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.
Get Dr. Pegels' books: Prominent Dutch-American Entrepreneurs (paperback); Dutch-American Achievers: Arts, Sciences and Sports (for Kindle); Dutch-American Achievers: Government, Military, History and Phlisophy (for Kindle).
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 101-200 of 372 Results
Show All- 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]
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen, Jr. [1916-2011]
- Rodney P. Frelinghuysen [1946]
- 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]
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