List of Dutch Americans
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This is a list of famous Dutch-Americans.
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[edit] Arts and literature
- Willem De Kooning (1904 - 1997), famous abstract expressionist painter
- Frederick Franck (1909 - 2006), painter, sculptor, and author of 30 books who was known for his interest in human spirituality[1]*
- Herman Melville (1819 - 1891), author and poet, wrote Moby Dick [2]
- Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944), painter
- Gloria Vanderbilt (1924- ), artist and socialite [3]
- Janwillem van de Wetering (1931-), Dutch-American author of police procedurals, Zen autobiographies and children's books
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), poet [4]
[edit] Entertainment
- Mark-Paul Gosselaar (1974 - ) actor, perhaps best known for his role as Zack Morris on NBC's Saved by the Bell[5]
- Betty Grable (1916 - 1973) actress, singer, dancer and pin-up girl whose sensational bathing-suit photo became the number one pinup of the World War II era[6]
- Audrey Hepburn (1929 - 1993) award winning Hollywood film actress, model, and humanitarian (born in Brussels to a Dutch mother and grew up in Netherlands)
- Rebecca Romijn (1972 - ) actress and former fashion model[7]
- Mary Steenburgen (1953 - ) Hollywood film actress
- Lou Tellegen (1881 - 1934) film actor[8]
- Anneliese van der Pol (1984 - ) television actress, perhaps best known for her role as Chelsea Daniels in the Disney Channel original comedy series, That's So Raven[9]
- Dick Van Dyke (1925 - ) famous television and film star and his brother, television actor Jerry Van Dyke (1931 - )
- Alex Van Halen (1953 - ) drummer and founding member of the hard rock band Van Halen[10]
- Eddie Van Halen (1955 - ) guitarist and founding member of the hard rock band Van Halen[11]
[edit] Politics
- Dick DeVos Republican candidate for governor of Michigan.
- Pete Hoekstra (1953 - ) Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945) Democratic President of the U.S. elected to four terms, steered the country through severe economic depression and World War II
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919) Republican President of the U.S. for two terms, military hero, advocate of establishing national parks, building the Panama Canal, safe food and drug laws, and breaking up business monopolies
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, she was an advocate for human rights and the first U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. (Roosevelt was also her birth name - she was a distant cousin of her husband).
- Philip Schuyler (1733 - 1804) a general in the American Revolutionary War and a United States Senator from New York[12]
- Martin Van Buren (1782 - 1862) the eighth President of the United States. He was a key organizer of the Democratic Party, a dominant figure in the Second Party System, and the first president who was not of English, Irish, or Scotch descent; Dutch was spoken in his house when he was a boy[13]
- Arthur H. Vandenberg (1884 - 1951) Republican senator from Michigan.
- Guy Vander Jagt (1931 - ) Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan[14]
[edit] Sciences
- Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920 - ) physicist[15]
- Dirk Brouwer (1902 - 1966) astronomer[16]
- Samuel Abraham Goudsmit (1902 - 1978) physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck[17]
- Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931) inventor and businessman
- Anthony Heinsbergen (1894 - 1981) muralist considered the foremost designer of North American movie theatre interiors[18]
- Willem Jacob Luyten (1899 - 1994) astronomer[19]
- Robert Moog (1934 - 2005) a pioneer of electronic music and inventor of the Moog synthesizer
- Hubert Schoemaker (1950 - 2006) chemist and biotechnological pioneer[20]
- Robert J. Van de Graaff (1091-1967) physicist, developed the Van de Graaff generator
- Peter van de Kamp (1901 - 1995) astronomer[21]
- Lodewijk van den Berg (1932 - ) chemical engineer, payload specialist STS-51B Challenger[22]
- Albert Vander Veer (1841 - 1929), surgeon
[edit] Sports
- Lenny Dykstra (1963 - ) award winning profesional baseball player
