet
- Phidias (Pheidias), c 490-430 BCE; Greek artist
- Praxiteles, 4th century BCE; Greek artist
- Rachel, no dates; prostitute in Arles
- Raphael (Rafaello Sanzio), 1483-1520; Italian artist
- Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669; Dutch artist
- Richardson, no dates; acquaintance of the artist at Goupil & Cie in London
- Rigaumon, no dates; police officer in Auvers
- Ryckebusch (Ryckebus), fl. 1850-1872; French artist
- Saint Paul (Paulus or Paullus, Apostle Paul, Paul of Tarsus, Saul of Tarsus), 5-67 A.D; New Testament writer
- Socrates, 469-399 BCE; Greek philosopher
- Spoerlein, no dates; teacher at the Evangelical School in Brussels
- St. Augustine, 354-430; bishop of Hippo
- St. Dymphna (Dympna, Dimpna), 7th century; daughter of a pagan Irish chief and his Christian wife murdered by her father
- Titian (Titiano Vecellio), 1477-1576; Italian artist
- Vernay, no dates; coalmine foreman in Cuesmes
- Veronese (Paolo Caliari), 1528-1588; Italian artist
- Villeeas, no dates; artist
- Xantippe, no dates; wife of Socrates
- A. Z. von Rosenthal, no dates; teacher of mathematics at the Tilburg Academy
- Abraham Blooteling, 1640-1690; Dutch artist
- Abraham Govaerts, 1589-1626; Flemish artist
- Abraham Pompe, Sr. (Uncle Pompe), 1831-1909; Dutch commander, later lieutenant-colonel, wife of Theodorus's sister Eliszabeth Hubertha van Gogh, and the artist's uncle
- Abraham Anthonie ‘s Graeuwen, 1824-1902; commander in the Dutch navy, husband of Geertruida Johanna van Gogh, brother-in-law of Theodorus van Gogh, and uncle of the artist
- Abraham Hendrickszn. van Beijeren, 1620/21-1690; Dutch artist
- Abraham van der Wayen Pieterszen, 1817-1880; clergyman in Mechelen and later St. Maria-Horebeke
- Achille Jacquet, 1846-1908; French artist
- Achille Oudinot, 1820-1891; French artist
- Adeline Carrié-Ravoux, 1877-1965; daughter of Arthur Gustave Ravoux, manager of the Auberge Ravoux in Auvers-sur-Oise
- Adolf Stieler, 1775-1836; German mapmaker
- Adolph Menzel, 1815-1905; German artist
- Adolphe Braun, 1812-1877; French publisher of reproductions
- Adolphe Goupil, 1806-1893; founder of Goupil & Cie in Paris
- Adolphe Schreyer, 1828-1899; German artist
- Adolphe Tabarant, 1863-1950; French writer, art critic, and politician
- Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, 1824-1886; French artist
- Adolphe Renè Lefevre, 1834-1868; French artist
- Adolphe William Bouguereau, 1825-1905; French artist
- Adolphe Albert, 1869-1932; French artist
- Adolphe Jourdan, 1825-1889; French artist
- Adriaan Rijken, 1834-1915; gardener in Nuenen
- Adriaan Johannes (Jan) Madiol, 1845-1927; Dutch artist
- Adriaen Brouwer, 1605/06-1638; Flemish-Dutch artist
- Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-1685; Dutch artist
- Adriana Aertsen (Aerssen or Aarssen), 1851-after 1883; daughter of Jan Aertsen
- Adriana Schafrat-Van Eerd, 1853-1930; wife of the sexton Johannes Schafrat in Nuenen
- Adriana Christina Provily-de Klerck, no dates; wife of Jan Provily who ran the household and kitchen at Provily's school in Zevenbergen
- Adrianus (Janus) Schrauwen, 1834-1920; carpenter in Breda
- Adrianus Hartsuiker, 1874-?; son of Albertus and Catharina Hartsuiker, lodging-house keepers in Hoogeveen
- Adrianus Cornelis Kam, 1862-?; family friend in Etten and later a doctor
- Adrianus Jacobus Zuyderland, 1810-1897; inhabitant of the Old Men's and Women's Home in The Hague
- Aelbert Cuyp, 1620-1681; Dutch artist
- Agostina Segatori, 1841-1910; proprietress of Le Timbourin in Paris
- Aimé de Lemud, 1816-1887; French artist
- Aimé François Désiré Diot, 1842-1897; art dealer in Paris
- Aimé Jules Dalou, 1838-1902; French artist
- Aimée-Henriette-Adelaide Henry du Perron, ?-1851; mother of Jean-François Millet
- Alberdina Slot, 1821-1883; neighbor of the artist in Hoogeveen
- Albert Carrel, 1847-1912; owner of Hotel-Restaurant Carrel in Arles
- Albert Dauprat, 1857-1921; French writer
- Albert Delon, 1857-? ; doctor in Arles
- Albert Dubois-Pillet, 1846-1890; French artist
- Albert Goupil, 1840-1884; French art collector and son of Adolphe Goupil
- Albert Mairet, 1852-1935; French professor of psychiatry
- Albert Neuhuys, 1844-1914; Dutch artist
- Albert Plasschaert, 1866-1941; Dutch art critic
- Albert Wolff, 1835-1891; German art critic
- Albert Samuel Anker, 1831-1910; Swiss artist
- Albert von Zahn, 1836-1873; German art historian
- Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, 1824-1887; French artist
- Albertina (Albertine, Albertien, Barend) Ludovica Brugsma, 1859-1891; friend of Lies van Gogh
- Albertina (Albertine) Elisabeth Mesdag-Fockens, 1859-1936; daughter of Hendrik Willem Mesdag
- Alberto Pasini, 1826-1899; Italian artist
- Albertus Hartsuiker, 1827-1902; lodging-house keeper in Hoogeveen
- Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528; German artist
- Albrecht François Lieven Vriendt, 1843-1900; Belgian artist
- Aletta Jacobs, 1854-1929; Dutch physician
- Alexander Reid, 1854-1928; Scottish art dealer
- Alexander Abraham Breebaard, 1814-1901; inhabitant of Hoogeveen
- Alexander de Graaf, 1848-1938; carpenter and sexton of the church in Etten
- Alexandre Bida, 1823-1895; French artist
- Alexandre Cabanel, 1823-1889; French artist
- Alexandre Dumas, fils, 1824-1895; French writer and playwright
- Alexandre Dumas, père (Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie ), 1802-1870; French writer
- Alexandre Charles Lecocq, 1832-1918; French composer
- Alexandre-Auguste Ledru-Rollin, 1807-1874; French politician
- Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1803-1860; French artist
- Alexis Hamming, no dates; tax collector in Zundert
- Alfred (Herman Alfred Leonard) Wahlberg, 1834-1906; Swiss artist
- Alfred (Jean Philippe Auguste) Sensier, 1815-1877; French writer
- Alfred Bruyas, 1821-1877; French art collector
- Alfred Casile, 1848-1909; French artist
- Alfred Feydeau, 1823-1891; French architect and art collector
- Alfred Rethel, 1816-1859; German artist
- Alfred Sisley, 1839-1899; English artist
- Alfred Stevens, 1823-1906; Belgian artist
- Alfred Alexandre Delauney, 1872-1890; French artist
- Alfred Edward Emslie, 1848-1918; English artist
- Alfred Philippe Roll, 1845-1919; French artist
- Alfred Rozelaar Green, 1917-?; English artist
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809-1883; English poet
- Alida van Gogh-Dulken, 1718-1751; collateral relative of the artist
- Aline Gauguin, 1877-1897; daughter of Paul Gauguin
- Aline Marie Chazal Tristán, 1825-1867; mother of Paul Gauguin
- Aliya Carbentus-Teekelenburg, no dates; wife of Gerrit Carbentus
- Allard Pierson, no dates; Dutch clergyman
- Allegonda Johanna Stam-Liernur, 1828-1891; Dutch seller of artists' supplies
- Alphonse (Alfred) de Neuville, 1835-1885; French artist
- Alphonse Asselbergs, 1839-1916; Belgian artist
- Alphonse Daudet, 1840-1926; French writer
- Alphonse Karr, 1808-1890; French writer
- Alphonse Legros, 1837-1911; French artist
- Alphonse Portier, 1841-1902; French art dealer
- Alphonse Robert, no dates; police officer in Arles
- Alphonse Stengelin, 1852-1938; French artist
- Alphonse Hubert François Balat, 1819-1895; Belgian architect
- Alphonse Jules Wauters, 1845-1916; Belgian art historian and brother of Émile Wauters
- Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine, 1790-1869; French writer
- Amandine Lucile (Lucie) Aurore Dupin (George Sand), 1804-1876; French writer
- Amédee Ernest Lynen, 1852-1938; Belgian artist
- Ando Kaïghetsudo, 18th century; Japanese artist
- André Félibien, 1619-1695; French art chronicler and official historian in the court of Louis XIV
- André-Léonard Antoine, 1858-1943; French artist
- Andrea Mantegna, c. 1431-1506; Italian artist
- Andreas Achenbach, 1815-1910; German artist
- Andreas Pauwels, 1826-1889; clergyman in Nuenen
- Andreas Schelfhout, 1787-1870; Dutch artist
- Andries (André or Dries) Bonger, 1861-1936; friend of Theo van Gogh in Paris and brother of Johanna van Gogh-Bonger
- Andries van Trijffel, no dates; classmate of the artist at the Evangelical School in Brussels
- Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1814-1906; English philanthropist and social reformer
- Anke Maria Schuil, 1850-?; governess in the Van Gogh household in Zundert
- Anna Birnie, 1845-?; governess in Van Gogh household in Zundert
- Anna Boch, 1848-1936; Belgian artist and sister of Eugène Boch
- Anna Cornelia Carbentus-Van der Gaag, 1792-1855; wife of Willem Carbentus, mother of Anna van-Gogh-Carbentus, and grandmother of the artist
- Anna Cornelia Lecomte-Carbentus, 1854-1926; wife of Adolf Lecomte
- Anna Cornelia van Gogh-Carbentus, 1819-1907; wife of Theodorus van Gogh and mother of the artist
- Anna Cornelia van Houten-Van Gogh, 1855-1930; wife of Joan Marius van Houten and sister of the artist
- Anna Jacoba Maria Geertruida Richard-Nieuwenhuis, 1826-1877; wife of Jacques Jeremie Richard
- Anna Susan Johanna van der Hoven, 1841-1844; inhabitant of Zundert
- Anne (Anna) Catherine Fuchs , 1876?-?; wife of Cornelis Vincent van Gogh (Uncle Cor)
- Anne (Annie) Marie Louise Bonger-Van der Linden, 1859-1931; wife of Andries Bonger
- Annie Slade-Jones, 1838-1924; wife of Thomas Slade-Jones, clergyman and headmaster of a school in Isleworth
- Anthon Gerard Alexander Ridder van Rappard, 1858-1892; Dutch artist
- Anthonij (Anton) Rudolf Mauve, 1838-1888; Dutch artist
- Anthonius (Anton, Tony) Matthais Hirschig, 1867-1939; Dutch artist
- Anthonius (This) van Rooij, 1823-1908; cousin of Gordina de Groot
- Anthony van Dyck, 1599-1641; Flemish artist
- Antione Jean Gros, 1771-1835; French artist
- Antoine Blanche, 1828-1893; French doctor
- Antoine Chintreuil, 1814-1873; French artist
- Antoine Louis Cornelis Furnée, 1867-1965; pharmacist in The Hague
- Antoine Philippe Furnée, 1861-1897; surveyor in The Hague and son of Hendrik Jan Furnée
- Antonie (Toon) Prins, 1849-1932; farmer in Zundert and classmate of the artist
- Antonie (Toon) de Groot, 1829-1909; inhabitiant of Nuenen
- Antonie Blans, no dates; bricklayer in Geertruidenberg
- Antonie Waldrop, 1803-1866; Dutch artist
- Antonin Proust, 1832-1905; French politician, writer, and art critic
- Antonio Cristobal (Charles Antoine), 1870- ?; Spanish artist
- Antonio Allegri Correggio, c. 1489/94-1534; Italian artist
- Antonius (Anton) Cornelius Augustinius Kerssemakers, 1846-1924; tanner in Eindhoven and student of the artist
- Arabella Catherine (Katherine) Hankey, 1834-1911; English evangelist
- Arabella Catherine Hankey, 1872-1890; English writer
- Archibald Standish Hartrick, 1864-1950; British artist
- Ardina (Dien) van der Beek, 1840-1901; model for the artist in Nuenen
- Arie Carbentus, 1826-1875; brother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus
- Arie van der Gaag, 1821-1822; son of Hendrica van der Gaag-Carbentus
- Ariëtte (Jet) Sophia Jeanette Mauve-Carbentus, 1856-1894; wife of Anton Mauve
- Aristide Bruant, 1851-1925; French singer and songwriter
- Armand Silvestre, 1837-1901; French writer
- Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu (Cardinal Richelieu), 1585-1642; French clergyman
- Armand Joseph Désiré Roulin, 1871-1945; son of Joseph Roulin, postal worker in Arles and Marseille
- Armand Théophile Cassagne, 1823-1907; French artist
- Arnold Böcklin, 1827-1901; Swiss artist
- Arnold Ronin, no dates; no known status
- Arnold Toynbee, 1852-1883; English historian and social reformer
- Arnold Hendrik Koning, 1860-1945; Dutch artist
- Arnold Louis Karel Hubert van de Loo, 1852-1898; doctor in Eindhoven
- Aron de Haan, 1859-1936; brother of Meijer Isaac de Haan
- Arthur Hopkins, 1848-1930; English artist
- Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860; German philosopher
- Arthur Boyd Houghton, 1836-1875; English artist
- Arthur Gustave Ravoux, 1848-1914; manager of the Auberge Ravoux in Auvers-sur-Oise
- Arthur Henri Christiaan Briët, 1867-1939; Dutch art student at the Antwerp Academy
- Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington), 1769-1852; Anglo-Irish field marshal and statesman
- Artus Quellinus the Elder (Artus Quellijn, Arnoldus, Artus I), 1609-1668; Flemish artist
- Artus Quellinus the Younger (Artus Quellijn, Arnoldus, Artus II), 1653-after 1686; Flemish artist
- Ary Scheffer, 1795-1858; Dutch artist
- August Allebé, 1838-1927; Dutch artist
- August Hagborg, 1852-1921; Swedish artist
- August Carl (Carel) Adler, 1835-1907; missionary in Amsterdam
- Auguste Allongé, 1833-1898; French artist
- Auguste Gruson, no dates; French writer
- Auguste Jouve, 1846-?; French artist
- Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917; French artist
- Auguste Tilly, ?-1898; French artist
- Auguste André Lançon, 1836-1885; French artist
- Auguste Marie Lauzet, 1865-1898; French artist
- Auguste Marie Mauzet, 1865-1898; French artist
- Auguste-Louis Lepère, 1849-1918; French artist.
