DUTCH-AMERICANS
Index by Alphabet
When Dr. Carl Pegels retired as a management professor, he turned his research to prominent Dutch-Americans. His profiles now number around 300. The New Netherland Institute is grateful to Professor Pegels for providing these biographies. In appreciation, NNI awarded him the Alice P. Kenney Memorial Award in 2009.
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Please refer questions and comments to Professor Pegels directly.
This alphabetical index uses the Dutch approach. Names with van are sorted by the name following the van rather than grouping the "vans" together.
Showing 1-372 of 372 Results
- James Henry van Alen [1902-1991]
- James Henry Van Alen [1819-1886]
- James John Van Alen [1848-1923]
- William Van Alen [1883-1954]
- James Isaac Van Alen [1772-1822]
- George H. Allen [1918-1990]
- James van Allen [1914-2006]
- June Allyson [1917-2006]
- Jay van Andel [1924-2004]
- Steve van Andel [1955]
- John Jacob Astor IV [1864-1912]
- Daniel Myers Van Auken [1826-1908]
- Theodorus Bailey [1758-1828]
- Theodorus Bailey [1805-1877]
- Herman Baker [1911-1979]
- Erik Barnouw [1908-2001]
- James Van Der Beek [1977]
- Martin Bekins [c. 1860-?]
- Lodewijk van den Berg [1932]
- David Birkhoff [1884-1944]
- Haramanus Bleecker [1779-1849]
- Nicolaas Bloembergen [1920]
- Rik Aalbert (Bert) Blyleven [1951]
- Humphrey Deforest (Humphrey) Bogart [1899-1957]
- Edward William Bok [1863-1930]
- Bart Jan Bok [1906-1983]
- Emilie Boon [1959]
- William J. Bouwsma [1923-2004]
- Marlon Brando [1924-2004]
- Willem Hendrik (Butch) van Breda Kolff [1922-2007]
- Henry Roelif Brinkerhoff [1787-1844]
- Jacob Brinkerhoff [1810-1880]
- Abraham Ten Broeck [1734-1810]
- Theodore J. van den Broek [1783-1851]
- Thomas John (Tom) Brokaw [1940]
- Van Wyck Brooks [1886-1963]
- Dirk Brouwer [1902-1966]
- Martin van Buren [1782-1862]
- Hannah Hoes van Buren [1783-1819]
- Stephen (Steve) W. Van Buren [1920-2012]
- Dan Bylsma [1970]
- Gilbert C. van Camp, Sr [1830]
- Cornelius Crane (Chevy) Chase [1943]
- Angelica Schuyler Church [1756-1814]
- Angelica Schuyler Church [1756-1814]
- Clarence Leroy (Lee) Van Cleef [1925-1989]
- Montgomery (Monty) Clift [1920-1966]
- DeWitt Clinton [1769-1828]
- Aaron Van Schaick Cochrane [1858-1943]
- Schuyler Colfax [1823-1885]
- Anderson Cooper [1967]
- Jacobus van Cortlandt [1658-1739]
- Oloff van Cortlandt [1600-1684]
- Philip van Cortlandt [1749-1831]
- Pierre van Cortlandt [1721-1814]
- Stephanus van Cortlandt [1643-1700]
- Walter Leland Cronkite [1916-2009]
- Ivo H. Daalder [1960]
- J. Dewey Daane [1918-2017]
- John Isaac De Graff [1783-1848]
- Peter Joseph William Debye [1884-1966]
- Ted Dekker [1962]
- Cecil Blount (Cecil B.) DeMille [1881-1959]
- Chauncey Mitchell Depew [1834-1928]
- Willis van Devanter [1859-1941]
- Richard (Dick) DeVos Jr. [1955]
- Douglas DeVos [1964]
- Richard DeVos [1926]
- John L. DeWitt [1880-1947]
- Gerrit John Diekema [1859-1930]
- Adriaen van der Donck [1620-1655]
- Carl Clinton van Doren [1885-1950]
- Mark van Doren [1894-1972]
- Dow Henry Drukker [1872-1963]
- Mona van Duyn [1921-2004]
- Richard Wayne (Dick) van Dyke [1925]
- Henry van Dyke [1852-1933]
- Nicholas van Dyke [1770-1826]
- John Van Dyke [1807-1878]
- Carl Chester Van Dyke [1881-1919]
- Amy van Dyken [1973]
