List of people associated with Utrecht University

Notable alumni, faculty and administrators of Utrecht University.

Nobel Prize laureates among Utrecht University alumni and faculty

 * Christiaan Eijkman, a Dutch physician, pathologist
 * Nicolaas Bloembergen, a Dutch-American physicist
 * Peter Debye, a Dutch-American physicist
 * Willem Einthoven, a Dutch physician, physicist
 * J. H. van 't Hoff, a Dutch chemist
 * Gerardus 't Hooft, a Dutch physicist
 * Tjalling Koopmans, a Dutch-American mathematician, physicist, economist
 * Wilhelm Röntgen, a German physicist
 * Lavoslav Ruzicka, a Croatian-Swiss chemist
 * Martinus J.G. Veltman, a Dutch physicist
 * Paul J. Crutzen, a Dutch chemist
 * Rudolf Magnus, a German pharmacologist

Pulitzer Prize laureates among Utrecht University alumni and faculty

 * Benjamin Moser who earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from Utrecht University received the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Susan Sontag, titled Sontag: Her Life and Work.

Wolf Prize laureates among Utrecht University alumni and faculty

 * Gerard 't Hooft, a Dutch physicist
 * Prof Rien van Genuchten, researcher, geosciences, earth sciences, hydrogeology

National Medal of Science laureates among Utrecht University alumni and faculty

 * Nicolaas Bloembergen, a Dutch-American physicist
 * Peter Debye, a Dutch-American physicist

Spinoza Prize laureates among Utrecht University faculty

 * Gerard 't Hooft a Dutch theoretical physicist,
 * Frits van Oostrom is a university professor for the Humanities at Utrecht University,
 * Daan Frenkel is a Dutch computational physicist,
 * Hans Clevers is a Dutch molecular geneticist, cell biologist and stem cell researcher,
 * Hans Oerlemans is a Dutch climatologist specialized in glaciology and sea level,
 * Robbert Dijkgraaf is a Dutch theoretical physicist, mathematician and string theorist,
 * Jan Luiten van Zanden is a Dutch economic historian and professor of Global Economic History at Utrecht University,
 * René Bernards is a Dutch cancer researcher,
 * Jozien Bensing is a Dutch clinical psychologist,
 * Ben Scheres is a Dutch developmental biologist,
 * Naomi Ellemers is a distinguished professor of social psychology at Utrecht University since September 2015,
 * Piet Gros is a Dutch chemist and professor biomacromolecular crystallography at Utrecht University,
 * Ieke Moerdijk is a Dutch mathematician, currently working at Utrecht University,
 * Bert Weckhuysen is a professor of inorganic chemistry and catalysis at Utrecht University,
 * Birgit Meyer is a German[1] professor of religious studies at Utrecht University,
 * Albert J. R. Heck is a Dutch scientist and professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands in the field of mass spectrometry and proteomics,
 * Anna Akhmanova is a Russian-born professor of Cell Biology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
 * Bas van Bavel is a Dutch historian.
 * José van Dijck is a new media author and a distinguished university professor in media and digital society at Utrecht University since 2017.
 * Corné Pieterse is professor Plant-Microbe Interactions and scientific director of the Institute of Environmental Biology of the Faculty of Science.
 * Detlef van Vuuren is hoogleraar Integrated Assessment of Global Environmental Change aan de faculteit Geowetenschappen

Spinoza Prize laureates among Utrecht University alumni

 * Marjo van der Knaap is a Dutch professor of pediatric neurology.
 * Deirdre Curtin is a legal scholar
 * Joep Leerssen is a Dutch comparatist and cultural historian.
 * Marten Scheffer is a Dutch ecologist,
 * Erik Verlinde is a Dutch theoretical physicist and string theorist,
 * Cisca Wijmenga is a Dutch professor
 * Amina Helmi is an Argentine astronomer
 * Ed van den Heuvel a Dutch astronomer,
 * Peter Hagoort is a Dutch neuroscientist who studies the neurobiology of language,

NWO Stevin Prize laureates among Utrecht University alumni and faculty

 * Beatrice de Graaf, a Dutch history professor at the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University.
 * Tanja van der Lippe, a Dutch sociologist and professor of sociology of households and labour relations at Utrecht University.
 * Paul 't Hart a professor of public administration at the Utrecht University.

