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Adrian Adrian is a form of the Latin given name Adrianus or Hadrianus. Its ultimate origin is most likely via the former river Adria from the Venetic and Illyrian word ''adur'', meaning "sea" or "water". The Adria was until the 8th century BC the ma ...

. Before the 19th century the spelling Adriaen was also common, and people used the spelling interchangeably.

People with the given name

Artists

* Adriaen Backer (1635–1684), Dutch portrait painter *

Adriaen Cornelisz Beeldemaker Adriaen Cornelisz. Beeldemaker (1618, Rotterdam – 1709, The Hague), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography According to Jan van Gool he specialized in painting scenes of deer and boar hunts.Adriaen de Bie Adriaen de Bie (3 October 1593 – 20 October 1668) was a Flemish people, Flemish painter, who is known for portraits, biblical scenes for churches and Italianate landscapes. In his youth he travelled to Paris and resided for a long period in ...

(1593–1668), Flemish painter *

Adriaan Bloemaert Adriaan Bloemaert (after 1609 in Utrecht – buried 8 January 1666 in Utrecht)Bloemaert, Adriaen
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Adriaen van Bloemen (1639 – c. 1679), Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman and engraver *

Adriaan Bonsel Adriaan Bonsel (4 August 1918 - 9 July 2011) was a Dutch composer. He was born in Hilversum, Netherlands, and died at the age of 92 in Amersfoort, Netherlands. Education Bonsel studied the flute at the Amsterdam Conservatory and studied composit ...

(1918–2011), Dutch composer *

Adriaen Brouwer Adriaen Brouwer ( – January 1638) was a Flemish painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the first half of the 17th century.Adriaen Frans Boudewijns Adriaen Frans Boudewijns (Brussels, 3 October 1644 – Brussels, 3 December 1719) was a Flemish Landscape art, landscape painter, Drafter, draughtsman and etcher. He was known mainly for his landscapes with trees, Italianate landscapes with ...

(1644–1719), Flemish landscape painter *

Adriaan van der Burg Adriaan van der Burg (1693–1733) was an 18th-century painter from the Dutch Republic. Biography Van der Burg was born and died in Dordrecht. According to Jan van Gool he was the pupil of Arnold Houbraken and accompanied him to Amsterdam ...

(1693–1733), Dutch painter *

Adriaen van der Cabel Adriaen van der Cabel or Ary van der Touw (1631 – 16 June 1705), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter active in France and Italy. Biography He was born and grew up in the small town of Rijswijk, near The Hague. Cabel was also known as ...

(1631–1705), Dutch painter of the Dutch school *

Adriaen Frans Boudewijns Adriaen Frans Boudewijns (Brussels, 3 October 1644 – Brussels, 3 December 1719) was a Flemish Landscape art, landscape painter, Drafter, draughtsman and etcher. He was known mainly for his landscapes with trees, Italianate landscapes with ...

(1644–1719), Flemish landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher *

Adriaen Collaert Adriaen Collaert (c. 1560 – 29 June 1618) was a Flemish designer and engraver. Biography He was born in Antwerp between 1555 and 1565.

(c. 1560 – 1618), Flemish designer and engraver * Adriaen Coorte (c. 1665 – 1707+), Dutch still life painter *

Adriaen Pietersz Crabeth Adriaen Pietersz Crabeth (1510 —1553) was a Renaissance glass painter from the Habsburg Netherlands. Life Crabeth was born in Gouda, South Holland, Gouda. According to Karel van Mander, he had been the pupil of the glass painter Jan Swart van ...

