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.
List
Arts and literature
Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995), artist, sculptor, inventor, author, known as the "dean of rodeo cowboy sculpture"
Edward W. Bok (1863–1930), author, publisher, editor of Ladies Home Journal
Moon Bloodgood (born 1975), actress (father has a small amount of Dutch ancestry)
Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957), actor (father was of part Dutch descent; "Bogart" comes from the Dutch surname Bogaert, derived from "bogaard", short for "boomgaard", which means "orchard")
Hobart Bosworth (1867–1943), actor, director, writer and producer
Michelle Branch (born 1983), singer (Dutch through her maternal grandfather)
Marlon Brando (1924–2004), Hollywood film actor; father was of partial Dutch ancestry
Paul Giamatti (born 1967), actor, distant Dutch ancestry
Mark-Paul Gosselaar (born 1974), actor, perhaps best known for his role as Zack Morris on NBC's Saved by the Bell; his father is of Dutch Jewish and German descent, and his mother is of Dutch-Indonesian descent[9]
Betty Grable (1916–1973), actress, singer, dancer and pin-up girl whose sensational bathing-suit photo became the number one pinup of the World War II era[10]
Dionne Warwick (born 1940), singer, actress and TV show host; became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization and a United States Ambassador of Health; distant Dutch ancestry
Brandon deWilde (1942-1972), American theater, film, and television actor
Rainn Wilson (born 1966), actor of Dutch descent through mother
Kristen Schaal (born 1978), actress and comedian of Dutch Lutheran descent
Steven Seagal (born 1952), actor, of Dutch descent through his mother
Michiel Vos (born 1970), journalist, made documentary Diary of a Political Tourist
Military
Cornplanter (John Abeel III) (died 1836), Seneca war chief who fought in the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. Great-grandson of Johannes Abeel.
Eugene DeBruin (fl. 1933–1968), USAF sergeant; disappeared over Laos in 1968
Jack Robert Lousma (born 1936), retired United States Marine Corps colonel, aeronautical engineer, NASA astronaut (member of the second manned crew on the Skylab space station in 1973, commander STS-3, the third Space Shuttle mission), and politician (R)
Philip John Schuyler (1733–1804), general in the American Revolution and US Senator from New York
Earl Van Dorn (1820–1863), Confederate general during the American Civil War
James Van Fleet (1892–1992), US four-star general; Army general during World War II and the Korean War
Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler (1900–1993), US Army four-star general; served as chief of staff of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe from 1953 to 1959
Alexander Archer Vandegrift (1887–1973), US four-star general; Medal of Honor; 18th commandant of the US Marine Corps
Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg (1899–1954), US four-star general during World War II; second chief of staff of US Air Force Director Central Intelligence Agency
Jocko Willink (born 1971), US Navy SEAL retired officer, podcaster and author
Jack Sikma (born 1955), Hall of Fame NBA player, averaged 15.6 points and 9.8 rebounds during 14 seasons; former assistant coach at Minnesota Timberwolves
Richard Mouw (born 1940), Christian philosopher and apologist and president of Fuller Theological Seminary
James Olthuis, inter-disciplinary scholar in ethics, hermeneutics, philosophical theology, as well as a theorist and practitioner of psychotherapy at the Institute for Christian Studies
Alvin Plantinga (born 1932), philosopher known for his work in epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion[39]
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] Dutch born
^[2] Melville "came from Dutch and English stock"
^"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
^[3] Vanderbilt "is of Dutch, Chilean, Spanish, and Irish descent."
^[4] Whitman "came from Dutch and English stock"
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^[5] "German is a Dutch name, born and raised in California."
^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
^[6] Grable has described herself as "Dutch, German, Irish and English"
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^"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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^[7] Dutch-born
^[8] born in Amsterdam to Dutch father and American mother, moved to the U.S in 1987; also Jewish by heritage
^ a b"Formed around 1975 in Pasadena, California by Dutch brothers Eddie and Alex..."
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^[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."
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^[10] Dutch-born
^[11] Dutch-born, naturalized US citizen
^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
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^[12] Dutch born
^[13] Benjamin Spock – described as Dutch-American
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^[14] "van den Berg, Lodewijk, born in 1932, Dutch-American astronaut."
^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.
^Anderson, P.W. (1989). "John Hasbrouck Van Vleck 1899–1980" (PDF). Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved January 22, 2024. The Van Vleck family is of the patrician Dutch stock that has given the nation three presidents, among other eminent citizens.
^"D.C. United - Roster - Player Bio". Archived from the original on July 22, 2006. Retrieved July 28, 2006. dual Dutch-American citizen
^[15] "Louis Berkhof was born in Emmen, Netherlands October 13, 1873."
^[16] "Anthony A. Hoekema was born in the Netherlands and immigrated to the United States in 1923."
^"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."
^John G. Stackhouse (June 11, 2001). "Mind Over Skepticism". ChristianityToday.com.
^[17] raised in Dutch-American community in Dutch Reformed Church
^[18] "the young Van Til studied the works of fellow Dutchman, Abraham Kuyper..."