- Rosi Braidotti
Rosi Braidotti (born September 28, 1954) is a contemporary feminist theoretician. Braidotti, who holds Italian and Australian citizenship, was born in Italy and grew up in Australia, where she received degrees from the Australian National University in Canberra in 1976 and 1977. Braidotti then moved on to do her doctoral work at the Sorbonne, where she received her degree in 1981. She has taught at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands since 1988, … - Frans de Waal
Frans B.M. de Waal (born 1948, the Netherlands) was trained as a zoologist and ethologist in the European tradition at three Dutch universities (Nijmegen, Groningen, Utrecht), resulting in a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Utrecht, in 1977. His dissertation research concerned aggressive behavior and alliance formation in macaques. In 1981, Dr. de Waal accepted a research position at the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. - Bas de Gaay Fortman
Bastian (Bas) de Gaay Fortman (born November 6 1937, the Hague) is a dutch politician and scholar. He has been a member of the lower and the higher house of parliament for the PPR and GroenLinks. He currently holds the world's only chair in Political Economy of Human Rights at the University of Utrecht. - Nicolaas Bloembergen
Nicolaas Bloembergen (born Dordrecht, March 11, 1920) is a Dutch physicist. He received his Ph.D. from University of Leiden in 1948 and then became a professor at Harvard University. Bloembergen left The Netherlands in 1945, due to devastation of Europe from World War II, to pursue graduate studies at Harvard University. - Gisbertus Voetius
Gisbertus Voetius (Voet was a Dutch Calvinist theologian. He was born at Heusden, Holland, studied at Leiden, and in 1611 became Protestant pastor of Vlijmen, whence in 1617 he returned to Heusden. In 1619 he played an influential part in the Synod of Dort, and in 1634 was made professor of theology and Oriental science at the University of Utrecht. Three years later he became pastor of the Utrecht congregation. - Christine Marie Berkhout
Christine Marie Berkhout was a mycologist. She described the genus "Candida" in her doctoral thesis for the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1923. This event was later described as marking "the beginning of the rational systematics of the anascosporogenous yeasts" - Jacobus Kapteyn
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, (January 19, 1851-June 18, 1922) was a Dutch astronomer, best known for his extensive studies of the Milky Way and as the first discoverer of evidence for galactic rotation. Kapteyn was born in Barneveld, and went to the University of Utrecht to study mathematics and physics in 1868. In 1875, after having finished his thesis, he worked for three years at the Leiden Observatory, … - Bernard Haisch
Bernard Haisch is a German-born American astrophysicist who has done research in solar-stellar astrophysics and stochastic electrodynamics. He has developed with Alfonso Rueda a speculative theory that the non-zero lowest energy state of the vacuum, as predicted by quantum mechanics, might provide a physical explanation for the origin of inertia, and more controversially, might someday be used for spacecraft propulsion. - Willem Einthoven
Willem Einthoven (Semarang, May 21, 1860 - Leiden, September 29, 1927) was a Dutch Lutheran doctor and physiologist. He invented the first practical electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) in 1903 and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1924 for it. Einthoven was born in Semarang on Java in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). His father, a medical doctor, died when Einthoven was a child. His mother returned to the Netherlands with her children in 1870 and settled in Utrecht. - Abraham Pais
Abraham (Bram) Pais (May 19 1918, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - July 28 2000, Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Dutch-born American physicist and science historian. Pais earned his Ph.D. from University of Utrecht just prior to a Nazi ban on Jewish participation in Dutch universities during World War II. When the Nazis began the forced relocation of Dutch Jews, he went into hiding, but was later arrested and saved only by the end of the war. - Ad Neeleman
Ad Neeleman is a Dutch linguist based in the UK. He is Professor of Linguistics at University College London. He completed his PhD at the University of Utrecht in 1994. Since then, he has written extensively on syntax, semantics and phonology, and particularly on the interfaces between them. His work is part of the tradition of generative grammar. - Cecilia Medina
Cecilia Medina Quiroga is a Chilean jurist. Cecilia Medina studied legal and social sciences at the University of Chile in Santiago and earned a doctorate in law at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. From 1995 to 2002 she was a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, including a period as its chair in 1999-2000. - Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray (9 May 1828-18 January 1917) was a Christian pastor in South Africa. Murray was the child of Dutch Reformed Church missionaries from Scotland to South Africa, and the younger brother of John Murray. Educated at the University of Utrecht, he was ordained by the Hague Committee of the Dutch Reformed Church on May 9, 1848. He pastored churched in Bloemfontein and Worcester, Cape Town, Wellington, South Africa. He married Emma Rutherford Murray in Cape Town, … - Tjalling Koopmans
