Notable alumni, faculty and administrators of

Utrecht University Utrecht University (UU; nl, Universiteit Utrecht, formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2018, it had an enrollme ...

Nobel Prize laureate alumni

* Christiaan Eijkman, physician, pathologist *

Nicolaas Bloembergen Nicolaas Bloembergen (March 11, 1920 – September 5, 2017) was a Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy. During his career, he was a p ...

, physicist *

Peter Debye Peter Joseph William Debye (; ; March 24, 1884 – November 2, 1966) was a Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry. Biography Early life Born Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije in Maastricht, Netherlands, D ...

, physicist *

Willem Einthoven Willem Einthoven (21 May 1860 – 29 September 1927) was a Dutch doctor and physiologist. He invented the first practical electrocardiograph (ECG or EKG) in 1895 and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1924 for it ("for the di ...

, physician, physicist * J. H. van 't Hoff, chemist *

Gerardus 't Hooft Gerardus (Gerard) 't Hooft (; born July 5, 1946) is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his thesis advisor Martinus J. G. Veltman "for elucidating th ...

, physicist *

Tjalling Koopmans Tjalling Charles Koopmans (August 28, 1910 – February 26, 1985) was a Dutch-American mathematician and economist. He was the joint winner with Leonid Kantorovich of the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on the theory ...

, mathematician, physicist, economist *

Wilhelm Röntgen Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (; ; 27 March 184510 February 1923) was a German mechanical engineer and physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achie ...

, physicist * Lavoslav Ruzicka, chemist * Martinus J.G. Veltman, physicist

Alumni

* Annemarie, Duchess of Parma, journalist, consultant, and member of the extended

Dutch royal family The monarchy of the Netherlands is a constitutional monarchy. As such, the role and position of the monarch are governed by the Constitution of the Netherlands. Consequently, a large portion of it is devoted to the monarch. Roughly a third of ...

* Arend Jan Boekestijn, historian, politician * Arie A. Kruithof, physicist *

Aristid Lindenmayer Aristid Lindenmayer (17 November 1925 – 30 October 1989) was a Hungarian biologist. In 1968 he developed a type of formal languages that is today called L-systems or Lindenmayer Systems. Using those systems Lindenmayer modelled the behaviour ...

, biologist *

Anna Maria van Schurman Anna Maria van Schurman (November 5, 1607 – May 4, 1678) was a Dutch painter, engraver, poet, and scholar, who is best known for her exceptional learning and her defence of female education. She was a highly educated woman, who excelled in ...

, classicist and painter *

Abraham Pais Abraham Pais (; May 19, 1918 – July 28, 2000) was a Dutch-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. ...

, physicist, science historian *

Clarence Barlow Clarence Barlow (also Klarenz, born 27 December 1945) is a composer of classical and electroacoustic works. Career Barlow was one of the founders of Initiative Musik und Informatik Köln. In 1988 he was the director of music at the Internatio ...

, composer *

C.H.D. Buys Ballot Christophorus Henricus Diedericus 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. He was first chairman of the International Meteor ...

, meteorologist *

Elisabeth Bik Elisabeth Margaretha Harbers-Bik (born 1966) is a Dutch microbiologist and scientific integrity consultant. Bik is known for her work detecting photo manipulation in scientific publications, and identifying over 4,000 potential cases of improper ...

, microbiologist and science writer * Debby Bogaert, professor of pediatrics *

Els Borst Else "Els" Borst-Eilers (; 22 March 1932 – 8 February 2014) was a Dutch politician of the Democrats 66 (D66) party and physician. She was granted the honorary title of Minister of State on 21 December 2012. Borst worked as a medical researcher ...

, former Dutch minister of Health *

Johannes Martin Bijvoet Johannes Martin Bijvoet (23 January 1892, Amsterdam – 4 March 1980, Winterswijk) was a Dutch chemist and crystallographer at the van 't Hoff Laboratory at Utrecht University. He is famous for devising a method of establishing the absolute con ...