(1510–1553), Dutch Renaissance glass painter * Adriaen van Cronenburg (c. 1525 – 1604+), Dutch portrait painter * Adriaen van Diest (1655–1704), Dutch painter *

Adriaan Dortsman Adriaan Dortsman (1635, Vlissingen – 1682, Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age architect of Amsterdam. Biography According to the RKD he moved to Amsterdam in 1667 and is known for drawings and architectural designs.Adriaen van Eemont (1626–1662), Dutch still life and landscape painter * Adriaen Foly (1664–1701), Danish painter *

Adriaen van Gaesbeeck Adriaen van Gaesbeeck (22 August 1621 – 11 February 1650) was a Dutch painter of genre subjects and portraits. His works, which are rare, are in the manner of Gerard Dou and Pieter van Slingeland. The Berlin Gallery possesses ''The Seamstress ...

(1621–1650), Dutch genre painter *

Adriaan Geuze West 8 is an urban planning and landscape architecture firm founded by Adriaan Geuze and Paul van Beek in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1987. It is known for its contemporary designs and innovative solutions to urban planning problems using lighting, m ...

(born 1960), Dutch landscape architect *

Adriaen de Grijef Adriaen de Grijef (1657 – 1722), was an 18th-century painter from the Dutch Republic. Biography He was born in Leiden, the son of Jacques de Claeuw. He became a member of the Ghent Guild of St. Luke in 1687, and became a member of the A ...

(1657–1722), Dutch painter *

Adriaen Hanneman Adriaen Hanneman (c. 1603 – buried 11 July 1671) was a Dutch Golden Age painter best known for his portraits of the exiled British royal court. His style was strongly influenced by his contemporary, Anthony van Dyck. Biography He was born into ...

(1603–1671), Dutch portrait painter *

Adriaan Jozef Heymans Adriaan Jozef Heymans (or Adrien-Joseph Heymans; 11 June 1839 in Antwerp – December 1921 in Brussels) was a Belgian impressionist landscape painter. Biography His father was a trader in window-glass, who died when Heymans was only seven. Af ...

(1839–1921), Belgian impressionist landscape painter *

Adriaen Honich Adriaen Honich (1643, Dordrecht – c.1684), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. Biography According to Houbraken, who mentioned him three times with different spellings of his name, he was known as "Lossenbruy" in a poem about the Bent ...

(1643 – c. 1684), Dutch landscape painter *

Adriaen Isenbrandt Adriaen Isenbrandt or Adriaen Ysenbrandt (between 1480 and 1490 – July 1551) was a painter in Bruges, in the final years of Early Netherlandish painting, and the first of the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting of the Northern Renaissance. ...

(c.1485–1551), Flemish Northern Renaissance painter *

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(c. 1544 – c. 1599), Flemish portrait painter *

Adriaen Jansz Kraen Adriaen Jansz Kraen (1619, Haarlem – 1679, Haarlem), was a Dutch still life painter.Adriaen Jansz Kraen
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(1619–1679), Dutch still life painter *

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(1755–1820), Dutch painter *

Adriaen Cornelisz van Linschoten Adriaen Cornelisz. van Linschoten (1590 in Delft – 1677 in The Hague), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography According to Houbraken he was a regent of the Delft Guild of St. Luke (listed as Kornelis Adriaan Linschoten in 1627) and "som ...

(1590–1677), Dutch Golden Age painter *

Adriaen Matham Adriaen Matham (1590 – 1660) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, engraver and art dealer. He was part of an embassy to the Saadi dynasty of Morocco and also made some engravings while there. He married three times, once in Amsterdam and later lived ...

(1590–1660), Dutch Golden Age painter, engraver and art dealer *

Adriaen van Nieulandt Adriaen van Nieulandt (1586 or 1587, Antwerp - buried 7 July 1658, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman and engraver of Flemish descent. He is known for his history paintings with biblical and mythological subjects, often incorporating ele ...

(1587–1658), Dutch painter, draughtsman and engraver * Adriaen van Oolen (c. 1650 – 1709), Dutch bird, landscape and still life painter *

Adriaen van Ostade Adriaen van Ostade (baptized as Adriaen Jansz Hendricx 10 December 1610 – buried 2 May 1685) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works, showing everyday life of ordinary men and women. Life According to Arnold Houbraken, he and his br ...