Tjalling Charles Koopmans ('s-Graveland, August 28, 1910 - New Haven, February 26, 1985) was the joint winner, with Leonid Kantorovich, of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Economics. Koopmans was born in 's-Graveland in the Netherlands. He began his university education at the University of Utrecht, aged 17, specialising in mathematics. Three years later, in 1930, he switched to theoretical physics. In 1933, he met Jan Tinbergen, the 1969 Bank of Sweden prize winner, … - Pieter Boddaert
Pieter Boddaert was a Dutch physician and naturalist. Boddaert was a lecturer on natural history at the University of Utrecht. In 1783 he published fifty copies of an identification key of Edmé-Louis Daubenton's "Planches enluminees", assigning scientific names to the plates. As many of these were the first scientific names to be proposed they remain in use. - C.H.D. Buys Ballot
Christophorus Henricus Diedericus Buys Ballot (also Christoph Heinrich Diedrich Buys Ballot) (October 10, 1817 - February 3, 1890) was a Dutch chemist and meteorologist after whom Buys-Ballot's law and the Buys Ballot table are named. The son of a Dutch Reformed minister, Buy Ballot attended the Gymnasium at Zaltbommel and the Hogeschool (now University) of Utrecht. - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer was a Swiss scholar born at Zürich. The son of the senior town physician ("Archiater") of Zürich, he received his education in that place, and, in 1692, went to the University of Altdorf near Nuremberg, being intended for the medical profession. Early in 1694 he took his degree of doctor in medicine at the University of Utrecht, and then returned to Altdorf, Germany to complete his mathematical studies. - Johann Georg Graevius
Johann Georg Graevius (properly Guava or Greffe) (January 29, 1632 - January 11, 1703) was a German classical scholar and critic. He was born at Naumburg, Saxony. Graevius was originally intended for the law, but made the acquaintance of Johann Friedrich Gronovius during a casual visit to Deventer, under whose influence he abandoned jurisprudence for philology. He completed his studies under Daniel Heinsius at Leiden, … - Perizonius
Perizonius (or Accinctus) was the name of Jakob Voorbroek (October 26, 1651 - April 6, 1715), a Dutch classical scholar, who was born at Appingedam in Groningen. He was the son of Anton Perizonius (1626-1672), the author of a once well-known treatise, "De ratione studii theologici". - Pieter Geyl
Pieter Catharinus Arie Geyl (December 15, 1887 - December 31, 1966) was a Dutch historian well known for his studies in early modern Dutch history and in historiography. Geyl was born in Dordrecht and graduated from the University of Leiden in 1913. His thesis was on Christofforo Suriano, the Venetian Ambassador in the Netherlands from 1616 to 1623. - Henk Badings
Henk Badings (January 17, 1907 - June 26, 1987) was a Dutch composer. Born in Bandung, Java, Badings worked as a mining engineer and Palaeontologist at Delft University until 1937, after which he dedicated his life entirely to music. Though largely self-taught, he did receive some advice from Willem Pijper, the doyen of Dutch composers at the time, but their musical views differed widely. - Heiko Oberman
Heiko A. Oberman (1930-2001) was a historian and theologian who specialized in the study of the Reformation. Oberman was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands. He earned his doctorate in theology from the University of Utrecht in 1957 and joined the faculty of the Harvard Divinity School in 1958. There he rose rapidly from instructor to associate professor and, in 1963, to professor of church history. - Wouter Hanegraaff
Wouter J[acobus]. Hanegraaff (b. 1961) is a Dutch professor of the history of religions. He originally studied classical guitar at the Municipal Conservatory at Zwolle from 1982 to 1987, and cultural history at the University of Utrecht from 1986 to 1990. From 1992 to 1996 he was a Research Fellow at the department for Study of Religions at the University of Utrecht. - John Henry Livingston
The Reverend John Henry Livingston (1746 near Poughkeepsie, New York - 25 January 1825) was the fourth President of Queen's College (now Rutgers University) serving from 1810 until his death in 1825. Reverend Livingston was graduated from Yale College with a Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) in 1762. He earned a Doctor of Theology from the University of Utrecht and was ordained into the ministry by the Classis of Amsterdam in 1770. - Wim Turkenburg
Wim C. Turkenburg (1947) is Professor and head of department of Science, Technology and Society at the University of Utrecht, and he is scientific director of Scientific Director of the Utrecht Centre for Energy research (UCE) as well as the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation of Utrecht University. From 1997 to 2004, he was a member of the Council on Housing, Physical Planning, … - Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate
Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate (December 23, 1819 - December 24, 1889), Dutch divine, prose writer and poet, was born at The Hague. He started in life as a lawyer's clerk. It was his friend, Dr Heldring, pastor at Hemmen, in Gelderland, who, discovering in Ten Kate the germs of poetical genius, enabled him to study theology at the University of Utrecht (1838-43). Having completed his studies, Ten Kate became pastor at Middelburg, Amsterdam, and other places, … - Anthony Ruys
Anthony Ruys is a former Chairman of the Executive Board of Heineken N.V. Ruys studied commercial law at the University of Utrecht. He started his career for Unilever where he worked as marketing director and chairman for various subsidiaries of Unilever in the Netherlands, Colombia and Italy. In September 1993, Mr. Ruys continued his career at the Heineken Group, where he became Executive Board Member, responsible a.o. for marketing. - Nicolaas Beets
