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Municipality in Utrecht, Netherlands
De Bilt (Dutch pronunciation:
[də ˈbɪlt]
ⓘ) is a
municipality and
town in the
province of
Utrecht,
Netherlands. It had a population of 43,384 in 2021. De Bilt houses the headquarters of the
Royal Netherlands 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 2015
Notable people
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Nicolaas van Nieuwland (1510 in Maartensdijk – 1580) Bishop of Haarlem and abbot of
Egmond Abbey 1562 to 1569.
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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, has its name from the town, meaning 'from De Bilt'.
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Johan Beyen (1897 in Bilthoven – 1976) a politician, helped create the
European Economic Community
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Auke Bloembergen (1927 in De Bilt – 2016) a jurist, justice at the
Supreme Court of the Netherlands 1979 to 1993
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Els Borst (1932 – 2014 in Bilthoven) a Dutch politician, academic and physician
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Ad Donker (1933 in Bilthoven – 2002) a pioneering publisher of social critical works in South Africa
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Anne Sjerp Troelstra (1939 in Maartensdijk – 2019) a maths professor the
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam.
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Madelon Hooykaas (born 1942 in Maartensdijk) a video artist, photographer and film maker
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Madelon Vriesendorp (born 1945 in Bilthoven) an artist, co-founded of the
Office of Metropolitan Architecture
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Erik van der Wurff (1945 in De Bilt – 2014) a pianist, composer, arranger, producer and conductor
[5]
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Frederik de Groot (born 1946 in Bilthoven) a Dutch actor and TV spokesman for
ING Direct Canada
[6]
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Thomas von der Dunk (born 1961) a cultural historian, writer and columnist; raised in Bilthoven
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Albert Schram (born 1964 in De Bilt) the Vice Chancellor of the
Papua New Guinea University of Technology
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Bas Haring (born 1968 in De Bilt) a writer of popular science and children's literature and TV presenter
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Jetske van den Elsen (born 1972 in De Bilt) a Dutch female television presenter
[7]
Sport
Gallery
References
External links
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