List of Dutch Americans

This is a list of notable Dutch-Americans.

List

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 [ [http://www.tricycle.com/issues/from_archive/3430-1.html] Dutch born] *
* Herman Melville (1819 - 1891), author and poet, wrote "Moby Dick" [ [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/126] Melville "came from Dutch and English stock"]
* Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944), painter
* Gloria Vanderbilt (1924- ), artist and socialite [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0888742/bio] Vanderbilt "is of Dutch, Chilean, Spanish, and Irish descent."]
* Janwillem van de Wetering (1931-), Dutch-American author of police procedurals, Zen autobiographies and children's books
* Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), poet [ [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/126] Whitman "came from Dutch and English stock"]
* Edward W. Bok (1863 - 1930), author, publisher, editor of Ladies Home Journal
* Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882 - 1944), author, historian and journalist

Entertainment

* Pamela Anderson [ [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19328845/ Pamela Anderson: Master of illusion? - TODAY: People - MSNBC.com ] ]
* Billie Joe Armstrong (1972 - ) singer of Green Day Fact|date=May 2007
* Reiko Aylesworth (1972 - ) actress, best known for playing Michelle Dessler in the television series "24"Fact|date=May 2007
* Michelle Branch (1983 - ) American singer (Dutch through her maternal grandfather)
* Marlon Brando (1924 - 2004) Hollywood film actor
* Clint Eastwood (1930 - ) film actor and director
* Nina Foch (1924 - ) film actress
* Henry Fonda (1905 – 1982) film actor
* Janina Gavankar (1980 - ) American actress of Indian and Dutch ancestry.
* Mark-Paul Gosselaar (1974 - ) actor, perhaps best known for his role as Zack Morris on NBC's "Saved by the Bell" [Referred to as "Indonesian-Dutch" at [http://news.asianweek.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=7a21b45cdf57eab83ea19a4d48009c42] , [http://www.mixedfolks.com/aactors2.htm] father is Dutch and mother is Indonesian]
* 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 [ [http://grableonline.tripod.com/faq-2.html] Grable describes herself as "Dutch, German, Irish and English"]
* Rutger Hauer - actor
* Audrey Hepburn (1929 - 1993) award winning Hollywood film actress, model, and humanitarian (born in Brussels to a Dutch mother and grew up in Netherlands)
* Dexter Holland (1965 - ) singer of The OffspringFact|date=May 2007
* Famke Janssen (1965 - ) actress and former fashion model, best known for her role as Jean Grey from X-Men
* Rebecca Romijn (1972 - ) actress and former fashion model [ [http://www.rebecca-fanpage.com/content-2.html] described as "Dutch" by ethnicity [http://www.comicbookmovie.com/news/articles/1243.asp] 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]
* Thelma Schoonmaker, an Academy Award-winning film editor
* Paul Schrader, screenwriter and film director
* Paul Schrier (1970 - ) actor best known for playing Bulk on "Power Rangers".
* Cobie Smulders actress
* Bruce Springsteen (1949 - ) singer, songwriter
* Mary Steenburgen (1953 - ) Hollywood film actress
* Meryl Streep (1949- ) Hollywood film actress
* Lou Tellegen (1881 - 1934) film actor [ [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=70214] Dutch-born]
* Egbert Van Alstyne (1878 - 1951) songwriter and pianist
* James Van Der Beek (1977 -) television and film actor, best known as Dawson from Dawson's Creek
* 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" [ [http://www.starglimpse.com/celebs/pages/anneliese_van_der_pol/anneliese_van_der_pol.shtml] born in Amsterdam to Dutch father and American mother, moved to the U. S. in 1987; also Jewish by heritage]
* Heather Vandeven (1981-), model and Pet of the Year 2007
* Dick Van Dyke (1925 - ) famous television and film star and his brother, television actor Jerry Van Dyke (1931 - ) Fact|date=May 2007
* Alex Van Halen (1953 - ) drummer and founding member of the hard rock band Van Halen [ "Formed around 1975 in Pasadena, California by Dutch brothers Eddie and Alex..."]
* Eddie Van Halen (1955 - ) guitarist and founding member of the hard rock band Van Halen [ "Formed around 1975 in Pasadena, California by Dutch brothers Eddie and Alex..."]
* Billy Van Zandt (1957- ) playwright, actor
* Philip Van Zandt (1904 - 1958), Broadway and Hollywood actor, played in "Citizen Kane"
* Donnie Van Zant (1952 - ) founder and singer of .38 Special
* Johnny Van Zant (1959 - ) lead singer of Lynyrd Skynyrd since 1987
* Ronnie Van Zant (1948 - 1977) lead singer of Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1970-1977
* Paul Verhoeven (1938 - ) film director
* Don van Vliet (1941 - ) musician, better known as Captain Beefheart
* Donald Voorhees (1903 - 1989) composer and conductor
* Jan de Bont (1943 -) film director, producer and cinematographer
* Carel Struycken (1948 -) film actor
* Colonel Tom Parker (1909 - 1997) manager of Elvis Presley