- Auguste Delâtre, 1822-1907; French artist
- Augustine Alex Roulin-Pelicot, 1851-1930; wife of Joseph Roulin, postal worker in Arles and Marseille
- Augustus (Auguste) Charles Pugin, 1762-1832; French-born English artist and architectural draftsman
- Aurelius Augustinus (St. Augustine, St. Augustine of Hippo), 354-430; Christian philosopher
- Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, 1803-1862; Dutch artist
- Bart van Hove, 1856-1914; Dutch artist
- Bartholomé Esteban Murillo, 1618-1682; Spanish artist
- Bénédict Augustin Morel, 1809-1873; French psychiatrist
- Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881; British prime minister and earl of Beaconsfield
- Benjamin Vautier (the Elder), 1829-1898; Swiss artist
- Benno Schotz, 1891-1984; Scottish artist
- Bernadus Johannes Blommers, 1845-1914; Dutch artist
- Bernard Palissy, 1510-1589/90; French artist and writer
- Bernard Soulé, 1826-1903; agent of the artist's landlord in Arles
- Bernard ter Haar, 1806-1880; Dutch writer
- Bernardin Mendozy (Bernardino de Mendoza), c. 1540-1604; Spanish military commander and diplomat
- Berthe Morisot, 1841-1895; French artist
- Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662; French mathematician and philosopher
- Blaise Alexandre Desgoffe, 1830-1901; French artist
- Blum Cortez, no dates; doctor in The Hague
- Boele van Hensbroek, 1853-1912; housemate of the artist in The Hague
- C.W.H. (Christian William Henry) Pauli, 1800-1877; missionary in Amsterdam
- Camille Benoît, 1851-1923; French composter, art historian, and art collector
- Camille Bernier, 1823-1902; French artist
- Camille Roulin, 1877-1922; son of Joseph Roulin, postal worker in Arles and Marseille
- Camille Jacob Pissarro, 1830-1903; French artist
- Carel Fabritius, 1622-1654; Dutch artist
- Carel Vosmaer (Flanor), 1826-1888; Dutch writer
- Carel Leonhard Brinkman, Sr., 1820-1881; bookseller and publisher in Amsterdam
- Carl Nordenfalk, 1907-1992; Dutch art historian
- Carl Adolph Haanebeek, 1821-1906; wine merchant in The Hague and father of Caroline van Stockum-Haanebeek
- Carl Adolph Streckfuß, 1823-1895; German writer
- Carl August Peter Cornelius, 1824-1874; German composer
- Carl Ernst Rudolf Heinrich Salem (Henri) Lehmann, 1814-1882; German-born French artist
- Carlo (Carolo, Carlino) Dolci, 1616-1686; Italian artist
- Carolina (Caroline) Adolphina van Stockum-Haanebeek, 1852-1926; wife of Willem Jacob van Stockum
- Caroline Booth, 1829-1890; wife of William Booth, English clergyman
- Catharina Beukema, 1835-1908; storekeeper in Hoogeveen, divorced from her first husband, Lucas Seijdel
- Catharina Hartsuiker-Beukema, 1835-1908; secod wife of Albertus Hartsuiker, lodging-housekeeper in Hoogeveen
- Catharina Posthumus Meijjes, 1873-1945; daughter of Jeremias Posthumus Meijjes
- Catharina Geertruida Hartsuiker, 1871-1896; daughter of Albertus and Catharina Hartsuiker, lodging-house keepers in Hoogeveen
- Catharina Marianne Louise Du Quesne van Bruchem-Van Willis, 1850-1889; wife of Jean Philippe Theodore Du Quesne van Bruchem
- Catharina Marianne Louise Du Quesne van Bruchem-Van Willis, 1850-1889; first wife of Jean Philippe Theodore Du Quesne van Bruchem
- Catharinus Henri Vos, 1876-1877; son of Christoffel and Kee Vos
- Cathérine Carrel-Garcin, 1851-1931; owner of Hotel-Restaurant Carrel in Arles and wife of Albert Carrel
- Catherine Lemaire, 1827-1894; Meillet's second wife
- Cenni (Benciviene) di Pepo Cimabue, 1240-1302; Italian artist
- Cenni (Benciviene) di Pepo (Giovanni) Cimabue, 1240-1302; Italian artist
- César (Cézar) de Cock (Cocq), 1823-1904; Belgian artist
- Cesare Lombroso, 1835-1909; Italian criminologist
- Charles (Carl) Obach, 1840/41-?; manager of Goupil & Cie in London
- Charles (Karel) Michel Marie Verlat, 1824-1890; Belgian artist and director of the Antwerp Academy
- Charles Bargue, c. 1826/27-1883; French artist
- Charles Barry, 1795-1860; English architect
- Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867; French writer
- Charles Blanc, 1813-1882; French writer
- Charles Chaplin, 1825-1891; French artist
- Charles Charlopin, no dates; French inventor
- Charles Courtry, 1846-1897; French artist
- Charles Durand-Ruel, 1865-1892; French art dealer and son of Paul Durand-Ruel
- Charles Fourier, 1772-1837; French social theorist
- Charles Gleyre, 1806-1874; Swiss artist
- Charles Gounod, 1818-1893; French composer
- Charles Green, 1840-1898; English artist
- Charles Laval, 1862-1894; French artist
- Charles Meryon, 1821-1868; French artist
- Charles Müller, 1815-1892; French artist
- Charles Rochussen, 1814-1894; Dutch artist
- Charles Auguste Émile Durand, 1837-1917; French artist
- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, 1804-1869; French poet
- Charles Camille Auguste Degroux, 1825-1870; Belgian artist
- Charles Émile Jacque(s), 1813-1894; French artist
- Charles Émile Vacher de Tournemine, 1812-1872; French artist
- Charles Emile van de Wall, no dates; inhabitant of Zundert
- Charles Emmanuel Serret, 1824-1900; French artist
- Charles Eugène Prévost, 1855-?; French artist
- Charles François Jalabert, 1819-1901; French artist
- Charles François Marchal, 1825-1877; French artist
- Charles George Gordon, 1833-1885; British general
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 1834-1892; English clergyman and writer
- Charles Henri Pille, 1844-1897; French artist
- Charles Henri Joseph Leickert, 1816-1907; Belgian artist
- Charles John Huffam Dickens, 1812-1870; English writer
- Charles Joseph Staniland, 1838-1916; English artist
- Charles Louis Decrucq, 1822-1884; landlord of the artist in Cuesmes
- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), 1832-1898; English writer
- Charles Paul Gruppe, 1860-1940; American artist, born in Canada
- Charles Paul Renouard, 1845-1924; French artist
- Charles Paul de Kock, 1793-1871; French writer of Dutch lineage
- Charles Samuel Keene, 1823-1891; English artist
- Charles Stanley Reinhart, 1844-1896; American artist
- Charles Théophile Angrand, 1854-1926; French artist
- Charles van Ginnekin, no dates; inhabitant of Zundert
- Charles-Alexandre Chatrian, 1826-1890; French writer
- Charles-Elzéard Trabuc, 1830-1896; orderly in the asylum of Saint Paul de Mausole in Saint-Rémy
- Charles-François Daubigny, 1817-1878; French artist
- Charles Antoine [Antonio Cristobal], pseudonym Tonio, no dates; Spanish artist
- Charlotte Brontë, 1816-1855; English writer
- Christiaan (Christianus) Schrauwen, 1800-1885; farmer in Zundert
- Christiaan Bernard Posthumus Meijjes, 1858-1922; son of Jeremias Posthumus Meijjes
- Christiaan van de(n) Broek, 1840-after 1902; clerk at the Blussé & Van Braam bookshop in Dordrecht
- Christian Vilhelm Mourier-Petersen, 1858-1945; Danish artist
- Christina Georgina Rossetti, 1860-1894; English poet
- Christoffel Martinus Vos, 1841-1878; clergyman in Amsterdam and husband of Kee Vos-Stricker
- Clara Vrijdag-Cramer, 1836-1914; wife of Daniël Joost Vrijdag, merchant in Amsterdam
- Clara Adriana Carbentus, 1817-1866; sister of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus
- Clara Cornelia Petronella van der Gaag, 1817-?; daughter of Hendrica van der Gaag-Carbentus
- Clasina (Sien, Christien, Christine, Xtien) Maria Hoornik, 1850-1904; prostitute-lover of the artist in the Hague
- Claude Jacquand, 1803-1878; French artist
- Claude Émile Schuffenecker, 1851-1934; French artist
- Claude Étienne Michel, 1772-1815; French general
- Claude Oscar Monet, 1840-1926; French artist
- Claude-Achille Debussy, 1862-1918; French composer
- Clemens (Klemens) Brentano, 1778-1842; German poet and novelist
- Clémentine Elisa Marguerite (Marguerite-Clémentine) Gachet , 1869-1949; daughter of Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, Sr.
