# List of Leiden University people

This is alist of people associated to Leiden University,including alumni as well as people who have taught or studied at Leiden University.
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* Z
* See also
* References

## A

* Piet Aalberse, politician
* Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, theologian
* John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States
* Princess Aimée of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven-Söhngen
* Nebahat Albayrak, politician
* Johannes Alberti, theologian
* Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, anatomist
* Alexander, Prince of Orange
* Josette Altmann Borbón, First Lady of Costa Rica 1994–1998
* Tinde van Andel, ethnobotanist
* Princess Anita of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven-van Eijk
* Sophia Antoniadis, first female professor at Leiden
* Ayaan Hirsi Ali, activist
* János Apáczai Csere, mathematician
* Jacobus Arminius, theologian
* Tobias Asser, Nobel laureate (Peace 1911)
* Jimly Asshiddiqie, 1st Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia
* Touraj Atabaki, academic

## B

* Caspar Barlaeus, theologian
* Johann Bartsch, physician
* Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands 1980–2013
* Johann Peter Berg, German Protestant theologian, historian, and Orientalist
* Alexander Johan Berman, theologian and literary critic
* Joost Berman, lawyer, judge and poet
* Kune Biezeveld, theologian
* C. Jouco Bleeker, scholar of religion
* Nicolaas Bloembergen, Nobel laureate (Physics 1981)
* Thomas Blondeau, novelist
* Leonard Blussé, historian
* Herman Boerhaave, physician
* Herman Bavinck, theologian
* Bart Bok, astronomer
* Frits Bolkestein, Netherlands Deputy Prime Minister 2005–06
* Gerardus Johannes Petrus Josephus Bolland, philosopher
* Ben Bot, politician
* Alexander Boswell, judge
* Rolf Bremmer, academic
* Laurens Jan Brinkhorst, politician
* Thomas Browne, writer
* Sebald Justinus Brugmans, botanist
* Ian Buruma, writer
* Kofi Abrefa Busia, Prime Minister of Ghana 1969–72
* Ditmir Bushati, Albanian politician
* John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, U.K. Prime Minister 1762–63
* Paulus Buys, Grand Pensionary of Holland 1572–84
* Boediono, Vice President of Indonesia

## C

* Archibald Cameron, Jacobite physician
* Hendrik Casimir, physicist
* Lisa Cheng, Chair Professor of Linguistics
* Carolus Clusius, botanist
* Jacques Cohen, embryologist
* Job Cohen, politician
* Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
* Jodocus Crull, miscellaneous writer
* Petrus Cunaeus, academic
* Janus Henricus Donker Curtius, last Opperhoofd of the Dutch trading post in Japan (1852–1855)

## D

* Baron d'Holbach, philosopher
* Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Netherlands Prime Minister 1918–25, 1929–33
* Michiel Jan de Goeje, orientalist
* Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz, physicist
* Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, 11th Secretary-General of NATO
* Pieter de la Court, economist
* René Descartes, philosopher and mathematician
* Willem de Sitter, physicist
* Gijs de Vries, politician
* Jouke de Vries, academic
* Hendrik de Wit, botanist
* Johan de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland 1653–72
* Tim de Zeeuw, astronomer
* Nicolaas Diederichs, President of South Africa 1975–78
* René Diekstra, psychologist
* Kanta Dihal, research scientist and author
* Edsger W. Dijkstra, computer scientist
* Djumhana Wiriaatmadja, Prime Minister of Pasundan 1949–1950
* Volkert Doeksen, CEO
* Ana Dolidze, lawyer
* Janus Dousa, statesman
* Otto Duintjer, philosopher

## E

* Paul Ehrenfest, physicist
* Willem Einthoven, Nobel laureate (Medicine 1924)
* Albert Einstein, Nobel laureate (Physics 1921)
* Willem Anthony Engelbrecht, jurist and colonial administrator
* Simon Episcopius, theologian
* Paul Sophus Epstein, physicist

## F

* Enrico Fermi, Nobel laureate (Physics 1938)
* Henry Fielding, novelist
* Horst Fischer, lawyer
* Paul Fleming, poet
* Prince Floris of Orange-Nassau
* Justin Fox (born 1964), American financial journalist, commentator, and writer
* John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, jurist
* Prince Frederick of the Netherlands
* Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg

