De Bilt
De Bilt is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht. De Bilt had a population of in and is the seat of the headquarters of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute, KNMI.
It is the ancestral home and namesake for the prominent Vanderbilt family of the United States.Population centres
The municipality of De Bilt consists of the following cities, towns, villages and/or districts: Bilthoven, De Bilt, Groenekan, Hollandsche Rading, Maartensdijk, Westbroek.Topography
Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of De Bilt, June 2015Notable people
- Nicolaas van Nieuwland Bishop of Haarlem and abbot of Egmond Abbey 1562 to 1569.
- Joan Gideon Loten worked in the Dutch East India Company, the 29th Governor of Zeylan
- The Vanderbilt family, prominent in the USA during the Gilded Age, has its name from the town, meaning 'from De Bilt'.
- Johan Beyen a politician, helped create the European Economic Community
- Auke Bloembergen a jurist, justice at the Supreme Court of the Netherlands 1979 to 1993
- Els Borst a Dutch politician, academic and physician
- Ad Donker a pioneering publisher of social critical works in South Africa
- Anne Sjerp Troelstra a maths professor the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam.
- Madelon Hooykaas a video artist, photographer and film maker
- Madelon Vriesendorp an artist, co-founded of the Office of Metropolitan Architecture
- Erik van der Wurff a pianist, composer, arranger, producer and conductor
- Frederik de Groot a Dutch actor and TV spokesman for ING Direct Canada
- Thomas von der Dunk a cultural historian, writer and columnist; raised in Bilthoven
- Albert Schram the Vice Chancellor of the Papua New Guinea University of Technology
- Bas Haring a writer of popular science and children's literature and TV presenter
- Jetske van den Elsen a Dutch female television presenter
Sport
- John Blankenstein a football referee and gay rights activist
- Ingrid van der Elst a former sportswoman in cricket and field hockey
- Hans van Breukelen a former football goalkeeper with 511 club caps, grew up in De Bilt
- Martijntje Quik a former coxswain, silver medallist at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Joost Broerse a Dutch former footballer with 448 club caps
- Lisa Westerhof a sailor, competed at the 2004 and 2012 Summer Olympics
- Thierry Brinkman a Dutch field hockey player
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