- Leonard Kyle (Lenny) Dykstra [1963]
- Clinton (Clint) Eastwood [1930]
- Jan Carel Panthaleon Van Eck [1880-1965]
- John C. Van Eck [1915-2014]
- Derek Van Eck [1964-2010]
- Jan F. Van Eck [1963]
- Thomas Alva Edison [1847-1931]
- William B. Eerdmans [1880-1966]
- Vernon J. Ehlers [1934]
- Lucas Conrad Elmendorf [1758-1853]
- James Alward van Fleet [1892-1992]
- Nina Foch [1924-2008]
- Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker [1890-1939]
- Henry Jaynes Fonda [1905-1982]
- Jane Seymour Fonda [1937]
- Peter Fonda [1940]
- Bridget Fonda [1964]
- Lee De Forest [1873-1961]
- Charles Hoyt Fort [1874-1932]
- Frederick Franck [1909-2006]
- Michael T. Franken [c.1960]
- William Klaas Frankena [1908-1994]
- Frederick Frelinghuysen [1753-1804]
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen [1817-1885]
- Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen [1869-1948]
- Theodore Frelinghuysen [1787-1862]
- Rodney P. Frelinghuysen [1946]
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen, Jr. [1916-2011]
- John Frederick Frelinghuysen [1776-1883]
- Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen [1691-1747]
- Peter Gansevoort [1749-1812]
- Barent Gardenier [c.1776-1822]
- Anton (Tom) Gehrels [1925-2011]
- Rudolph van Gelder [1924-2016]
- Samuel Gompers [1850-1924]
- Mark-Paul Gosselaar [1974]
- Samuel Abraham Goudsmit [1902-1978]
- Robert Jemison van de Graaff [1901-1967]
- Elizabeth Ruth (Betty) Grable [1916-1973]
- Richard Hageman [1881-1966]
- Johan Hagemeyer [1884-1962]
- Alexander Arthur (Alex) van Halen [1953]
- Edward Lodewijk (Eddie) van Halen [1955]
- Schuyler Hamilton [1822-1903]
- Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton [1757-1854]
- John Henry Hammond II [1910-1987]
- John Paul Hammond [1942]
- Bret Harte [1836-1902]
- Jan de Hartog [1914-2002]
- Fay Hartog-Levin [1948]
- Rutger O. Hauer [1944]
- Anthony B. Heinsbergen [1894-1981]
- Audrey Hepburn [1929-1993]
- William J. vanden Heuvel [1930]
- Katrina vanden Heuvel [1959]
- Roger W. Heyns [1918-1995]
- Peter Hoekstra [1953]
- William F. Hofstra [1861-1932]
- James Douglas Adrianus van Hoften [1944]
- Christopher van Hollen [1959]
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. [1809-1894]
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. [1841-1935]
- Edward Hopper [1882-1967]
- Burt Van Horn [1823-1896]
- Robert Thompson Van Horn [1824-1916]
- Archibald Van Horne [?-1817]
- John Hospers [1918-1972]
- Hendrik Samuel Houthakker [1924-2008]
- Henry S. Huidekoper [1839-1918]
- Wayne H. Huizenga [1937]
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt [1931-2007]
- Henry Jansen [1918-2002]
- Famke Janssen [1965]
- John Jay [1745-1829]
- Meindert De Jong [1906-1991]
- James Lee (Jim) Kaat [1938]
- Willem Kieft [1597-1647]
- Peter Kiewit [1900-1979]
- Herman Knickerbocker [1779-1855]
- Charles G. Koch [1935]
- David Hamilton Koch [1940]
- Fred Chase Koch [1900-1967]
- Frederick Robinson Koch [1932]
- William Ingraham Koch [1940]
- Harry Koch [1867-1942]
- Willem Johan Kolff [1911-2009]
- Hans Koning [1921-2007]
- Willem de Kooning [1904-1997]
- Tjalling Charles Koopmans [1910-1985]
- William B. Kouwenhoven [1886-1975]
- The Kregels [Louis, 1888-1839; Robert 1919-2011]
- Gerard Peter Kuiper [1905-1973]
- Peter Kuyper [1900 - ?]