- Clovis Gauguin, 1814-1849; French journalist and father of Paul Gauguin
- Clovis Hugues, 1851-1907; French writer
- Constant Troyon, 1810-1865; French artist
- Constant-Joseph Brochart, 1816-1899; French artist
- Constantin Guys, 1802-1892; French artist
- Constantine Émile Meunier, 1831-1905; Belgian artist
- Constantinus Cornelis (C. C.) (Huijsmans) Huysmans, 1810-1866; Dutch artist and teacher of art at the Tilburg Academy
- Cora Pearl, 1835-1886; French courtesan, mistress of King Willem III and of Crown Prince Willem
- Cornelia (Cornelie) van Gogh-Carbentus (Aunt Cornelie), 182-1913; wife of Vincent van Gogh (Uncle Cent) and sister of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus
- Cornelia (Kee) Adriana Vos-Stricker (or K. V.), 1846-1918; daughter of Johannes Paulus Stricker, Sr., and wife of Christoffel Martinus Vos
- Cornelia Aertsen (Aerssen or Aarssen), 1837-after 1910; daughter of Jan Aertsen
- Cornelia de Groot-Van Rooij, 1825-1891; mother of Gordina de Groot
- Cornelia Jacoba Haanebeek-Van Zuylen, 1823-1857; first wife of Carl Adolph Haanebeek
- Cornelia van der Gaag-Van den Bergh, no dates; mother of Johanna Ewaldina Stricker-Van der Gaag
- Cornelis (C.) van Spaendonck, 1756-1840; Dutch artist
- Cornelis (Cor) Marinus van Gogh (Uncle Cor or C.M.), 1824-1908; art dealer and bookseller in Amsterdam and brother of Theodorus van Gogh
- Cornelis (Cor) Vincent van Gogh, 1867-1900; brother of the artist
- Cornelis Honcoop, no dates; chaperone for the artist from Breda to Zundert
- Cornelis Schuitemaker, 1813-1884; Dutch farmer
- Cornelis Adriaan Heintz, no dates; headmaster of Theo van Gogh's school in Oisterwijk
- Cornelis de Groot, 1818-1883; father of Gordina de Groot
- Cornelis de Groot, 1885-1951; son of Gordina de Groot
- Cornelis van Ginneken, 1815-1871; doctor in Zundert who delivered the artist
- Countess Clara Levaillant de la Boissière, c. 1857-? ; French countess and wife of Eugène Levaillant de la Boissière
- Countess Eugénie de Montijo, 1826-1920; Spanish countess
- Crown Prince Willem, 1840-1879; crown prince of the Netherlands
- Daniel Cottier, 1838-1891; Scottish art dealer in London
- Daniel Defoe, 1660-1731; English writer
- Daniël Joost Vrijdag, 1834-1879; merchant in Amsterdam
- Daniel Urrabieta Vierge, 1851-1904; Spanish-born French artist
- Daniël van Gogh, 1867-1909; son of Cornelis Marinus van Gogh
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321; Italian poet
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828-1882; English artist
- David Blok, 1832-1904; bookseller in The Hague
- David Bonté, no dates; clergyman in Warquignies
- David Gruby, 1810-1898; doctor in Paris
- David Teniers the Younger, 1610-1690; Flemish artist
- David Adolph Constant Artz, 1837-1890; Dutch artist
- David Joseph Bles, 1821-1899; Dutch artist
- David van Gogh, 1697-1740; father of Vincent van Gogh and Jan van Gogh and great-great-great-grandfather of the artist
- Desiderius Erasmus , 1469-1536; Dutch scholar
- Diederick Johannes (D. J.) Korteweg, no dates; teacher of mathematics and cosmography at the Tilburg Academy
- Diedrik Franciscus Jamin, 1838-1865; Dutch artist
- Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, 1599-1660; Spanish artist
- Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, 1599-1660; Spanish artist
- Dimmen Gestel, 1862-1945; printer and student of the artist in Eindhoven
- Dina (Dientje) Margrieta van Roos-Van Aalst, 1813-1904; wife of Willem Marinus Roos, the artist's landlord in The Hague
- Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1826-1887; English writer
- Dirk Braat, 1851-1926; son of Pieter Kornelis Braat, manager of the Blussé & Van Braam bookshop in Dordrecht
- Dirk Rafaelsz Camphuysen, 1586-1626; Dutch artist, poet, and theologian
- Dirk Rochus Bokma, 1831-1911; teacher at the Evangelical School in Brussels
- Dodge MacKnight, 1860-1950; American artist
- Domenico Morelli, 1823-1901; Italian artist
- Dominique Bonnaud, 1864-1943; French songwriter
- Don Mariano de Tristan y Moscoso, ?-1807; Spanish-Peruvian colonel and Gauguin's great-grandfather
- Dorothée Hingway, no dates; servant of Uncle Cent
- Dwight Lyman Moody, 1837-1899; American evangelist
- Edgar Leroy, no dates; doctor at the asylum of Saint Paul de Mausole in Saint-Rémy
- Edgar Quinet, 1803-1875; French writer
- Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849; American writer
- Edmond (Edward) Morin, 1824-1882; French artist
- Edmond de Goncourt, 1822-1896; French writer
- Edmund Roche, 1828-1861; French poet
- Edmund Henry Fisher, 1835-1879; English clergyman
- Edmund Walpole Brooke, no dates; English artist
- Édouard Dujardin, 1861-1945; French writer and art critic
- Edouard Frère, 1819-1886; French artist
- Édouard Girardet, 1819-1880; French artist
- Édouard Hamman, 1819-1888; Belgian artist
- Édouard Manet, 1832-1883; French artist
- Édouard Rod, 1857-1910; Swiss writer
- Édouard Jean Baptiste Détaille, 1848-1912; French artist
- Edouard Joseph (Joseph Edouard) Francq (Frank), 1819-1902; foreman in a coal mine and evangelist in Cusmes
- Eduard (Douwes) Dekker (Multatuli), 1820-1887; Dutch writer
- Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala, 1842/3-1871; Spanish artist
- Edward Dujardin, 1817-1889; Belgian artist and art teacher
- Edward Wheelwright, 1824-1900; American artist and lawyer
- Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, 1803-1873; English writer
- Edward John Gregory, 1850-1909; English artist
- Edward Levien Jacobson, 1802-1875; English art collector
- Edward Reginald Bottomley, 1865-1929; British artist
- Edwin Edwards, 1823-1879; English artist
- Edwin Austin Abbey, 1852-1911; American artist
- Edwin Henry Landseer, 1802-1873; English artist
- Edwin Buckman, 1841-1930; English artist
- Egbert Johannes Wernhardt Posthumus Meijjes, 1871-1949; son of Jeremias Posthumus Meijjes
- Egbert Rubertus Borchers, 1849-1932; civil servant in The Hague
- Elbert Jan van Wisselingh, 1848-1912; Dutch art dealer
- Elisabeth (Betje) Petronella van der Burg (Aunt Betje), 1797-1879; daughter of Abraham van der Burg
- Elisabeth (Betsy) Tersteeg, 1869-1938; daughter of Hermanus Gijsbertus Tersteeg, manager of Goupil & Cie in The Hague
- Elisabeth (Lies) Huberta Du Quesne-Van Gogh, 1859-1936; sister of the artist and second wife of Jean Philippe Theodore Du Quesne van Bruchem
- Elisabeth Clara Johanna Hackstroh-De Bock, 1827-after 1895; wife of Susan(n)us Marinus Hackstroh
- Elisabeth Huberta Vrijdag van Gogh-Vrijdag, 1790-1857; wife of Vincent van Gogh and grandmother of the artist
- Elise Dosne Thiers, 1818-1880; wife of Louis-Adolphe Thiers, president of the French Republic
- Eliza Laurillard, 1830-1908; clergyman and poet in Amsterdam
- Elizabeth (Sara) de Swart, 1861-1951; Dutch artist
- Elizabeth Cookson, no dates; French courtesan and mistress of King Willem III
- Elizabeth Hubertha (Bertha) Pompe-Van Gogh (Aunt Bertha), 1823-1895; second wife of Abraham Pompe and sister of Theodorus van Gogh
- Elizabeth Hubertha (Bertha) Vincentia van Gogh, 1859-1938; daughter of Willem Daniel van Gogh
- Elodie Breton-De Vigne, 1836-1909; wife of Jules Breton
- Emil Otto Grundmann, 1844-1890; German artist
- Émile Erckmann, 1822-1899; French writer
- Émile Gauguin, 1874-1955; son of Paul Gauguin
- Émile Gavet, 1830-1904; French art collector and patron of Millet
- Émile Goudeau, 1849-1906; French writer
- Émile Levy, 1826-1890; French artist
- Émile Rochedieu, 1825-1892; president of the Belgian Evangelization Committee of the Association of Churches
- Emile Souvestre, 1806-1854; French writer
- Émile Verhaeren, 1855-1916; Belgian writer
- Émile Wauters, 1846-1933; Belgian artist
- Émile Adélard Breton, 1831-1902; French artist
- Émile Auguste Étienne Martin Deschanel, 1819-1904; French writer
- Émile Charles Lambinet, 1815-1877; French artist
- Émile Étienne Guimet, 1838-1919; French industrialist
- Émile François Zola, 1840-1902; French writer
- Émile Henri Bernard, 1868-1941; French artist
- Émile Jean-Horace Vernet, 1789-1863; French artist
- Emmanuel Poiré (Caran d'Ache), 1859-1909; French artist
- Emmanuel de Bom, 1868-1953; Belgian writer
- Enid Plowman Dove-Meadows, no dates; daughter of Eugénie Loyer
- Ernest Chaplet, 1835-1909 ; French artist
- Ernest Durand, c.1855-?; Belgian art student at the Antwerp Academy
- Ernest Hébert, 1817-1908; French artist
- Ernest Legouvé, 1807-1903; French writer
- Ernest Meissoner, 1815-1891; French artist
- Ernest Quost, 1844-1931; French artist
- Ernest Amédée Chausson, 1855-1899; French composer
- Ernest Ange Duez , 1843-1896; French artist
- Ernest Christopher Dowson, 1867-1900; English writer
- Ernest Ponthier de Chamaillard, 1862-1930; French artist
- Ernest Sigismund Witkamp, 1854-1897; Dutch artist
- Ernst Josephson, 1851-1906; Swedish artist
- Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, 1776-1822; German writer, composer, critic, and caricaturist
- Erskine Nicol, 1825-1904; English artist
- Esaias Tegner, 1782-1846; Swedish poet, bishop, and teacher
- Esther Bensusan, 1970-1951; English fiancée of Lucien Pissarro
- Esther Denis, no dates; landlord of the artist in Petit-Wasmes and wife of Jean-Baptiste Denis
- Étienne Boussod, 1857-1918; art dealer at Boussod, Valadon & Cie in Paris and son of Léon Boussod
- Étienne Moreau-Nélaton, 1859-1927; French artist and writer
- Étienne Joseph Théophile Thoré (W. Bürger), 1807-1869; French art critic
- Étienne-Lucien Martin, no dates; no known status
- Eugène Bersier, 1831-1889; clergyman in Paris
- Eugéne Cicéri, 1813-1890; French artist
- Eugène Fromentin, 1820-1876; French artist and writer
- Eugène Giraud, 1833-?; magistrate in Arles
- Eugène Ionesco, 1909-1994; Romanian/French writer
- Eugène Manet, 1834-1892; brother of Édouard Manet and husband of Berthe Morisot
- Eugène Murer, 1846-1906; French art collector
- Eugène Verboeckhoven, 1798-1881; Belgian artist
- Eugène Alexandre Caillaux, 1822-1896; French engineer and politician, minister in the Third Republic
- Eugène Anatole Carrière, 1849-1934; French artist
- Eugéne Antoine Samuel Lavieille, 1820-1889; French artist
- Eugène François Bonaventure Bataille, 1854-1891; French artist
- Eugène François Joseph Siberdt, 1851-1931; Belgian artist and teacher at the Antwerp Academy
- Eugène Guillaume Boch, 1855-1941; Belgian artist
- Eugène Louis Boudin, 1824-1898; French artist
- Eugène Louis Gillot, 1868-1925; French artist and engraver
- Eugenie Loyer, 1854-1911; daughter of Sarah Ursula Loyer-Wilson, the artist's landlord in London
- Evariste Marandon de Montyel, 1851-1908; French psychiatrist
- Évariste Marandon de Montyel, 1851-1908; French psychiatrist
- Evert Pieters, 1856-1932; Dutch artist
- F. C. Soer, no dates; headmaster at the grammar school at Oldenzaal, teacher of Dutch and geography at the Tilburg Academy
- F. S. Gomm, no dates; teacher of English at the Tilburg Academy
- F. van Calker, no dates; teacher of zoology at the Tilburg Academy, later first professor of geology in The Netherlands
- F. W. Krecke, no dates; teacher of mathematics and physics at the Tilburg Academy
- F.H.M. Post, 1829-1894; English art collector
- Fabian de Castro, 1868-?; Spanish artist
- Felicien de Myrbach-Rheinfeld, 1853-1940; Austrian artist
- Félicien Joseph Victor Rops, 1833-1898; Belgian artist
- Felix Chrispeels, no dates; classmate the artist at the Evangelical School in Brussels and brother of Pieter Jozef Chrispeels
- Félix Fénélon, 1861-1944; French writer
- Félix Elie Régamey, 1844-1907; French artist
- Félix Hilaire Buhot, 1847-1898; French artist
- Félix-Francois Georges Philibert Ziem, 1821-1911; French artist
- Félix-Joseph Barrias, 1822-1907; French artist
- Fennigje(n) Hartsuiker-Veen, 1829-1865; first wife of Albertus Hartsuiker, lodging-house keeper in Hoogeveen
- Ferdinand (Marie) de Lesseps, 1805-1894; French writer and builder of the Suez Canal
- Ferdinand Bol, 1616-1680; Dutch artist
- Ferdinand Heilbuth, 1826-1889; French artist
- Ferdinand de Braekeleer the Elder, 1792-1883; Belgian artist
- Ferdinand Hart Nibbrig, 1866-1915; Dutch artist
- Ferdinand Henri Gagnebin, 1816-1890; clergyman in Amsterdam
- Ferdinand Loyen du Puigaudeau, 1864-1930; French artist
- Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix, 1798-1863; French artist
- Fernand Piestre, 1845-1924; French artist
- Fernand Piestre Cormon, 1845-1924; French artist
- Fjodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Dostoieffsky), 1821-1881; Russian writer
- Fleury Chenu, 1833-1875; French artist
- Flore Célestine Thérèse Henriette Tristan y Moscoso (Flora Celestina Teresa Henriette Tristán Laisnay), 1803-1844; French writer and activist and grandmother of Paul Gauguin
- Francis ("Sis") van Rooij, 1839-1917; uncle of Gordina de Groot
- Francis (Frank) Montague Holl, 1845-1888; English artist
- Francis Bacon (First Viscount Saint Alban), 1561-1626; English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, and writer
- Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas, 1580-1645; Spanish writer
- Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 1746-1828; Spanish artist
- Francois (Frans) Pieter ter Meulen, 1843-1927; Dutch artist
- François Boucher, 1703-1770; French artist
- François Rabelais, 1494-1553; French writer
- François Spijker, ?-after 1890; friend of Theo van Gogh's in Paris
- François Villon, 1431-1463; French writer
- Francois Adriaan de Klerck, no dates; possible classmate or staff member at Provily's school in Zevenbergen
- François Damase Crevoulin, 1844-1903; grocer and neighbor of the artist in Arles
- François de Salignac de La Mothe Fénélon, no dates; French archbishop
- François Edouard Joachim Coppée, 1842-1908; French poet
- François Joseph Delarebeyrette, 1825-1886; French art dealer
- François Joseph Aimé de Lemud, 1817-1887; French artist
- François Nicolas Auguste Feyen-Perrin, 1826-1888; French artist
- François Pierre Guillaume Guizot, 1787-1874; French historian and prime minister under Louis Philippe I
- François Vincent Raspail, 1794-1878; French chemist
- Françoise Bonger, Baroness van der Borch van Verwolde, 1887-1975; second wife of Andries Bonger
- Françoise Bonger, Baroness van der Borch van Verwolde, 1887-1975; second wife of Andries Bonger
- Frank Boggs, 1855-1926; American artist
- Frank Dadd, 1851-1929; English artist
- Frans (Franciscus) Braat, 1852-1888; employee at Goupil & Cie in Paris
