List of the Delft University of Technology Alumni

Last updated March 28, 2025

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
Teuku Mohamad Thaher Thajeb, Indonesian engineer and politician
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

References

↑ Suryadinata, Leo (2012). Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume I & II. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. pp. 573–574. ISBN 978-9814345217.
↑ "Roemer van Toorn (home)". Archived from the original on 12 March 2010.
↑ Vermeij, Obbe. "Facebook" . Retrieved 15 November 2024.

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[1] Suryadinata, Leo (2012). Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume I & II. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. pp. 573–574. ISBN 978-9814345217.

[2] "Roemer van Toorn (home)". Archived from the original on 12 March 2010.

[3] Vermeij, Obbe. "Facebook" . Retrieved 15 November 2024.

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List of the Delft University of Technology Alumni

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