- Arnold John Ferdinand (A.J.F.) Van Laer [1869-1955]
- Jessica Phyllis Lange [1949]
- Bert Langerwerf [1944-2008]
- John Lansing, Jr. [1754-1829]
- David Cornell Leestma [1949]
- Norman F. Lent, Jr. [1931-2012]
- Philip Livingston [1716-1778]
- William Livingston [1723-1790]
- James Longstreet [1821-1904]
- Hendrik Willem van Loon [1882-1944]
- Jack Robert Lousma [1936]
- Shannon Lucid [1943]
- Arie Luyendyk [1953]
- Willem Jacob Luyten [1899-1994]
- Frederick Manfred [1912-1994]
- Leighton Marissa Meester [1986]
- Douglas (Doug) Meijer [1955]
- Hendrik Meijer [1883-1964]
- Hendrik G. (Hank) Meijer [1952]
- Frederik G. H. Meijer [1919-2011]
- Mark Meijer [1960]
- Herman Melville [1819-1891]
- Cornelius Jacobsen Mey []
- Peter Minuit [1580-1638]
- Piet Mondrian [1872-1944]
- John Moolenaar [1961]
- Gouverneur Morris [1752-1816]
- Lewis Morris [1726-1798]
- Richard John Mouw [1940]
- Mark Mulder [1977]
- David G. Neeleman [1959]
- John Peter van Ness [1770-1846]
- Joe Nieuwendyk [1966]
- Raymond (Ray) Noorda [1977-2006]
- David van Nostrand [1811-1886]
- Isaac Newton van Nuys [1836-1912]
- Frederick van Nuys [1874-1944]
- Heiko Augustinus Oberman [1930-2001]
- Abraham (Bram) Pais [1918-2000]
- Colonel Tom Parker [1909-1997]
- Alfred H. Peet [1920-2007]
- C. Carl Pegels [1933]
- William Kaiser Van Pelt [1905-1996]
- William Penn [1644-1718]
- David H. Petraeus [1952]
- John Watts de Peyster [1821-1907]
- Alvin C. Plantinga [1937]
- Cornelius Plantinga [1947]
- Leon Plantinga [1936]
- Edgar D. Prince [1931-1995]
- Erik Prince [1969]
- John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn [1811-1877]
- Albertus Christiaan van Raalte [1811-1876]
- Sarah Rapalje [1625-1685]
- Henry Bell van Rensselaer [1810-1864]
- Maria van Cortlandt van Rensselaer [1645-1688]
- Stephen van Rensselaer III [1765-1839]
- Henry Killian Van Rensselaer [1744-1816]
- Jeremiah Van Rensselaer [1738-1810]
- Killian Killian Van Rensselaer [1763-1845]
- Robert Van Rensselaer [1740-1802]
- Solomon Van Vechten Van Rensselaer [1774-1852]
- Stephen Van Rensselaer IV [1789-1868]
- Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema [1917-2007]
- Rebecca Romijn [1972]
- Eleanor Roosevelt [1884-1962]
- Ellen Roosevelt [1868-1954]
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt [1882-1945]
- Nicholas Roosevelt [1767-1854]
- Theodore Roosevelt [1858-1919]
- Robert B. Roosevelt [1829-1906]
- Elliott Roosevelt [1910-1990]
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. [1914-1988]
- Isaac Roosevelt [1726-1794]
- James Roosevelt [1907-1991]
- Theodore Roosevelt Jr. [1887-1944]
- Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. [1831-1878]
- Peter Roskam [1961]
- Henry Rutgers [1745-1830]
- John van Ryn [1905-1994]
- Gus Green van Sant, Jr. [1952]
- Saskia Sassen [1947]
- Gozen van Schaick [1736-1789]
- Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick [1817-1901]
- John Theodore Scheepers [1878-1938]
- James Findlay Schenck [1807-1882]
- Robert Cumming Schenck [1809-1890]
- Abraham Maas Schermerhorn [1791-1855]
- Maarten Schmidt [1929]
- Hubert J. P. Schoemaker [1951-2006]
- Hendrik Scholte [1805-1868]
- Thelma Schoonmaker [1940]
- Leonard Schrader [1943-2006]
- Paul J. Schrader [1946]
- Robert H. Schuller [1926-2015] [1926]
- James Marcus Schuyler [1923-1991]
- Karl Cortlandt Schuyler [1877-1933]
- Pieter Schuyler [1657-1724]
- Philip John Schuyler [1733-1804]
- Cortlandt Van Rensselaer (Cort) Schuyler [1900-1993]
- Philp Jeremiah Schuyler [1768-1835]
