Notable Alumni of Delft University of Technology [Sorted List]

1. Hubert-Jan Henket

1940-. (aged 86)

architect

Hubert-Jan Henket is a Dutch architect. He is a specialist in the relations between old and new buildings, the redesign of buildings, renovation and restoration. He is the founder of DOCOMOMO international.

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2. Adriaan Stoop

1856-1935 (aged 79)

explorer

Adriaan Stoop was a Dutch oil prospector and mining engineer.

3. Jo van den Broek

1898-1978 (aged 80)

university teacher architect

Johannes Hendrik van den Broek was a Dutch architect influential in the rebuilding of Rotterdam after World War II. He is known for his work with Jaap Bakema, in their practice as Van den Broek en Bakema, and as one of the founders of Nieuwe Bouwen, the modernist movement in Dutch architecture.

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4. Johannes Brinkman

1902-1949 (aged 47)

designer architect industrial designer

Johannes Andreas Brinkman, also known as Jan Brinkman, was a Dutch architect and exponent of Nieuwe Bouwen, modern architecture in the Netherlands.

5. Henk van Rossum

1919-2017 (aged 98)

politician

Hendrik van Rossum was a Dutch politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1967 to 1986 as a member of the Reformed Political Party. From 1981 to 1986, he was Leader of the Reformed Political Party.

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6. Gerard J. Holzmann

1951-. (aged 75)

computer scientist engineer

Gerard J. Holzmann is a Dutch-American computer scientist and researcher at Bell Labs and NASA, best known as the developer of the SPIN model checker.

7. Randal A. Koene

neuroscientist

Randal A. Koene is a Dutch neuroscientist and neuroengineer. He co-founded carboncopies.org, an organization dedicated to researching Substrate-Independent Minds. From 2008 to 2010, Koene served as the Director of the Department of Neuroengineering at the Fatronik-Tecnalia Institute in Spain. He holds a Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience from McGill University and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Information...

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8. Cornelis Johannes van Doorn

1837-1906 (aged 69)

civil engineer

Cornelis Johannes van Doorn was a Dutch civil engineer and foreign advisor to Meiji period Japan.

9. Willem van der Poel

1926-2024 (aged 98)

computer scientist engineer physicist university teacher

Willem Louis van der Poel was a Dutch computer scientist, who is known for designing one of the first computers to be designed in the Netherlands, the Zeer Eenvoudige Binaire Reken Automaat (ZEBRA), translated as Very Simple Binary Automatic Calculator.

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10. Pandji Soerachman Tjokroadisoerjo

1894-1952 (aged 58)

civil servant

Panji Surachman Tjokroadisurjo was an Indonesian politician and academic. He served in a number of cabinets during the Indonesian National Revolution, as the Minister of Welfare and later the Minister of Finance.

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11. Dirk Roosenburg

1887-1962 (aged 75)

goldsmith architect furniture designer

Dirk Roosenburg was a Dutch architect and designer.

12. Hein Vos

1903-1972 (aged 69)

politician judge journalist economist civil engineer

Hendrik "Hein" Vos was a Dutch politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later the Labour Party (PvdA) and economist.

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13. Anne-Marijke Podt

1975-. (aged 51)

politician

Anne-Marijke Podt is a Dutch politician of the social liberal party Democrats 66 (D66), who has been serving as a member of the House of Representatives since September 2021. She had previously been a member of the Utrecht municipal council starting in 2014, and she has worked as an aid worker and as an independent adviser for municipalities.

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14. Wim Dik

1939-2022 (aged 83)

university teacher politician

Willem "Wim" Dik was a Dutch politician.

15. Bernard D. H. Tellegen

1900-1990 (aged 90)

engineer inventor physicist university teacher

Bernard D.H. Tellegen was a Dutch electrical engineer and inventor of the pentode and the gyrator. He is also known for a theorem in circuit theory, Tellegen's theorem.

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16. Diederik Korteweg

1848-1941 (aged 93)

mathematician university teacher

Diederik Johannes Korteweg was a Dutch mathematician. He is now best remembered for his work on the Korteweg–de Vries equation, together with Gustav de Vries.