, chemist *

Lulzim Basha Lulzim Basha (; born 12 June 1974) is an Albanian politician who served as the chairman of the Democratic Party of Albania, the main opposition party, from 2013 to March 21, 2022 when he stepped down from the leadership of the party. Basha was ...

, Mayor of Tirana, politician, former Albanian minister *

Henk J. M. Bos Hendrik Jan Maarten "Henk" Bos (born 17 July 1940, Enschede) is a Dutch historian of mathematics. Career Hendrik was a student of Hans Freudenthal and Jerome Ravetz at Utrecht University and in 1973 wrote a thesis "Differentials, higher order di ...

, historian of mathematics *

James Boswell James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (; 29 October 1740 ( N.S.) – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for his biography of his friend and older contemporary the English writer ...

, author, lawyer *

Rutger Bregman Rutger C. Bregman (born 26 April 1988) is a Dutch historian and author. He has published four books on history, philosophy, and economics, including '' Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World'', which has been translated into thirt ...

(born 1988), historian *

Peter Braam Peter J. Braam is a Dutch-American computer scientist, mathematician and entrepreneur focused on large-scale computing. As an academic, Braam held senior faculty positions at the University of Utah, Oxford, Carnegie Mellon, and visiting or adjunct ...

, computer scientist, mathematician and entrepreneur * Jan K. Buitelaar, medical doctor, psychiatrist, author, and academic *

Pieter Burmann the Younger Pieter Burman (23 October 1713 – 24 June 1778), also known as Peter or Pieter Burmann ( la, Petrus Burmannus) and distinguished from his uncle as (' or '), was a Dutch philologist. Life Born at Amsterdam, he was brought up by his uncle ...

, philologist *

David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, 3rd Baronet of Hailes (28 October 172629 November 1792) was a Scottish advocate, judge and historian, born in Edinburgh. Life His father, Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes, near Haddington, was Audi ...

, author, lawyer *

René Descartes René Descartes ( or ; ; Latinized: Renatus Cartesius; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. Ma ...

, philosopher, mathematician * Michael Clyne, linguist *

Johann Georg Graevius Johann Georg Graevius (originally Grava or Greffe; 29 January 1632 – 11 January 1703) was a German classical scholar and critic. He was born in Naumburg, in the Electorate of Saxony. Life Graevius was originally intended for the law, but made t ...

, scholar * Louis Grondijs, Byzantologist, war correspondent * Saba Hamzah, poet and scholar * Jacoba Hol, physical geographer *

Jacob Emil van Hoogstraten Jacob Emil "Dick" van Hoogstraten (1898–1991) was a Dutch public servant in the Dutch East Indies from 1922 to 1949, functioning as Director of the Department of Economic Affairs from 1942 to 1949. He was one of the architects of economic rec ...

, Director Department of Economic Affairs in colonial Indonesia * J. G. ten Houten, phytopathologist and botanist * Jacobus Kapteyn, astronomer * Izaak Maurits Kolthoff, chemist * Philip G. Kreyenbroek, iranist *

Jan van Leeuwen Jan van Leeuwen (born December 17, 1946, in Waddinxveen) is a Dutch computer scientist and Emeritus professor of computer science at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University.

, computer scientist * Jack van Lint, mathematician *

John Henry Livingston John Henry Livingston (May 30, 1746January 25, 1825) was an American Dutch Reformed minister and member of the Livingston family, who served as the fourth President of Queen's College (now Rutgers University), from 1810 until his death in 182 ...

, academic, fourth president of

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

* Renate Loll, physicist *

Rudolf Magnus Rudolf Magnus (2 September 1873, Brunswick – 25 July 1927, Pontresina) was a German pharmacologist and physiologist. He studied medicine, specialising in pharmacology, in Heidelberg, where he became associate professor of pharmacology in 1 ...

, pharmacologist and physiologist * Andrea 't Mannetje, epidemiologist *

Maung Maung Maung Maung ( my, မောင်မောင် ; 11 January 1925 – 2 July 1994) was the seventh president of Burma, and a well-known writer. Early life and career Maung Maung was born on 11 January 1925 in Mandalay, Upper Burma, British ...