- Frans (François) Kasper Huibrecht Vinck, 1827-1903; Belgian artist
- Frans Francken II, 1581-1642; Flemish artist
- Frans Hals, 1581/85-1666; Dutch artist
- Frans Soek, ?-1879; employee at Goupil & Cie in Paris
- Frans Alexander Johan Frederik Ridder van Rappard, 1854-1923; brother of Anthon van Rappard, Dutch artist
- Fransisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas, 1580-1645; Spanish writer
- Franz Kafka, 1883-1924; German writer
- Franz Liszt (Ferencz Liszt, Ferenc Liszt, from 1859 to 1867 Franz Ritter von Liszt ), 1811-1886; Hungarian composer
- Franz Pforr, 1788-1812; German artist
- Franz Joseph Gall, 1758-1828; German doctor
- Frederic Leighton (Baron Leighton of Stetton), 1830-1896; English artist
- Frédéric Mistral, 1830-1914; French writer
- Frédéric Montenard, 1849-1926; French artist
- Frédéric Régamey, 1849-1925; French artist
- Frédéric Salles, 1841-1897; clergyman in Arles
- Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, 1834-1904; French artist
- Frédéric François (Fryderyk Franciszek) Chopin, 1810-1849; Polish composer
- Frederick Barnard, 1846-1896; English artist
- Frederick Walker, 1840-1875; English artist
- Frederico Zandomeneghi, 1841-1917; Italian artist
- Frederik van de Plas, no dates; Dutch tailor
- Frederik Villem van Eeden, 1860-1932; Dutch writer
- Fredrich (Fritz) Karl Hermann von Uhde, 1848-1911; German artist
- Friedrich Engels, 1820-1895; German writer and philosopher
- Friedrich Rückert, 1788-1866; German poet
- Fritz Reuter, 1810-1874; German writer
- G. Kraus, no dates; doctor
- G. Millaudy, no dates; no known status
- G. de Best, no dates; teacher at the Evangelical School in Brussels
- G. J. Blom, no dates; clergyman and member of the Belgian Evangelization Committee of the Association of Churches
- Gabriel Delarebeyrette (Gabriel de la Roquette), 1862-1891; French art dealer
- Gabriel-Albert Aurier, 1865-1892; French writer and art critic
- Gaius Julius Caesar, 100 BCE-44 CE; Roman emperor
- Gaius Julius Caesar, 100-44 BCE; Roman emperor
- Gaspar Ofhuys, 1456-1532; monk at Roode Clooster
- Gaston Braun, 1845-1928; French publisher of reproductions
- Gaston Secrétan, 1871-1943; French singer
- Geoffrey Chaucer, 1343-1400; English writer
- Georg (Friedrich Carl) F. C. Herbst, 1828-1898; clergyman in Brussels
- Georg Eduard Otto Saal, 1818-1870; German artist
- George Clausen, 1852-1944; English artist
- George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), 1819-1880; English writer
- George Sand (Amandine Lucile Aurore Dupin, Lucie), 1804-1876; French writer
- George Stephenson, 1781-1848; English engineer
- George C. Finden, 1848-1883; English artist
- George Frideric Handel, 1685-1759; German-born English composer
- George Gordon (Lord) Byron, 1788-1824; English poet
- George Hendrick Breitner, 1857-1923; Dutch artist
- George Henry Boughton, 1835-1905; English artist
- George John Pinwell, 1842-1875; English artist
- George Léon Alfred Perrichon, ?-1907; French artist
- George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier, 1834-1896; French artist
- George R. Read, no dates; acquaintance of the artist at Goupil & Cie in London
- George Robert Reid, 1851-after 1916; English artist
- Georges (Père) Thomas, ?-after 1908; art dealer in Paris
- Georges Bizet, 1838-1875; French composer
- Georges Durand-Ruel, 1866-1933; French art dealer and son of Paul Durand-Ruel
- Georges Jeannin, 1841-1925; French artist
- Georges Lemmen, 1865-1916; Belgian artist
- Georges Ohnet, 1848-1918; French writer
- Georges Petit, 1865-1920; French art dealer
- Georges Stein, 1818-1890; French artist
- Georges de Bellio, 1828-1894; French art dealer and collector
- Georges Ernest Jean-Marie Boulanger, 1837-1891; French general and politican
- Georges-Bernard Michel, 1763-1843; French artist
- Georges-Daniel de Monfreid, 1856-1929; French artist and collector
- Georges-Eugène (Baron) Haussmann, 1809-1891; French civic planner
- Georges-Pierre Seurat, 1859-1891; French artist
- Geraldina (Gerardina) Jacoba van de Sande Bakhuyzen, 1826-1895; Dutch artist
- Gerard Dou, 1613-1675; Dutch artist
- Gerard Seghers, 1591-1651; Flemish artist
- Gerard ter Borch (the Younger), 1617-1681; Dutch artist
- Gerard van Swieten, 1700-1772; Dutch doctor
- Gerard Bilders, 1838-1865; Dutch artist
- Gerarda Carbentus, 1831-1832; sister of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus
- Gerarda van der Gaag, 1829-?; daughter of Hendrica van der Gaag-Carbentus
- Gerardus Guizing, 1847-1924; farmer in Nuenen
- Gerardus Huizing, 1847-1924; farmer in Nuenen
- Gerhard Morgen-stjerne Munthe, 1875-1927; German artist
- Gerke Henkes, 1844-1927; Dutch artist
- Germaine Ravoux, 1888-?; daughter of Arthur Gustave Ravoux
- Gerrit Carbentus, 1697-1756; great-great-great-grandfather of the artist
- Gerrit Carbentus, 1761-1797; great-grandfather of the artist
- Gerrit Carbentus, 1822-1869; brother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus
- Gerrit Carbentus, no dates; great-grandfather of Gerrit Carbentus, the artist's great-great-great-great-grandfather
- Gerrit Alexander Godart Philip (Alexander) Mollinger, 1836-1867; Dutch artist
- Gerrit Jan van der Stouwe, no dates; assistant teacher at Provily's school in Zevenbergen
- Gerrit van Gogh, 1590/1600-1648; father of Gerrit van Gogh and great-great-great-great-great-grandfather of the artist
- Gerrit van Gogh, 1636/9-1714; father of Vincent van Gogh and great-great-great-great-grandfather of the artist
- Gerrit van Gogh, 1700-1752; brother of David van Gogh
- Gerrit van der Gaag, 1819-?; son of Hendrica van der Gaag-Carbentus
- Gheorghe Asachi, 1788-1869; Romanian writer
- Gijsbertus Jan van Lakerveld, 1831-1901; clergyman in Helmond
- Giorgio (Giorgione) Barbarelli da Castelfranco, c. 1477/8-1510; Italian artist
- Giorgio Vasari, 1511-1574; Italian writer and artist
- Giovanni Bellini, 1427/30-1516; Italian artist
- Giovanni Boccaccio, 1313-1375; Italian writer
- Giovanni Giusti, 1485-1549; Italian artist
- Girolamo Savonarola, 1452-1498; Dominican friar in Florence
- Giuseppe de Nittis, 1846-1884; Italian artist
- Godefroy Durand, 1832-1920; English artist
- Gordina (Dien, Sien) de Groot, 1855-1927; lover of the artist in Nuenen
- Guillame Charles Tasset, 1843-1925; seller of artists' supplies in Paris
- Guillaume Clovis Pierre Gauguin, 1814-1849; father of Paul Gauguin
- Guillaume Urbain Régamey, 1837-1875; French artist
- Guiseppe Garibaldi, 1807-1882; Italian military officer and politician
- Guliana Cornelia Posthumus Meijjes, 1869-1942; daughter of Jeremias Posthumus Meijjes
- Gustave Arosa, 1818-1883; French businessman
- Gustave Brion, 1824-1877; French artist
- Gustave Coquiot, 1865-1926; French writer and art critic
- Gustave Courbet, 1819-1877; French artist
- Gustave Doré, 1832-1883; French artist
- Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880; French writer
- Gustave Geffroy, 1855-1926; French writer
- Gustave Kahn, 1859-1936; French writer and art critic
- Gustave Adolphe Jundt, 1830-1884; French artist
- Gustave Jean Jacquet, 1846-1909; French artist
- Gustave Desault, no dates; Protestant in Cuesmes
- Guy de Maupassant, 1850-1893; French writer
- H. Hollidee (Elard Albert Rovers), 1848-1908; Dutch writer
- H. Pfaff, no dates; sergeant-instructor at the Tilburg Academy
- H. J. Buddingh, 1810-1870; Dutch clergyman and founder of the Free Evangelical Congregation
- Hannes van der Velden, 1871-1956; inhabitant of Neunen
- Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497-1543; German artist
- Hans Laban, no dates; Dutch acquaintance of the Van Gogh family
- Hans Makart, 1840-1884; Austrian artist
- Hans Memling (Memlinc), 1430/40-1494; German-Flemish artist
- Hans Christian Andersen, 1805-1875; Danish writer
- Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497-1543; German artist
- Hans Olaf Heyerdahl, 1857-1913; Norwegian artist
- Harm Boom, 1810-1885; Dutch journalist
- Harmen van Houten, no dates; Dutch writer
- Harrier Beecher Stowe, 1811-1896; American writer
- Harry Gladwell, 1857-1927; friend of the artist in Paris
- Hector Giacomelli, 1822-1904; French artist
- Hector Berlioz, 1803-1869; French composer
- Heinrich Heine, 1797-1856; German poet
- Helen (Mary Elizabeth Paterson) Allingham, 1848-1926; English artist
- Helena (Leen, Lientje) Elisabeth Veerman, 1813-1898; nursemaid in the Van Gogh household in Zundert
- Hendrica Pietronella Carbentus, 1797-?; daughter of Hermanus Carbentus
- Hendrica van der Gaag-Carbentus, no dates; daughter of Willem Carbentus and wife of Pieter van der Gaag
- Hendricus (Driek) Dekkers, 1875-1952; inhabitant of Neunen
- Hendrik (Hein) Aertsen (Aerssen or Aarssen), 1847-1929; farmer in Etten
- Hendrik (Hein) Vincent van Gogh (Uncle Hein), 1814-1877; art dealer in Brussels and brother of Theodorus van Gogh
- Hendrik Hoppenbrouwers, no dates; inhabitant of Zundert and classmate of the artist
- Hendrik Scholte, 1841-1915; proprietor of the artist's lodging house in Nieuw-Amsterdam
- Hendrik Stevin, 1614-1668; Dutch engineer
- Hendrik Adriaan Christiaan Dekker, 1836-1905; Dutch artist
- Hendrik Christiaan Bonger, 1828-1904; Dutch insurance broker and father of Andries Bonger and Johanna van Gogh-Bonger
- Hendrik Jacob Eerligh van Gogh (Cousin Hendrik), 1853-1886; son of Johannes van Gogh
- Hendrik Jan Furnée, 1833-1894; seller of artists' supplies in The Hague
- Hendrik Jan van Wisselingh, 1816-1884; Dutch art dealer
- Hendrik Johannes Haverman, 1857-1928; Dutch artist
- Hendrik van de Sande Bakhuysen (Bakhuijsen), 1729-1812; Dutch artist; husband of Jannetje van de Sande Bakhuysen-Van Gogh
- Hendrik van den Brink, 1841-1918; clergyman in Roesselaere, Belgium
- Hendrik Willem Mesdag, 1831-1915; Dutch artist
- Hendrikus (Hendrik) van de Sande Bakhuyzen (Bakhuijsen), 1795-1860; great-grandfather of Julius van de Sande Bakhuyzen
- Hendrikus (Hendrikus, Driek) de Groot, 1863-1909; brother of Gordina de Groot
- Hendrikus Dirks, no dates; trainee (and son) to schoolmaster Dirks in Zundert
- Hendrikus Roolant, no dates; assistant to schoolmaster Dirks in Zundert
- Hendrina van Gogh, 1759-1852; daughter of Josina van Gogh Abdon and collateral relative of the artist
- Henri (Hendrik) Conscience, 1812-1883; Belgian writer
- Henri Cottu, no dates; director of the Compagnie du Canal de Panama
- Henri Delavallée, 1862-1943; French artist
- Henri Fantin-Latour, 1836-1904; French artist
- Henri Meilhac, 1831-1897; French opera singer
- Henri Murger, 1822-1861; French writer
- Henri Poincaré, 1854-1912; French mathematician
- Henri Pranzini, 1856-1887; French murderer, born in Egypt, known as the rue Montaigne assassin
- Henri Rivière, 1864-1951; French artist
- Henri Alphonse Esquiros, 1812-1876; French writer
- Henri Jean Augustin de Braekeleer, 1840-1888; Belgian artist
- Henri Jean Beptiste Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, 1842-1912; French publicist and historian
- Henri Joseph Harpignies, 1819-1916; French artist
- Henri Jules Charles Corneille de Groux, 1867-1930; Belgian artist and art critic
- Henri L.L.F. Bungener, 1814-1874; French writer
- Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa, 1864-1901; French artist
- Henri van den Hoeven, 1843-1924; family friend in Zundert
- Henry Allan, 1865-1912; Irish art student at the Antwerp Academy
- Henry Graves, 1806-1892; English publisher
- Henry Irving (John Henry Brodribb), 1838-1905; English actor
- Henry James, 1843-1916; American writer
- Henry Mayhew, 1812-1887; English sociologist and writer
- Henry Moret, 1856-1913; French artist
- Henry Ryland, 1856-1924; British artist
- Henry Stevens, no dates; British medical official who toured Geel in 1856
- Henry Stacy Marks, 1829-1898; British artist
- Henry Towneley Green, 1836-1899; English artist
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882; American poet
- Henry William Gladwell, 1834-1893; father of Harry Gladwell, friend of the artist in Paris
- Herman Melville, 1819-1891; American writer
- Herman van der Weele, 1852-1930; Dutch artist
- Hermanus Carbentus, 1732-1800; great-great-grandfather of the artist
- Hermanus Teekelenburg, no dates; Dutch, born in Germany, father of Aliya Carbentus-Teekelenburg, and ferryman
- Hermanus Gijsbertus Tersteeg (H. G., H.G.T., T., or Mr. T.), 1845-1927; gérant of Goupil in The Hague
- Hermina (Mien) Bonger, 1858-1910; sister of Johanna van Gogh-Bonger
- Hermine Louise Bonger-Weissman, 1831-1905; mother of Andries Bonger and Johanna van Gogh-Bonger
- Hieronymus van Alphen, 1746-1803; Dutch writer
- Hilbertus Hartsuiker, 1872-1951; son of Albertus and Catharina Hartsuiker, lodging-housekeepers in Hoogeveen
- Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, 1828-1893; French writer and philosopher
- Hippolyte Emmanuel Boulenger, 1837-1874; Belgian artist
- Hippolyte François Alfred Chauchard, 1821-1909; French art collector
- Hippolyte Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier (Paul Gavarni), 1804-1866; French artist
- Hishigava Moronobu, 1618-1694; Japanses artist
- Honoré Daumier, 1808-1879; French artist
- Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850; French writer
- Horace Mann Livens, 1862-1936; English artist
- Howard Pyle, 1853--1911; American artist
- Hubert (Huybrecht) van Eyck, c. 1385/90-1426; Flemish artist
- Hubert von Herkomer, 1849-1914; English artist
- Hubertina Normance, 1886-1969; daughter of Lies van Gogh
- Hubertus Amadeus Cavenaille, 1841-1914; doctor in Antwerp
- Hugo van der Goes, c. 1440-1482; Flemish artist
- Hugues Merle, 1823-1881; French artist
- Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1659-1743; French artist
- Ikeda (Kesai) Eisen, 1790-1848; Japanese artist
- Ira David Sankey, 1840-1908; American clergyman and Gospel composer
- Isaac Newton, 1643-1727; English mathematician and physicist
- Isaäc Teixeira da Mattos, 1821-1904; teacher of the artist in Amsterdam
- Isaac da Costa, 1798-1860; Dutch poet
- Isaac Lazarus Israëls, 1865-1934; Dutch artist
- Isaac van Ostade, 1621-1649; Dutch artist
- Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, 1818-1883; Russian writer
- J. Franken, no dates; carpenter in Zundert
- J. Frantzen, no dates; teacher of German at the Tilburg Academy
- J. Hannicks, 1812-?; boardinghouse owner in Tilburg
- J. A. Oosteryck (Johannes Andries Oostrijck), 1843-1888; farmer in Etten
- J. A. Stricker, no dates; son of Johan Andries Stricker and brother of Johannes Paulus Stricker, Sr.