(1610–1685), Dutch genre painter *

Adriaen Oudendijck Adriaen Oudendijck (1677, Haarlem – 1704, Haarlem), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. Biography According to Houbraken he copied the cattle in his landscapes after leading landscape artists such as the painter Adriaen van de Velde a ...

(1677–1704), Dutch landscape painter * Adriaen van Salm (c. 1660 – 1720), Dutch marine draftsman and painter *

Adriaen van der Spelt Adriaen van der Spelt (c. 1630 in Leiden – 1673 in Gouda), was a Dutch Golden Age flower painter. Biography According to Houbraken, whose comments were based on the Gouda stories by Ignatius Walvis, he was an excellent flower painter born in ...

(c. 1630 – 1673), Dutch Golden Age flower painter * Adriaan van Stalbemt (1580–1662), Flemish Baroque painter *

Adriaen van Utrecht Adriaen van Utrecht (Antwerp, 12 January 1599 – 1652) was a Flemish painter known mainly for his sumptuous banquet still lifes, game and fruit still lifes, fruit garlands, market and kitchen scenes and depictions of live poultry in farmyards. ...

(1599–1652), Flemish Baroque still life painter *

Adriaen Valerius Adrianus Valerius, also known as Adriaen Valerius, (c. 1575 – 1625) was a Dutch poet and composer, known mostly for his poems dealing with peasant and burgher life and those dealing with the Dutch War of Independence, assembled in his great ...

(c. 1575 – 1625), Dutch poet and composer *

Adriaen van de Velde Adriaen van de Velde (bapt. 30 November 1636, in Amsterdam – bur. 21 January 1672, in Amsterdam), was a Dutch painter, draughtsman and print artist. His favorite subjects were landscapes with animals and genre scenes.Adriaen van de Venne Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (1589 – 12 November 1662), was a versatile Dutch Golden Age painter of allegories, genre subjects, and portraits, as well as a miniaturist, book illustrator, designer of political satires, and versifier. Bio ...

(1589–1662), Dutch painter, miniaturist, book-illustrator and designer of political satires *

Adriaen Hendriksz Verboom Adriaen Hendriksz Verboom (1627 – 1673), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. Biography He was born in Rotterdam, and was the older brother and teacher of Willem Hendricksz Verboom.Adriaan Verbuch (fl. 1600), Dutch Golden Age painter * Adriaen Verdoel (c. 1620 – 1675), Dutch Golden Age painter *

Adriaen de Vries Adriaen de Vries (c.1556–1626) was a Northern Mannerist sculptor born in the Netherlands but working in Central Europe, whose international style crossed the threshold to the Baroque; he excelled in refined modelling and bronze casting and ...

(c. 1556 – 1626), Dutch Northern Mannerist sculptor *

Adriaan Gerritsz de Vrije Adriaan Gerritsz de Vrije (c.1570, Gouda, South Holland, Gouda – 1643, Gouda), was a Dutch Golden Age glass painter. Biography According to the RKD he was probably related to the glass painter Dirk de Vrije.Adriaen de Weever Adriaen is a Dutch form of Adrian. Notable people with the name include: *Adriaen Banckert (1615–1684), Dutch admiral *Adriaen Block (1567–1627), Dutch private trader and navigator *Adriaen Brouwer (1605–1638), Flemish genre painter *Adriaen ...

(c. 1510 – c. 1590), Flemish Renaissance painter *

Adriaen van der Werff Adriaen is a Dutch form of Adrian. Notable people with the name include: * Adriaen Banckert (1615–1684), Dutch admiral *Adriaen Block (1567–1627), Dutch private trader and navigator * Adriaen Brouwer (1605–1638), Flemish genre painter * Adria ...

(1659–1722), accomplished Dutch painter * Adriaan Willaert (c. 1490 – 1562), Flemish composer

Scholars and scientists

* Adriaan Adriaanszoon (1571–1635), Dutch geometer and astronomer *

Adriaan Anthonisz Adriaan Anthonisz (also known as Adriaen Anthonisz of Alcmaer) (1527–1607) was a Dutch mathematician, surveyor, cartographer, and military engineer who specialized in the design of fortifications. As a mathematician Anthonisz calculated in 1585 ...