, 7th President of Burma *

Cecilia Medina Cecilia Medina Quiroga (born 1935 in Concepción, Chile, Concepción) is a Chilean jurist. Biography Cecilia Medina studied legal and social sciences at the University of Chile in Santiago de Chile, Santiago and earned a doctorate in law at the ...

, jurist, lawyer * Erik Meijer, computer scientist *

Marcel Minnaert Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert (12 February 1893 – 26 October 1970) was a Dutch astronomer of Belgian origin. He was born in Bruges and died in Utrecht. He is notable for his contributions to astronomy and physics and for a popular book on me ...

, astronomer *

Heiko Oberman Heiko Augustinus Oberman (1930–2001) was a Dutch historian and theologian who specialized in the study of the Reformation. Life Oberman was born in Utrecht on 15 October 1930. He earned his doctorate in theology from the University of Utrecht ...

, historian * Mark Overmars, computer scientist *

Perizonius Perizonius (or Accinctus) was the name of Jakob Voorbroek (26 October 1651 – 6 April 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-kn ...

, scholar *

Maarten van Rossem Maarten van Rossem (born 24 October 1943) is a Dutch historian, presenter and commentator. He specializes in the history and politics of the United States. As an expert on America, he is a frequent guest on television talk shows. His public care ...

, historian *

Johann Jakob Scheuchzer Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (2 August 1672 – 23 June 1733) was a Swiss scholar born at Zürich. Herbarium deluvianum Zürich, Zwingli-Platz ( Grossmünster) : Former home of Konrad von Mure († 1280) and the house, where Johann Jakob Scheuch ...

, physician, scientist * Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz, phytopathologist * Jan Hendrik Scholten, theologian * Jansje Gretha Schuiringa, one of first Dutch dentists,

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors ...

of prosthetic dentistry *

Boudewijn Sirks :''Sirks leads here. For places and people named Sirk, see Sirk (disambiguation)'' Adriaan Johan Boudewijn Sirks (born 14 September 1947), known as Boudewijn Sirks and as A. J. B. Sirks, is a Dutch academic lawyer and legal historian specializing in ...

, specialist in Roman law * J. Slauerhoff, poet; novelist; assistant at the university's clinic for Dermatology and Venereal Diseases 1929–1930 *

Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, KG, PC (23 April 167519 April 1722), known as Lord Spencer from 1688 to 1702, was an English statesman and nobleman from the Spencer family. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1714–1717), Lord P ...

, politician * Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, poet *

Jan Terlouw Jan Cornelis Terlouw (born 15 November 1931) is a retired Dutch politician, physicist and author. A member of the Democrats 66 (D66) party, he served as Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1981 to 1982 under Prime Minister Dries van A ...

, politician, novelist * Gerard Verschuuren, from the former Institute of Human Biology *

Frans de Waal Franciscus Bernardus Maria "Frans" de Waal (born October 29, 1948) is a Dutch primatologist and ethologist. He is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in the Department of Psychology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, ...

, zoologist and ethologist *

Hugh Williamson Hugh Williamson (December 5, 1735 – May 22, 1819) was an American Founding Father, physician, and politician. He is best known as a signatory to the U.S. Constitution, and for representing North Carolina at the Constitutional Convention. Wi ...

, politician * Jan Pol, from The Incredible Dr. Pol a

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reality show, Veterinarian * Wim Aantjes, politician * Willem Marcus van Weede, law * Anne Wyllie, scientist * Pieter Kok, physicist

Faculty

* Mario Alinei * Cornelis Dirk Andriesse *

Frans Andriessen Franciscus Henricus Johannes Joseph "Frans" Andriessen (2 April 1929 – 22 March 2019) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) and later the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and businessperson who served as E ...

