# List of Utrecht University people

Notable alumni, faculty and administrators of Utrecht University.

## Nobel Prize laureates

* Nicolaas Bloembergen, a Dutch-American physicist and National Medal of Science laureate
* Paul J. Crutzen, a Dutch chemist
* Peter Debye, a Dutch-American physicist and National Medal of Science laureate
* Christiaan Eijkman, a Dutch physician, pathologist
* Willem Einthoven, a Dutch physician, physicist
* Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, a Dutch chemist
* Gerard 't Hooft, a Dutch physicist and Wolf Prize laureate
* Tjalling Koopmans, a Dutch-American mathematician, physicist, economist
* Rudolf Magnus, a German pharmacologist
* Wilhelm Röntgen, a German physicist
* Lavoslav Ruzicka, a Croatian-Swiss chemist
* Martinus J.G. Veltman, a Dutch physicist

## Academics
### Astronomers and Physicists

* Amina Helmi is an Argentine astronomer, Spinoza Prize laureate
* Ed van den Heuvel a Dutch astronomer, Spinoza Prize laureate
* Jacobus Kapteyn, astronomer
* Pieter Kok, physicist
* Arie A. Kruithof, physicist
* Renate Loll, physicist
* Marcel Minnaert, astronomer
* Abraham Pais, physicist, science historian
* Erik Verlinde is a Dutch theoretical physicist and string theorist, Spinoza Prize laureate
* Cisca Wijmenga is a Dutch professor of Human Genetics, Spinoza Prize laureate

### Computer scientists

* Peter Braam, computer scientist, mathematician and entrepreneur
* Jan van Leeuwen, computer scientist
* Erik Meijer, computer scientist
* Mark Overmars, computer scientist

### Scientists

* Henk Barendregt, Dutch logician, known for his work in lambda calculus and type theory.
* Johannes Martin Bijvoet, chemist
* Elisabeth Bik, microbiologist and science writer
* Pieter Boddaert, Dutch physician and naturalist.
* Debby Bogaert, professor of pediatrics
* Jan K. Buitelaar, medical doctor, psychiatrist, author, and academic
* C.H.D. Buys Ballot, meteorologist
* René Descartes, philosopher, mathematician
* Peter Hagoort is a Dutch neuroscientist who studies the neurobiology of language, Spinoza Prize laureate
* J. G. ten Houten, phytopathologist and botanist
* Aristid Lindenmayer, biologist
* Jack van Lint, mathematician
* Marjo van der Knaap is a Dutch professor of pediatric neurology, Spinoza Prize laureate
* Izaak Maurits Kolthoff, chemist
* Victor Jacob Koningsberger a Dutch botanist
* Andrea 't Mannetje, epidemiologist
* Jan Pol a Dutch-American veterinarian
* Jansje Gretha Schuiringa, one of first Dutch dentists, professor of prosthetic dentistry
* Marten Scheffer is a Dutch ecologist, Spinoza Prize laureate
* Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, physician, scientist
* Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz, phytopathologist
* Twie Giok Tjoa, organizational sociologist, feminist
* Frans de Waal, zoologist and ethologist
* Anne Wyllie, microbiologist

### Other academics

* René Descartes, French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician who developed the techniques of analytical geometry, was taught by Utrecht University professors.
* Nicholas Barbon, one of the first proponents of the free market
* Charles III William, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, German Margrave of Baden-Durlach, who established the city Karlsruhe
* Henk J. M. Bos, historian of mathematics
* Rutger Bregman (born 1988), historian
* Pieter Burmann the Younger, philologist
* Michael Clyne, linguist
* Deirdre Curtin, legal scholar, Spinoza Prize laureate
* Johann Georg Graevius, scholar
* Lodewijk Grondijs, Byzantologist, war correspondent
* Jacoba Hol, physical geographer
* Philip G. Kreyenbroek, Iranist
* Joep Leerssen is a Dutch comparatist and cultural historian, Spinoza Prize laureate
* John Henry Livingston, academic, fourth president of Rutgers University
* Heiko Oberman, historian
* Perizonius, scholar
* Maarten van Rossem, historian
* Jan Hendrik Scholten, theologian
* Boudewijn Sirks, specialist in Roman law
* Gerard Verschuuren, philosopher from the former Institute of Human Biology