Politics

*Eugene DeBruin (1933 - ?) USAF Sergeant, disappeared over Laos in 1968
*Harry DeBoer (1905-1991) Trotskyist trade union leader
*Dick DeVos (1955 - ) Republican candidate for governor of Michigan.
*Pete Hoekstra (1953 - ) Republican member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Michigan.
*Martin Kalbfleisch (1804 - 1873) United States Representative from New York
*A. J. Muste (1885 - 1967) socialist active in the pacifist movement, labor movement and the US civil rights movement
*Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945) Democratic President of the U. S.
*Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919) Republican President of the U. S.
*Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt
*Philip Schuyler (1733 - 1804) a general in the American Revolutionary War and a United States Senator from New York [Described as "Dutch New Yorker" at [http://www.fortklock.com/schuylermansion.htm] ]
*Peter Stuyvesant (1612 - 1672) Director-General of the colony of New Netherland (later New York)
*Martin Van Buren (1782 - 1862) the eighth President of the United States, and the first president who was not of English, Irish, or Scottish descent; Dutch was spoken in his house when he was a boy [Described as a "short, jolly Dutchman" at [http://www.juntosociety.com/uspresidents/vanburen.html] ]
*Arthur H. Vandenberg (1884 - 1951) Republican senator from Michigan.
*Guy Vander Jagt (1931 - 2007) Republican member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Michigan [ [http://www.bakerlaw.com/FindLawyers.aspx?Abs_Ppl_ID=af961b8c-51bd-4b4e-b726-5bddb352f9ad] "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."]

Military

*James Longstreet (1821 - 1904) Confederate Lieutenant-General in the American Civil War
*David Petraeus (1952 - ) U.S. four star general. Commander in Iraq in 2007
*Isaac Van Wart (1759 - 1828) militiaman from the state of New York during the American Revolution. In 1780, he participated in the capture of Major John André
*Alexander Archer Vandegrift (1887 – 1973) US four star general. Medal of Honor. 18th Commandant US Marine Corps

ciences

*Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920 - ) physicist [ [http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz161221dba38.html Dutch Nobel Prize Winners quiz - free game ] ]
*Bart J. Bok (1906-1983), astronomer, director of Steward Observatory
*Dirk Brouwer (1902 - 1966) astronomer [ [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9016671] Dutch-born]
*Samuel Abraham Goudsmit (1902 - 1978) physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck [Described as Dutch-American at [http://discounts.shopathome.com/frameset.asp?MID=4092&ruleID=50&popupID=&doPopup=yes&version=4.2.1.1&requested=www.powells.com/biblio&CustomerID=&owner=cdt1006&refer=340621305&LastPrefs=2006-05-10%2020:14:30&GUID={8C405371-9141-44FC-9912-0E9C185C8CAB}&UserAgent=Mozilla/4.0%20(compatible%3b%20MSIE%206.0%3b%20Windows%20NT%205.1%3b%20SV1%3b%20FunWebProducts)&validate={0314051C-8900-4CF8-88B0-3B3F7AB0971B}&spv=155&tim=1147898256&global=click.linksynergy.com&afsrc=1] ]
*Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931) inventor and businessman
*Anthony Heinsbergen (1894 - 1981) muralist considered the foremost designer of North American movie theatre interiors [ [http://historicfresno.org/bio/heinsber.htm] Dutch-born, naturalized U. S. citizen]
*Harlan Kredit (1938 – ) award-winning science teacher and ecologist
*Willem Jacob Luyten (1899 - 1994) astronomer [ [http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/gerard/old_web_page/dutchastro.html] Listing under "Famous Dutch Astronomers & Physicists"]
*Robert Moog (1934 - 2005) a pioneer of electronic music and inventor of the Moog synthesizer
*Jan Schilt (1894-1982) Dutch born astronomer, inventor of the Schilt photometer, Rutherford Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University
*Maarten Schmidt (1929 - ) Dutch born astronomer who measured the distances of astronomical objects called quasars
*Hubert Schoemaker (1950 - 2006) chemist and biotechnological pioneer [ [http://philadelphia.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2002/08/19/story2.html] Dutch born]
*James Van Allen (1914 - 2006) astronomer for whom the Van Allen belt is named.
*Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901 - 1967) physicist, developed the Van de Graaff generator
*Peter van de Kamp (1901 - 1995) astronomer [Described as Dutch-American at [http://www2.jsonline.com/news/gen/dec02/101840.asp] ]
*Lodewijk van den Berg (1932 - ) chemical engineer, payload specialist STS-51B Challenger [ [http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:8ILkvNGk7RUJ:encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761583383/van_den_Berg_Lodewijk.html+%22Lodewijk+van+den+Berg%22+Dutch&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=9] "van den Berg, Lodewijk, born in 1932, Dutch-American astronaut."]
*Albert Vander Veer (1841 - 1929), surgeon
*Gerard Peter Kuiper (1905 - 1973), astronomer
*Willem Johan Kolff (1911 - ), inventor of hemodialysis treatment