Nicolaas Beets (13 September 1814 - 13 march 1903) was a Dutch theologian, writer and poet. He published under the pseudonym, Hildebrand. Nicalaas Beets was born in Haarlem, the son of a pharmacist. From 1833 till 1839 he studied theology at the university of Leiden where he received his doctorate. In 1840 he became a minister at the Dutch Reformed Church in Heemstede. In the same year he married Aleida van Foreest. - Adriaan van Maanen
Adriaan van Maanen (March 31 1884, Sneek - January 26 1946, Pasadena) was a Dutch-American astronomer. Van Maanen, born into a well-to-do family in Friesland, studied astronomy at the University of Utrecht (earning his Ph.D. in 1911) and worked briefly at the University of Groningen. In 1911, he came to the United States to work as a volunteer in an unpaid capacity at Yerkes Observatory. Within a year he got a position at the Mount Wilson Observatory, … - Frits Went
Friedrich August Ferdinand Christian Went (June 18, 1863 - July 24, 1935) was a Dutch botanist, professor of botany and director of the Botanical Garden at the University of Utrecht. He is mainly known for his work on plant hormones, specifically the role of auxin in phototropism. Went was the father of Dutch botanist Frits Warmolt Went. - Dirk Jan Struik
Dirk Jan Struik (September 30, 1894, Rotterdam, The Netherlands - October 21, 2000, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA) was a Dutch mathematician and Marxian theoretician who spent most of his life in the United States. Born Dirk Jan Struik in 1894 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as a teacher's son, Struik attended the Hogere Burgerschool (HBS) in The Hague. It was in this school that he was first introduced to left-wing politics by some of his teachers. - William Carstares
William Carstares (also Carstaires, Scottish clergyman, was born at Cathcart, near Glasgow. He was the son of the Rev. John Carstares, a member of the Covenanting party of Protestors. He was educated at the university of Edinburgh, and then passed over to Utrecht, where he commenced his lifelong friendship with the prince of Orange, and began to take an active part in the politics of his country. The government disliked Carstares for several reasons. - Princess Irene Of The Netherlands
Princess Irene Emma Elisabeth of the Netherlands (born August 5, 1939), Princess of Orange-Nassau, Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld, is the second child of then Princess Juliana of the Netherlands (later Queen Juliana) and Prince Bernhard, a former prince of Lippe-Biesterfeld. She was born in Soestdijk Palace. She is the sister of the current Queen of the Netherlands, Beatrix. Among her godparents is Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain. - David Dalrymple Lord Hailes
Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes (October 28 1726 - November 29 1792), was a Scottish advocate, judge and historian, born in Edinburgh. - Hermann Witsius
Hermann Witsius (Herman Wits or in Latin Hermannus Witsius) (February 12, 1636 - October 22, 1708), Dutch theologian, was born at Enkhuisen, North Holland, and studied at Groningen, Leiden and Utrecht. He was ordained in the ministry, becoming the pastor of Westwoud in 1656 and afterwards at Wormeren, Goesen, and Leeuwaarden, … - Pieter Kok
Pieter Kok, Ph.D. (born June 17 1972) is one of the co-developers of quantum interferometric optical lithography. Dr. Kok was born in Provinsje Fryslân of The Netherlands. In 1997 he graduated from the University of Utrecht with a degree in Foundations of Quantum Theory. In 2001, he received his PhD in physics from the University of Wales, Bangor. His research specializations include linear optical implementations of quantum communication and computation protocols, … - Leonard Ornstein
Leonard Salomon Ornstein (November 12, 1880, Nijmegen, The Netherlands - May 21, 1941, Utrecht, The Netherlands) was a Dutch physicist. He studied theoretical physics with Hendrik Antoon Lorentz at University of Leiden. He subsequently carried out Ph.D. research under the supervision of Lorentz, concerning an application of the statistical mechanics of Gibbs to molecular problems. In 1914 he was appointed professor of physics, as successor of Peter Debye, … - Werenfried van Straaten
Father Werenfried (Philipp) van Straaten O.Praem. (January 13 1913 - January 31 2003) who came to be known as the "Bacon Priest", was a Catholic priest known for his humanitarian work, particularly as founder of the international Catholic association Aid to the Church in Need. Born in Mijdrecht (The Netherlands) in 1913, he originally intended to become a teacher and enrolled at the University of Utrecht in 1932. - Izaak Kolthoff
Izaak Maurits (Piet) Kolthoff (February 11, 1894 - March 4, 1993) was a highly influential chemist, widely considered the Father of Analytical Chemistry. Izaak Kolthoff was born in Almelo, Holland, on February 11, 1894. He entered the University of Utrecht, Holland in 1911. - Tineke Huizinga
Johanna Catharina (Tineke) Huizinga-Heringa (Dantumadeel, 16 February 1960) is a Dutch politician. She was a member of parliament for the ChristianUnion from 2002 to 2007. Nowadays she is secretary of state for Transportation and Water Management. Huizinga grew up in Amersfoort, both her parents were teachers. After attending gymnasium, she began to study law at the University of Utrecht. She became involved in the Christian student's association Ichtus, …
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