- Earnie Stewart (1969 - ) soccer player who was a regular midfielder for the U.S. national team from 1990s until his retirement in 2005[23]
- Johnny Vander Meer (1914 - 1997), baseball player, the only pitcher in major league history to pitch two consecutive no-hitters
- John Vander Wal (1966 - ), baseball player
- Tiger Woods (1975 - ), one of the most succesful golf players of all time [24]
[edit] Journalism
- Anderson Cooper (1967 - ), CNN journalist [25]
[edit] Theology
- Louis Berkhof (1873 - 1957) Reformed systematic theologian at Calvin Theological Seminary[26]
- Hank Hanegraaff Christian Apologist and president of the Christian Research Institute
- Anthony A. Hoekema (1913 - 1988) Reformed systematic theologian at Calvin Theological Seminary[27]
- Herman Hoeksema (1886 - 1965) pastor in the Christian Reformed Church and later in the Protestant Reformed Churches, Reformed systematic theologian at the Protestant Reformed Theological School[28]
- Richard Mouw christian philosopher and president of Fuller Theological Seminary
- James Olthuis inter-disciplinary scholar in ethics, hermeneutics, philosophical theology, as well as a theorist and practitioner of psychotherapy at the Institute for Christian Studies
- Alvin Plantinga (1932 - ) philosopher known for his work in epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion[29]
- Cornelius Plantinga president of Calvin Theological Seminary
- Robert H. Schuller (1926 - ) televangelist and pastor known around the world through his weekly broadcast The Hour of Power[30]
- Robert A. Schuller (1954 - ) televangelist and pastor of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, son of Robert H. Schuller
- Lewis B. Smedes (1911 - 2000) renowned Christian author, ethicist, and theologian at Fuller Theological Seminary
- Cornelius Van Til (1895 - 1987) Christian philosopher, Reformed theologian, and presuppositional apologist[31]
- Geerhardus Vos (1888 - 1946) professor of Biblical Theology at Calvin Theological Seminary and at Princeton Theological Seminary
[edit] References
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ [1] Dutch born
- ^ [2] Melville "came from Dutch and English stock"
- ^ [3] Vanderbilt "is of Dutch, Chilean, Spanish, and Irish descent."
- ^ [4] Whitman "came from Dutch and English stock"
- ^ Referred to as "Indonesian-Dutch" at [5], [6] father is Dutch and mother is Indonesian
- ^ [7] Grable describes herself as "Dutch, German, Irish and English"
- ^ [8] described as "Dutch" by ethnicity [9] notes that her mother, Elizabeth Kuizenga, was a second-generation Dutch American who met her father, Jaap Romijn, who was Dutch, on a trip to Holland
- ^ [10] Dutch-born
- ^ [11] born in Amsterdam to Dutch father and American mother, moved to the U.S. in 1987; also Jewish by heritage
- ^ "Formed around 1975 in Pasadena, California by Dutch brothers Eddie and Alex..."
- ^ "Formed around 1975 in Pasadena, California by Dutch brothers Eddie and Alex..."
- ^ Described as "Dutch New Yorker" at [12]
- ^ Described as a "short, jolly Dutchman" at [13]
- ^ [14] "Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands awarded Congressman Vander Jagt a Knighthood in the House of Orange in 1986. The Netherlands Amity Trust Association in 1991 named him the Outstanding Dutch-American of the Year."
- ^ [15]
- ^ [16] Dutch-born
- ^ Described as Dutch-American at [17]
- ^ [18] Dutch-born, naturalized U.S. citizen
- ^ [19] Listing under "Famous Dutch Astronomers & Physicists"
- ^ [20] Dutch born
- ^ Described as Dutch-American at [21]
- ^ [22] "van den Berg, Lodewijk, born in 1932, Dutch-American astronaut."
- ^ [23] dual Dutch-American citizen
- ^ [24] Woods "also has Chinese and Dutch ancestry"
- ^ [25] Cooper "is of mostly English, Irish, and Dutch ancestry"
- ^ [26] "Louis Berkhof was born in Emmen, Netherlands October 13, 1873."
- ^ [27] "Anthony A. Hoekema was born in the Netherlands and immigrated to the United States in 1923."
- ^ [28] "Herman Hoeksema was born on March 12, 1886 from Johanna Bakema and Tiele Hoeksema in Hoogezand, in the province of Groningen, the Netherlands."
- ^ described as "Dutch American" at [29]
- ^ [30] raised in Dutch-American community in Dutch Reformed Church
- ^ [31] "the young Van Til studied the works of fellow Dutchman, Abraham Kuyper..."