(1541–1620), Durtch mathematician and engineer, mayor of Alkmaar, father of above *

Adriaan van Baarland Adriaan van Baarland or Adrianus Barlandus or Hadrianus Barlandus (1486–1538) was a Dutch historian. He was born in the village of Baarland, from which he took his name. He studied at Ghent and Leuven, at which latter place he was elected profess ...

(1486–1538), Dutch historian *

Adriaan Bax Adriaan "Ad" Bax (born 1956) is a Dutch-American molecular biophysicist who is a Distinguished Investigator at the National Institutes of Health. He is the Chief of the Section on Biophysical NMR Spectroscopy in the Laboratory of Chemical Physics ...

(born 1956), Dutch molecular biophysicist *

Adriaan Blaauw Adriaan Blaauw (12 April 1914 – 1 December 2010) was a Dutch astronomer. Blaauw was born in Amsterdam to Cornelis Blaauw and Gesina Clasina Zwart, and studied at Leiden University and the University of Groningen, obtaining his doctorate at the ...

(1814–2000), Dutch astronomer *

Adriaan Gilles Camper Adriaan Gilles Camper (March 31, 1759 – February 5, 1820) was a 19th-century Dutch mathematics and physics professor at the University of Franeker who took to politics and became a statesman in his later years. He was the son of Petrus Camper is ...

(1759–1820), Dutch mathematics and physicist *

Adriaan Fokker Adriaan Daniël Fokker (; 17 August 1887 – 24 September 1972) was a Dutch physicist. He worked in the fields of special relativity and statistical mechanics. He was the inventor of the Fokker organ, a 31 equal temperament, 31-tone equal-temp ...

(1887–1972), Dutch physicist and musician *

Adriaan de Groot Adrianus Dingeman (Adriaan) de Groot ( Santpoort, 26 October 1914 – Schiermonnikoog, 14 August 2006) was a Dutch chess master and psychologist, who conducted some of the most famous chess experiments of all time in the 1940s-60. In 1946 he ...

(1914–2006), Dutch chess master and psychologist * Adriaan de Groot (born 1973), Dutch computer programmer *

Adriaan Heereboord Adriaan Heereboord (13 October 1613 in Leiden – 7 July 1661 in Leiden) was a Dutch philosopher and logician. Life He was born in Leiden and graduated from the University of Leiden, where he had the chair of philosophy from 1643. Biography in t ...

(1613–1661), Dutch philosopher and logician * Adriaen de Jonghe (1511–1575), Dutch physician, classical scholar, translator, lexicographer, etc. *

Adriaan Kluit Adriaan Kluit (9 February 1735 – 12 January 1807) was a Dutch scholar, important in Dutch linguistics. He was born in Dordrecht. He was rector of the Latin school in Alkmaar and Middelburg. In 1779 he became the professor of history at the Univ ...

(1735–1807), Dutch linguist *

Adriaan Koerbagh Adriaan Koerbagh (1632–1669) was a Dutch physician, scholar, and writer who was a critic of religion and conventional morality. He was in the circle of supporters of Baruch Spinoza. Life Adriaan Koerbagh and his younger brother Johannes (1634� ...

(1633–1669), Dutch scholar and writer *

Adriaan Kortlandt Adriaan Kortlandt (25 January 1918, Rotterdam – 18 October 2009, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Ethology, ethologist. He has been described together with Vernon Reynolds and Jane Goodall as "...one of a trio of pioneers ... who founded field research, ...

(1918–2009), Dutch ethologist *

Adriaan van Maanen Adriaan van Maanen (March 31, 1884 – January 26, 1946) was a Dutch-American astronomer. Born in Friesland, he studied astronomy at the University of Utrecht, earning his Ph.D. in 1911, and worked briefly at the University of Groningen. In 1 ...