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17. Pi de Bruijn

1942-. (aged 84)

designer urban planner architect

Pi de Bruijn is a Dutch architect from Losser, Overijssel, the Netherlands. He is a design principal at the Office de Architecten Cie., located in Amsterdam.

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18. Pieter Beelaerts van Blokland

1932-2021 (aged 89)

politician

Jonkheer Pieter Adriaan Cornelis Beelaerts van Blokland was a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).

19. Laurens Gerhard Marinus Baas Becking

1895-1963 (aged 68)

botanical collector botanist microbiologist university teacher

Lourens Gerhard Marinus Baas Becking was a Dutch botanist and microbiologist. He is known for the Baas Becking hypothesis, which he originally formulated as "Everything is everywhere, but the environment selects".

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20. Jan Arnoldus Schouten

1883-1971 (aged 88)

university teacher mathematician politician

Jan Arnoldus Schouten was a Dutch mathematician and Professor at the Delft University of Technology. He was an important contributor to the development of tensor calculus and Ricci calculus, and was one of the founders of the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam.

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21. Kees Christiaanse

1953-. (aged 73)

researcher architect university teacher lecturer

Kees Christiaanse is an architect and urban planner from the Netherlands. After working with Rem Koolhaas, he started two firms, KCAP (Kees Christiaanse Architects & Planners, in Rotterdam) in 1989 and Architects and Planners (ASTOC, in Cologne) in 1990, where he was a partner till 2002. Christiaanse has "tackled some of the highest profile urban design schemes in the Netherlands,...

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22. Hester Bijl

1970-. (aged 56)

university teacher

Hester Bijl is a Dutch mathematician and since 15 January 2026 the rector magnificus of Delft University of Technology. From 2021 until 2026 she was the rector magnificus of Leiden University.

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23. Édouard Niermans

1859-1928 (aged 69)

architect

Édouard-Jean Niermans was a famous Dutch-born French architect during the Belle Époque.

24. Frits Peutz

1896-1974 (aged 78)

architect

F.P.J. Peutz was a Dutch architect.

25. Reinier de Graaf

1964-. (aged 62)

writer architect university teacher urban planner

Reinier de Graaf is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and writer. He is a partner in the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), and author of the books Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession and The Masterplan.

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26. Jacob van Rijs

1964-. (aged 62)

urban planner architect

Jacob van Rijs Ir. FRIBA is a Dutch architect, urban planner and one of MVRDV’s three founding partners. Besides giving lectures worldwide van Rijs is also professor Entwerfen und Baukonstruktion at Technische Universität Berlin. Moreover, he regularly lectures and takes part in student juriesat universities and institutes worldwide. His teaching experience comprehends TU Munich, TU Delft, University of Wismar, ETSAM...

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27. Rein Willems

1945-. (aged 81)

politician

Rein Willems was President of Shell Nederland from 2003 to 2007. Since 1969, he has held a number of positions at Shell, with postings in Singapore, Australia, the UK, the Philippines and Brazil. In addition, he was a member of the Executive Committee and the Environmental Committee of the Employers Association VNO-NCW and the Innovation Platform. He is Chairman of...

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28. Wiebe Bijker

1951-. (aged 75)

sociologist university teacher philosopher engineer physicist

Wiebe E. Bijker is a Dutch professor Emeritus, former chair of the Department of Social Science and Technology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.

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29. Lars Spuybroek

1959-. (aged 67)

furniture designer laborer writer lecturer architect

Lars Matthias M. Spuybroek is a Dutch architect and theorist who lives and works in Atlanta, where he is professor of architecture.

30. Theo Heemskerk

1852-1932 (aged 80)

university teacher lawyer politician

Theodorus Heemskerk was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 12 February 1908 until 29 August 1913.

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31. Pieter Hofstra

1946-2025 (aged 79)

politician

Pieter Hielke Hofstra was a Dutch politician of the conservative-liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).