Barnita Bagchi Barnita Bagchi (born 12 June 1973) is a Bengali-speaking Indian feminist advocate, historian, and literary scholar. She is a faculty member in literary studies at Utrecht University, and was previously at the Institute of Development Studies, ...

* Julia Bailey-Serres * Mieke Bal *

Marc Baldus Marc Baldus is a physicist and professor of NMR spectroscopy at Utrecht University. He is especially known for his work in the field of structural biology using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) spectroscopy. He applies ssNMR methods ...

* Johann Conrad Barchusen, first chemistry professor * Nicolaas Beets *

Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Reinout Willem van Bemmelen, also known as Rein van Bemmelen, (14 April 1904 Batavia, Dutch East Indies – 19 November 1983 Unterpirkach, Austria) was a Dutch geologist whose interests were structural geology, economic geology and volcanology. ...

* Jan Hendrik van den Berg *

Jan Bergstra Johannes Aldert "Jan" Bergstra (born 1951) is a Dutch computer scientist. His work has focussed on logic and the theoretical foundations of software engineering, especially on formal methods for system design. He is best known as an expert on alg ...

* Frits Beukers *

* Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing * Fred van der Blij *

Pieter Boddaert Pieter Boddaert (1730 – 6 May 1795) was a Dutch physician and naturalist. Early life, family and education Boddaert was the son of a Middelburg jurist and poet by the same name (1694–1760). The younger Pieter obtained his M.D. at the Univers ...

* Hans L. Bodlaender *

* Onno J. Boxma *

Rosi Braidotti Rosi Braidotti (; born 28 September 1954) is a contemporary philosopher and feminist theoretician. Biography Career Braidotti, who holds Italian and Australian citizenship, was born in Italy and moved to Australia when she was 16, where she ...

Sjaak Brinkkemper Jacobus Nicolaas (Sjaak) Brinkkemper (born Monnickendam, 18 January 1958) is a Dutch computer scientist, and Full Professor of organisation and information at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University. Biography B ...

* Marcel Van den Broecke *

Hendrik Brugmans Hendrik Brugmans (13 December 1906 in Amsterdam – 12 March 1997 in Bruges) also known as Hendrik Bupatis was the son of historian Hajo Brugmans and Maria Keizer. He studied history of French literature at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and the ...

Martin van Bruinessen Martin van Bruinessen (born 10 July 1946, Schoonhoven, Kingdom of the Netherlands) is a Dutch anthropologist and author, who has published a number of publications on the Kurdish, Indonesia, Turkish, Persian cultures, and also on aspects of Isl ...

C. H. D. Buys Ballot Christophorus Henricus Diedericus 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. He was first chairman of the International Meteo ...

Hans Clevers Johannes (Hans) Carolus Clevers (born 27 March 1957) is a Dutch molecular geneticist, cell biologist and stem cell researcher. He became the Head of Pharma, Research and Early Development, and a member of the Corporate Executive Committee, of ...

* Heinrich von Cocceji *

Floris Cohen Hendrik Floris Cohen (born Haarlem, Netherlands, 1 July 1946) is a historian of science. Life Cohen studied history at the University of Leiden, receiving a Ph.D. in 1974. He is a professor in the Comparative History of Science at the Universi ...

* Wim Cohen * Jacqueline Cramer * Paul J. Crutzen *

Dirk van Dalen Dirk van Dalen (born 20 December 1932, Amsterdam) is a Dutch mathematician and historian of science. Van Dalen studied mathematics and physics and astronomy at the University of Amsterdam. Inspired by the work of Brouwer and Heyting, he receive ...

Gerrit De Geest Gerrit Gaby Aimé De Geest (born 19 September 1960, Aalst, Belgium)Prof.dr. ...

Cees Dekker Cornelis "Cees" Dekker (born 7 April 1959 in Haren, Groningen) is a Dutch physicist, and Distinguished University Professor at the Technical University of Delft. He is known for his research on carbon nanotubes, single-molecule biophysics, and na ...

