Pieter van den Hoogenband was born on March 14, 1978 in Maastricht, Netherlands. He is known for Dit was het nieuws (1996), Athens 2004: Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (2004) and Beijing 2008: Games of the XXIX Olympiad (2008). He has been married to Minouche Smit since 2005. They have two children.