- J. B. (Jan Benjamin) Kam, c. 1861-?; family friend in Etten and later a doctor
- J. L. Koster, no dates; classmate of the artist at the Tilburg Academy
- J. M. Reinders, no dates; teacher of French at the Tilburg Academy
- J. M. Schalekamp, no dates; bookseller in Amsterdam
- Jacob (Jaap) Hendrik Maris, 1837-1899; Dutch artist
- Jacob (Jacques) van Santen Kolff, 1848-1896; Dutch art critic
- Jacob Jordaens, 1593-1678; Flemish artist
- Jacob Roman, 1640-1716; Dutch architect and sculptor
- Jacob Seijdel, 1864-1933; son of Lucas Seijdel, storekeeper in Hoogeveen
- Jacob de Vos Jacobszn, 1803-1878; Dutch art collector
- Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael (Ruysdael), 1628/29-1682; Dutch artist
- Jacob Simon Hendrik Kever, 1854-1922; Dutch artist
- Jacob van Lennep, 1802-1868; Dutch writer
- Jacoba (Koos) Wilhelmina van der Burg (Aunt Koos), 1792-1863; daughter of Abraham van der Burg
- Jacobus (Jacob, Jakob) Jan van Der Maaten, 1820-1879; Dutch artist
- Jacobus (Jacob) Cats, 1577-1660; Dutch writer
- Jacobus Craandijk, 1834-1912; Dutch writer
- Jacobus Veerman, no dates; civil servant in Zundert
- Jacobus Lodewijk (Louis) Begemann, 1838-1906; brother of Margot Begemann in Nuenen
- Jacomijna (Jacomina, Mientje) Aertsen-Honcoop, 1846-1948; wife of Serfass Aertsen and servant in the parson's household in Zundert
- Jacques Ferny (Georges Chervelle), 1863-1946; French singer
- Jacques Rosseels, 1828-1912; Belgian artist
- Jacques Tardieu, 1834-after 1894; mayor of Arles
- Jacques Adrien Lavieille, 1818-1862; French artist
- Jacques Albin Simon Collin de Plancy, 1793/4 - 1881; French writer
- Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, 1627-1704; French writer
- Jacques Émile Blanche, 1861-1942; French artist
- Jacques Jeremie Richard, 1823-1897; clergyman in Vlissingen
- Jacques Louis David, 1748-1825; French artist
- Jacques Michel Paillard, 1808-1878/84; seller of artists' supplies in Paris
- Jacques Victor Eugène Froment, 1820-1900; French artist
- Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy, 1799-1862; French composer
- James (Jacques-Joseph) Tissot, 1836-1902; French artist
- James Giles, no dates; English composer
- James Mahoney, 1816-1879; English artist
- James Stokes, no dates; father of William Port Stokes
- James Abbot McNeill Whistler, 1834-1903; American artist
- James Dromgole Linton, 1840-1916; British artist
- James Sheridan Knowles, 1784-1862; Irish playwright and actor
- James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor, 1860-1949; Belgian artist
- Jan Dirks, 1822-?; schoolmaster in Zundert
- Jan Fyt, 1611-1661; Flemish artist
- Jan Lievens, 1607-1674; Dutch artist
- Jan Ploeger, 1913-1994; South African colonel and author
- Jan Provily, 1800-1875; headmaster of Provily's school in Zevenbergen
- Jan Six, 1618-1700; mayor of Amsterdam
- Jan Steen, 1626-1679; Dutch artist
- Jan de Ruyter, fl. c. 1820; Dutch artist
- Jan Gerrit Kam, 1833-1917; clergyman in Leur
- Jan Hendrik Brom, 1860-1915; silversmith in Utrecht
- Jan Hendrik Hooyer, 1844-1892; clergyman in Dordrecht
- Jan Jacob Lodewijk ten Kate, 1819-1889; Dutch clergyman and poet
- Jan Pieter Veth, 1834-1925; Dutch artist and writer
- Jan Theodor Joseph (Jozef) Linnig, 1815-1891; art dealer in Antwerp
- Jan van (Johannes de) Eyck, c. 1380/90-c. 1441; Flemish artist
- Jan van Beers, 1821-1888; Belgian poet
- Jan van Gogh, 1530/40-?; father of Gerrit van Gogh and great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather of the artist
- Jan van Gogh, 1722-1784; grandfather of Vincent van Gogh and great-great-grandfather of the artist
- Jan van Goyen, 1596-1656; Dutch artist
- Jan Willem Wierda, 1837-1904; employee at Uncle Cor's bookshop in Amsterdam
- Jan Zoetelief Tromp, 1872-1947; Dutch artist
- Jane Addams, 1860-1935; American social reformer
- Jannetje (Annet) Cornelia Haanebeek, 1851-1875; daughter of Carl Adolph Haanebee and sister of Caroline van Stockum-Haanebeek
- Jannetje van de Sande Bakhuysen-Van Gogh, 1731-1796; daughter of Gerrit van Gogh and wife of Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuysen (Bakhuijsen)
- Jean (Auguste-Jules) Richepin, 1849-1926; French writer
- Jean (Jean-François) Gigoux, 1806-1894; French writer and artist
- Jean Béraud, 1848-1935; French artist
- Jean Boussod, 1860-1907; art dealer at Boussod, Valadon & Cie in Paris and son of Léon Boussod
- Jean Denis, 1849-1933; son of Jean-Baptiste Denis, the artist's landlord in Petit-Wasmes
- Jean Mazéry, 1845-c. 1925; French doctor
- Jean Richez , no dates; nephew of Jean Denis, son of Jean-Baptiste Denis, the artist's landlord in Petit-Wasmes
- Jean Villian, no dates; medical officer in Auvers
- Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguière, 1831-1900; French artist
- Jean Alfred Fournier, 1832-1914; French dermatologist
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1780-1867; French artist
- Jean Baptiste Greuze, 1725-1805; French artist
- Jean Baptiste Benajmin Luther Andry, 1845-1903; clergyman in Wasmes
- Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, 1796-1875; French artist
- Jean de Beucken , 1905-?; French writer
- Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696; French writer
- Jean François Poulet, c. 1862-?; orderly in the asylum of Saint Paul de Mausole in Saint-Rémy
- Jean Jacques Henner, 1829-1905; French artist
- Jean Jules Chéret, 1836-1932; French artist
- Jean Louis Forain, 1852-1931; French artist
- Jean Louis Hamon, 1821-1874; French artist
- Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud, 1854-1891; French poet
- Jean Philippe Theodore Du Quesne van Bruchem, 1840-1921; French lawyer and husband of Lies van Gogh
- Jean Pierre Alexandre-Antigna, 1817-1878; French artist
- Jean Pierre Alexandre Antigna, 1817-1878; French artist
- Jean Pierre François Lamorinière, 1828-1911; Belgian artist
- Jean-Antoine Dubois, 1756-1837; French doctor
- Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721; French artist
- Jean-Baptist Mathijsen, 1817-1909; teacher at the Evangelical School in Brussels
- Jean-Baptiste Denis, 1825-1893; landlord of the artist in Petit-Wasmes
- Jean-Baptiste Loyer, 1801-1859/60; husband of Ursula and father of Eugénie Loyer
- Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, 1699-1779; French artist
- Jean-Charles Cazin, 1841-1901; French artist
- Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, 1772-1840; French psychiatrist
- Jean-François Millet, 1914-1875; French artist
- Jean-François Raffaëlli, 1850-1924; French artist
- Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, 1809-1864; French artist
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1732-1806; French artist
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778; Swiss philosopher, writer, and composer
- Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, 1845-1902; French artist
- Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1824-1904; French artist
- Jean-Louis-Nicolas Millet, no dates; father of Jean-François Millet
- Jean-Martin Charcot, 1825-1893; French nuerologist
- Jean-Paul (Charles Aymard) Sartre, 1905-1980; French philosopher and writer
- Jean-Paul Laurens, 1838-1891; French artist
- Jeanette Geertruida Marda, 1808-after 1895; publican in The Hague
- Jeanette Louise van Gogh-Vos, 1854-1906; wife of Johannes van Gogh
- Jeanne Trabuc-Lafuye, 1834-1903; wife of Charles-Elzéard Trabuc, orderly in the asylum of Saint Paul de Mausole in Saint-Rémy
- Jeanne Louise Agathe Posthumus Meijjes-Tilanus, 1834-1881; wife of Jeremias Posthumus Meijjes
- Jef Lambeaux, 1852-1908; Belgian artist
- Jef van Severdonck, 1819-1905; Belgian artist
- Jeremias (Jeremie Meyes) Posthumus Meijjes, 1831-1908; Dutch clergyman, son of Reiner Posthumus Meijes, Sr.
- Jo(h)an de Jong(e) van Zwijnsbergen, 1821-1881; inhabitant of Helvoirt
- Joan Marius van Houten, 1850-1945; husband of Anna van Houten-Van Gogh
- Joanna Chrispeels Geerling, no dates; daughter of Otto Geerling, Belgian architect, and wife of Pieter Jozef Chrispeels, the artist's classmate at the Evangelical School in Brussels
- Joaquin Agrasot y Juan, 1837-1919; Spanish artist
- Johan (Jan) Hendrik Weissenbruch, 1824-1903; Dutch artist
- Johan (Jean) Theodore Stracké, 1817-1891; German/Dutch artist
- Johan Briedé, 1885-1980; Dutch artist
- Johan Tersteeg, no dates; son of H. G. Tersteeg, manager of Goupil & Cie in The Hague
- Johan Wilhelm (J. W.) Kaiser, 1813-1900; Dutch artist
- Johan Andries Stricker, no dates; father-in-law of the artist's Aunt Willemina, Anna Carbentus's oldest sister, and father of Johannes Paulus Stricker, Sr.
- Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1819-1891; Dutch artist
- Johan Bernard de Hoog, 1866-1943; Dutch artist
- Johan de Meester, 1860-1931; Dutch art critic
- Johan Frans Seijdel, 1863-1892; son of Lucas Seijdel, storekeeper in Hoogeveen
- Johan Henri Gustaaf Cohen Gosschalk, 1873-1912; Dutch artist and writer and second husband of Johanna van Gogh-Bonger
- Johan Severin Svendsen, 1840-1911; Norwegian composer and conductor
- Johan van Swieten, no dates; Dutch architect
- Johann Caspar (Kaspar) Lavater, 1741-1801; Swiss clergyman and physiognomist
- Johann David Wyss, 1743-1818; Swiss clergyman
- Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 1789-1869; German artist
- Johann Georg Meyer von Bremen, 1813-1886; German artist
- Johann Paul (Jean Paul) Friedrich Richter, 1783-1825; German writer
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832; German writer
- Johanna (Antje) Wilhelmina van Gogh (Aunt Antje), 1812-1883; sister of Theodorus van Gogh
- Johanna (Jo or Net) Gezina van Gogh-Bonger, 1862-1925; wife of Theo van Gogh
- Johanna Ewaldina Stricker-Van der Gaag, no dates; wife of Johan Andries Stricker
- Johanna Hendrina van Gogh, 1863-1945; daughter of Cornelis Marinus van Gogh (Uncle Cor)
- Johanna van Gogh-Franken, 1836-1919; second wife of Cornelis Marinus van Gogh (Uncle Cor)
- Johannes (Jan) Aertsen (Aerssen or Aarssen), 1805-1877; farmer in Rijsbergen
- Johannes (Jan) Andries, 1848-1901; son of Johannes Paulus Stricker, Sr.