32. Felix Andries Vening Meinesz

1887-1966 (aged 79)

geologist meteorologist university teacher director engineer

Felix Andries Vening Meinesz was a Dutch geophysicist and geodesist. He is known for his invention of a precise method for measuring gravity (gravimetry). Thanks to his invention, it became possible to measure gravity at sea, which led him to the discovery of gravity anomalies above the ocean floor. He later attributed these anomalies to continental drift. He was a...

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33. Jan D. Achenbach

1935-2020 (aged 85)

mathematician engineer physicist university teacher

Jan Drewes Achenbach was a Dutch-American engineer who was on the faculty of Northwestern University from 1963 until his retirement.

34. Ruud Vreeman

1947-. (aged 79)

trade unionist politician

Rudolf Lourens "Ruud" Vreeman is a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and trade union leader.

35. Johan van Veen

1893-1959 (aged 66)

engineer civil engineer

Johan van Veen was a Dutch hydraulic engineer. He is considered the father of the Delta Works.

36. Sybold van Ravesteyn

1889-1983 (aged 94)

graphic designer architect draftsperson interior designer furniture designer

Sybold van Ravesteyn was a Dutch architect. He designed many train stations, many now demolished, a zoo, public buildings such as theatres, as well as residences, interiors and furniture.

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37. Leo Kouwenhoven

1963-. (aged 63)

physicist university teacher

Leo Kouwenhoven is a Dutch physicist known for his research on quantum computing, specifically in topological quantum computing experiments.

38. Frans Otten

1895-1969 (aged 74)

top official

Pieter Franciscus Sylvester "Frans" Otten was a Dutch business executive, who served as the CEO of the international electronics firm Philips from 1939 to 1961. He was the son-in-law of the co-founder of the company, Anton Philips. He was married to Anna Elisabeth Cornelia Philips (1899-1996) and they had two sons, Diek and Franz. His brother-in-law was Frits Philips.

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39. Dirk Coster

1889-1950 (aged 61)

university teacher engineer physicist

Dirk Coster was a Dutch physicist. He was a professor of physics and meteorology at the University of Groningen.

40. Henk Badings

1907-1987 (aged 80)

mining engineer engineer musicologist composer music educator

Henk Badings was an Indonesian-Dutch composer.

41. Adriaan van Wijngaarden

1916-1987 (aged 71)

university teacher computer scientist mathematician engineer programmer

Adriaan "Aad" van Wijngaarden was a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Van Wijngaarden emphasized and promoted the mathematical aspects of computing, first in numerical analysis, then in programming languages and finally in design principles of such languages.

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42. Adriaan Daniel Fokker

1887-1972 (aged 85)

composer university teacher musicologist music theorist inventor

Adriaan Daniël Fokker was a Dutch physicist and musicologist who worked in the fields of special relativity and statistical mechanics. He is the inventor of the Fokker organ, a 31-tone equal-tempered (31-TET) organ.

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43. Ionica Smeets

1979-. (aged 47)

television presenter university teacher mathematician journalist blogger

Ionica Smeets is a Dutch mathematician, science journalist, columnist, television presenter and professor in science communication at Leiden University.

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44. Kees Boeke

1884-1966 (aged 82)

peace activist pedagogue teacher

Cornelis "Kees" Boeke was a Dutch reformist educator, Quaker missionary and pacifist. He is best known for his popular essay/book Cosmic View (1957) which presents a seminal view of the universe, from the galactic to the microscopic scale, and which inspired several films.

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45. Rik Grashoff

1961-. (aged 65)

engineer civil engineer politician trade unionist

Hendrik Johannes "Rik" Grashoff is a Dutch engineer and politician. He is a member of the political party GreenLeft. From 23 November 2010 to 19 September 2012 he was a member of the House of Representatives. He focused on matters of agriculture, defense and public administration. On 20 May 2015 he returned to the House and took up the seat...

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46. Wiebe Draijer

1965-. (aged 61)

business theorist

Wiebe Draijer is a Dutch engineer, civil servant and management consultant who served as Chairman of the Social and Economic Council from 2012 to 2014. Since 1 October 2014, he has been CEO of the Rabobank.

