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List of Dutch Americans

The first Dutch settlers arrived in America in 1624 and founded a number of villages, a town called New Amsterdam and the Colony of New Netherland on the East Coast. New Amsterdam became New York when the Treaty of Breda was signed in 1667. According to the 2006 United States Census, more than 5 million Americans claim total or partial Dutch heritage. Today the majority of the Dutch Americans live in the U.S. states of California, New York, Michigan, Iowa, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Montana, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

This is a list of notable Dutch Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and Americans of full or partial Dutch ancestry.

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Arts and literature

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Entertainment

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Dick Van Dyke
 
Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart)
 
Bruce Springsteen

Journalism

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Anderson Cooper

Military

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Hoyt Vandenberg

Politics

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Martin van Buren
 
Hamilton Fish
 
Theodore Roosevelt
 
Arthur Vandenberg
 
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Sciences

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Nicolaas Bloembergen
 
Cornelius Vanderbilt

Businessmen

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Sports

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Bert Blyleven
 
Erik Spoelstra

Theology

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Fictional characters

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Others

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  • Gertrude Baniszewski, American murderer; father was of Dutch ancestry
  • Jack Dangermond, founder of ESRI, a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software company
  • Sante Kimes, American murderer; mother was of Dutch ancestry
  • Linda Kolkena, murder victim
  • Alfred Peet (1920–2007), founder of Peet's Coffee and Tea, credited with starting the gourmet coffee revolution in the United States
  • Jan Pol (born 1942), Dutch-American veterinarian featured on the Incredible Dr. Pol television series, emigrated to the United States from the Netherlands
  • Leslie van Houten, former Manson family serving life sentence for murder

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  1. ^ Smylie, James H. (January 2004). "Pearl Buck's "Several Worlds" and the "Inasmuch" of Christ". Theology Today. 60 (4): 540–554. doi:10.1177/004057360406000407. Retrieved January 23, 2024. Carie, Pearl's mother, was born a Stulting in Hillsboro (where Pearl also was born), of Dutch stock leavened by French yeast stirred into the ancestral mix.
  2. ^ [1] Dutch born
  3. ^ [2] Melville "came from Dutch and English stock"
  4. ^ "Dutch Graves in Bucks County" (PDF). wallacestevens.com. The Wallace Stevens Society. Retrieved January 28, 2024. Stevens' father was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and was of Dutch descent
  5. ^ [3] Vanderbilt "is of Dutch, Chilean, Spanish, and Irish descent."
  6. ^ [4] Whitman "came from Dutch and English stock"
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  8. ^ [5] "German is a Dutch name, born and raised in California."
  9. ^ Referred to as "Indonesian-Dutch" at "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 26, 2007. Retrieved May 17, 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), "MixedFolks.com - Mixed Actors & Actresses from the Asian Continent Page 2". Archived from the original on August 14, 2007. Retrieved August 15, 2007. father is Dutch and mother is Indonesian
  10. ^ [6] Grable has described herself as "Dutch, German, Irish and English"
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  14. ^ "The Rebecca Romijn Fanpage - Content". Archived from the original on June 21, 2006. Retrieved July 28, 2006. described as "Dutch" by ethnicity[citation needed] notes that her mother, Elizabeth Kuizenga, was a second-generation Dutch American who met her father, Jaap Romijn, who was Dutch, on a trip to the Netherlands
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  16. ^ [7] Dutch-born
  17. ^ [8] born in Amsterdam to Dutch father and American mother, moved to the U.S in 1987; also Jewish by heritage
  18. ^ a b "Formed around 1975 in Pasadena, California by Dutch brothers Eddie and Alex..."
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  23. ^ [9] "Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands awarded Congressman Vander Jagt a Knighthood in the House of Orange in 1986. The Netherlands Amity Trust Association in 1991 named him the Outstanding Dutch-American of the Year."
  24. ^ "Dutch Nobel Prize Winners". funtrivia.com.
  25. ^ [10] Dutch-born
  26. ^ [11] Dutch-born, naturalized US citizen
  27. ^ Barnes, Bart (April 30, 2014). "NASA scientist John C. Houbolt, whose ideas helped put a man on the moon, dead at 95". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 25, 2024. The son of Dutch-born farmers
  28. ^ "Famous Dutch Astronomers". Archived from the original on May 19, 2006. Retrieved May 17, 2006. Listing under "Famous Dutch Astronomers & Physicists"
  29. ^ [12] Dutch born
  30. ^ [13] Benjamin Spock – described as Dutch-American
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  32. ^ [14] "van den Berg, Lodewijk, born in 1932, Dutch-American astronaut."
  33. ^ MacFarlane, Alistair (2013). "W.V.O. Quine (1908-2000)". Philosophy Now. Retrieved January 22, 2024. Willard's mother Harriet (née Van Orman) was born in a village near Akron, and was of Dutch descent.
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  35. ^ "D.C. United - Roster - Player Bio". Archived from the original on July 22, 2006. Retrieved July 28, 2006. dual Dutch-American citizen
  36. ^ [15] "Louis Berkhof was born in Emmen, Netherlands October 13, 1873."
  37. ^ [16] "Anthony A. Hoekema was born in the Netherlands and immigrated to the United States in 1923."
  38. ^ "Herman Hoeksema: Theologian and Reformer". Archived from the original on August 4, 2009. Retrieved August 4, 2009. "Herman Hoeksema was born on March 12, 1886 from Johanna Bakema and Tiele Hoeksema in Hoogezand, in the province of Groningen, the Netherlands."
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  40. ^ [17] raised in Dutch-American community in Dutch Reformed Church
  41. ^ [18] "the young Van Til studied the works of fellow Dutchman, Abraham Kuyper..."
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