List of Utrecht University people

Notable alumni, faculty and administrators of Utrecht University.

• 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

• 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

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

• 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^[1]
• 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

• 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

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

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

• 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.

• 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;

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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,

(Dates as rectors)

• Jan Ackersdijck 1840 to 1841^[2]
• Antonius Aemilius 1644 to 1645, and 1659 to 1660^[3]
• Christian Bernhard Albinus 1728 to 1729, and 1741 to 1742^[4]
• Hieronymus Simons van Alphen 1717 to 1718, and 1733 to 1734^[5]
• Henricus Johannes Arntzenius 1793 to 1794^[6]
• Hermann Arntzenius 1803 to 1804, and 1820 to 1821^[7]
• Johan d’Aulnis de Bourouill 1888 to 1889^[8]
• Johannes Marinus Simon Baljon 1904 to 1905^[9]
• Nicolaas Beets 1877 to 1878
• Daniel Berckringer 1648 to 1649^[10]
• Cornelis Adriaan Bergsma 1843 to 1844^[11]
• Jan Bleuland 1799 to 1800, and 1816 to 1817^[12]
• Hendrik Bolkestein 1934 to 1935^[13]
• Peter Bondam 1776 to 1777, and 1788 to 1789^[14]
• Gisbert Bonnet 1764 to 1765, 1779 to 1780, and 1792 to 1793^[15]
• Hermannus Bouman 1829 to 1830, and 1844-1845^[16]
• Willem Gerard Brill 1871 to 1872^[17]
• Arnoldus Johannes Petrus van den Broek 1923 to 1924^[18]
• William Laurence Brown 1789 to 1790
• Jan Richard de Brueys 1825 to 1826^[19]
• Johannes de Bruin 1663 to 1664, and 1672 to 1674^[20]
• Frans Burman (theologian, born 1628) 1664 to 1665, and 1670 to 1671^[21]
• Frans Burman (theologian, born 1671) 1718 to 1719^[22]
• Frans Burman (theologian, born 1708) 1746 to 1747, 1766 to 1767, and 1782 to 1783 ^[23]
• 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^[24]
• Hendrik Cornelis Dibbits 1894 to 1895^[25]
• Bernardus Schotanus 1635 to 1641^[26]