Kerken as a birthplace has produced a number of famous personalities of various fields (e.g. "Mennonite lord bishop" of Krefeld, in 1632 delegate to the Krefeld Mennonite Church Delegation and signer of the Dordrecht Confession of Faith that year, German politician (1904-1994), German politician (1887-1962)): Herman op den Graeff, Franz Grobben, Johannes Ackermanns and some more.