(1884–1946), Dutch–American astronomer *

Adriaan Metius Adriaan Adriaanszoon, called Metius, (9 December 1571 – 6 September 1635), was a Dutch geometer and astronomer born in Alkmaar. The name "Metius" comes from the Dutch word ''meten'' ("measuring"), and therefore means something like "measurer" ...

(1571–1635), Dutch geometer and astronomer *

Adriaan Isebree Moens Adriaan Isebree Moens (15 November 1846 – 24 June 1891) was a Dutch physician and physiologist. He is known for his work on arterial stiffness and the propagation of waves in elastic tubes. Life and family Adriaan Isebree Moens was the son of J ...

(1846–1891), Dutch physician and physiologist *

Adriaan Nicolaas Petrus Pelzer Adriaan Nicolaas Petrus Pelzer (25 December 1915 – 15 October 1981) was a South African Afrikaans academic, historian, author and Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He retired from the University of Pretoria as vice rector ...

(1915–1981), South African Afrikaans academic, historian and author *

Adriaan Hendrik Johan Prins Adriaan Hendrik Johan Prins (1921 – 11 February 2000) was a Dutch Africanist and maritime anthropologist. He was a recipient of many research grants and fellowships (UNESCO, Ford Foundation, the Netherlands Organization for Pure Research, ...

(1921–2000), Dutch Africanist and maritime anthropologist *

Adriaan Reland Adriaan Reland (also known as ''Adriaen Reeland/Reelant'', ''Hadrianus Relandus''; 17 July 1676 – 5 February 1718)John Gorton, ''A General Biographical Dictionary'', 1838, Whittaker & Co. was a Dutch Orientalist scholar, cartographer and philo ...

(1676–1718), Dutch Orientalist scholar, cartographer and philologist *

Adriaan van Roomen Adriaan van Roomen (29 September 1561 – 4 May 1615), also known as Adrianus Romanus, was a mathematician, professor of medicine and medical astrologer from the Duchy of Brabant in the Habsburg Netherlands who was active throughout Central Europ ...

(1561–1615), Flemish mathematician *

Adriaan Joseph van Rossem Adriaan Joseph van Rossem (December 17, 1892 in Chicago – September 4, 1949) was an American ornithologist of Dutch ancestry. He came from an affluent family where his father died very early in his life. Van Rossem went on to attend both pu ...

(1892–1949), American ornithologist *

Adriaan van Royen Adriaan van Royen (11 November 1704 in Leiden – 28 February 1779 in Leiden) was a Dutch botanist. He was a professor at Leiden University and is associated with Carl Linnaeus. He is best known for his work on flora of Southeast Asia. Adr ...

(1704–1779), Dutch botanist *

Adriaan van den Spiegel Adriaan van den Spiegel (or Spieghel), name sometimes written as Adrianus Spigelius (1578 – 7 April 1625), was a Flemish anatomist born in Brussels. For much of his career he practiced medicine in Padua, and is considered one of the great physi ...

(1578–1625), Flemish anatomist *

Adriaen Verwer Adriaen Verwer (Rotterdam, c.1655–Amsterdam, 1717) was a Dutch Mennonite merchant, scholar, philosopher and linguist. He wrote books on language, religion and maritime law. He is best known for his grammar ''Linguae Belgicae'', published anony ...

(c. 1655 – 1717), Dutch Mennonite merchant, scholar, philosopher and linguist *

Adriaan Vlacq Adriaan Vlacq (1600–1667) was a Dutch book publisher and author of mathematical tables. Born in Gouda, South Holland, Gouda, Vlacq published a table of logarithms from 1 to 100,000 to 10 decimal places in 1628 in his ''Arithmetica logarit ...

(1600–1667), Dutch book publisher and author of mathematical tables *

Adriaan Wesselink Adriaan Jan Wesselink (1909–1995) was a Dutch astronomer who worked successively in the Netherlands, South Africa and the United States. He specialised in observing and understanding the characteristics of stars, particularly variable stars. ...