## Royalty

Members of Dutch Royal Family
* Princess Irene of the Netherlands,
* Prince Pieter-Christiaan of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven,
* Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands,
* Annemarie, Duchess of Parma

## Politicians
### Prime Ministers of the Netherlands

* Dirk Jan de Geer,
* Jan de Quay,
* Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck,
* Joan Röell,
* Theo van Lynden van Sandenburg,
* Aeneas Mackay Jr;

### Ministers of the Cabinet of the Netherlands

* 4 Ministers of Education of the Netherlands: Jan Rudolph Slotemaker de Bruïne, Marga Klompé, Theo Bot, Robbert Dijkgraaf;
* 5 Ministers of Finance of the Netherlands: Theo de Meester, Max Steenberghe, Piet Lieftinck, Frans Andriessen, Sigrid Kaag;
* 5 Ministers of Foreign Affairs: Herman Adriaan van Karnebeek, Pim van Boetzelaer van Oosterhout, Johan Beyen, Hans van den Broek, Tom de Bruijn;
* 4 Ministers of Justice and Security: Jan Donner, Josef van Schaik, Johan van Maarseveen, Job de Ruiter;
* 5 Ministers of the Interior and Kingdom Relations: Godert van der Capellen, Edzo Toxopeus, Henk Beernink, Jan de Koning, Klaas de Vries;
* 2 Ministers of Defence: Wim van Eekelen, Hans Hillen;
* 2 Ministers of Infrastructure: Henk Zeevalking, Cora van Nieuwenhuizen;
* 2 Ministers of Economic Affairs: Dionysius Koolen, Jan Terlouw;
* 1 Minister of Agriculture: Aat van Rhijn;
* 3 Ministers of Social Affairs: Dionysius Koolen, Aart Jan de Geus, Wouter Koolmees;
* 2 Minister of Health Aart Jan de Geus, Els Borst.

### Foreign heads of state or government

* The Prime Minister of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham;
* A signatory to the U.S. Constitution: Hugh Williamson;
* The South African Prime Minister: D. F. Malan;
* The Prime Minister of Suriname: Severinus Desiré Emanuels;
* A president of Suriname:Fred Ramdat Misier;
* 7th President of Burma: Maung Maung;
* The President of Guatemala: Bernardo Arévalo;

### Others

* Wim Aantjes, politician
* Arend Jan Boekestijn, historian, politician
* Lulzim Basha, Mayor of Tirana, politician, former Albanian minister
* Sabina Frederic, Argentine Minister of Security
* Anne-Marie Mineur, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Netherlands
* Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, First Lord of the Treasury
* Hugh Williamson, politician

## Writers

* Saba Hamzah, poet and scholar
* Benjamin Moser, earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from Utrecht University received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2020 for his biography of Susan Sontag, titled Sontag: Her Life and Work.
* Andrew Murray, a South African writer, teacher and Christian pastor
* J. Slauerhoff, poet; novelist; assistant at the university's clinic for Dermatology and Venereal Diseases 1929–1930
* Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, poet

## Other alumni

* Annemarie, Duchess of Parma, journalist, consultant, and member of the extended Dutch royal family
* Anna Maria van Schurman, classicist and painter
* Clarence Barlow, composer
* James Boswell, author, lawyer
* Joke Brandt, diplomat
* David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, author, lawyer
* Jacob Emil van Hoogstraten, Director Department of Economic Affairs in colonial Indonesia
* Cecilia Medina, jurist, lawyer
* Willem Marcus van Weede, law