Highly cited researchers by Google Scholar, Clarivate and AD Scientific Index

 * Diederick E. Grobbee an Epidemiologist and Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
 * Wilmar Schaufeli a Dutch work and organizational psychologist, clinical psychologist and professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at Utrecht University.
 * Jim van Os a Dutch academic and psychiatrist. He is a Professor of Psychiatry and medical manager of the Brain Center at Utrecht University Medical Center, the Netherlands.
 * Detlef van Vuuren a Dutch professor of environmental science at Utrecht University.
 * Oscar H Franco a Professor and Director of Public Health at Utrecht University/University Medical Center Utrecht.
 * Marta Verweij a Professor of experimental particle physics
 * Alexander Eggermont a Professor of Immunotherapy at University Medical Center Utrecht and the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology Chief Scientific Officer.
 * Jaap Sinninghe Damsté a professor of molecular palaeontology at Utrecht University.
 * Prof. Dr. M.T. van Genuchten visiting Professor of Hydrology
 * Prof. Dr. M.J.C. Eijkemans Professor of Biostatistics
 * Marco van Leeuwen conducts experimental research in particle physics. He is particularly involved in research on the strong interaction and the formation of a Quark-Gluon plasma in high-energy collisions of atomic nuclei in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
 * Frans Rutten a professor in general practice

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

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 (politician), Klaas de Vries (Labour Party);
 * 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;
 * An ancestor of both Winston Churchill and Diana, Princess of Wales, First Lord of the Treasury: Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland;
 * 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;
 * A president of Burma: Maung Maung;
 * Albanian Minister: Lulzim Basha;
 * Argentina's Minister of Security: Sabina Frederic;

Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Netherlands

 * Anne-Marie Mineur

Alumni related to science

 * Jan Pol a Dutch-American veterinarian
 * Victor Jacob Koningsberger a Dutch botanist and academic
 * Arie A. Kruithof, physicist
 * Aristid Lindenmayer, biologist
 * C.H.D. Buys Ballot, meteorologist
 * Elisabeth Bik, microbiologist and science writer
 * Debby Bogaert, professor of pediatrics
 * Anne Wyllie, scientist
 * Pieter Kok, physicist
 * Gerard Verschuuren, from the former Institute of Human Biology
 * Frans de Waal, zoologist and ethologist
 * Jansje Gretha Schuiringa, one of first Dutch dentists, professor of prosthetic dentistry
 * Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, physician, scientist
 * Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz, phytopathologist
 * Mark Overmars, computer scientist
 * Erik Meijer, computer scientist
 * Marcel Minnaert, astronomer
 * Jan van Leeuwen, computer scientist
 * Jack van Lint, mathematician
 * J. G. ten Houten, phytopathologist and botanist
 * Jacobus Kapteyn, astronomer
 * Izaak Maurits Kolthoff, chemist
 * Jacoba Hol, physical geographer
 * René Descartes, philosopher, mathematician
 * Peter Braam, computer scientist, mathematician and entrepreneur
 * Jan K. Buitelaar, medical doctor, psychiatrist, author, and academic
 * Henk J. M. Bos, historian of mathematics
 * Abraham Pais, physicist, science historian
 * Pieter Boddaert was a Dutch physician and naturalist.
 * Henk Barendregt is a Dutch logician, known for his work in lambda calculus and type theory.
 * Jan van Leeuwen a Dutch computer scientist,

Writers

 * Andrew Murray (minister) was a South African writer, teacher and Christian pastor