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47. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

1976-. (aged 50)

physicist university teacher

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero is a Spanish physicist and current Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

48. Winy Maas

1959-. (aged 67)

scientist university teacher landscape architect architect urban planner

Wilhelmus "Winy" Maas is a Dutch architect, landscape architect, professor and urbanist. In 1993 together with Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries he set up MVRDV.

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49. Wim Schermerhorn

1894-1977 (aged 83)

civil engineer cartographer resistance fighter university teacher scenographer

Willem "Wim" Schermerhorn was a Dutch politician who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 25 June 1945 until 3 July 1946. He was a member of the Free-thinking Democratic League (VDB) and later co-founder of the Labour Party (PvdA). According to Harry W. Laidler, the government under Schermerhorn's premiership "achieved important results in the fields of labor, finance,...

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50. Bas van der Vlies

1942-2021 (aged 79)

teacher engineer politician

Bastiaan Johannis "Bas" van der Vlies was a Dutch politician of the Reformed Political Party (SGP) and teacher.

51. Thomas Joannes Stieltjes

1856-1894 (aged 38)

mathematician university teacher

Thomas Joannes Stieltjes was a Dutch mathematician. He was a pioneer in the field of moment problems and contributed to the study of continued fractions. The Thomas Stieltjes Institute for Mathematics at Leiden University, dissolved in 2011, was named after him, as is the Riemann–Stieltjes integral.

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52. Piet Zwart

1885-1977 (aged 92)

photographer postage stamp designer typographer textile artist industrial designer

Piet Zwart was a Dutch photographer, typographer, and industrial designer.

53. Hans van der Laan

1904-1991 (aged 87)

designer textile designer furniture designer architect

Dom Hans van der Laan was a Dutch Benedictine monk and architect.

54. Erick van Egeraat

1956-. (aged 70)

architect

Erick van Egeraat is a Dutch architect and author. He heads the architectural practice Erick van Egeraat Associated Architects (EEA), based in Rotterdam with offices in Moscow, Budapest and Prague. He is best known for his projects of ING Group Headquarters in Budapest, Drents Museum in Assen, The Rock tower in Amsterdam, Incineration line in Roskilde, Main building and Auditorium...

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55. Harm Lagaay

1946-. (aged 80)

engineer designer

Harm Lagaaij is a Dutch automobile designer.

56. Kazimierz Leski

1912-2000 (aged 88)

engineer scientist spy military officer

Kazimierz Leski, nom de guerre Bradl, was a Polish engineer, co-designer of the Polish submarines ORP Sęp (1938) and ORP Orzeł, a fighter pilot, and an officer in World War II Home Army's intelligence and counter-intelligence.

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57. Lodewijk van den Berg

1932-2022 (aged 90)

astronaut chemist

Lodewijk van den Berg was a Dutch-born American chemical engineer. He studied crystal growth and flew on a 1985 Space Shuttle Challenger mission as a payload specialist.

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58. Laurens van den Acker

1966-. (aged 60)

designer business executive car designer

Laurens van den Acker is a Dutch automobile designer. He is the Chief Design Officer of the Renault Group.

59. Herman Hertzberger

1932-. (aged 94)

university teacher architectural firm collagist architect interior designer

Herman Hertzberger is a Dutch architect, and a professor emeritus of the Delft University of Technology. In 2012 he received the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

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60. George Uhlenbeck

1900-1988 (aged 88)

physicist university teacher

George Eugene Uhlenbeck was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist, known for his significant contributions to quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics. He co-developed the concept of electron spin, alongside Samuel Goudsmit, in 1925. The formalization of Langevin equation for the Brownian motion as a stochastic process, is known as the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process, derived in 1930 from his work with Leonard Ornstein. I....

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61. Francine Houben

1955-. (aged 71)

university teacher textile artist architect

Francine Marie Jeanne Houben is a Dutch architect. She graduated with cum laude honours from the Delft University of Technology. She is the founding partner and creative director of Mecanoo architecten, based in Delft, The Netherlands.