- Margarita (Peggy) Schuyler [1758-1801]
- Jane Seymour [1951]
- Rik Smits [1966]
- Peter Spier [1927]
- Benjamin Spock [1903-1998]
- Erik Spoelstra [1971]
- Watson Spoelstra [1910-1999]
- Bruce Frederick Joseph (Bruce) Springsteen [1949]
- Eric Craig Staal [1984]
- Jordan Staal [1988]
- Jared Staal [1990]
- Marc Staal [1987]
- Mary Steenburgen [1953]
- Mary Louise (Meryl) Streep [1949]
- Peter Stuyvesant [1610-1672]
- Greta van Susteren [1954]
- Glendon Swarthout [1918-1992]
- Robert P. Swierenga [1935]
- Lou Telgen [1881-1934]
- Shirley Temple [1928-2014]
- Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck [1873-1944]
- Charlize Theron [1975]
- Cornelius van Til [1895-1987]
- Philadelph Van Trump [1819-1874]
- Wouter van Twiller [1580-1646]
- John Hoyer Updike [1932-2009]
- Robert Bruce Van Valkenburgh [1821-1888]
- John Vanbiesbrouck [1963]
- Alexander A. Vandegrift [1887-1973]
- Arthur Hendrik Vandenberg [1884-1951]
- Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, Sr. [1899-1954]
- Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, Jr. [1928]
- Richard F. Vander Veen [1922-2006]
- Gloria Laura Vanderbilt [1924]
- Cornelius Vanderbilt [1794-1877]
- William Henry Vanderbilt [1821-1885]
- Harold Stirling Vanderbilt [1884-1970]
- Cornelius Vanderbilt IV [1898-1974]
- Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt [1880-1925]
- Cornelius Vanderbilt III [1873-1942]
- Cornelius Vanderbilt II [1843-1899]
- William Kissam Vanderbilt [1849-1920]
- Michael Vanderjagt [1970]
- John Vanderlyn [1776-1852]
- Pieter Vanderlyn [1687-1778]
- Dale K. Vankley [1941]
- Carl van Vechten [1880-1964]
- Martinus Justinus Godefriedus Veltman [1931]
- Ann M. Veneman [1949]
- Paul Verhoeven [1938]
- Willem Verhulst []
- Gary Vermeer [1919-2009]
- Jan Vigne [1624-1689]
- Edward Burr van Vleck [1863-1943]
- John Hasbrouck van Vleck [1899-1980]
- John Monroe van Vleck [1833-1912]
- Captain Beefheart (Don Glen van Vliet) [1941-2010]
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees [1827-1897]
- Charles Stewart Voorhees [1853-1909]
- Foster McGowan Voorhees [1856-1927]
- Tracy Stebbins Voorhees [1890-1974]
- Ralph Whitaker Voorhees [1926-2013]
- David W. Voorhees [1947]
- Henry Clay Van Voorhis [1852-1927]
- Daniel Van Voorhis [1878-1956]
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis [1901-1984]
- Ralph Voorhees [1835-1907]
- Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes [1822-1888]
- Peter de Vries [1910-1993]
- Leo Vroman [1915-2014]
- Frans B. M. de Waal [1948]
- Loudon Wainwright III [1946]
- Barrett Wendell [1855-1921]
- Charles W. Wendell [1930-2015]
- Janwillem van de Wetering [1931-2008]
- Walter (Walt) Whitman [1819-1892]
- Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney [1875-1942]
- Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney [1899-1992]
- Peter Godwin van Winkle [1808-1872]
- Simeon de Witt [1756-1834]
- James de Wolf [1764-1837]
- Nicholas Wolterstorff [1932]
- Tiger Woods [1975]
- Wright Brothers [Orville, 1871-1848; Wilbur 1867-1912]
- Jane W. Wyatt [1910-2006]
- Charles Henry van Wyck [1824-1895]
- William William Van Wyck [1777-1840]
- Stephen Gregory (Steve) Yzerman [1965]
- James E. van Zandt [1898-1986]
- John Townes van Zandt [1944-1997]
- Steven Van Zandt [1950]
- William (Billy) Van Zandt [1957]
- Darryl Frances Zanuck [1902-1979]
- Richard D. Zanuck [1934-2012]
- Dean Zanuck [1972]
- Bernard (Bernie) Zondervan [1910-1966]
- Peter John (Pat) Zondervan [1909-1993]
