Notable alumni, faculty and administrators of Utrecht University.
Nobel Prize laureate alumni
Christiaan Eijkman, physician, pathologist
Nicolaas Bloembergen, physicist
Peter Debye, physicist
Willem Einthoven, physician, physicist
J. H. van 't Hoff, chemist
Gerardus 't Hooft, physicist
Tjalling Koopmans, mathematician, physicist, economist
Wilhelm Röntgen, physicist
Lavoslav Ruzicka, chemist
Martinus J.G. Veltman, physicist
Alumni
Annemarie, Duchess of Parma, journalist, consultant, and member of the extended Dutch royal family Arend Jan Boekestijn, historian, politician Arie A. Kruithof, physicist Aristid Lindenmayer, biologist Anna Maria van Schurman, classicist and painter Abraham Pais, physicist, science historian Clarence Barlow, composer C.H.D. Buys Ballot, meteorologist Elisabeth Bik, microbiologist and science writer Debby Bogaert, professor of pediatrics Els Borst, former Dutch minister of Health Johannes Martin Bijvoet, chemist Lulzim Basha, Mayor of Tirana, politician, former Albanian minister Henk J. M. Bos, historian of mathematics James Boswell, author, lawyer Rutger Bregman (born 1988), historian Peter Braam, computer scientist, mathematician and entrepreneur Jan K. Buitelaar, medical doctor, psychiatrist, author, and academic Pieter Burmann the Younger, philologist David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, author, lawyer René Descartes, philosopher, mathematician Michael Clyne, linguist Johann Georg Graevius, scholar Louis Grondijs, Byzantologist, war correspondent Saba Hamzah, poet and scholar Jacoba Hol, physical geographer Jacob Emil van Hoogstraten, Director Department of Economic Affairs in colonial Indonesia J. G. ten Houten, phytopathologist and botanist Jacobus Kapteyn, astronomer Izaak Maurits Kolthoff, chemist Philip G. Kreyenbroek, iranist Jan van Leeuwen, computer scientist Jack van Lint, mathematician John Henry Livingston, academic, fourth president of Rutgers University Renate Loll, physicist Rudolf Magnus, pharmacologist and physiologist Andrea 't Mannetje, epidemiologist Maung Maung, 7th President of Burma Cecilia Medina, jurist, lawyer Erik Meijer, computer scientist Marcel Minnaert, astronomer Heiko Oberman, historian Mark Overmars, computer scientist Perizonius, scholar Maarten van Rossem, historian Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, physician, scientist Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz, phytopathologist Jan Hendrik Scholten, theologian Jansje Gretha Schuiringa, one of first Dutch dentists, professor of prosthetic dentistry Boudewijn Sirks, specialist in Roman law J. Slauerhoff, poet; novelist; assistant at the university's clinic for Dermatology and Venereal Diseases 1929–1930 Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, politician Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, poet Jan Terlouw, politician, novelist Gerard Verschuuren, from the former Institute of Human Biology Frans de Waal, zoologist and ethologist Hugh Williamson, politician Jan Pol, from The Incredible Dr. Pol a Nat Geo Wild reality show, Veterinarian Wim Aantjes, politician Willem Marcus van Weede, law Anne Wyllie, scientist