- Johannes (Jan) Doomen (Domen), 1817-1896; gardener in Zundert
- Johannes (Jan) Vermeer, 1632-1675; Dutch artist
- Johannes (Jan) Paulus Vos, 1873-1928; son of Cornelia Adriana Stricker ("Kee Vos") and Christoffel Marinus Vos
- Johannes (Jan) Rutgerus Carbentus, 1827-1875; brother of Anna Van-Gogh Carbentus
- Johannes (Jan) van Gogh, Sr. (Uncle Jan), 1817-1885; rear admiral, director of the naval dockyard in Amsterdam, and brother of Theodorus van Gogh
- Johannes (Johan) Christiaan Schröder, 1838-1891; bookseller in Amsterdam
- Johannes (Jos) van der Harten, 1852-1925; student of the artist in Nuenen
- Johannes Bosboom, 1817-1891; Dutch artist
- Johannes Bosscha, Jr., 1831-1911; Dutch physicist and writer
- Johannes Doorenbos, 1813-1884; clergyman in Helvoirt
- Johannes Hillen, 1829-1905; catechist in The Hague
- Johannes Kuylman (Kuijlman), 1845-1913; clergyman in Princenhage
- Johannes Mondriaan, 1759-1794; wife of Hendrina van Gogh and great-great-grandfather of the painter Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, Piet Mondrian
- Johannes Schafrat, 1847-1924; sexton and the artist's landlord in Nuenen
- Johannes Elias Schröder, 1851-1930; clergyman in Zwolle
- Johannes Franciscus Hoppenbrouwers, 1819-1866; Dutch artist
- Johannes Marinus van Hoogstraaten, no dates; bookseller in The Hague and husband of Willemina Catrina van Stockum
- Johannes Nicolaas Ramaer, 1817-1887; doctor in The Hague
- Johannes Paulus Stricker, Sr. (J.P.S. or Uncle Stricker), 1816-1888; clergyman in Amsterdam and uncle of the artist
- Johannes Petrus Hasebroek, 1812-1896; clergyman in Amsterdam
- Johannes van Gogh , 1763-1840; father of Vincent van Gogh and great-grandfather of the artist
- Johannes van Gogh, Jr., 1854-1913; son of Johannes van Gogh and planter on Java
- Johannes van Hombergh, 1814-1895; mayor of Nuenen
- Johannes van Vloten, 1818-1883; Dutch scientist, theologian, philosopher, and writer
- Johannes Wilhelmus Weehuizen, 1852-1875; housemate of Theo van Gogh in The Hague
- Johannnes Marinus Schmidt Crans, 1830-1908; Dutch
- Johannus Rutgerus van der Gaag, 1819-?; no known status
- John (Frederick William) Herschel, 1792-1871; English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, and inventor
- John Bunyan, 1628-1688; English writer
- John Calvin (Jean Cauvin), 1509-1564; French theologian
- John Constable, 1776-1837; English artist
- John Crome (Old Crome), 1768-1821; English artist
- John Forster, 1812-1876; friend and biographer of Charles Dickens
- John Keats, 1795-1821; English poet
- John Milton, 1608-1674; English poet
- John Parker, no dates; boardinghouse keeper in Kennington
- John Ruskin, 1819-1900; English art critic, artist, and social thinker
- John Tenniel, 1820-1914; English artist
- John Everett Millais, 1829-1896; English artist
- John Henry Sorby, 1800-1900; English artist
- John Hughlings Jackson, 1835-1911; English neurologist
- John Lothrop Motley, 1814-1877; American writer
- John Peter Russell, 1858-1930; Australian artist
- John Richard Jefferies, 1848-1887; English writer
- John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873; British philosopher
- John Leech, 1817-1864; English artist
- Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745; Irish writer
- Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986; Argentine writer
- Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1848-1907; French writer
- José Belon, 1861-1927; French artist
- José Tapiro y Baro, 1830-1913; Spanish artist
- José de Ribera, 1591-1652; Spanish artist
- Joseph d'Ornano, 1843-?; chief of police in Arles
- Joseph Durand-Ruel, 1862-1928; French art dealer and son of Paul Durand-Ruel
- Joseph Priestley, 1733-1804; British clergyman and scientist
- Joseph Quinez, 1825-1895; miner in Petit-Wasmes
- Joseph Stallaert, 1825-1903; Belgian artist
- Joseph Swain, 1820-1909; British artist
- Joseph Auguste Félix Bracquemond, 1833-1914; French artist
- Joseph Burn Smeeton, fl. 1840-1870; English artist
- Joseph Étienne Roulin, 1841-1903; postal worker in Arles and Marseille
- Joseph Jacob Isaäcson, 1859-1942; Dutch artist/ writer
- Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775-1851; English artist
- Joseph Marie Eugène Sue, 1804-1857; French writer
- Joseph Michel Ginoux, 1835-1902; proprietor of Café de la Gare in Arles
- Joseph S. de Levie, no dates; great-grandson of Alexander Abraham Breebaard
- Joseph Théodore Coosemans, 1828-1904; Belgian artist
- Joséphine Armand-Ronin, no dates; wife of grocer Jules Armand in Arles
- Joshua Reynolds, 1723-1792; English artist
- Josina Beilevelt van Gogh, 1676-1754; ancestor of the artist
- Josina van Gogh-Abdon, 1725-1806; collateral relative of the artist
- Jowina-Clazina (Jowina Klasina) Scholte, 1870-1943; daughter of Hendrik Scholte, lodging house keeper in Nieuw-Amsterdam
- Jozef Blok, 1832-1905; bookseller in The Hague
- Jozef Israëls, 1824-1911; Dutch artist
- Juan Nepomuceno Uribe-Buenaventura, 1849-1894; husband of Marie Gauguin and brother-in-law of Paul Gauguin
- Jules (Adolphe Aimé Louis) Breton, 1827-1906; French artist and poet
- Jules Armand, 1846-1909; grocer in Arles
- Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1848-1884; French artist
- Jules Dupré, 1811-1889; French artist
- Jules Héricourt, 1850-?; French physiologist
- Jules Huret, 1864-1915; French writer
- Jules Michelet, 1798-1874; French writer
- Jules Adolphe Goupil, 1839-1883; French artist
- Jules Descartes Ferat, 1819-1889; French artist
- Jules Ferdinand Jacquemart, 1837-1880; French artist
- Jules Gabriel Verne, 1828-1905; French writer
- Jules Gabriel François Baillarger, 1809-1890; French neurologist
- Jules Huot de Goncourt, 1830-1870; French writer
- Jules Joseph Lefebvre, 1836-1911; French artist
- Jules Philippe Joseph Falret, 1824-1902; French psychiatrist
- Jules-Antoine Castagnary, 1830-1888; French art critic
- Julie Pissarro-Vellay, 1838-1926; wife of Camille Jacob Pissarro
- Julien Leclercq, 1865-1901; French poet and art critic
- Julien François (Père) Tanguy, 1825-1894; seller of artists' supplies in Paris
- Julius (Jules) Jacobus van de Sande Bakhuyzen (Bakhuijsen), 1835-1925; Dutch artist
- Julius Caesar Germanicus, 15 BCE-19 CE; Roman general
- Kaiser Wilhelm I, 1797-1888; German emperor
- Karl (Heinrich) Marx, 1818-1883; German philosopher, historian, and political economist
- Karl Bodmer, 1809-1893; Swiss artist
- Karl Georg von Raumer, 1783-1865; German writer
- Karl von Spruner von Merz, 1803-1882; German mapmaker
- Katarina Carbentus, no dates; daughter of Gerrit Carbentus
- Katarina Carbentus, no dates; first wife of Gerrit Carbentus
- Katharina van Geffen , no dates; inhabitant of Zundert
- Katheleen Eugénie Maynard, no dates; granddaughter of Eugénie Loyer
- Katsushika Hokusai, 1760-1849; Japanese artist
- King Alfonso XII (Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Austria-Lorena), 1857-1885; Spanish king
- King Charles I, 1600-1649; king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
- King Charles V, 1500-1558; Holy Roman emperor
- King Frederick II (Frederick the Great), 1712-1786; king of Prussia
- King Louis XII, 1462-1515; king of France
- King Louis XV, 1710-1774; king of France
- King Louis XVIII, 1755-1824; king of France
- King Philip II, 1527-1598; king of Spain and Portugal
- King Richard I (Lionheart), 1157-1199; king of England
- King Louis Philippe I, 1773-1850; king of France
- Klaas Ris, no dates; Dutch sawmill worker
- L. Fahze, no dates; no known status
- L. Vitet, no dates; French writer
- Leo Gestel, 1881-1941; Dutch artist
- Léon Boussod, 1826-1896; art dealer at Boussod, Valadon & Cie in Paris
- Léon Fauche, 1868-1950; French artist
- Léon Augustin Lhermitte, 1884-1925; French artist
- Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat, 1833-1902; French artist
- Leonard Posthumus Meijjes, Jr., 1866-1890; son of Jeremias Posthumus Meijjes
- Leonarda (Leentje) Catharina Adriana Haanebeek-Stricker (Aunt Leentje), 1822-1904; second wife of Carl Adolph Haanebeek
- Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, 1452-1519; Italian artist
- Leonardus Scheenhouwer, no dates; servant of Uncle Cent
- Léonie Rose Charbuy-Davy, no dates; niece of Pierre Firmin Martin's wife
- Léopold Denis, no dates; son of Jean-Baptiste Denis, landlord of the artist in Petit-Wasmes, and a baker and farmer
- Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor (Leopold Lodewijk Filips Maria Victor; King Léopold II), , 1835-1909; king of Belgium
- Leslie Aaron Fiedler, 1917-2003; American literary critic
- Ljev (Leo) Nikolaevich Tolstoy (Tolstoi), 1828-1910; Russian writer
- Lodewijk (Louis) Franciscus Hendrik Apol, 1850-1936; Dutch artist
- Los Rios de Guadalquivir (Dario de Regoyos y Valdés), 1857-1913; Spanish artist
- Louis (Jean Joseph Charles) Blanc, 1811-1882; French politician
- Louis Cabat, 1812-1893; French artist
- Louis Desmoulins, 1860-1924; French artist
- Louis Gonse, 1846-1921; French writer
- Louis Leroy, no dates; French artist and playwright
- Louis Marvy, 1815-1850; French artist
- Louis Piérard, 1886-1952; Belgian politician and writer
- Louis Prado (Count Louis Prado, Linska de Castillon), no dates; French murderer
- Louis Roy, 1862-1907; French artist
- Louis Émile Anquetin , 1861-1932; French artist
- Louis Gabriel Eugène Isabey, 1803-1886; French artist
- Louis Gustave Ricard, 1823-1873; French artist
- Louis Jules Dumoulin, 1860-1924; French artist
- Louis Léon (Leo) Gausson, 1860-1944; French artist
- Louis Marie Hippolyte Rivet, 1851-1931; French doctor
- Louis Marie Julien Viaud (Pierre Loti), 1850-1923; French writer
- Louis-Adolphe Thiers, 1797-1877; president of the French Republic
- Louis-Émile-Edmond Duranty, 1833-1880; French writer and art critic
- Louis-François Français, 1814-1897; French artist
- Louise Eugénie Steffens, 1841-1865; Dutch artist
- Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1472-1553; German artist
- Lucas Seijdel, 1840-?; storekeeper in Hoogeveen and first husband of Catharina Hartsuiker-Beukema
- Lucien Pissarro, 1863-1944; French artist and son of Camille Pissarro
- Lucien Aimé Antoine Verdier, 1813-?; owner of the Yellow House in Arles
- Lucius Rossi, 1846-1913; Italian artist
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4 BCE- 65 CE; Roman writer
- Ludovic Halévy, 1834-1908; French writer
- Ludovicus Cornelis van Genk, 1832-1888; doctor in Etten
- Ludwig Knaus, 1829-1910; German artist
- Ludwig Munthe, 1841-1896; Norwegian artist
- Ludwig Uhland, 1787-1862; German poet
- Ludwig von Beethoven, 1770-1827; German composer
- Ludwig Willem Reijmert Wenckebach, 1860-1937; Dutch artist
- Luis Ruipérez, 1832-1867; Spanish artist
- Lutgerarda (Lutgera) Wilhelmina Begemann, 1834-1906; sister of Margot Begemann in Nuenen
- Lydia Ann Stokes, before 1835-1878; wife of William Port Stokes
- M. Hutton, no dates; replacement for the artist in Wasmes
- M. Manzy, no dates; no known status
- M. W. Ridley, 1837-1888; British artist
- M.C.J.W.H (Margaretha, Margaretha Cornelia Johanna) Roosenboom, 1843-1896; Dutch artist
- Madame Liberge, no dates; inhabitant of Auvers
- Madame Reboul, no dates; no known status
- Madeleine Bernard, 1871-1895; French sister of Émile Bernard
- Madeleine Octave Maus, 1856-1919; Belgian editor and art critic
- Maerten de Vos, 1532-1603; Flemish artist
- Magdalena Susanna van Gogh-Van Stockum, 1828-1904; sister of Wilhelmus Petrus van Stockum and wife of Theodorus's brother Willem Daniël van Gogh
- Manuel Martínez Hugué, 1872-1945; Spanish artist
- Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, 1833-1895; Spanish military officer
- Marcel Schwob, 1867-1905; French writer
- Marcelle Roulin, 1888-1980; daughter of Joseph Roulin, postal worker in Arles and Marseille
- Margaret Sanger, 1879-1966; American nurse and social reformer
- Margaretha (Margot) Carolina Begemann, 1841-1927; lover the artist in Nuenen
- Marguerite van Eyck, 1406- ?; possible wife or sitter of Flemish artist Jan van Eyck
- Marguerite Crevoulin-Favier, 1856-1927; grocer and neighbor of the artist in Arles and wife of François Damase Crevoulin
- Mari(n)us (Martinus) Boks, 1849-1885; Dutch artist
- Maria ("Mieke") van Rooij , 1837-?; aunt of Gordina de Groot
- Maria (Marie) Elisabeth van Gogh-Vos, 1853-c.1894; wife of Hendrik Jacob Eerligh van Gogh
- Maria (Mietje) Johanna van Gogh-Boon (Aunt Mietje), 1819-1885; wife of Hendrik (Hein) Vincent van Gogh (Uncle Hein)