## Faculty

* Mario Alinei
* Cornelis Dirk Andriesse
* Frans Andriessen
* Barnita Bagchi
* Julia Bailey-Serres
* Mieke Bal
* Marc Baldus
* Johann Conrad Barchusen, first chemistry professor
* Nicolaas Beets
* Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
* Jan Hendrik van den Berg
* Jan Bergstra
* Frits Beukers
* Johannes Martin Bijvoet
* Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing
* Fred van der Blij
* Pieter Boddaert
* Hans L. Bodlaender
* Els Borst
* Henk J. M. Bos
* Onno J. Boxma
* Rosi Braidotti
* Sjaak Brinkkemper
* Marcel Van den Broecke
* Hendrik Brugmans
* Martin van Bruinessen
* C. H. D. Buys Ballot
* Heinrich von Cocceji
* Floris Cohen
* Wim Cohen
* Jacqueline Cramer
* Dirk van Dalen
* Gerrit De Geest
* Cees Dekker
* Dennis Dieks
* Isbrand van Diemerbroeck
* Jurriaan ten Doesschate
* Franciscus Donders
* Hans Duistermaat
* Carl Andreas Duker
* Thomas von der Dunk
* Cornelis van Eck
* Peter Ester
* Hans Freudenthal
* Bas de Gaay Fortman
* Robert van Genechten
* Beatrice de Graaf, a Dutch history professor at the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University, Stevin Prize laureate
* Johann Georg Graevius
* Diederick E. Grobbee an Epidemiologist and Distinguished University Professor
* Louis Grondijs
* Hendrik Jacob Hamaker
* A. G. van Hamel
* Sadik Harchaoui
* Pieter Harting
* Majid Hassanizadeh
* Michiel Hazewinkel
* William S. Heckscher
* Karl Heilbronner
* Philip Willem van Heusde
* Jacob van der Hoeden
* Martin Hoek
* Jan Hogendijk
* Paulien Hogeweg
* Jacoba Hol
* Johannes Hoornbeek
* Pieter Willem van der Horst
* Ambrosius Hubrecht
* Johannes Alphonsus Huisman
* G.P. van Itterzon
* Cornelis de Jager
* Mark Janse
* Hans Jansen
* Nico van Kampen
* Paul Joan George Kapteyn
* Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
* Ilse Kokula
* Jan Koster
* Jan Lambooy
* Jan van Leeuwen
* Jan Christiaan Lindeman
* Rob Meens, medieval historian
* Lambert Meertens
* Annette Merz
* Marcel Minnaert
* Bert Mosselmans
* Pieter van Musschenbroek
* Cornelis Willem Opzoomer
* Leonard Ornstein
* Jim van Os, a Dutch academic and Professor of Psychiatry of the Brain Center at Utrecht University Medical Center
* Ab Osterhaus
* Jean Abraham Chrétien Oudemans
* Mark Overmars, computer scientist
* Jean Henri Pareau
* Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak
* Petrus van Mastricht
* Herman Philipse
* Pieter Hendrik van Cittert
* Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk
* Ronald Plasterk
* Sacha Prechal
* August Adriaan Pulle
* Jan de Quay
* Henricus Regius
* Henricus Reneri
* Maarten van Rossem
* Job de Ruiter
* Leopold Ružička
* Heleen Sancisi Weerdenburg
* Willem Saris
* Mirko Tobias Schäfer
* Hans Schenk
* Paul Schnabel
* Peter Schrijver
* Wisse Alfred Pierre Smit
* Hermann Snellen
* Sami Solanki
* T. A. Springer
* Hendricus Stoof
* Dirk Jan Struik
* Karel van der Toorn
* Uğur Ümit Üngör
* William Uricchio
* Peter van der Veer
* Jan G.F. Veldhuis
* Co Verdaas
* Pieter verLoren van Themaat
* Willem Anton van Vloten
* Johannes Voet
* Gisbertus Voetius
* Henk van der Vorst
* Petrus Johannes Waardenburg
* Willem Albert Wagenaar
* Stefan E. Warschawski
* C. E. A. Wichmann
* David de Wied
* Bernard de Wit
* Hermann Witsius
* George Weijer

