# List of the Delft University of Technology Alumni

This is an incomplete list of TU Delft graduates.
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## A

* Laurens van den Acker, Dutch automobile designer and Vice President of Renault Corporate Design
* Mahir Alkaya, Dutch politician

## B

* Henk Badings, Dutch composer
* Henri Bal, Dutch computer scientist
* Ad Bax, Dutch biophysicist, contributor to protein nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
* Lourens Baas Becking, Dutch botanist and microbiologist
* Carin ter Beek, Dutch rower, olympic medalist
* Reinout Willem van Bemmelen, Dutch geologist
* Lodewijk van den Berg, Dutch-American astronaut, payload specialist on STS-51B mission
* Maria Elisabeth Bes, Dutch chemical engineer and the first woman to graduate from TU Delft as an engineer
* Ben van Beurden, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell
* Wiebe Bijker, Dutch sociologists
* Kwasi Boakye, Dutch-Ashanti mining engineer
* Kees Boeke, Dutch Quaker missionary
* Jan Boerman, Dutch composer of electronic music
* Onno J. Boxma, Dutch queuing theorist
* Jo van den Broek, Dutch architect
* Gerrit Broekstra, Dutch systems scientist

## C

* Luis Chang, Peruvian engineer, transportation minister and ambassador
* Qingyan Chen, Chinese mechanical engineer
* Kees Christiaanse, Dutch architect
* Wim Cohen, Dutch mathematician
* Dirk Coster, Dutch physicist, discoverer of hafnium

## D

* Jacob Pieter Den Hartog, Dutch mechanical engineer, recipient of the Timoshenko Medal
* Wim Dik, Dutch politicus
* Harry Droog, Dutch rower, Olympic medalist

## E

* Erick van Egeraat, Dutch architect
* Gerritjan Eggenkamp, Dutch rower; 2004 Summer Olympics silver medalist
* Willem Alberda van Ekenstein, discoverer of Lobry de Bruyn–van Ekenstein transformation

## F

* Adriaan Fokker, Dutch musician and physicist, known for Fokker–Planck equation

## G

* Karien van Gennip, Dutch secretary of state for economic affairs
* Willem Frederik Gisolf, Dutch geologist
* Rik Grashoff, Dutch politician

## H

* Jaap Haartsen, Dutch engineer, inventor of Bluetooth
* N. John Habraken, Dutch architect, former Dean of MIT Department of Architecture
* Felienne Hermans, Dutch computer scientist
* Herman Hertzberger, Dutch architect
* Jacobus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist and Nobel laureate
* Geert Hofstede, Dutch organizational sociologist
* Diederik Hol, Dutch engineer, inventor of Dual Box inline skating frame
* Gerard J. Holzmann, Dutch computer scientist, developer of SPIN model checker
* Adrian van Hooydonk, Dutch automobile designer, head of design at BMW
* Alexandre Horowitz, Dutch engineer, designer of Philishave
* Francine Houben, Dutch architect

## K

* Thomas Karsten, Dutch architect of Indonesia
* Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani nuclear scientist; metallurgical engineer; known as the "father of the Islamic nuclear bomb"
* Marc Koehler, Dutch architect
* Randal A. Koene, Dutch neuroscientist and neuroengineer, pioneer of whole brain emulation
* Warner T. Koiter, Dutch mechanical engineer
* Diederik Korteweg, Dutch mathematician
* Robert Kozma, Dutch mathematician, University of Memphis professor
* Frederik H. Kreuger, Dutch high voltage scientist and inventor
* Jón Kristinsson, Dutch architect
* Abraham Kuyper, Dutch politician, journalist, statesman and theologian, Prime Minister of the Netherlands

## L

* Harm Lagaay, Dutch automobile designer, former chief designer of Porsche
* Richard Lamb, Dutch strategic futurologist
* Cornelis Lely, Dutch engineer, chief designer of Zuiderzee Works
* Walter Lewin, Dutch physicist and MIT professor
* Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, designer of ORP Orzeł
* Otto Cornelis Adriaan van Lidth de Jeude, Dutch politician, Minister of War in the Dutch government in exile
* Liem Bwan Tjie, Indonesian architect and proponent of the Amsterdam School
* Wilhelmus Luxemburg, Dutch mathematician and California Institute of Technology professor