Other alumni

 * Annemarie, Duchess of Parma, journalist, consultant, and member of the extended Dutch royal family
 * Arend Jan Boekestijn, historian, politician
 * Anna Maria van Schurman, classicist and painter
 * Clarence Barlow, composer
 * Els Borst, former Dutch minister of Health
 * Johannes Martin Bijvoet, chemist
 * Lulzim Basha, Mayor of Tirana, politician, former Albanian minister
 * James Boswell, author, lawyer
 * Joke Brandt, diplomat
 * Rutger Bregman (born 1988), historian
 * Pieter Burmann the Younger, philologist
 * David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, author, lawyer
 * Michael Clyne, linguist
 * Johann Georg Graevius, scholar
 * Louis Grondijs, Byzantologist, war correspondent
 * Saba Hamzah, poet and scholar
 * Jacob Emil van Hoogstraten, Director Department of Economic Affairs in colonial Indonesia
 * Philip G. Kreyenbroek, iranist
 * John Henry Livingston, academic, fourth president of Rutgers University
 * Renate Loll, physicist
 * Rudolf Magnus, pharmacologist and physiologist
 * Andrea 't Mannetje, epidemiologist
 * Maung Maung, 7th President of Burma
 * Cecilia Medina, jurist, lawyer
 * Heiko Oberman, historian
 * Perizonius, scholar
 * Maarten van Rossem, historian
 * Jan Hendrik Scholten, theologian
 * Boudewijn Sirks, specialist in Roman law
 * J. Slauerhoff, poet; novelist; assistant at the university's clinic for Dermatology and Venereal Diseases 1929–1930
 * Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, politician
 * Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, poet
 * Jan Terlouw, politician, novelist
 * Hugh Williamson, politician
 * Jan Pol, from The Incredible Dr. Pol a Nat Geo Wild reality show, Veterinarian
 * Wim Aantjes, politician
 * Willem Marcus van Weede, law

Faculty

 * Gerardus Johannes Mulder was a Dutch organic and analytical chemist.
 * Jan van Hooff a Dutch biologist best known for his research involving primates.
 * Anne Barbara Underhill a Canadian astrophysicist
 * 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
 * Hans Clevers
 * Heinrich von Cocceji
 * Floris Cohen
 * Wim Cohen
 * Jacqueline Cramer
 * Paul J. Crutzen
 * Dirk van Dalen
 * Gerrit De Geest
 * Peter Debye
 * Cees Dekker
 * Dennis Dieks
 * Isbrand van Diemerbroeck
 * Jurriaan ten Doesschate
 * Franciscus Donders
 * Hans Duistermaat
 * Carl Andreas Duker
 * Thomas von der Dunk
 * Cornelis van Eck
 * Christiaan Eijkman
 * Peter Ester
 * Daan Frenkel
 * Hans Freudenthal
 * Bas de Gaay Fortman
 * Robert van Genechten
 * Johann Georg Graevius
 * Louis Grondijs
 * Piet Gros
 * Hendrik Jacob Hamaker
 * A. G. van Hamel
 * Sadik Harchaoui
 * Pieter Harting
 * Majid Hassanizadeh
 * Michiel Hazewinkel
 * Albert J.R. Heck
 * William S. Heckscher
 * Karl Heilbronner
 * Philip Willem van Heusde
 * Jacob van der Hoeden
 * Martin Hoek
 * Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
 * Jan Hogendijk
 * Paulien Hogeweg
 * Jacoba Hol
 * Gerard 't Hooft
 * Johannes Hoornbeek
 * Pieter Willem van der Horst
 * Ambrosius Hubrecht
 * Johannes Alphonsus Huisman
 * John Huizinga
 * 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
 * Rudolf Magnus
 * Rob Meens, medieval historian
 * Lambert Meertens
 * Annette Merz
 * Marcel Minnaert
 * Ieke Moerdijk
 * Bert Mosselmans
 * Pieter van Musschenbroek
 * Frits van Oostrom
 * Cornelis Willem Opzoomer
 * Leonard Ornstein
 * 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
 * Martinus J. G. Veltman
 * 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

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