Hendrik Jan Jacobus Talsma (born 8 July 1978) is a Dutch public prosecutor and politician.

[1] Talsma went to the Barneveld secondary school Johannes Fontanus College in the years 1990–97, initially at havo but later at vwo level.

He left the military in 2002 to become a public prosecutor trainee at the Training and Study Centre for the Judiciary, but he remained a reserve officer in the rank of captain-lieutenant.

[2] Talsma joined the Reformatory Political Federation (RPF), which would eventually merge into the Christian Union, in 1996 and served as vice chair of its youth organization between 1997 and 2000.

[2] He held that position until 2008 and was also a policy officer focused on the judicial system for the party's parliamentary group in the House of Representatives in the period 2006–07.