(1909–1995), Dutch astronomer *

Adriaan van Wijngaarden Adriaan "Aad" van Wijngaarden (2 November 1916 – 7 February 1987) was a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Van Wijngaarden emphasized and promoted the mathematical aspects of computing, first in numeri ...

(1916–1987), Dutch mathematician and computer scientist * Adriaan van der Willigen Pz. (1810–1876), Dutch doctor and historian *

Adriaan Cornelis Zaanen Adriaan Cornelis "Aad" Zaanen (14 June 1913 in Rotterdam – 1 April 2003 in Wassenaar) was a Dutch mathematician working in analysis. He is known for his books on Riesz spaces (together with Wim Luxemburg). Biography Zaanen was born in Rotterd ...

(1913–2003), Dutch mathematician

Sportspeople

* Adriaan Botha (sprinter) (born 1977), South African sprinter *

Adriaan Carelse Adriaan John Carelse (born 8 February 1995) is a South African rugby union player for the Seattle Seawolves of Major League Rugby (MLR). His regular position is fly-half of fullback. He previously played for Rugby ATL and the Dallas Jackals in ...

(born 1995), South African rugby player *

Adriaan Engelbrecht Adriaan Erasmus 'Meel' Engelbrecht (born 14 September 1990) is a former South African rugby union player, that spent his entire career at the . His regular position was fly-half or centre. He retired from rugby union prior to the 2016 season. ...

(born 1990), South African rugby player * Adriaan Fondse (born 1983), South African rugby player *

Adriaan Katte Adriaan Johan Louis Katte (24 June 1900 – 4 June 1991) was a Dutch field hockey player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics The 1928 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the IX Olympiad (), was an international multi-sport ev ...

(1900–1991), Dutch field hockey player *

Adriaan Koonings Adriaan Koonings (23 December 1895 – 18 April 1963), was a Dutch footballer who was active as a striker. Koonings was born in Rotterdam and played his whole career at Feijenoord. He won one cap for the Netherlands. After his playing car ...

(1895–1963), Dutch footballer *

Adriaan Paulen Adriaan "Adje" Paulen (; 12 October 1902 – 9 May 1985) was a Dutch athlete who competed from 1917 to 1931. During World War II, he was part of the Dutch resistance in the Netherlands. Following World War II, Paulen became a sports of ...

(1902–1985), Dutch athlete and president of the IAAF *

Adriaan Richter Adriaanus Jacobus 'Adriaan' Richter (born 10 May 1966), is a former South African rugby union player who played for the South Africa national rugby union team between 1992 and 1995. Career Province Richter made his provincial debut for Trans ...

(born 1966), South African rugby player *

Adriaan Strauss Jan Adriaan Strauss (born 18 November 1985) is a South African former professional rugby union player who played first class rugby between 2005 and 2018. He played in 66 international test matches for (captaining them in 2016) and also featured ...

(born 1985), South African rugby player

Statesmen, religious leaders and military leaders

Adriaen Banckert Adriaen van Trappen Banckert (c.1615 – 22 April 1684) was a Dutch admiral. In English literature he is sometimes known as ''Banckers''. His first name is often rendered in the modern spelling ''Adriaan''. ''Van Trappen'' was the original family ...

(1615–1684), Dutch admiral *

Adriaen Maertensz Block Adriaen Maertensz Block (c.1582, Gouda – 7 March 1661, Lisse) was successively captain, commander, and governor of Ambon between 1614 and 1617, administrator of the Council of the Indies for the Kamer of the Dutch East India Company in Ams ...

(1582–1661), successively captain, commander, and governor of the Ambon Island * Adriaan Boeyens (1459–1523), Dutch pope (Adrian VI) *

Adriaan Dijxhoorn Adriaan Quirinus Hendrik Dijxhoorn (10 September 1889 – 22 January 1953) was a Dutch soldier who served as Minister of Defence during the Battle of the Netherlands. Following the outbreak of the Second World War he was appointed Minister of Def ...

