List of Dutch Americans

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This is a list of notable Dutch-Americans.

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[edit] Arts and literature

  • Willem De Kooning (1904 - 1997), famous abstract expressionist painter
  • Barthold Fles (1902-1989), literary agent, author, editor, translator and publisher
  • Charles Fort (1874 - 1932), author, wrote Book of the Damned, father of ufology, cryptozoology and critic/satirist of mainstream, dogmatic science.
  • 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]
  • Edward W. Bok (1863 - 1930), author, publisher, editor of Ladies Home Journal

[edit] Entertainment

[edit] Politics

[edit] Military

[edit] Sciences

[edit] Sports

  • Lenny Dykstra (1963 - ) award winning professional baseball player
  • Shea Hillenbrand (1975 - ) Major League baseball player currently with the Anaheim Angels
  • Curt Schilling (1966 - ) Major League baseball player currently with the Boston Red Sox
  • Earnie Stewart (1969 - ) soccer player who was a regular midfielder for the U. S. national team from 1990s until his retirement in 2005[24]
  • Johnny Vander Meer (1914 - 1997), baseball player, the only pitcher in major league history to pitch two consecutive no-hitters
  • Jim Kaat (1938 - ), former Major League baseball pitcher, three-time All Star, 16-time Gold Glove winner, and television broadcaster.
  • John Vander Wal (1966 - ), Major League baseball player
  • Bert Blyleven (1951 -), Retired Major League baseball player, born in the Netherlands
  • Andruw Jones (1977 - ), Major League baseball player currently with the Atlanta Braves
  • Justin Verlander (1983 - ), Major League Baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers
  • Tiger Woods (1975 - ), one of the most successful golf players of all time [25]

[edit] Journalism

[edit] Theology

[edit] Musical Entertainment

[edit] References

  1. ^ [1] Dutch born
  2. ^ [2] Melville "came from Dutch and English stock"
  3. ^ [3] Vanderbilt "is of Dutch, Chilean, Spanish, and Irish descent."
  4. ^ [4] Whitman "came from Dutch and English stock"
  5. ^ Pamela Anderson: Master of illusion? - TODAY: People - MSNBC.com
  6. ^ Referred to as "Indonesian-Dutch" at [5], [6] father is Dutch and mother is Indonesian
  7. ^ [7] Grable describes herself as "Dutch, German, Irish and English"
  8. ^ [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
  9. ^ [10] Dutch-born
  10. ^ [11] born in Amsterdam to Dutch father and American mother, moved to the U. S. in 1987; also Jewish by heritage
  11. ^ "Formed around 1975 in Pasadena, California by Dutch brothers Eddie and Alex..."
  12. ^ "Formed around 1975 in Pasadena, California by Dutch brothers Eddie and Alex..."
  13. ^ Described as "Dutch New Yorker" at [12]
  14. ^ Described as a "short, jolly Dutchman" at [13]
  15. ^ [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."
  16. ^ Dutch Nobel Prize Winners quiz - free game
  17. ^ [15] Dutch-born
  18. ^ Described as Dutch-American at [16]
  19. ^ [17] Dutch-born, naturalized U. S. citizen
  20. ^ [18] Listing under "Famous Dutch Astronomers & Physicists"
  21. ^ [19] Dutch born
  22. ^ Described as Dutch-American at [20]
  23. ^ [21] "van den Berg, Lodewijk, born in 1932, Dutch-American astronaut."
  24. ^ [22] dual Dutch-American citizen
  25. ^ [23] Woods "also has Chinese and Dutch ancestry"
  26. ^ [24] Cooper "is of mostly English, Irish, and Dutch ancestry"
  27. ^ [25] "Louis Berkhof was born in Emmen, Netherlands October 13, 1873."
  28. ^ [26] "Anthony A. Hoekema was born in the Netherlands and immigrated to the United States in 1923."
  29. ^ [27] "Herman Hoeksema was born on March 12, 1886 from Johanna Bakema and Tiele Hoeksema in Hoogezand, in the province of Groningen, the Netherlands."
  30. ^ described as "Dutch American" at [28]
  31. ^ [29] raised in Dutch-American community in Dutch Reformed Church
  32. ^ [30] "the young Van Til studied the works of fellow Dutchman, Abraham Kuyper..."
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