- Maria (Mietje) Johanna van Gogh (Aunt Mietje), 1831-1911; sister of Theodorus van Gogh
- Maria Vos, 1824-1906; Dutch artist
- Maria Christina Elisabeth van Gogh-Musch, 1858-1948; wife of Vincent Wilhelm van Gogh
- Maria Leonarda Stricker, no dates; daughter of Carolina (Caroline) Adolphina van Stockum-Haanebeek
- Maria Magdalena Alida Tersteeg-Pronk, 1845-1925; wife of H.G. Tersteeg, manager of Goupil & Cie in The Hague
- Maria Philippina Bilders-Van Bosse, 1837-1900; Dutch artist
- Maria Wilhelmina Hoornik-Pellers, 1829-1910; mother of Clasina Maria Hoornik, the artist's prostitute-lover in The Hague
- Mariano José Maria Bernardo Fortuny y Carbó, 1838-1874; Spanish artist
- Marie (María Fernanda) (Marie Uribe-Buenaventura) Gauguin Chazal, 1847-?; sister of Paul Gauguin and wife of Juan Nepomuceno Uribe-Buenaventura
- Marie Collart, 1842-1911; Belgian artist
- Marie Ginoux-Julien, 1848-1911; proprietress of the Café de la Gare in Arles and wife of Joseph Michel Ginoux
- Marie Henry, no dates; proprietress of an inn in Le Pouldu, la Buvette de la Plage
- Marie Tussaud (Anna Maria Grosholtz, Madame Tussaud), 1761-1850; French-born English modeler of wax figures
- Marie Alexandrine Daumier-Dassy (d'Assy), 1822-1895; wife of Honoré Daumier
- Marie Hélène Antigna, 1837-?; French artist
- Marie Jules Joseph Urpar, 1857-1915; chief physician in the hospital in Arles
- Marie Sophie Daubigny-Garnier, 1817-1890; wife of Charles François Daubigny
- Marijnus (Marijn) Aertsen (Aerssen or Aarssen), 1839-1880; farmer in Rijsbergen
- Marinus Hannick, no dates; son of of family the artist boarded with in Tilburg
- Marius Girard, 1838-1906; French writer
- Marius Jean Antonin Mercié, 1845-1916; French artist
- Martial Boyer, no dates; no known status
- Martin Luther, 1483-1546; German theologian
- Mary Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin), 1797-1851; British writer
- Mary Ann (Marian) Evans (George Eliot), 1819-1880; English writer
- Mason Gustave Simonau, 1812-1870; proprietor of a lithography company in Brussels
- Mathieu Meusnier (Georges Karl Robert), fl. 1874-1882; French writer and artist
- Matthew White Ridley, 1837-1888; English artist
- Matthijs (Thijs) Maris, 1839-1917; Dutch artist
- Maurice Beaubourg, 1866-1943; French writer
- Maurice Denis, 1870-1943; French artist
- Maurice Joyant, 1864-1930; French art dealer
- Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard (Count Maeterlinck), 1862-1949; Belgian writer
- Maurice Quentin de La Tour, 1704-1788; French artist
- Maurits Benjamin Mendes da Costa, 1851-1938; teacher of the artist in Amsterdam
- Maurits Willem van der Valk, 1857-1935; Dutch artist
- Max Elskamp, 1862-1931; Belgian poet
- Max Liebermann, 1847-1935; German artist
- Max Osborn, 1870-1946; German writer
- Meijer Isaac de Haan, 1852-1895; Dutch artist
- Meindert Hobbema, 1638-1709 ; Dutch artist
- Melchior de Hondecoeter, 1636-1695; Dutch artist
- Mette Sophie Gauguin-Gad, 1850-1920; wife of Paul Gauguin
- Michael FitzGerald, 1848-1922; Irish artist
- Michael Nostradamus (Michel de Nostredame), 1503-1566; French astrologer and physician
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533-1592; French writer
- Michel Manzi, 1849-1915; Italian art dealer and printer
- Michel-Eugène Chevreul, 1786-1889; French chemist
- Michiel Adriaenszde Ruyter, 1607-1676; Dutch admiral
- Michiel Anthonie de Zwart, 1853-1922; son of the artist's landlord in The Hague, Pieter Willem de Zwart
- Monsieur de Vogué, no dates; no known status
- Moses Baruch (Bertold) Auerbach, 1812-1882; German artist
- Nahum Tate, 1652-1715; Irish playwright and poet
- Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña, 1808-1876; French artist
- Naud Carp, no dates; friend of brother Cor van Gogh from Helmond
- Nicolaas (Nico) Mager, 1957-?; clerk at the Blussé & Van Braam bookshop in Dordrecht
- Nicolaas Beets, 1814-1903; Dutch writer and clergyman
- Nicolaas Felix, 1847-1926; later headmaster of Theo van Gogh's school in Oisterwijk
- Nicolaas Maes, 1632/34-1693; Dutch artist
- Nicolaas de Jonge, 1845-1898; clergyman and teacher at the Evangelical School in Brussels
- Nicolas Poussin, 1594-1665; French artist
- Nicolas Camille Flammarion, 1842-1925; French astronomer and writer
- Nicolas François Octave Tassaert, 1800-1874; French artist
- Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, 1809-1852; Russian writer
- Nino Laval, no dates; brother of French artist Charles Laval
- Numa Bles, 1871-1917; French singer
- Octavia Hill, 1838-1912; English social reformer
- Odilon Redon, 1840-1916; French artist
- Oliver Cromwell, 1599-1658; English statesman
- Oliver Goldsmith, 1728/30-1774; Irish playwright
- Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde, 1854-1900; Irish writer
- Otto Eerelman, 1839-1926; Dutch artist
- Otto Greeling, 1829-1900; Belgian architect
- Otto Weber, 1832-1888; German artist
- Otto von Bismarck-Schönhausen, 1815-1898; German statesman
- P. de Comte, no dates; French artist
- Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso, 1881-1973; Spanish artist
- Paolo Caliari (Veronese), 1528-1609; Italian artist
- Paolo Mercuri, 1804-1884; French artist
- Patience Escalier, no dates; gardener at Arles
- Paul (Eugène Henri) Gauguin, 1848-1903; French artist
- Paul (Hippolyte) Delaroche, 1797-1856; French artist
- Paul (Marie) Verlaine, 1844-1896; French writer and poet
- Paul Alexis (pseudonym Trublot), 1847-1901; French writer and co-founder of the Théâtre-Libre
- Paul Bilhaud, 1854-1933; French writer
- Paul Cézanne, 1839-1906; French artist
- Paul Dubois, 1829-1905; French artist
- Paul Ehrlich, 1854-1915; German scientist
- Paul Gallimard, no dates; French art collector
- Paul Gavarni (Hippolyte Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier), 1804-1866; French artist
- Paul Huet, 1803-1873; French artist
- Paul Mantz, 1821-1895; French art critic
- Paul Mariéton, 1862-1911; French poet
- Paul Marre, 1843-?; magistrate in Arles
- Paul Sérusier, 1864-1927; French artist
- Paul Signac, 1863-1935; French artist
- Paul Weil, no dates; no known status
- Paul Alexandre Protais, 1826-1908; clergyman in Dordrecht
- Paul Edme Le Rat, 1849-1892; French artist and engraver
- Paul Edme Le Rat, 1849-1892; French artist and engraver
- Paul Eugène Milliet, 1863-1943; French lieutenant of the Zouaves
- Paul Jacques Aimé Baudry, 1828-1886; French artist
- Paul Jean Clays, 1819-1900; Belgian artist
- Paul Louis Lucien Gachet, Jr. , 1873-1962; son of Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, Sr.
- Paul-Albert Besnard, 1849-1934; French artist
- Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, Sr., 1828-1909; doctor in Auvers-sur-Oise
- Paul Durand-Ruel, 1831-1922; French art dealer
- Pauline Virginie Ono, 1821-1844; first wife of Jean-François Millet
- Paulus (Paul) Philippus Rink, 1861-1903; Dutch art student at the Antwerp Academy
- Paulus Potter, 1625-1654; Dutch artist
- Paulus Coenraad Görlitz, 1851-1921; teacher in Dordrecht
- Percy Macquoid, 1852-1925; English artist
- Percy Bysshe Shelly, 1792-1822; English writer
- Peter (Peer) de Groot, 1865-1935; brother of Gordina de Groot
- Peter I (Peter the Great), 1672-1725; Russian tsar
- Peter Paul Rubens, 1577-1640; Flemish artist
- Petrus (Piet) Prins, 1851-1892; farmer in Zundert and classmate of the artist
- Petrus (Piet) van der Velden, 1837-1913; Dutch artist
- Petrus Antonius (Antoon) Hermans, 1822-1914; amateur artist and patron of the artist in Eindhoven
- Petrus Augustus (Pieter August) de Génestet (Genestet), 1829-1861; Dutch theologian and writer
- Petrus Gerardus Dreesman, no dates; pastor in Nuenen
- Petrus Gerardus Vertin, 1819-1893; Dutch artist
- Petrus Johannes Idenburg, 1825-1899; doctor in Utrecht
- Petrus Josephus Hubertus (Pierre) Cuypers, 1827-1921; Dutch architect
- Petrus Marinus Keller van Horn, 1825-1908; clergyman in Dordrecht
- Philip Lodewijck Jacob Frederik Sadée, 1837-1904; Dutch artist
- Philippe Burty, 1830-1890; French artist and writer
- Philippe Pinel, 1745-1826; French psychiatrist
- Philippe de Champagne, 1602-1674; French artist
- Philippe Jacques Linder, 1835-1914; French artist
- Philips (de) Koninck, 1619-1688; Dutch artist
- Philips van Marnix of St. Aldegonde, 1538-1598; Dutch poet and diplomat
- Phillip Richard Morris, 1836-1902; English artist
- Pierre Billet, 1837-1922; French artist
- Pierre Charron, 1541-1603; French priest and writer
- Pierre Mignard I (Le Romain), 1612-1695; French artist
- Pierre Péron, 1828-1920; clergyman in Dour
- Pierre Firmin (Père) Martin, 1817-1891; art dealer in Paris
- Pierre Jacques Étienne Cambronne (later Pierre, Viscount Cambronne), 1770-1842; French general
- Pierre Jean David d'Angers, 1788-1856; French artist
- Pierre Louis Duval, 1811-1870; owner of restaurants in Paris
- Pierre Marie Beyle, 1838-1902; French artist
- Pierre Paul Prud'hon, 1758-1823; French artist
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1824-1898; French artist
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1824-1898; French artist
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1841-1919; French artist
- Pierre-Étienne Secrétan, 1874-1957; French art collector
- Pierre-Jean de Béranger, 1870-1857; French writer
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1809-1865; French politician and philosopher
- Piet Kaufmann, 1864-1940; gardener in Etten
- Piet van Hoorn, 1873-1974; inhabitant of Neunen
- Pieter (Piet) Cornelis Mondriaan (Mondrian), 1872-1944; Dutch artist
- Pieter (Piet) van Havermaet, 1834-1897; Belgian artist
- Pieter Dekkers, 1837-1899; weaver in Nuenen
- Pieter Rijken, 1841-1922; landlord in Dordrecht
- Pieter Cornelis Provily, no dates; son of Jan and Christina Provily who ran the girl's department at Provily's school in Zevenbergen
- Pieter de Hooch, 1629-1684; Dutch artist
- Pieter Jacobsz Codde, 1599-1678; Dutch artist
- Pieter Jacobus (P. J.) Plugge, 1837-1931; lodging-house keeper in Laeken and elder of Reverend De Jonge's church
- Pieter Jozef Chrispeels, 1859-1939; classmate of the artist at the Evangelical School in Brussels
- Pieter Jozef Wauters, no dates; classmate of the artist at the Evangelical School in Brussels
- Pieter Kornelis Braat, 1823-1888; manager of the Blussé & Van Braam bookshop in Dordrecht
- Pieter van der Gaag, no dates; first husband of Hendrica van der Gaag-Carbentus
- Pieter Willem de Zwart, 1826-1905; landlord of the artist in The Hague
- Pietro di Christoforo Vannucci, 1450-1523; Italian artist
- Pons de l'Orme, no dates; French architect
- Pope Urban V (Guillame Grimoard), 1310-1370; pope
- Prince Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 1819-1861; prince consort of Queen Victoria
- Princess Marianne van Oranje-Nassau, 1810-1883; princess of Prussia, daughter of King Willem I of the Netherlands
- Professor Bax, no dates; no known status
- Prosper Merimée, 1803-1870; French writer and archaeologist
- Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, 235-183 BCE; Roman general
- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil), 70-19 BCE; Roman poet
- Queen Henrietta Maria, 1609-1669; queen of France, wife of Charles I, and queen consort of England, Scotland, and Ireland
- Queen Alexandrina Victoria, 1819-1901; queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, empress of India
- Queen Elizabeth Tudor (Elizabeth I), 1533-1603; queen of England
- Queen Marie Antoinette (Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna), 1755-1793; archduchess of Austria and queen of France and Navarre
- Queen Marie de Medici, 1575-1642; queen of France
- Queen Mary Stuart (Mary Queen of Scots), 1542-1587; queen of Scotland
- Quinten Massys (Matsys), c. 1460/66-1530; Flemish artist
- Rachel Manzano-Pomié, ?-1889; mother of Camille Pissarro
- Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, 1841-1927; Spanish artist
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882; American writer
- Raoul Saisset, no dates; photographer in Paris
- Raymond Delandes , 1825-1892; French composer
- Raymond Eugène Goethals, 1804-1864; French artist
- Reinier Poshumous Meijjes, Jr., 1860-1939; son of Jeremias Posthumus Meijjes
- Reinier Posthumus Meijjes, Sr., 1803-1891; clergyman in Amsterdam
- Rémy de Gourmont, 1858-1915; French writer
- René Secrétan, 1874-1957; French businessman
