# Adriaan

Adriaan is the Dutch and Afrikaans spelling of the given name Adrian. Before the 19th century the spelling Adriaen was also common, and people used the spelling interchangeably.

## People with the given name
### Artists

* Adriaen Backer (1635–1684), Dutch portrait painter
* Adriaen Cornelisz Beeldemaker (1618–1709), Dutch Golden Age painter
* Adriaen de Bie (1593–1668), Flemish painter
* Adriaan Bloemaert (c. 1609 – 1666), Dutch painter
* Adriaen van Bloemen (1639 – c. 1679), Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman and engraver
* Adriaan Bonsel (1918–2011), Dutch composer
* Adriaen Brouwer (1605–1638), Flemish genre painter
* Adriaen Frans Boudewijns (1644–1719), Flemish landscape painter
* Adriaan van der Burg (1693–1733), Dutch painter
* Adriaen van der Cabel (1631–1705), Dutch painter of the Dutch school
* Adriaen Frans Boudewijns (1644–1719), Flemish landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher
* Adriaen Collaert (c. 1560 – 1618), Flemish designer and engraver
* Adriaen Coorte (c. 1665 – 1707+), Dutch still life painter
* Adriaen Pietersz Crabeth (1510–1553), Dutch Renaissance glass painter
* Adriaen van Cronenburg (c. 1525 – 1604+), Dutch portrait painter
* Adriaen van Diest (1655–1704), Dutch painter
* Adriaan Dortsman (1635–1682), Dutch architect
* Adriaen van Eemont (1626–1662), Dutch still life and landscape painter
* Adriaen Foly (1664–1701), Danish painter
* Adriaen van Gaesbeeck (1621–1650), Dutch genre painter
* Adriaan Geuze (born 1960), Dutch landscape architect
* Adriaen de Grijef (1657–1722), Dutch painter
* Adriaen Hanneman (1603–1671), Dutch portrait painter
* Adriaan Jozef Heymans (1839–1921), Belgian impressionist landscape painter
* Adriaen Honich (1643 – c. 1684), Dutch landscape painter
* Adriaen Isenbrandt (c.1485–1551), Flemish Northern Renaissance painter
* Adriaen Thomasz Key (c. 1544 – c. 1599), Flemish portrait painter
* Adriaen Jansz Kraen (1619–1679), Dutch still life painter
* Adriaan de Lelie (1755–1820), Dutch painter
* Adriaen Cornelisz van Linschoten (1590–1677), Dutch Golden Age painter
* Adriaen Matham (1590–1660), Dutch Golden Age painter, engraver and art dealer
* Adriaen van Nieulandt (1587–1658), Dutch painter, draughtsman and engraver
* Adriaen van Oolen (c. 1650 – 1709), Dutch bird, landscape and still life painter
* Adriaen van Ostade (1610–1685), Dutch genre painter
* Adriaen Oudendijck (1677–1704), Dutch landscape painter
* Adriaen van Salm (c. 1660 – 1720), Dutch marine draftsman and painter
* Adriaen van der Spelt (c. 1630 – 1673), Dutch Golden Age flower painter
* Adriaan van Stalbemt (1580–1662), Flemish Baroque painter
* Adriaen van Utrecht (1599–1652), Flemish Baroque still life painter
* Adriaen Valerius (c. 1575 – 1625), Dutch poet and composer
* Adriaen van de Velde (1636–1672), Dutch animal and landscape painter
* Adriaen van de Venne (1589–1662), Dutch painter, miniaturist, book-illustrator and designer of political satires
* Adriaen Hendriksz Verboom (1627–1673), Dutch Golden Age landscape painter
* Adriaan Verbuch (fl. 1600), Dutch Golden Age painter
* Adriaen Verdoel (c. 1620 – 1675), Dutch Golden Age painter
* Adriaen de Vries (c. 1556 – 1626), Dutch Northern Mannerist sculptor
* Adriaan Gerritsz de Vrije (c. 1570 – 1643), Dutch glass painter
* Adriaen de Weever (c. 1510 – c. 1590), Flemish Renaissance painter
* Adriaen van der Werff (1659–1722), accomplished Dutch painter
* Adriaan Willaert (c. 1490 – 1562), Flemish composer

