De Bilt () is a

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and

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in the

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. It had a population of in . De Bilt houses the headquarters of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI). It is the ancestral home and namesake for the prominent

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of the United States.

Population centres

The municipality of De Bilt consists of the following cities, towns, villages and/or districts:

Bilthoven Bilthoven is a village in the Netherlands, Dutch province of Utrecht (province), Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of De Bilt. It has a railway station with connections to Utrecht (city), Utrecht, Amersfoort and Baarn. It is home to the Ne ...

, De Bilt, Groenekan, Hollandsche Rading,

Maartensdijk Maartensdijk is a village in the Netherlands, Dutch province of Utrecht (province), Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of De Bilt, and lies about 4 km north of Bilthoven. History Maartensdijk was a separate municipality until 2001, w ...

, Westbroek.

Topography

''Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of De Bilt, June 2015''

Notable people

Gouda-Sint-Janskerk-Glas61 - Nicolaas van Nieulandt 1559

* Nicolaas van Nieuwland (1510 in Maartensdijk – 1580) Bishop of Haarlem and abbot of

Egmond Abbey Egmond Abbey or St. Adalbert's Abbey (, ''Sint-Adelbertabdij'') is a Rule of St. Benedict, Benedictine monastery of the Congregation of the Annunciation, situated in Egmond-Binnen, in the municipality of Bergen, North Holland, Bergen, in the Neth ...

1562 to 1569. * Joan Gideon Loten (1710 in Groenekan – 1789) worked in the

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, the 29th Governor of Zeylan * The

, prominent in the USA during the

Gilded Age In History of the United States, United States history, the Gilded Age is the period from about the late 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction era and the Progressive Era. It was named by 1920s historians after Mar ...

, has its name from the town, meaning 'from De Bilt'. * Johan Beyen (1897 in Bilthoven – 1976) a politician, helped create the

European Economic Community The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the ''Treaty on the functioning of the European Union'', as renamed by the Lisbo ...

* Auke Bloembergen (1927 in De Bilt – 2016) a jurist, justice at the

Supreme Court of the Netherlands The Supreme Court of the Netherlands ( or simply ''Hoge Raad''), officially the High Council of the Netherlands, is the final court of appeal in civil, criminal and tax cases in the Netherlands, including Curaçao, Sint Maarten and Aruba. Th ...

1979 to 1993 * Els Borst (1932 – 2014 in Bilthoven) a Dutch politician, academic and physician * Ad Donker (1933 in Bilthoven – 2002) a pioneering publisher of social critical works in South Africa *

Anne Sjerp Troelstra Anne Sjerp Troelstra (10 August 1939 – 7 March 2019) was a professor of pure mathematics and foundations of mathematics at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam. He was a Constructivism (mathem ...

(1939 in Maartensdijk – 2019) a maths professor the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam. * Madelon Hooykaas (born 1942 in Maartensdijk) a video artist, photographer and film maker * Madelon Vriesendorp (born 1945 in Bilthoven) an artist, co-founded of the Office of Metropolitan Architecture * Erik van der Wurff (1945 in De Bilt – 2014) a pianist, composer, arranger, producer and conductor * Frederik de Groot (born 1946 in Bilthoven) a Dutch actor and TV spokesman for ING Direct Canada * Thomas von der Dunk (born 1961) a cultural historian, writer and columnist; raised in Bilthoven * Albert Schram (born 1964 in De Bilt) the Vice Chancellor of the

Papua New Guinea University of Technology The Papua New Guinea University of Technology (Unitech) is a university located in Lae, Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea. Courses offered Unitech offers courses in the following fields: *Agriculture *Architecture * Construction Management ( ...

* Bas Haring (born 1968 in De Bilt) a writer of popular science and children's literature and TV presenter * Jetske van den Elsen (born 1972 in De Bilt) a Dutch female television presenter IMDb Database
retrieved 26 October 2019

Sport

* John Blankenstein (1949 in De Bilt – 2006) a football referee and gay rights activist * Ingrid van der Elst (born 1955 in Bilthoven) a former sportswoman in cricket and field hockey *

Hans van Breukelen Johannes Franciscus "Hans" van Breukelen (; born 4 October 1956) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He was the technical director of the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) from 2017 until 2018. Van Breuk ...

(born 1956) a former football goalkeeper with 511 club caps, grew up in De Bilt * Martijntje Quik (born 1973 in De Bilt) a former coxswain, silver medallist at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October ...

* Joost Broerse (born 1979 in De Bilt) a Dutch former footballer with 448 club caps * Lisa Westerhof (born 1981 in De Bilt) a sailor, competed at the

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

and

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

* Thierry Brinkman (born 1995 in Bilthoven) a Dutch field hockey player

Gallery

File:Overzicht van de westgevel - De Bilt - 20418264 - RCE.jpg, Roman Catholic Church of Saint Michael - De Bilt File:Granito Kegels Carel Lanters SoestdijksewegZuid Bilthoven.jpg, Granito Kegels by Carel Lanters, Soestdijkseweg, Bilthoven File:KantoorORMIT.jpg, Office File:Buurtschap Nieuwe Wetering.JPG, Neighborhood Nieuwe Wetering

References

External links

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Official Website
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