Evelyn van Leeuwen (born 15 May 1972) is a Dutch wheelchair basketball player from Leiden.

[3][4][5] From a young age, van Leeuwen was a low-level competitive speed skater.

[1] In 2000, van Leeuwen was a professional player in Badajoz in western Spain while she was conducting research.

At the beginning of her wheelchair basketball career, van Leeuwen was studying medicine.

Later, also next to her wheelchair basketball activity, she was a general practitioner,[1] but she became a paediatrician in 2012 so that she could then work part-time.