Dutch Americans
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 Philosophy (for Kindle).
Professor Pegels passed away on June 29, 2025. You can read his obituary here. We thank him for all of the research he did to create these biographies. At this time, we are no longer updating Dr. Pegels' biography pages.
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 201-300 of 372 Results
Show All- 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]
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