(1889–1953), Dutch Minister of Defence during the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940 * Adriaan Engelvaart (1812–1893), Dutch military commander and politician *

Adriaan van Flodroff Adriaan Gustaaf Count van Flodroff (also Flodorf or Flodorph, died 1690) was a Dutch soldier. Biography He first joined the Dutch Army in 1671, and by 1683 had risen to become a Major General of cavalry. In 1689, following the outbreak of the ...

(died 1690), Dutch Major General of cavalry * Adriaan Florensz (1459–1523), Dutch pope (Adrian VI) *

Adriaan van der Meyden Adriaan van der Meyden was the two time Governor of Zeylan during the Dutch period in Ceylon. He was first appointed on 11 October 1653 and was Governor until 12 May 1660, when he was succeeded by Rijckloff van Goens Rijcklof Volckertsz. van Go ...

(fl. 1653–63), Dutch Governor of Ceylon *

Adriaan Pauw Adriaan Pauw, knight, '' heer van Heemstede, Bennebroek, Nieuwerkerk etc.'' (1 November 1585 – 21 February 1653) was Grand Pensionary of Holland from 1631 to 1636 and from 1651 to 1653. Life He was born in Amsterdam in a rich merchant fami ...

(1585–1653), Grand Pensionary of Holland * Adriaan van der Stel (died 1646), Dutch governor of Mauritius *

Adriaan Valckenier Adriaan Valckenier (6 June 1695 – 20 June 1751) served as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1737 to 1741. He is primarily known for his role in the 1740 Batavia massacre. Valckenier was arrested for his involvement in 1742 and su ...

(1695–1751), Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1737 to 1741 *

Adriaan Vlok Adriaan Johannes Vlok (11 December 1937 – 8 January 2023) was a South African politician. He was Minister of Law and Order in South Africa from 1986 to 1991 in the final years of the apartheid era. Facing increasingly intense opposition and ...

(1937–2023), South African politician

Writers, actors, film directors

Adriaan van Dis Adriaan van Dis (Bergen aan Zee, 16 December 1946) is a Dutch author. He debuted in 1983 with the novella ''Nathan Sid''. In 1995 his book ''Indische Duinen'' (''My Father's War''), which in its narrative is a follow-up to his debut novella, wa ...

(born 1946), Dutch author *

Adriaan Ditvoorst Adriaan Ditvoorst (23 January 1940 – 18 October 1987) was a Dutch film director and screenwriter. He directed nine films between 1965 and 1984. His 1967 film ''Paranoia'' was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival. Selec ...

(1940–1987), Dutch film director and screenwriter * Adriaan Kyvon (born 1947), Dutch comedian, television producer and screenwriter *

Adriaan Loosjes Adriaan Loosjes (1761, in Texel – 1818, in Haarlem), was a 19th-century botanist, poet, novelist and publisher born in Den Hoorn, North Holland, Netherlands. Biography He came from a family of Mennonite ministers and was an active member of Doo ...

(1761–1818), Dutch botanist, poet, novelist and publisher *

Adriaan van Hees Adriaan Nicolaas Johan van Hees (3 May 1910 – 2 December 1976) was a Dutch actor and member of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB). Van Hees was trained in Amsterdam and Germany, and spent a few years in theater and film. He ...

(1910–1976), Dutch actor and member of the NSB * Adriaan van Meerbeeck (1563–1627), Flemish writer and translator *

Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak Adriaan Theodoor Basilius (Ad) Peperzak (born 3 July 1929) is a Dutch educator, editor and author. Biography Peperzak was born on the island of Java (Indonesia) as a Dutch citizen. He studied philosophy at the Franciscan monastery schools in ...