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62. Adrian van Hooydonk

1964-. (aged 62)

industrial designer car designer

Adrian van Hooydonk, is a Dutch automobile designer and BMW Group's Design Director. He is based in Munich, Germany.

63. Simon van der Meer

1925-2011 (aged 86)

physicist inventor

Simon van der Meer was a Dutch particle accelerator physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Carlo Rubbia for contributions to the CERN project which led to the discovery of the W and Z particles, the two fundamental communicators of the weak interaction.

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64. Hubertus van Mook

1894-1965 (aged 71)

university teacher writer politician

Hubertus Johannes "Huib" van Mook was a Dutch administrator in the East Indies. During the Indonesian National Revolution, he served as the lieutenant governor-general of the Dutch East Indies from 1942 to 1948. Van Mook also had a son named Cornelius van Mook who studied marine engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also wrote about Java - and...

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65. Lou Ottens

1926-2021 (aged 95)

engineer inventor manager

Lodewijk Frederik Ottens, known as Lou Ottens, was a Dutch engineer and inventor, best known as the inventor of the cassette tape, and for his work in helping to develop the compact disc. Ottens was employed by Philips for the entirety of his career.

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66. Bořek Šípek

1949-2016 (aged 67)

university teacher industrial designer ceramicist goldsmith pedagogue

Bořek Šípek was a Czech architect and designer.

67. Karien van Gennip

1968-. (aged 58)

columnist politician

Catharina Elisabeth Godefrida "Karien" van Gennip is a Dutch businesswoman and politician who served as Minister of Social Affairs and Employment in the Fourth Rutte cabinet from 10 January 2022 until 2 July 2024. She is a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).

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68. Kader Abdolah

1954-. (aged 72)

writer poet novelist columnist

Hossein Sadjadi Ghaemmaghami Farahani, better known by his pen name Kader Abdolah (Persian: قادر عبدالله) (Arak, 12 November 1954), is an Iranian-Dutch writer, poet and columnist. His books, written in Dutch, often contain Persian literary themes. He regularly appears on Dutch television as well.

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69. Jan Toorop

1858-1928 (aged 70)

wood engraver muralist designer engraver ceramicist

Johannes Theodorus "Jan" Toorop was a Dutch painter who worked in various styles, including Symbolism, Art Nouveau, and Pointillism. His early work was influenced by the Amsterdam Impressionism movement.

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70. Barbara Baarsma

1969-. (aged 57)

university teacher economist

Barbara Elisabeth Baarsma is a Dutch economist, and Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Amsterdam.

71. Cornelis Lely

1854-1929 (aged 75)

civil engineer politician hydraulic engineer

Cornelis Lely was a Dutch politician of the Liberal Union and civil engineer who was Minister of Water Management and Governor of Suriname. The designer of Afsluitdijk, the largest dam and causeway at its time of construction, in 1932, he oversaw the Zuiderzee Works as Minister, turning the Zuiderzee into a lake and making possible the conversion of a vast...

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72. Eric Wiebes

1963-. (aged 63)

politician

Eric Derk Wiebes is a Dutch politician who served as Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy in the Third Rutte cabinet since 26 October 2017 until 15 January 2021. He is a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).

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73. Bram Moolenaar

1961-2023 (aged 62)

programmer electrical engineer

Bram Moolenaar was a Dutch software engineer and activist who was the creator, maintainer, and benevolent dictator for life of Vim, a vi-derivative text editor. He advocated for ICCF Holland, a non-governmental organization supporting AIDS victims in Uganda, and used the popularity of Vim to encourage donations.

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74. Diederik Samsom

1971-. (aged 55)

engineer environmentalist politician nuclear physicist

Diederik Maarten Samsom is a Dutch environmentalist and retired politician who was the leader of the Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid, PvdA) from 2012 to 2016. He was the first leader in the 70-year history of the PvdA to have been voted out of his position by party members. He later served as head of cabinet for First Vice-President...