## G

* Richard D. Gill, professor of mathematical statistics
* Thomas Girdlestone, physician
* Franciscus Gomarus, theologian
* Samuel Goudsmit, physicist
* Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff, diplomat, statesman
* Gerrit de Graeff (I.) van Zuid-Polsbroek, patrician, politician
* Jacob Dircksz de Graeff, politician, burgomaster of Amsterdam
* Johann Georg Graevius, academic
* Christian Greco, Egyptologist
* Richard T. Griffiths, historian
* Jane Grogan, immunologist and cancer researcher
* Jacobus Gronovius, academic
* Hugo Grotius, jurist

## H

* Hendrik Jacob Hamaker, jurist
* Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX, Vice-President of Indonesia 1973–78
* Mohammad Hatta, First Vice President of Indonesia
* David Hartley (the Younger), politician
* Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, writer, resistance fighter, RAF pilot
* Daniel Heinsius, scholar
* Tiberius Hemsterhuis, philologist
* Paul Hermann, botanist and physician
* Felienne Hermans, computer scientist
* Johannes Hevelius, astronomer and jurist
* Nina den Heyer, politician in Bonaire
* Rosalyn Higgins, President of the International Court of Justice
* George Howe (physician), Scottish physician active in London; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
* Johannes Hudde, politician and mathematician
* Johan Huizinga, historian
* Christiaan Huygens, mathematician and physicist
* Constantijn Huygens, Jr., statesman

## I

* Michael Ignatieff, Canadian politician

## J

* Maarten Jansen, academic
* Marius Jeuken, theoretical biologist
* Ernst de Jonge, lawyer, Olympic rower, resistance fighter
* Stefanie Joosten, actress and model
* Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands 1948–80

## K

* Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Nobel laureate (Physics 1913)
* Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern, linguist
* Ko Kwat Tiong, lawyer, politician, Indonesian nationalist and civil servant
* Theodorus Klompe, geologist
* Pieter Kooijmans, judge of the International Court of Justice
* Ton Koopman, conductor
* Tjalling Charles Koopmans, Nobel laureate (Economics 1975)
* Maarten Kossmann, linguist who specializes in Berber languages.
* Hugo Krabbe, jurist and legal philosopher
* Hendrik Anthony Kramers, physicist
* Dirk Willem van Krevelen, chemical engineer and scientist
* Abraham Kuijper, theologian and politician (Prime Minister 1901–05)
* Aert H. Kuipers, linguist
* Erik Kwakkel, codicologist

## L

* Stefan Landsberger, Sinologist
* Jona Lendering, historian
* Hendrik Lenstra, mathematician
* Arend Lijphart, political scientist
* Justus Lipsius, philologist
* J. H. A. Lokin, jurist
* Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Nobel laureate (Physics 1902)

## M

* Peter Mair, political scientist
* Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
* Paul-Henri Marron, French Reformed pastor
* Alireza Mashaghi, physicist
* Eric Mazur, physicist
* Richard Mead, physician
* Jeroen Mettes, essayist and poet
* Victor Muller, CEO

## N

* William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz

## O

* Jan Hendrik Oort, astronomer
* Ivo Opstelten, politician
* Cornelis Ouwehand, anthropologist

## P

* Nathan Paget, Puritan physician
* Peter Simon Pallas, zoologist
* Antonie Pannekoek, astronomer and political theorist
* Senarath Paranavithana, archaeologist and epigraphist
* Thomas Parker, minister and scholar
* Alexander Pechtold, Dutch politician
* Perizonius, scholar
* Phoa Liong Gie, Indonesian jurist, politician and newspaper owner
* Frank N. Pieke, cultural anthropologist
* Nicolaas Gerard Pierson, Dutch Prime Minister 1897–1901
* Jacob Piry, Indonesian communist and politician, Member of People's Representative Council (1956-1960)
* Fransjohan Pretorius: historian of the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), professor University of Pretoria
* Theodoor Gautier Thomas Pigeaud, academic
* Archibald Pitcairne, physician
* Ronald Plasterk, scientist and politician
* Prijono, politician