Dennis Dieks Dennis Geert Bernardus Johan Dieks (born 1 June 1949, in Amsterdam) is a Dutch physicist and philosopher of physics. Work In 1982 he proved the no-cloning theorem (independently discovered in the same year by William Wootters and Wojciech H. ...

* Isbrand van Diemerbroeck * Jurriaan ten Doesschate *

Franciscus Donders Franciscus (Franz) Cornelius Donders FRS FRSE (27 May 1818 – 24 March 1889) was a Dutch ophthalmologist. During his career, he was a professor of physiology in Utrecht, and was internationally regarded as an authority on eye diseases, dir ...

Hans Duistermaat Johannes Jisse (Hans) Duistermaat (The Hague, December 20, 1942 – Utrecht, March 19, 2010) was a Dutch mathematician. Biography Duistermaat attended primary school in Jakarta, at the time capital of the Dutch East Indies, where his family mo ...

* Carl Andreas Duker * Thomas von der Dunk * Cornelis van Eck * Christiaan Eijkman *

Peter Ester Peter Ester (5 June 1953 – 11 December 2022) was a Dutch sociologist and politician. As a member of the Christian Union he was a member of the Senate from 7 June 2011 until his death. He focused on matters of economic affairs, agriculture, s ...

Daan Frenkel Daan Frenkel One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 1948, Amsterdam) is a Dutch computational physicist in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Education ...

Hans Freudenthal Hans Freudenthal (17 September 1905 – 13 October 1990) was a Jewish-German-born Dutch mathematician. He made substantial contributions to algebraic topology and also took an interest in literature, philosophy, history and mathematics education ...

Bas de Gaay Fortman Bastiaan "Bas" de Gaay Fortman (born 6 November 1937) is a retired Dutch politician and diplomat of the Political Party of Radicals (PPR) and later the GreenLeft (GL) party and economist. Career before politics After attending public elementar ...

Robert van Genechten Robert van Genechten (25 October 1895 – 13 December 1945) was a Belgium, Belgian-born Netherlands, Dutch politician and writer and a leading Collaboration with the Axis powers, collaborator during the German occupation of the Netherlands. Ea ...

* Louis Grondijs *

Piet Gros Piet Gros (born July 31, 1962 in Dokkum) is a Dutch chemist and professor biomacromolecular crystallography at Utrecht University. In 2010 he received the NWO Spinoza Prize for the elucidation of the three-dimensional structure of the C3 protei ...

* Hendrik Jacob Hamaker * A. G. van Hamel * Sadik Harchaoui *

Pieter Harting Pieter Harting (27 February 1812 – 3 December 1885) was a Dutch biologist and naturalist, born in Rotterdam. He made contributions in a number of scientific disciplines, and is remembered for his work in the fields of microscopy, hydrology, ...

* Majid Hassanizadeh *

Michiel Hazewinkel Michiel Hazewinkel (born 22 June 1943) is a Dutch mathematician, and Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science and the University of Amsterdam, particularly known for his 1978 book ''Formal groups and a ...

Albert J.R. Heck Albert J.R. Heck (born 25 November 1964) is a Dutch scientist and professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands in the field of mass spectrometry and proteomics. He is known for his work on technologies to study proteins in their natural envir ...

* William S. Heckscher * Karl Heilbronner * Philip Willem van Heusde * Jacob van der Hoeden * Martin Hoek * Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff *

Jan Hogendijk Jan Pieter Hogendijk (born 21 July 1955) is a Dutch mathematician and historian of science. Since 2005, he is professor of history of mathematics at the University of Utrecht. Hogendijk became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts a ...

Paulien Hogeweg Paulien Hogeweg (born 1943) is a Dutch theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher studying biological systems as dynamic information processing systems at many interconnected levels. In 1970, together with Ben Hesper, she defined the te ...

* Jacoba Hol *

Gerard 't Hooft Gerardus (Gerard) 't Hooft (; born July 5, 1946) is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his thesis advisor Martinus J. G. Veltman "for elucidating th ...