(born 1929), Dutch educator, editor and author *

Adriaan Poirters Adriaan Poirters (baptised 2 November 1605, in the Sint-Petrus'-Bandenkerk in Oisterwijk – died 4 July 1674, Mechelen) was a Brabantian Jesuit poet and prose writer who was active in the Counter Reformation The Counter-Reformation (), als ...

(1605–1674), Dutch Jesuit poet and prose writer *

Adriaan Roland Holst Adriaan Roland Holst (Amsterdam, 23 May 1888 – Bergen, North Holland, 5 August 1976) was a Dutch writer, nicknamed the "Prince of Dutch Poets". He was the second winner, in 1948, of the Constantijn Huygens Prize. He was nominated for t ...

(1888–1976), Dutch writer, nicknamed the "Prince of Dutch Poets" * Adriaan van Toor (born 1942), Dutch comedian

Other

Adriaen van Bergen A Dutch skipper from Leur, Adriaen van Bergen devised the plot to recapture the city of Breda from the Spanish during the Eighty Years' War. In February 1590, he approached Prince Maurice with a Trojan Horse In Greek mythology, the Troja ...

(fl. 1590), devised the plot to recapture the city of Breda from the Spanish during the Eighty Years' War *

Adriaen Block Adriaen Courtsen Block (c. 1567 – 27 April 1627) was a Dutch private trader, privateer, and ship's captain who is best known for exploring the coastal and river valley areas between present-day New Jersey and Massachusetts during four voyages ...

(1567–1627), Dutch private trader and navigator *

Adriaen van der Donck Adriaen Cornelissen van der Donck (1618 – 1655) was a lawyer and landowner in New Netherland after whose honorific ''Jonkheer'' the city of Yonkers, New York, is named. Although he was not, as sometimes claimed, the first lawyer in ...

(1618–1655), Dutch lawyer, landowner and ethnographer in New Netherland after whom Yonkers, New York is named *

Adriaan Justus Enschedé Adriaan Justus Enschedé (Haarlem, 20 June 1829 – Haarlem, 19 March 1896)P.C. Molhuysen en P.J. Blok (red.)Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek. Deel 3(Dutch) Adriaan Justus Enschedé was a Haarlem archivist, collector, owner of the Joh. E ...

(1829–1896), Dutch archivist, collector, printer and philanthropist *

Adriaan van der Hoop Adriaan van der Hoop (28 April 1778, in Amsterdam – 17 March 1854, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch banker and in the first half of the 19th century one of the richest men in the Netherlands. He also was an influential politician: a member of th ...

(1778–1854), Dutch banker *

Adriaan Pelt Adriaan Pelt (8 May 1892 – 11 April 1981) was a Dutch journalist, international civil servant and diplomat, most famous for drafting the post war constitution of Libya. As a reporter for the newspaper De Telegraaf he lived during the First ...

(1892–1981), Dutch journalist, international civil servant and diplomat *

Adriaan van Ravesteijn Willem Adriaan van Ravesteijn (Amsterdam, 2 April 1938 – Laren, North Holland, 6 January 2015) was a Dutch gallerist and art collectors in the Netherlands. He and Geert van Beijeren founded the leading Dutch art gallery Art & Project (1968–2 ...

(1938–2015), Dutch gallerist and art collector * Adriaan Stoop (1856–1935), Dutch oil explorer *

Adriaen Jorissen Tienpoint Adriaen Jorissen Thienpoint or Tienpoint (born in Saardam, North Holland) was a Dutch sea captain-explorer who commanded several ships to the newly developing colonies of New Netherland and New Sweden as well as other holdings of the Dutch Empire ...

(fl. 1624–26), Dutch explorer of the American East coast *

Adriaan Schade van Westrum Adriaan Schade van Westrum (14 June 1865 – 19 May 1917) was a member of the editorial staff of the New York Tribune starting in 1910. He was the literary critic since 1913. Biography He was born in 1865 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 1885 he mig ...

(1865–1917), Dutch-American newspaper editor * Adriaan A. van der Willigen (1910–1986), Dutch philatelist