Notable Alumni and Faculty
Utrecht University counts a number of distinguished scholars among its alumni and faculty, including several Nobel Prize laureates:
- Wim Aantjes (politician)
- Clarence Barlow (composer)
- Lulzim Basha (Mayor of Tirana, Albania)
- Nicolaas Bloembergen (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
- Arend Jan Boekestijn (historian, politician)
- Els Borst (former Dutch minister of Health)
- Henk J. M. Bos (historian of mathematics)
- James Boswell (author, lawyer)
- Pieter Burmann the Younger (philologist)
- C.H.D. Buys Ballot (meteorologist)
- Michael Clyne (linguist)
- David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, (author, lawyer)
- Peter Debye (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
- René Descartes (philosopher, mathematician)
- Christiaan Eijkman (physician, pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate)
- Willem Einthoven (physician, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
- Johann Georg Graevius (scholar)
- Louis Grondijs (Byzantologist, war correspondent)
- Gerardus 't Hooft (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
- J. H. van 't Hoff (chemist, Nobel Prize laureate)
- Jacobus Kapteyn (astronomer)
- Tjalling Charles Koopmans (mathematician, physicist, economist, Nobel Prize laureate)
- Arie A. Kruithof, developed the Kruithof curve, describing the influence of colour temperature on visual perception
- Jan van Leeuwen (Computer Scientist)
- Aristid Lindenmayer (biologist)
- Jack van Lint (mathematician)
- Renate Loll (physicist)
- Rudolf Magnus (pharmacologist and physiologist)
- Maung Maung, (7th President of Burma)
- Erik Meijer (computer scientist)
- Marcel Minnaert (astronomer)
- Heiko Oberman (historian)
- Mark Overmars (computer scientist)
- Abraham Pais (physicist, science historian)
- Perizonius (scholar)
- Maarten van Rossem (historian)
- Wilhelm Röntgen (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
- Lavoslav Ruzicka (chemist, Nobel Prize laureate)
- Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (physician, scientist)
- Jan Hendrik Scholten (theologian)
- Boudewijn Sirks (Roman law specialist)
- J. Slauerhoff (poet, novelist) worked as an assistant at the University's clinic for Dermatology and Venereal Diseases from 1929–1930.
- Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland (statesman)
- Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate (poet)
- Jan Terlouw (politician, novelist)
- Gerard Verschuuren from the former Institute of Human Biology
- Martinus J.G. Veltman (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
- Frans de Waal (zoologist and ethologist)
- Hugh Williamson (politician)
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