List of the Delft University of Technology Alumni explained

This is an incomplete list of TU Delft graduates.

A

• Laurens van den Acker, Dutch automobile designer and Vice President of Renault Corporate Design
• Mahir Alkaya, Dutch politician

B

• Henk Badings, Dutch composer
• Henri Bal, Dutch computer scientist
• Ad Bax, Dutch biophysicist, contributor to protein nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
• Lourens Baas Becking, Dutch botanist and microbiologist
• Carin ter Beek, Dutch rower, olympic medalist
• Reinout Willem van Bemmelen, Dutch geologist
• Lodewijk van den Berg, Dutch-American astronaut, payload specialist on STS-51B mission
• Maria Elisabeth Bes, Dutch chemical engineer and the first woman to graduate from TU Delft as an engineer
• Ben van Beurden, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell
• Wiebe Bijker, Dutch sociologists
• Kwasi Boakye, Dutch-Ashanti mining engineer
• Kees Boeke, Dutch Quaker missionary
• Jan Boerman, Dutch composer of electronic music
• Onno J. Boxma, Dutch queuing theorist
• Jo van den Broek, Dutch architect
• Gerrit Broekstra, Dutch systems scientist

C

• Luis Chang, Peruvian engineer, transportation minister and ambassador
• Qingyan Chen, Chinese mechanical engineer
• Kees Christiaanse, Dutch architect
• Wim Cohen, Dutch mathematician
• Dirk Coster, Dutch physicist, discoverer of hafnium

D

• Jacob Pieter Den Hartog, Dutch mechanical engineer, recipient of the Timoshenko Medal
• Wim Dik, Dutch politicus
• Harry Droog, Dutch rower, Olympic medalist

E

• Erick van Egeraat, Dutch architect
• Gerritjan Eggenkamp, Dutch rower; 2004 Summer Olympics silver medalist
• Willem Alberda van Ekenstein, discoverer of Lobry de Bruyn–van Ekenstein transformation

F

• Adriaan Fokker, Dutch musician and physicist, known for Fokker–Planck equation

G

• Karien van Gennip, Dutch secretary of state for economic affairs
• Willem Frederik Gisolf, Dutch geologist
• Rik Grashoff, Dutch politician

H

• Jaap Haartsen, Dutch engineer, inventor of Bluetooth
• N. John Habraken, Dutch architect, former Dean of MIT Department of Architecture
• Felienne Hermans, Dutch computer scientist
• Herman Hertzberger, Dutch architect
• Jacobus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist and Nobel laureate
• Geert Hofstede, Dutch organizational sociologist
• Diederik Hol, Dutch engineer, inventor of Dual Box inline skating frame
• Gerard J. Holzmann, Dutch computer scientist, developer of SPIN model checker
• Adrian van Hooydonk, Dutch automobile designer, head of design at BMW
• Alexandre Horowitz, Dutch engineer, designer of Philishave
• Francine Houben, Dutch architect

K

• Thomas Karsten, Dutch architect of Indonesia
• Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani nuclear scientist; metallurgical engineer; known as the "father of the Islamic nuclear bomb"
• Marc Koehler, Dutch architect
• Randal A. Koene, Dutch neuroscientist and neuroengineer, pioneer of whole brain emulation
• Warner T. Koiter, Dutch mechanical engineer
• Diederik Korteweg, Dutch mathematician
• Robert Kozma, Dutch mathematician, University of Memphis professor
• Frederik H. Kreuger, Dutch high voltage scientist and inventor
• Jón Kristinsson, Dutch architect
• Abraham Kuyper, Dutch politician, journalist, statesman and theologian, Prime Minister of the Netherlands

L

• Harm Lagaay, Dutch automobile designer, former chief designer of Porsche
• Richard Lamb, Dutch strategic futurologist
• Cornelis Lely, Dutch engineer, chief designer of Zuiderzee Works
• Walter Lewin, Dutch physicist and MIT professor
• Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, designer of ORP Orzeł
• Otto Cornelis Adriaan van Lidth de Jeude, Dutch politician, Minister of War in the Dutch government in exile
• Liem Bwan Tjie, Indonesian architect and proponent of the Amsterdam School^[1]
• Wilhelmus Luxemburg, Dutch mathematician and California Institute of Technology professor