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75. Walter Lewin

1936-. (aged 90)

astrophysicist astronomer physicist university teacher

Walter Hendrik Gustav Lewin is a Dutch astrophysicist and retired professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lewin earned his doctorate in nuclear physics in 1965 at the Delft University of Technology and was a member of MIT's physics faculty for 43 years beginning in 1966 until his retirement in 2009. Lewin taught the three core classes in...

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76. Boyan Slat

1994-. (aged 32)

inventor entrepreneur environmentalist

Boyan Slat is a Dutch inventor and entrepreneur. A former aerospace engineering student, he is the CEO of The Ocean Cleanup.

77. Anton Mussert

1894-1946 (aged 52)

politician writer non-fiction writer engineer civil engineer

Anton Adriaan Mussert was a Dutch politician who co-founded the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB) in 1931 and served as its leader until the party was banned in 1945. As such, he was the most prominent Dutch leader of the movement before and during World War II. Mussert collaborated with the German occupation government, but was granted little...

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78. Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

1852-1911 (aged 59)

geologist stereochemist university teacher engineer physicist

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Jr. was a Dutch physical chemist. A highly influential theoretical chemist, in 1901 Van 't Hoff won the first the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "[for his] discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions". His pioneering work helped found the modern theory of chemical affinity, chemical equilibrium, chemical kinetics, and chemical...

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79. Theo Jansen

1948-. (aged 78)

painter writer design engineer sculptor kinetic artist

Theodorus Gerardus Jozef Jansen is a Dutch artist. In 1990, he began building large mechanisms out of PVC that are able to move on their own and, collectively, are titled Strandbeest (Dutch for 'beach beast'). The kinetic sculptures appear to walk. His animated works are intended to be a fusion of art and engineering. He has said that "The walls...

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80. Gerard Philips

1858-1942 (aged 84)

art collector engineer businessperson instrument maker industrialist

Gerard Leonard Frederik Philips was a Dutch industrialist and co-founder, with his father Frederik Philips, of Philips as a family business in 1891. In 1912, Gerard and his younger brother Anton Philips converted the business to a corporation by founding NV Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken.

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81. Ben van Beurden

1958-. (aged 68)

businessperson engineer

Bernardus Cornelis Adriana Margriet "Ben" van Beurden is a Dutch businessman who was the CEO of Shell plc from 2014 to 2022. He joined Shell in 1983, after earning a master's degree in chemical engineering from Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.

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82. Han van Meegeren

1889-1947 (aged 58)

art forger watercolorist copyist painter restorer

Henricus Antonius "Han" van Meegeren was a Dutch painter and portraitist, considered one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century. Van Meegeren became a national hero after World War II when it was revealed that he had sold a forged painting to Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

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83. Martinus Wilhelm Beijerinck

1851-1931 (aged 80)

botanist biologist university teacher microbiologist entomologist

Martinus Willem Beijerinck was a Dutch microbiologist and botanist who was one of the founders of virology and environmental microbiology. He is credited with the co-discovery of viruses (1898), which he called "contagium vivum fluidum".

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84. Abraham Kuyper

1837-1920 (aged 83)

jurist Christian minister university teacher theologian politician

Abraham Kuyper was the prime minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905, an influential neo-Calvinist pastor and a journalist. He established the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, which upon its foundation became the second largest Reformed denomination in the country behind the state-supported Dutch Reformed Church.

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85. Henri Bal

1958-. (aged 68)

computer scientist engineer university teacher

Henri Elle Bal is a professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is a well-known researcher in computer systems with a specialization in parallel computer systems, languages, and applications.

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86. Anton Colijn

1894-1945 (aged 51)

explorer mountaineer

Antonie Hendrikus Colijn was a Dutch amateur mountaineer who in 1936 led the Carstensz Expedition, being the first to climb the Carstenszgebergte in New Guinea.

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87. Egbert Schuurman

1937-. (aged 89)

philosopher civil engineer university teacher politician

Egbert Schuurman is a Dutch engineer, philosopher, politician for the Christian Union, and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy in the Netherlands.