### Scholars and scientists

* Adriaan Adriaanszoon (1571–1635), Dutch geometer and astronomer
* Adriaan Anthonisz (1541–1620), Durtch mathematician and engineer, mayor of Alkmaar, father of above
* Adriaan van Baarland (1486–1538), Dutch historian
* Adriaan Bax (born 1956), Dutch molecular biophysicist
* Adriaan Blaauw (1814–2000), Dutch astronomer
* Adriaan Gilles Camper (1759–1820), Dutch mathematics and physicist
* Adriaan Fokker (1887–1972), Dutch physicist and musician
* Adriaan de Groot (1914–2006), Dutch chess master and psychologist
* Adriaan de Groot (born 1973), Dutch computer programmer
* Adriaan Heereboord (1613–1661), Dutch philosopher and logician
* Adriaen de Jonghe (1511–1575), Dutch physician, classical scholar, translator, lexicographer, etc.
* Adriaan Kluit (1735–1807), Dutch linguist
* Adriaan Koerbagh (1633–1669), Dutch scholar and writer
* Adriaan Kortlandt (1918–2009), Dutch ethologist
* Adriaan van Maanen (1884–1946), Dutch–American astronomer
* Adriaan Metius (1571–1635), Dutch geometer and astronomer
* Adriaan Isebree Moens (1846–1891), Dutch physician and physiologist
* Adriaan Nicolaas Petrus Pelzer (1915–1981), South African Afrikaans academic, historian and author
* Adriaan Hendrik Johan Prins (1921–2000), Dutch Africanist and maritime anthropologist
* Adriaan Reland (1676–1718), Dutch Orientalist scholar, cartographer and philologist
* Adriaan van Roomen (1561–1615), Flemish mathematician
* Adriaan Joseph van Rossem (1892–1949), American ornithologist
* Adriaan van Royen (1704–1779), Dutch botanist
* Adriaan van den Spiegel (1578–1625), Flemish anatomist
* Adriaen Verwer (c. 1655 – 1717), Dutch Mennonite merchant, scholar, philosopher and linguist
* Adriaan Vlacq (1600–1667), Dutch book publisher and author of mathematical tables
* Adriaan Wesselink (1909–1995), Dutch astronomer
* Adriaan van Wijngaarden (1916–1987), Dutch mathematician and computer scientist
* Adriaan van der Willigen Pz. (1810–1876), Dutch doctor and historian
* Adriaan Cornelis Zaanen (1913–2003), Dutch mathematician

### Sportspeople

* Adriaan Botha (sprinter) (born 1977), South African sprinter
* Adriaan Carelse (born 1995), South African rugby player
* Adriaan Engelbrecht (born 1990), South African rugby player
* Adriaan Fondse (born 1983), South African rugby player
* Adriaan Katte (1900–1991), Dutch field hockey player
* Adriaan Koonings (1895–1963), Dutch footballer
* Adriaan Paulen (1902–1985), Dutch athlete and president of the IAAF
* Adriaan Richter (born 1966), South African rugby player
* Adriaan Strauss (born 1985), South African rugby player

### Statesmen, religious leaders and military leaders

* Adriaen Banckert (1615–1684), Dutch admiral
* Adriaen Maertensz Block (1582–1661), successively captain, commander, and governor of the Ambon Island
* Adriaan Boeyens (1459–1523), Dutch pope (Adrian VI)
* Adriaan Dijxhoorn (1889–1953), Dutch Minister of Defence during the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940
* Adriaan Engelvaart (1812–1893), Dutch military commander and politician
* Adriaan van Flodroff (died 1690), Dutch Major General of cavalry
* Adriaan Florensz (1459–1523), Dutch pope (Adrian VI)
* Adriaan van der Meyden (fl. 1653–63), Dutch Governor of Ceylon
* Adriaan Pauw (1585–1653), Grand Pensionary of Holland
* Adriaan van der Stel (died 1646), Dutch governor of Mauritius
* Adriaan Valckenier (1695–1751), Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1737 to 1741
* Adriaan Vlok (1937–2023), South African politician

### Writers, actors, film directors

* Adriaan van Dis (born 1946), Dutch author
* Adriaan Ditvoorst (1940–1987), Dutch film director and screenwriter
* Adriaan Kyvon (born 1947), Dutch comedian, television producer and screenwriter
* Adriaan Loosjes (1761–1818), Dutch botanist, poet, novelist and publisher
* Adriaan van Hees (1910–1976), Dutch actor and member of the NSB
* Adriaan van Meerbeeck (1563–1627), Flemish writer and translator
* Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak (born 1929), Dutch educator, editor and author
* Adriaan Poirters (1605–1674), Dutch Jesuit poet and prose writer
* Adriaan Roland Holst (1888–1976), Dutch writer, nicknamed the "Prince of Dutch Poets"
* Adriaan van Toor (born 1942), Dutch comedian

### Other

* Adriaen van Bergen (fl. 1590), devised the plot to recapture the city of Breda from the Spanish during the Eighty Years' War
* Adriaen Block (1567–1627), Dutch private trader and navigator
* Adriaen van der Donck (1618–1655), Dutch lawyer, landowner and ethnographer in New Netherland after whom Yonkers, New York is named
* Adriaan Justus Enschedé (1829–1896), Dutch archivist, collector, printer and philanthropist
* Adriaan van der Hoop (1778–1854), Dutch banker
* Adriaan Pelt (1892–1981), Dutch journalist, international civil servant and diplomat
* Adriaan van Ravesteijn (1938–2015), Dutch gallerist and art collector
* Adriaan Stoop (1856–1935), Dutch oil explorer
* Adriaen Jorissen Tienpoint (fl. 1624–26), Dutch explorer of the American East coast
* Adriaan Schade van Westrum (1865–1917), Dutch-American newspaper editor
* Adriaan A. van der Willigen (1910–1986), Dutch philatelist