* Johannes Hoornbeek *

Pieter Willem van der Horst Pieter Willem van der Horst (born 4 July 1946) is a scholar and university professor emeritus specializing in New Testament studies, Early Christian literature, and the Jewish and Hellenistic context of Early Christianity. Education and career Va ...

Ambrosius Hubrecht Ambrosius Arnold Willem Hubrecht (2 March 1853, in Rotterdam – 21 March 1915, in Utrecht) was a Dutch zoologist. Hubrecht studied zoology at Utrecht University with Harting and Donders, for periods joining Selenka in Leiden and later Erlange ...

* Johannes Alphonsus Huisman * John Huizinga * G.P. van Itterzon *

Cornelis de Jager Cornelis "Kees" de Jager (; 29 April 1921 – 27 May 2021) was a Dutch astronomer who specialized in predicting solar variation to assess the Sun's impact on future climate. He was the General Secretary of the IAU from 1967 to 1973 and former ...

Mark Janse Mark Janse (born 31 August 1959 in Sas van Gent, The Netherlands) is BOF-ZAP research professor in Asia Minor and Ancient Greek at Ghent University, where he studied Classics, Hebrew and Linguistics. Before coming to Ghent, Janse has been editor o ...

* Hans Jansen *

Nico van Kampen Nicolaas 'Nico' Godfried van Kampen (June 22, 1921 – October 6, 2013) was a Dutch theoretical physicist, who worked mainly on statistical mechanics and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Van Kampen was born in Leiden, and was a nephew of Frits Zer ...

* Paul Joan George Kapteyn *

Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald Gustav Heinrich Ralph (often cited as G. H. R.) von Koenigswald (13 November 1902 – 10 July 1982) was a German-Dutch paleontologist and geologist who conducted research on hominins, including ''Homo erectus''. His discoverie ...

* Ilse Kokula *

Jan Koster Jan Koster (born 8 July 1945 in Delft) is a Dutch linguist and professor emeritus at the University of Groningen. Koster studied at the University of Amsterdam, where, after being a visiting scientist at MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1976), he re ...

* Jan Lambooy *

* Jan Christiaan Lindeman *

* Rob Meens, medieval historian * Lambert Meertens * Annette Merz *

Ieke Moerdijk Izak (Ieke) Moerdijk (; born 23 January 1958) is a Dutch mathematician, currently working at Utrecht University, who in 2012 won the Spinoza prize. Education and career Moerdijk studied mathematics, philosophy and general linguistics at the Uni ...

* Bert Mosselmans *

Pieter van Musschenbroek Pieter van Musschenbroek (14 March 1692 – 19 September 1761) was a Dutch scientist. He was a professor in Duisburg, Utrecht, and Leiden, where he held positions in mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and astronomy. He is credited with the inven ...

Frits van Oostrom Frits van Oostrom (born 15 May 1953 in Utrecht, Netherlands) is University Professor for the Humanities at Utrecht University. In 1999 he was a visiting Professor at Harvard for the Erasmus Chair. From September 2004 to June 2005, he was a fe ...

Cornelis Willem Opzoomer Cornelis Willem Opzoomer (20 September 1821, Rotterdam – 23 August 1892, Oosterbeek) was a Dutch jurist, positivist philosopher and theologian. He was professor of philosophy at Utrecht University Utrecht University (UU; nl, Universitei ...

Leonard Ornstein Leonard Salomon Ornstein (November 12, 1880 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands – May 20, 1941 in Utrecht, the Netherlands) was a Dutch physicist. Biography Ornstein studied theoretical physics with Hendrik Antoon Lorentz at University of Lei ...

* Ab Osterhaus * Jean Abraham Chrétien Oudemans * Mark Overmars, computer scientist * Jean Henri Pareau * Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak * Petrus van Mastricht * Herman Philipse *

Pieter Hendrik van Cittert Pieter Hendrik van Cittert (30 May 1889, Gouda – 8 October 1959, Utrecht) was a Dutch physicist and science historian. He was born in Gouda, Netherlands, to Benjamin Pieter van Cittert and Petronella Antonia Huber, and died on October 8, 1959, ...

Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk (13 April 1847 – 3 September 1908) was a Dutch jurist and politician. He was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1888 until 1893.Ronald Plasterk Ronald Hans Anton Plasterk (; born 12 April 1957) is a Dutch scientist, entrepreneur and retired politician of the Labour Party (PvdA). He has earned a PhD degree in biology, specialised in molecular genetics. Being a former Minister of the Du ...

* Sacha Prechal * August Adriaan Pulle *

Jan de Quay Jan Eduard de Quay (26 August 1901 – 4 July 1985) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) now the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and psychologist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 19 Ma ...

Henricus Regius Henricus Regius (; July 29, 1598 – February 19, 1679) was a Dutch philosopher, physician, and professor of medicine at the University of Utrecht from 1638. Biography Regius was born in Utrecht, and was also known by his birth name, ''Hendrik de ...

* Henricus Reneri *

* Job de Ruiter *

Leopold Ružička Leopold Ružička (; born Lavoslav Stjepan Ružička; 13 September 1887 – 26 September 1976) was a Croatian-Swiss scientist and joint winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes" "including t ...

* Heleen Sancisi Weerdenburg * Willem Saris * Mirko Tobias Schäfer * Hans Schenk *

Paul Schnabel Paul Schnabel (born 17 July 1948) is a Dutch politician and sociologist who served on the Social and Economic Council (SER) from 2013 to 2015 and in the Senate on behalf of Democrats 66 (D66) from 2015 until 2019. Schnabel, a professor at Utrech ...

Peter Schrijver Peter Schrijver (; born 1963) is a Dutch linguist. He is a professor of Celtic languages at Utrecht University and a researcher of ancient Indo-European linguistics. He worked previously at Leiden University and the Ludwig Maximilian University ...

* Wisse Alfred Pierre Smit *

Hermann Snellen Herman Snellen (February 19, 1834 – January 18, 1908) was a Dutch ophthalmologist who introduced the Snellen chart to study visual acuity (1862). He took over directorship of the Netherlands Hospital for Eye Patients (Nederlandsch Gasthuis vo ...

Sami Solanki Sami Khan Solanki (born 1958 in Karachi, Pakistan) is director of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), director of the Sun-Heliosphere Department of MPS, a scientific member of the Max Planck Society, and a Chair (and spok ...

* T. A. Springer * Hendricus Stoof *

Dirk Jan Struik Dirk Jan Struik (September 30, 1894 – October 21, 2000) was a Dutch-born American (since 1934) mathematician, historian of mathematics and Marxian theoretician who spent most of his life in the U.S. Life Dirk Jan Struik was born in ...

Karel van der Toorn Karel van der Toorn (born 8 March 1956 in The Hague) is a Dutch scholar of ancient religions. From 2006 to 2011 he was chairman of the Board at the University of Amsterdam, where he was a professor since 1998 and until he became the chairman of th ...

Uğur Ümit Üngör Uğur Ümit Üngör (born 1980) is a Turkish scholar of genocide and mass violence. Career Üngör, who was born in Turkey and raised in Enschede in the Netherlands, earned a doctorate from the University of Amsterdam in 2009,Aram Arkun"Prolific ...

* William Uricchio * Peter van der Veer * Jan G.F. Veldhuis * Martinus J. G. Veltman * Co Verdaas * Pieter verLoren van Themaat * Willem Anton van Vloten *

Johannes Voet Johannes Voet, also known as John Voet (3 October 1647 – 11 September 1713) was a Dutch jurist whose work remains highly influential in modern Roman-Dutch law. Voet is one of the so-called "old authorities" of Roman-Dutch law, along with Hu ...

Gisbertus Voetius Gisbertus Voetius ( Latinized version of the Dutch name Gijsbert Voet ; 3 March 1589 – 1 November 1676) was a Dutch Calvinist theologian. Life He was born at Heusden, in the Dutch Republic, studied at Leiden, and in 1611 became Protestant pas ...