## R

* Hans Ras, academic
* Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt, botanist
* Caspar Reuvens, archaeologist
* John Robinson, Pilgrim Fathers pastor
* Wil Roebroeks, archaeologist
* Olaus Rudbeck, scientist and university rector
* Yana Rudenko, Ukrainian activist
* David Ruhnken, scholar
* Charlotte Rulkens, Dutch art historian
* Mark Rutte, Netherlands Prime Minister 2010–24

## S

* Ali Sastroamidjojo, Prime Minister of Indonesia
* Joseph Justus Scaliger, theologian and scholar
* Henry G. Schermers, jurist
* Edith Schippers, politician
* Sander Schimmelpenninck, opinion writer & -commentator, and television presenter
* Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, Grand Pensionary of Holland 1805–6
* Gerard Schouw, politician
* William Sherard, botanist
* Boudewijn Sirks, academic
* Jan Six, politician
* Willebrord Snell, astronomer
* Rudolph Snellius, mathematician and linguist
* Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, orientalist
* Achmad Soebardjo, diplomat
* Soenario, politician
* Noto Soeroto, poet, journalist and activist
* Soetan Sjahrir, Prime Minister of Indonesia 1945–47
* Andreas Sparman, 17th-century Swedish court physician and author
* Myles Standish, military leader
* Jan Steen, painter
* Miep Stegmann, first woman psychiatrist in Belgium
* Simon Stevin, engineer, scientist
* Martinus Theunis Steyn, lawyer, Orange Free State president
* Pieter Steyn, Grand Pensionary of Holland 1749–72
* Dirk Jan Struik, mathematician
* Franciscus Sylvius, physician and scientist
* Albert Szent-Györgyi, Nobel laureate (Medicine 1937)

## T

* Morris Tabaksblat, CEO
* Igor Tamm, Nobel laureate (Physics 1958)
* Paul-Peter Tak, immunologist
* Julius Terpstra, politician
* Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Netherlands Prime Minister 1871–72
* Jan Tinbergen, Nobel laureate (Economics 1969)
* Nikolaas Tinbergen, Nobel laureate (Medicine 1973)
* Isaac Titsingh, surgeon, scholar, merchant-trader and ambassador (Law 1765)
* Jaana Toivari-Viitala, egyptologist and chair of the Finnish Egyptology Society
* Nicolaes Tulp, surgeon and politician

## U

* Christianus Cornelis Uhlenbeck, linguist and anthropologist

## V

* Leo van de Putte, Dutch medical scientist
* Coenraad van Beuningen, diplomat
* Ronald Venetiaan, president of Suriname
* Armin van Buuren, musician
* Ludolph van Ceulen, mathematician
* Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello, Netherlands Prime Minister 1877–79
* Marcel R.M. van den Brink, oncologist and medical researcher
* Johannes van den Driesche, theologian
* Adriaen van der Donck, lawyer
* Lousewies van der Laan, politician
* Max van der Stoel, politician
* Bram van der Stok, aviator
* Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Nobel laureate (Physics 1910)
* Aone van Engelenhoven, linguist and anthropologist
* Thomas van Erpe, orientalist
* Melanie Schultz van Haegen, politician
* Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, Nobel laureate (Peace 1954)
* Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp, Netherlands Prime Minister 1813–14
* Egbert van Kampen, mathematician
* Pieter van Musschenbroek, scientist
* Rembrandt van Rijn, painter
* Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Nobel laureate (Chemistry 1901)
* Cornelis van Vollenhoven, academic
* Pieter van Vollenhoven, royalty
* Ronald Venetiaan, Surinam President
* Maxime Verhagen, Netherlands Deputy Prime Minister
* Paul Verhoeven, film director
* Marjolijn Verspoor, linguist
* Gisbertus Voetius, theologian
* Thomas von der Dunk, historian
* Gerhard Johann Vossius, theologian

## W

* Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands 1890–1948
* John Wilkes, politician
* William the Silent, Prince of Orange and founder of the university
* Willem-Alexander, King of the Netherlands since 2013
* Willem Witteveen, legal scholar and politician
* William III of England, King of England 1689–1702
* James Windet, 17th-century English medical doctor

## Z

* Pieter Zeeman, Nobel laureate (Physics 1902)
* Petrus Josephus Zoetmulder, academic
* Ben Zonneveld, botanist
* Han Zuilhof, chemist