- René Valadon, 1848-1921; art dealer at Boussod, Valadon & Cie in Paris
- Renée Julienne Tanguy-Briend, 1821-1897; wife of Julien Tanguy, seller of artists' supplies in Paris
- Renier de Greef, 1855-1910; farmer in Nuenen
- Richard Baseleer, 1867-1951; Belgian artist
- Richard Wallace (Sir Richard Wallace), 1818-1890; 1st Baronet and English art collector
- Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802-1828; English artist
- Rigaumon Aertsen (Aerssen or Aarssen), no dates; police officer in Auvers
- Robert (Alexander) Schumann, 1810-1856; German composer
- Robert Mols, 1848-1903; Belgian artist
- Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894; Scottish writer
- Robert Macaulay Stevenson, 1854-1952; Scottish writer
- Roger Marx, 1859-1913; French writer
- Roland Knoedler, 1856-1932; American art dealer
- Rosine Alexandrine Frederike Idenburg-Van der Hegge Spies, 1835-?; wife of Dr. Petrus Johannes Idenburg in Utrecht
- Salomen (de) Koninck, 1609-1656; Dutch artist
- Salomon (Sam) Verveer, 1813-1876; Dutch artist
- Salomon van Ruysdael, c. 1600-1670; Dutch artist
- Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Dalí de Púbol, 1904-1989; Spanish-Catalan artist
- Sam Plowman, no dates; husband of Eugenie Loyer
- Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989; Irish writer
- Samuel Breebaard, no dates; inhabitant of Hoogeveen
- Samuel Sarpharti, 1813-1866; Dutch doctor and Amsterdam city planner
- Samuel Essenius Greeff, 1832-1885; clergyman in Dordrecht
- Samuel Luke Fildes, 1844-1927; English artist
- Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello (Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipep), c. 1445-1510; Italian artist
- Sarah Ursula Loyer-Wilson, 1815-1895; lodging-house keeper in London
- Saskia van Uylenburgh, 1612-1642; wife of Rembrandt van Rijn
- Schelte à Bolswert (Schelderic Adamsz Bolsward), c. 1586-1659; Flemish artist
- Sebastiaan Veerman, no dates; trainee to schoolmaster Dirks in Zundert and brother of Hendrikus Dirks
- Serfass Aertsen (Aerssen or Aarssen), 1849-1905; farmer in Etten
- Siegfried Bing, 1838-1905; dealer in oriental art in Paris
- Sientje Begemann, 1871-1949; daughter of Louis Begemann and sister of Margot Begemann in Nuenen
- Sigismund (Sigmund) Schlomo Freud, 1856-1939; Austrian psychiatrist
- Silvestre Esprit Blanche, 1796-1852; French doctor
- Simon Léon, no dates; doctor
- Simon Peter (Saint Peter, Simon Cephas, Šimʻōn Kêfâ), 1 BCE-AD 67; AD; Apostle of Christ
- Simon van den Berg, 1812-1891; Dutch artist
- Sophie (Fie) Cornelia Elisabeth (Tante Fie) Carbentus-Van Bremmel (Aunt Fie), 1828-1897; wife of Arie Carbentus, brother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus
- Sophie de Saux-De Bouteillier (Henriette Browne), 1829-1901; French artist
- Stanislas Victor Edouard Lépine, 1835-1892; French artist
- Stéphane (Étienne) Mallarmé, 1842-1898; French poet, art critic, and teacher of English
- Susan Bogert Warner (Elizabeth Wetherell), 1819-1885; American writer
- Susan(n)us Marinus Hackstroh, 1830-1901; stationmaster in Etten
- Susannah Eleanor Gladwell, 1858/59-1876; sister of Harry Gladwell, friend of the artist in Paris
- Suzanne (Marie-Clémentine) Valadon, 1865-1938; French artist
- Sydney Smirke, 1798-1877; English artist and architect
- Sytze Hoekstra, no dates; Dutch clergyman
- Téodor de Wyzewa, 1862-1917; Polish-born French critic
- Teunis van Iterson, 1847-1925; employee at Goupil & Cie in The Hague
- Th. W. MacGillavry, no dates; teacher of cosmography at the Tilburg Academy who later taught at Leyden
- Théo (Théophile) van Rysselberghe, 1862-1926; Belgian artist
- Theo van Gogh, 1857-1891; art dealer in Paris and brother of the artist
- Theo van Rijsselberghe, 1862-1926; Belgian artist
- Theodor Menke, 1819-1892; German mapmaker
- Théodore Duret, 1838-1927; French art critic
- Théodore Herpin, 1799-1865; French neurologist
- Théodore Rousseau, 1812-1867; French artist
- Théodore van der Haeghen (van der Haagen), no dates; colporteur in Pâturages
- Théodore Baron, 1840-1899; Belgian artist
- Theodorus van Gogh, 1822-1885; Dutch clergyman, husband of Anna Cornelia van Gogh-Carbentus, and father of the artist
- Théodule Augustin Ribot, 1823-1891; French artist
- Théophile Gautier, 1811-1872; French writer
- Théophile Emile Achille de Bock, 1851-1904; Dutch artist
- Théophile Louis Silvestre, 1823-1876; French writer
- Théophile Zacharie Auguste Peyron, 1827-1895; director of the asylum of Saint Paul de Mausole in Saint-Rémy
- Théophile-Narcisse Chauvel, 1831-1910; French artist
- Thérèse Anne-Pierre Laisnay, no dates; great-grandmother of Paul Guaguin
- Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881; English writer and philosopher
- Thomas De Quincey, 1785-1859; English writer
- Thomas Faed, 1826-1900; English artist
- Thomas Gainsborough, 1727-1788; English artist
- Thomas Hobbes, 1688-1679; English philosopher
- Thomas Moore, 1779-1852; Irish Poet
- Thomas More (Sir Thomas More, Saint Thomas More), 1478-1535; English lawyer, writer, philosopher, and statesman
- Thomas Nast, 1840-1902; American artist
- Thomas Richardson, 1816-1872; art dealer in London
- Thomas Slade-Jones, 1829-1883; clergyman and headmaster of school in Isleworth
- Thomas Wallis, no dates; art dealer in London
- Thomas à Kempis, 1379/80-1471; Dutch writer
- Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931; American inventor
- Thomas de Keyser, 1596/97-1667; Dutch artist
- Timoléon Marie Lobrichon, 1831-1914; French artist
- Tobias Victo Schmidt, 1842-1903; manager of Goupil & Cie in Brussels
- Toon Swinkels, 1867-1947; weaver in Nuenen
- Torquato Tasso, 1544-1595; Italian poet
- Tsar Alexander II (Aleksandr Nikolayevich), 1818-1881; Russian czar
- Tuimen Hendrik Blom Coster, 1817-1904; doctor in The Hague
- Utagawa Hiroshige, 1797-1858; Japanese artist
- Valentine Cameron Prinsep, 1836/38-1904; English artist
- Van Aalst, no dates; grocer in Zundert
- Victor (Prosper) Considérant, 1808-1893; French Socialist
- Victor Hageman, 1868-138; Belgian artist and art teacher
- Victor Lagye, 1825-1896; Belgian artist
- Victor Alfred Vignon, 1847-1909; French artist
- Victor Frèdèrique Alexandre Ysabeau, 1793-1873; French writer
- Victor Henri Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay, 1831-1913; French journalist
- Victor Julien Giraud, 1840-1871; French artist
- Victor Marie Hugo, 1802-1885; French writer
- Victor Horta, 1861-1947; Belgian architect
- Viggo Jastrau, 1857-1946; Danish artist
- Vincent (Cent) van Gogh (Uncle Vincent or Uncle Cent), 1820-1888; art dealer and brother of Theodorus van Gogh
- Vincent Hyspa, 1865-1938; French actor and singer
- Vincent van Gogh, 1634-?; son of Gerrit van Gogh and brother of Gerrit van Gogh
- Vincent van Gogh, 1674-1746; father of David van Gogh and great-great-great-great-grandfather of the artist
- Vincent van Gogh, 1720-1802; Dutch artist (sculptor in Paris) and brother of Johannes van Gogh
- Vincent van Gogh, 1789-1874; grandfather of the artist
- Vincent van Gogh, 1852-1852; stillborn brother of the artist
- Vincent van Gogh, 1866-1911; art dealer in Amsterdam and son of Cornelis Marinus van Gogh (Uncle Cor)
- Vincent Willem van Gogh, 1851-1910; administrator at Payung and son of Johannes van Gogh
- Vincent Willem van Gogh, 1853-1890; the artist
- Vincent Willem van Gogh, 1890-1978; son of Theo van Gogh and Johanna van Gogh-Bonger and nephew of the artist
- Virginie Demont-Breton, 1859-1935; French artist
- Vittorio Matteo Corcos, 1859-1933; Italian artist
- W. N. Fenger, no dates; German headmaster of Tilburg Academy
- Walt Whitman, 1819-1892; American poet
- Walter William (W. W.) Skeat, 1835-1912; English philologist
- Welmina (Willemina) Catrina van Stockum, 1823-?; no known status
- Wijnandus Johannes Josephus Nuyen, 1813-1839; Dutch artist
- Wilhelm Griesinger, 1817-1868; German neurologist
- Wilhelm Jonker, 1848-1932; clergyman in Hoogeveen
- Wilhelmina (Elize) van Gogh-Bruins, 1819-1864; wife of Johannes (Jan) van Gogh (Uncle Jan)
- Wilhelmina Johanna Begemann, 1836-1922; sister of Margot Begemann in Nuenen
- Wilhelmus Beekmans, 1853-1919; clergyman in Nuenen
- Wilhelmus Petrus van Stockum, no dates; father of Willem Jacob van Stockum
- Wilhemus Johannes Leurs, 1828-1895; Dutch seller of artists' supplies
- Willem Arntsz, no dates; no known status
- Willem Carbentus, 1792-1845; bookbinder in The Hague, father of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus, and grandfather of the artist
- Willem Carbentus, 1823-1864; brother of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus
- Willem Carbentus, 1850-1920; son of Arie Carbentus
- Willem Hoornik, 1882-c. 1958/60; son of Sien Hoornik, the artist's prostitute-lover in The Hague
- Willem Kiesenberg, 1814-1904; carpenter in The Hague
- Willem Linnig the Elder, 1819-1885; Belgian artist
- Willem Linnig the Younger, 1849-1890; Belgian artist
- Willem Maris, 1844-1910; Dutch artist
- Willem Passtoors, 1784-1859; owner of stables in Zundert
- Willem Posthumus Meijjes, Jr., 1861-1933; son of Jeremias Posthumus Meijjes
- Willem Roelofs, 1822-1897; Dutch artist
- Willem Alexander Paul Frederik Lodewijk (William Alexander Paul Frederick Louis, King Willem III), 1817-1890; king of the Netherlands and grand duke of Luxembourg
- Willem Daniël van Gogh, 1818-1872; brother of Theodorus van Gogh and uncle of the artist
- Willem Frederick George Lodewijk van Oranje-Nassau (King Willem II of The Netherlands), 1792-1849; prince of Orange-Nassau, grand duke of Luxembourg, grand duke of Limburg
- Willem Frederik van Erp Taalman Kip, 1824-1905; Dutch minister of the Navy
- Willem Frederik van Oranje-Nassau (King Willem I of the Netherlands), 1772-1843; duke of Luxemburg
- Willem Hendrik Kam, 1863-?; family friend in Etten and later an architectural engineer
- Willem Hendrik Stam, 1831-1874; Dutch artist and seller of artists' supplies
- Willem Jacob van Gogh, 1863-1934; son of Willem Daniël van Gogh and Magdalena Susanna van Gogh-Van Stockum
- Willem Jacob van Stockum, 1846-1900; husband of Caroline Haanebeek
- Willem Laurens Kiehl, ?-1875; housemate of Theo van Gogh in The Hague
- Willem Lodewijk (Louis) Begemann, 1804-1876; father of Margot Begemann and neighbor of the Van Gogh family in Nuenen
- Willem Marinus Valkis, 1853-1935; fellow boarder with the artist at William Marinus Roos house in The Hague
- Willem Marinus Roos, 1816-1893; landlord of the artist in The Hague
- Willem Nicolaas Lantsheer, 1826-1883; Dutch art collector
- Willem van Versevelt, no dates; gardener of Uncle Cent
- Willem van der Wakker, 1859-1927; telegraph operator, amateur artist, and student of the artist in Nuenen
- Willem Vander Haeghen (van der Haeghen, van der Haagen), 1850-?; son of Théodore van der Haeghen and classmate of the artist at the Evangelical School in Brussels
- Willemina (Mina) Catharina Gerardina Carbentus, 1816-1904; sister of Anna van Gogh-Carbentus
- Willemina (Mina) Catharina Gerardina Stricker-Carbentus, 1816-1904; wife of Johannes Paulus Stricker, Sr., and mother of Kee Vos
- Willemina (Wil or Willemien) Jacoba van Gogh, 1862-1941; sister of the artist
- Willemina Carbentus-Hennevelt, no dates; wife of Gerrit Carbentus
- Willemina Catrina van Hoogstraaten-Stockum, 1823-?; cousin of Anna Carbentus and wife of Johannes Marinus van Hoogstraaten
- William (St. John) Harper, 1851-1910; American artist
- William Booth, 1829-1912; English clergyman and founder of The Salvation Army
- William Macfarlane, 1838-1905; clergyman in Amsterdam
- William Shakespeare, 1564-1616; English playwright
- William Small, 1843-1929; English artist
- William Toovey, 1821-?; English artist and proprietor of a lithography company in Brussels
- William Bazett Murray, fl. 1871-1890; English artist
- William Blanchard Jerrold, 1826-1884; English writer
- William Craibe Angus, 1830-1899; Scottish art dealer
- William Henry Wallis, 1804-1890; art dealer in London
- William Holman Hunt, 1827-1910; English artist
- William Makepiece Thackeray, 1811-1863; English artist
- William Port Stokes, 1832-1890; teacher and minister in Ramsgate
- William Wilkie Collins, 1824-1889; British writer
- Wolfgang Amadeus (Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Thophilus) Mozart, 1756-1791; Austrian composer
- Wouterina (Woutje) Prins, 1832-1897; servant in the parson's household in Zundert
- Xavier Mellery, 1845-1921; Belgian artist