## M

* Winy Maas, Dutch architect, co-founder of MVRDV
* Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter and portraitist and art forger (studied, did not graduate)
* Simon van der Meer, Dutch engineer and Nobel Prize winner in physics
* Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, Dutch geologist
* Anne Menke, German-born photographer
* Bert Metz, Dutch climatologist, former co-chair of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
* Hubertus van Mook, Dutch administrator in the East Indies (studied, did not graduate)
* Anton Mussert, Dutch politician of the Second World War era and founder of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands
* Bram Moolenaar, Dutch programmer, creator of Vim text editor

## N

* Siegfried Nassuth, Dutch architect, author of Bijlmermeer
* Peter Newman, Australian environmental scientist (postdoctoral studies)
* Cornelius Van Niel, Dutch chemist who first demonstrated that photosynthesis is a light-dependent redox reaction

## O

* Kas Oosterhuis, Dutch architect
* Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, member of the Dutch Royal Family
* Alexander van Oudenaarden, Dutch biophysicist, systems biologist and MIT professor

## P

* Maja Pantić, Serbian computer scientist
* Frits Peutz, Dutch architect
* Herman Phaff, Dutch scientist who specialized in yeast ecology
* Frits Philips, Dutch engineer, fourth chairman of the board of directors of Philips
* Gerard Philips, Dutch industrialist, co-founder of Philips
* Roel Pieper, Dutch IT entrepreneur
* Willem van der Poel, Dutch engineer and designer of ZEBRA computer

## R

* Herman te Riele, Dutch mathematician, known for disproving Mertens conjecture
* Hendrik van Riessen, Dutch reformational philosophers
* Jacob van Rijs, Dutch architect
* Johan Ringers, Dutch politician
* Jo Ritzen, Dutch economist and social-democratic politician
* Clemens C. J. Roothaan, Dutch theoretical physicist and developer of Roothaan equations
* Jan Roskam, Dutch aerospace engineer
* Mien Ruys, Dutch landscape and garden architect

## S

* Diederik Samsom, Dutch politician and member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands for the Dutch Labour Party
* Steef van Schaik, Dutch politician
* Wim Schermerhorn, Dutch engineer, former Prime Minister of The Netherlands
* Pieter Hendrik Schoute, Dutch mathematician
* Jan Arnoldus Schouten, Dutch mathematician and contributor to tensor calculus
* Egbert Schuurman, Dutch reformational philosopher
* Paul van Son, Dutch manager
* Lars Spuybroek, Dutch architect
* Marcel Stive, Dutch coastal engineer
* Alex Verrijn Stuart, Dutch computer scientist
* Eric de Sturler, Dutch mathematician

## T

* Bernard Tellegen, Dutch electrical engineer and developer of pentode and gyrator
* Teuku Mohamad Thaher Thajeb, Indonesian engineer and politician
* Roemer van Toorn, Dutch architect, critic, photographer and professor of architectural theory
* Jan Toorop, Dutch Art Nouveau painter
* Theodoor Philibert Tromp, Dutch politician

## V

* Jeroen van der Veer, Dutch engineer, former CEO of Royal Dutch Shell
* Pier Vellinga, Dutch expert on climate change
* Jan Visman, Dutch statistician
* Bas van der Vlies, Dutch politician of the Reformed Political Party
* Hendrik Vos, Dutch politician
* Nathalie de Vries, Dutch architect, co-founder of MVRDV
* Obbe Vermeij, Dutch-Canadian programmer infamous for programming in Grand Theft Auto series

## W

* Leen van der Waal, Dutch engineer and former politician
* Franciscus Cornelis Marie Wijffels, Dutch politician
* Adriaan van Wijngaarden, Dutch computer scientist and developer of Van Wijngaarden grammar and co-designer of ALGOL

## Z

* Herman Zanstra, Dutch astronomer, known for Zanstra method
* Piet Zwart, Dutch graphic designer, typographer and industrial designer