Henk van der Vorst Hendrik "Henk" Albertus van der Vorst (born 5 May 1944, Venlo) is a Dutch mathematician and Emeritus Professor of Numerical Analysis at Utrecht University. According to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), his paper on the BiCGST ...

Petrus Johannes Waardenburg Petrus Johannes Waardenburg (3 June 1886, Nijeveen, Drenthe – 23 September 1979) was a Dutch ophthalmologist, geneticist, and pioneer in the application of genetics to ophthalmology. Waardenburg syndrome is named after him. Biography Waarden ...

* Willem Albert Wagenaar * Stefan E. Warschawski * C. E. A. Wichmann *

David de Wied David de Wied (12 January 1925 – 21 February 2004, aged 79) was a Dutch professor of pharmacology at the University of Utrecht. Due to the necessity of hiding as a Jew during the Second World War, De Wied only started in 1947 studying medicine ...

* Bernard de Wit * Hermann Witsius * George Weijer

Rectors

(Dates as rectors) * Jan Ackersdijck 1840 to 1841 * Antonius Aemilius 1644 to 1645, and 1659 to 1660 * Christian Bernhard Albinus 1728 to 1729, and 1741 to 1742 * Hieronymus Simons van Alphen 1717 to 1718, and 1733 to 1734 * Henricus Johannes Arntzenius 1793 to 1794 * Hermann Arntzenius 1803 to 1804, and 1820 to 1821 * Johan d’Aulnis de Bourouill 1888 to 1889 * Johannes Marinus Simon Baljon 1904 to 1905 * Nicolaas Beets 1877 to 1878 * Daniel Berckringer 1648 to 1649 * Cornelis Adriaan Bergsma 1843 to 1844 * Jan Bleuland 1799 to 1800, and 1816 to 1817 * Hendrik Bolkestein 1934 to 1935 * Peter Bondam 1776 to 1777, and 1788 to 1789 * Gisbert Bonnet 1764 to 1765, 1779 to 1780, and 1792 to 1793 * Hermannus Bouman 1829 to 1830, and 1844-1845 * Willem Gerard Brill 1871 to 1872 * Arnoldus Johannes Petrus van den Broek 1923 to 1924 *

William Laurence Brown William Laurence Brown (7 January 175511 May 1830) was a Scottish minister. Life Brown was born in Utrecht in the Netherlands. His father, William Brown, was minister of the English church there, but was then appointed professor of ecclesiast ...

1789 to 1790 * Jan Richard de Brueys 1825 to 1826 * Johannes de Bruin 1663 to 1664, and 1672 to 1674 * Frans Burman (theologian, born 1628) 1664 to 1665, and 1670 to 1671 * Frans Burman (theologian, born 1671) 1718 to 1719 * Frans Burman (theologian, born 1708) 1746 to 1747, 1766 to 1767, and 1782 to 1783 *

Pieter Burman the Elder Pieter Burman (1668 – 31 March 1741), also known as Peter or Pieter Burmann ( la, Petrus Burmannus). and posthumously distinguished from his nephew as "the Elder" ( la, Senior), was a Dutch classical scholar. Life Burman was born at Utr ...

1703 to 1704, and 1711 to 1712 * Christophorus Henricus Didericus Buys Ballot 1863 to 1864 *

Giovanni Salvemini Giovanni Francesco Mauro Melchiorre Salvemini di Castiglione FRS (15 January 1708 in Castiglione del Valdarno – 11 October 1791 in Berlin) was an Italian mathematician and astronomer. Life Salvemini was born on 15 January 1708 in Castiglion ...

(Johann Castillon) 1758 to 1759 * Ernst Julius Cohen 1915 to 1916 * Jacob Cramer (theologian) 1892 to 1893 * Hendrik Cornelis Dibbits 1894 to 1895 * Bernardus Schotanus 1635 to 1641 :de:Bernardus Schotanus

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