88. Jo Ritzen

1945-. (aged 81)

economist civil engineer university teacher politician

Jozef Marie Mathias "Jo" Ritzen is a retired Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and economist.

89. Jeroen van der Veer

1947-. (aged 79)

entrepreneur engineer

Jeroen van der Veer is a Dutch businessman. He was the chairman of Philips, and previously a chief executive officer (CEO) of Royal Dutch Shell.

90. Prince Friso of the Netherlands

1968-2013 (aged 45)

engineer

Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau was the second son of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Claus von Amsberg, and younger brother of King Willem-Alexander. Friso was a member of the Dutch Royal Family, but because of his marriage without an Act of Consent in 2004, he lost his membership of the Dutch Royal House and was no longer in the...

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91. Felienne F. J. Hermans

1984-. (aged 42)

computer scientist professor university teacher secondary school teacher

Felienne Frederieke Johanna Hermans is a scientist and Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research interests include programming education and end-user computing particularly spreadsheets.

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92. Carel Visser

1928-2015 (aged 87)

illustrator photographer architect textile designer goldsmith

Carel Nicolaas Visser was a Dutch sculptor. He is considered an important representative of Dutch abstract-minimalist constructivism in sculpture.

93. Kwasi Boachi

1827-1904 (aged 77)

mining engineer botanical collector

Kwasi Boakye or Kwasi Boachi was a Prince of the Ashanti Empire who was sent to the Netherlands together with his cousin, Kwame Poku, in 1837, by his father, King Kwaku Dua Panin, to receive education as part of larger negotiations between the Ashanti and the Dutch about the recruitment of Ashanti soldiers for the Dutch East Indies Army.

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94. Nienke Brinkman

1993-. (aged 33)

marathon runner geophysicist long-distance runner trail runner

Nienke Brinkman is a Dutch long-distance runner, both on the road as well as on trails. She won the bronze medal in the marathon at the 2022 European Athletics Championships, which was her first international medal, and has a personal best of 2:22:51 which she ran at the Rotterdam Marathon.

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95. Joachim Coens

1966-. (aged 60)

politician

Joachim Coens is a Belgian politician and businessman who has served as the leader of Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams, a Christian democratic political party, since December 2019. Before politics, he had been managing director of the holding company for the Port de Bruges-Zeebruges.

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96. Abdul Qadeer Khan

1936-2021 (aged 85)

scientist theoretical physicist physicist engineer academic

Abdul Qadeer Khan NI & BAR, HI, FPAS was a Pakistani nuclear physicist and metallurgical engineer. He is colloquially known as the "father of Pakistan's atomic weapons program".

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97. Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

1904-1983 (aged 79)

seismologist university teacher geologist volcanologist

Reinout Willem van Bemmelen, also known as Rein van Bemmelen, was a Dutch geologist whose interests were structural geology, economic geology and volcanology. He is known for his work on these subjects and the geology of Indonesia.

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98. Ashwin Adhin

1980-. (aged 46)

politician

Michael Ashwin Satyandre Adhin is a Surinamese educator, politician, and was the Vice President of Suriname between 2015 and 2020. He is a member of the National Democratic Party. At the age of 35, he became the youngest vice president in the history of Suriname to lead the Council of Ministers. Adhin is a Hindu of Indian descent.

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99. Nicholas John Spykman

1893-1943 (aged 50)

geopolitical analyst journalist diplomat university teacher

Nicholas John Spykman was a Dutch-American political scientist who was Professor of International Relations at Yale University from 1928 until his death in 1943. He was one of the founders of the classical realist school in American foreign policy, transmitting Eastern European political thought to the United States.

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100. Peter Newman

1945-. (aged 81)

researcher ecologist professor

Peter William Geoffrey Newman AO is an environmental scientist, author and educator based in Perth, Western Australia. He is currently Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University. He is best known for his contributions to the development of Perth's electrified metropolitan rail network through both activist and official consulting roles since the 1980s.

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