•
Nicolaas van Nieuwland (1510 in Maartensdijk – 1580) Bishop of Haarlem and abbot of
Egmond Abbey 1562 to 1569. •
Joan Gideon Loten (1710 in Groenekan – 1789) worked in the
Dutch East India Company, the 29th
Governor of Zeylan • The
Vanderbilt family, prominent in the USA during the
Gilded Age, takes its name from the town, meaning 'from De Bilt'. •
Johan Beyen (1897 in Bilthoven – 1976) a politician, helped create the
European Economic Community •
Auke Bloembergen (1927 in De Bilt – 2016) a jurist, justice at the
Supreme Court of the Netherlands 1979 to 1993 •
Els Borst (1932 – 2014 in Bilthoven) a Dutch politician, academic and physician •
Ad Donker (1933 in Bilthoven – 2002) a pioneering publisher of social critical works in South Africa •
Anne Sjerp Troelstra (1939 in Maartensdijk – 2019) a maths professor the
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam. •
Madelon Hooykaas (born 1942 in Maartensdijk) a video artist, photographer and film maker •
Madelon Vriesendorp (born 1945 in Bilthoven) an artist, co-founded of the
Office of Metropolitan Architecture •
Erik van der Wurff (1945 in De Bilt – 2014) a pianist, composer, arranger, producer and conductor •
Frederik de Groot (born 1946 in Bilthoven) a Dutch actor and TV spokesman for
ING Direct Canada •
Thomas von der Dunk (born 1961) a cultural historian, writer and columnist; raised in Bilthoven •
Albert Schram (born 1964 in De Bilt) the Vice Chancellor of the
Papua New Guinea University of Technology •
Bas Haring (born 1968 in De Bilt) a writer of popular science and children's literature and TV presenter •
Jetske van den Elsen (born 1972 in De Bilt) a Dutch female television presenter
Sport •
John Blankenstein (1949 in De Bilt – 2006) a football referee and gay rights activist •
Ingrid van der Elst (born 1955 in Bilthoven) a former sportswoman in cricket and field hockey •
Hans van Breukelen (born 1956) a former football goalkeeper with 511 club caps, grew up in De Bilt •
Martijntje Quik (born 1973 in De Bilt) a former coxswain, silver medallist at the
2000 Summer Olympics •
Joost Broerse (born 1979 in De Bilt) a Dutch former footballer with 448 club caps •
Lisa Westerhof (born 1981 in De Bilt) a sailor, competed at the
2004 and
2012 Summer Olympics •
Thierry Brinkman (born 1995 in Bilthoven) a Dutch field hockey player == Gallery ==