Caspar Stoll was a naturalist and entomologist, best known for the completion of De Uitlandsche Kapellen, a work on butterflies begun by Pieter Cramer. He also published several works of his own on other insect groups. Stoll's 1787 publication on stick insects, mantises, and their relatives is also well known. It was translated into French in 1813.
Maarten Houttuyn or Houttuijn was a Dutch naturalist.
Mr. Joan Cornelis van der Hoop was a Dutch lawyer, public prosecutor and minister and, at the time of the Dutch Republic, fulfilled important positions under king William I and - with the exception of the Batavian-French era - left his mark on the Dutch navy. A street is named after him in Amsterdam.
Christianus Petrus Eliza Robidé van der Aa was a Dutch jurist and author. He was the son of Pierre Jean Baptiste Charles van der Aa.
Henricus Aeneae was a Dutch scientist and mathematician.
Cornelius Nozeman or Cornelis was a Dutch Remonstrant churchman and naturalist.
Jacobus Deketh was a captain in the Frisian Admiralty, one of the five admiralties of the Dutch Republic. In 1744 at the age of 18, Deketh joined the Admiralty of Amsterdam. He became a lieutenant and later extraordinary captain and sailed to the Dutch East Indies. In 1758, Deketh continued his career in the Frisian Admiralty. He became captain of a ship, Edam. He was appointed full captain of the Frisian Admiralty in 1760.
Klaas Sybrandi, also spelled as Sijbrandi, was a Dutch Mennonite minister, author and translator who was involved with several societies and foundations.
Hendrik Spilman, was an 18th-century painter and engraver from the Northern Netherlands.
Johannes Cornelis Hendrik de Meijere was a Dutch zoologist and entomologist who specialised in Diptera and Coleoptera.
Nederlandsche vogelen is a five volume Dutch natural history compendium, published in Amsterdam from 1770. It was published in installments and was finished in 1829. It was the first comprehensive avifauna of the Netherlands.
Pieter Lodewijk Muller was a Dutch historian. He published numerous works of history and also contributed nearly two hundred entries to the German Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie .
Barbara Ogier was a Flemish playwright of De Olijftak, a chamber of rhetoric in Antwerp. Her motto was "Deugd voeght yder".
Jhr. Christaan Diederik Emerens Johan Bangeman Huygens was a Dutch diplomat and civil servant, from 1825 to 1832 Minister Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Washington, DC.
Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken was a Dutch poet and playwright. Born in Amsterdam, she began writing occasional poetry and in her early twenties had published her first tragedy. Influenced by the Enlightenment, her tragedies were classicist in style and proved to be popular, being performed all over the country. She wrote an ode in French for George Washington, and sent it to him, and for the revised Dutch version of the Book of Psalms she provided seventeen of the psalms.
Carel Hendrik Theodoor Bussemaker was a Dutch historian who held chairs in history at the University of Groningen and the University of Leiden.
Jacob van den Eynde was a Dutch statesman, Pensionary of the Brugse Vrije, Pensionary of Delft, and Grand Pensionary of Holland.
Hugo van den Eynde was a Dutch statesman, and Pensionary of Delft. He was succeeded in this position by his son Jacob van den Eynde.
Jan Sepp (1778–1853) was a Dutch entomologist.
The Nederlandsche Suikerraffinaderij NV (NSR) was an Amsterdam sugar refining company that refined sugar cane to produce white sugar and other sugar products. After its demise, its main sugar refinery became part of the Amstel Suikerraffinaderij and still later part of the Wester Suikerraffinaderij.