M

• Winy Maas, Dutch architect, co-founder of MVRDV
• Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter and portraitist and art forger (studied, did not graduate)
• Simon van der Meer, Dutch engineer and Nobel Prize winner in physics
• Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, Dutch geologist
• Anne Menke, German-born photographer
• Bert Metz, Dutch climatologist, former co-chair of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Hubertus van Mook, Dutch administrator in the East Indies (studied, did not graduate)
• Anton Mussert, Dutch politician of the Second World War era and founder of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands
• Bram Moolenaar, Dutch programmer, creator of Vim text editor

N

• Siegfried Nassuth, Dutch architect, author of Bijlmermeer
• Peter Newman, Australian environmental scientist (postdoctoral studies)
• Cornelius Van Niel, Dutch chemist who first demonstrated that photosynthesis is a light-dependent redox reaction

O

• Kas Oosterhuis, Dutch architect
• Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, member of the Dutch Royal Family
• Alexander van Oudenaarden, Dutch biophysicist, systems biologist and MIT professor

P

• Maja Pantić, Serbian computer scientist
• Frits Peutz, Dutch architect
• Herman Phaff, Dutch scientist who specialized in yeast ecology
• Frits Philips, Dutch engineer, fourth chairman of the board of directors of Philips
• Gerard Philips, Dutch industrialist, co-founder of Philips
• Roel Pieper, Dutch IT entrepreneur
• Willem van der Poel, Dutch engineer and designer of ZEBRA computer

R

• Herman te Riele, Dutch mathematician, known for disproving Mertens conjecture
• Hendrik van Riessen, Dutch reformational philosophers
• Jacob van Rijs, Dutch architect
• Johan Ringers, Dutch politician
• Jo Ritzen, Dutch economist and social-democratic politician
• Clemens C. J. Roothaan, Dutch theoretical physicist and developer of Roothaan equations
• Jan Roskam, Dutch aerospace engineer
• Mien Ruys, Dutch landscape and garden architect

S

• Diederik Samsom, Dutch politician and member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands for the Dutch Labour Party
• Steef van Schaik, Dutch politician
• Wim Schermerhorn, Dutch engineer, former Prime Minister of The Netherlands
• Pieter Hendrik Schoute, Dutch mathematician
• Jan Arnoldus Schouten, Dutch mathematician and contributor to tensor calculus
• Egbert Schuurman, Dutch reformational philosopher
• Paul van Son, Dutch manager
• Lars Spuybroek, Dutch architect
• Marcel Stive, Dutch coastal engineer
• Alex Verrijn Stuart, Dutch computer scientist
• Eric de Sturler, Dutch mathematician

T

• Bernard Tellegen, Dutch electrical engineer and developer of pentode and gyrator
• Roemer van Toorn, Dutch architect, critic, photographer and professor of architectural theory^[2]
• Jan Toorop, Dutch Art Nouveau painter
• Theodoor Philibert Tromp, Dutch politician

V

• Jeroen van der Veer, Dutch engineer, former CEO of Royal Dutch Shell
• Pier Vellinga, Dutch expert on climate change
• Jan Visman, Dutch statistician
• Bas van der Vlies, Dutch politician of the Reformed Political Party
• Hendrik Vos, Dutch politician
• Nathalie de Vries, Dutch architect, co-founder of MVRDV
• Obbe Vermeij, Dutch-Canadian programmer infamous for programming in Grand Theft Auto series^[3]

W

• Leen van der Waal, Dutch engineer and former politician
• Franciscus Cornelis Marie Wijffels, Dutch politician
• Adriaan van Wijngaarden, Dutch computer scientist and developer of Van Wijngaarden grammar and co-designer of ALGOL

Z

• Herman Zanstra, Dutch astronomer, known for Zanstra method
• Piet Zwart, Dutch graphic designer, typographer and industrial designer

Notes and References

1. Book: Suryadinata. Leo. Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume I & II. 2012. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. 978-9814345217. 573–574.
2. Web site: Roemer van Toorn (home). dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100312114111/http://www.roemervantoorn.nl/ . 12 March 2010 .
3. Web site: Facebook . Vermeij . Obbe . 2024-11-15.