### Spinoza Prize laureates

* Anna Akhmanova is a Russian-born professor of Cell Biology,
* Bas van Bavel is a Dutch historian,
* René Bernards is a Dutch cancer researcher,
* Jozien Bensing is a Dutch clinical psychologist,
* Hans Clevers is a Dutch molecular geneticist, cell biologist and stem cell researcher,
* José van Dijck is a new media author and a distinguished university professor in media and digital society
* Robbert Dijkgraaf is a Dutch theoretical physicist, mathematician and string theorist,
* Naomi Ellemers is a distinguished professor of social psychology,
* Daan Frenkel is a Dutch computational physicist,
* Piet Gros is a Dutch chemist and professor biomacromolecular crystallography,
* Jan van Hooff a Dutch biologist best known for his research involving primates
* Albert J. R. Heck is a Dutch scientist and professor in the field of mass spectrometry and proteomics,
* Birgit Meyer is a German professor of religious studies,
* Ieke Moerdijk is a Dutch mathematician,
* Gerardus Johannes Mulder a Dutch organic and analytical chemist
* Hans Oerlemans is a Dutch climatologist specialized in glaciology and sea level,
* Frits van Oostrom is a university professor for the Humanities,
* Ben Scheres is a Dutch developmental biologist,
* Anne Barbara Underhill a Canadian astrophysicist
* Bert Weckhuysen is a professor of inorganic chemistry and catalysis,
* Jan Luiten van Zanden is a Dutch economic historian and professor of Global Economic History,

## Rectors

(Dates as rectors)
* Jan Ackersdijck 1840 to 1841
* Antonius Aemilius 1644 to 1645, and 1659 to 1660
* Christian Bernhard Albinus 1728 to 1729, and 1741 to 1742
* Hieronymus Simons van Alphen 1717 to 1718, and 1733 to 1734
* Henricus Johannes Arntzenius 1793 to 1794
* Hermann Arntzenius 1803 to 1804, and 1820 to 1821
* Johan d’Aulnis de Bourouill 1888 to 1889
* Johannes Marinus Simon Baljon 1904 to 1905
* Nicolaas Beets 1877 to 1878
* Daniel Berckringer 1648 to 1649
* Cornelis Adriaan Bergsma 1843 to 1844
* Jan Bleuland 1799 to 1800, and 1816 to 1817
* Hendrik Bolkestein 1934 to 1935
* Peter Bondam 1776 to 1777, and 1788 to 1789
* Gisbert Bonnet 1764 to 1765, 1779 to 1780, and 1792 to 1793
* Hermannus Bouman 1829 to 1830, and 1844-1845
* Willem Gerard Brill 1871 to 1872
* Arnoldus Johannes Petrus van den Broek 1923 to 1924
* William Laurence Brown 1789 to 1790
* Jan Richard de Brueys 1825 to 1826
* Johannes de Bruin 1663 to 1664, and 1672 to 1674
* Frans Burman (theologian, born 1628) 1664 to 1665, and 1670 to 1671
* Frans Burman (theologian, born 1671) 1718 to 1719
* Frans Burman (theologian, born 1708) 1746 to 1747, 1766 to 1767, and 1782 to 1783
* Pieter Burman the Elder 1703 to 1704, and 1711 to 1712
* Christophorus Henricus Didericus Buys Ballot 1863 to 1864
* Giovanni Salvemini (Johann Castillon) 1758 to 1759
* Ernst Julius Cohen 1915 to 1916
* Jacob Cramer (theologian) 1892 to 1893
* Hendrik Cornelis Dibbits 1894 to 1895
* Bernardus Schotanus 1635 to 1641