ports

* Bas Rutten (1965 - ) MMA fighter and color commentator
* Keith Van Horn (1975 - ) NBA player
*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 [ [http://www.mlsnet.com/MLS/players/bio.jsp?team=dcu&player=stewart_e&playerId=ste701428] dual Dutch-American citizen]
*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 [ [http://www.lycos.co.uk/sport/tiger-woods.html] Woods "also has Chinese and Dutch ancestry"]
*Mark Mulder (1977 - ), Major League baseball player currently with the St.Louis Cardinals
*Arie Luyendijk (1953 - ), racing driver
*Rik Smits (1966 - ), former basketball player, played in the NBA for the Indiana Pacers
*Jeff Van Gundy (1962 - ), former head coach of New York Knicks and Houston Rockets NBA teams.
*Andy Van Slyke (1960 - ) Retired Major League baseball player, born in the Netherlands

Journalism

* Anderson Cooper (1967 - ) CNN journalist [ [http://www.kerberosworld.com/Anac-to-Apc/anderson_cooper-andersen_cooper.php] Cooper "is of mostly English, Irish, and Dutch ancestry"]
*Greta Van Susteren (1954 - ) Fox News journalist
*Walter Cronkite (1916 - ) CBS Evening News journalist

Theology

*Louis Berkhof (1873 - 1957) Reformed systematic theologian at Calvin Theological Seminary [ [http://www.the-highway.com/articleMar01.html] "Louis Berkhof was born in Emmen, Netherlands October 13, 1873."]
*Hank Hanegraaff (? - ) Christian Apologist and president of the Christian Research Institute
*Anthony A. Hoekema (1913 - 1988) Reformed systematic theologian at Calvin Theological Seminary [ [http://www.the-highway.com/amilc_Hoekema.html] "Anthony A. Hoekema was born in the Netherlands and immigrated to the United States in 1923."]
*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 [ [http://www.hudsonvilleprc.org/Ministers/Herman_Hoeksema.htm] "Herman Hoeksema was born on March 12, 1886 from Johanna Bakema and Tiele Hoeksema in Hoogezand, in the province of Groningen, the Netherlands."]
*Richard Mouw (? - ) Christian philosopher and apologist 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 [described as "Dutch American" at [http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/008/19.74.html] ]
*Cornelius Plantinga president of Calvin Theological Seminary
*Albertus van Raalte (1811-1876), calvinist preacher and leader of Dutch immigrants to Michigan
*Robert H. Schuller (1926 - ) televangelist and pastor known around the world through his weekly broadcast "The Hour of Power" [ [http://www.johnsoderberg.com/gallery.php?sc=11] raised in Dutch-American community in Dutch Reformed Church]
*Robert A. Schuller (1954 - ) televangelist and pastor of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, son of Robert H. Schuller
*Lewis B. Smedes (1921 - 2002) renowned Christian author, ethicist, and theologian at Fuller Theological Seminary
*Cornelius Van Til (1895 - 1987) Christian philosopher, Reformed theologian, and presuppositional apologist [ [http://www.two-age.org/redemptive_historians/Van%20Til%20bio.htm] "the young Van Til studied the works of fellow Dutchman, Abraham Kuyper..."]
*Geerhardus Vos (1888 - 1946) professor of Biblical Theology at Calvin Theological Seminary and at Princeton Theological Seminary

Musical Entertainment

*Carmit Bachar, member of the Pussycat Dolls, born to an Israeli father and Dutch-Indonesian mother

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