Modern Reference
- In the 2004 election of De Grootste Nederlander (The Greatest Dutchman) Michiel de Ruyter was the seventh-most voted.
- 'Michiel de Ruyter' is the default name for the Dutch in Sid Meier's 1994 game, Colonization. He is also a great general in the Rise of Mankind mod to Civilization IV.
- He was buried in the Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) in Amsterdam. De Ruyter's burial site has now turned into a tourist attraction. De Ruyter's mausoleum is visible, protected by a glass pane. However, descendants of the De Ruyter family are granted unrestricted access to his grave, and De Ruyter's descendant stated in a 2007 issue of Dutch newspaper Het Parool that he visited the coffin privately in 1948 with his own grandfather, and they decided to lift the coffin's lid. The grand-grand son was shocked with the sight and said: "it wasn't a pleasant sight. He (De Ruyter) was embalmed with great haste, and they didn't bother with his shot-off leg, they just dropped it in. It was just lying there. No, it wasn't pleasant, it was a shock actually ."
- The small town and village of DeRuyter, New York, southeast of Syracuse, are named after the admiral.
- In the book "Captain Blood: his Odyssey" (Raphael Sabatini), the title character served in the Dutch Navy under de Ruyter.
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