De Bilt () is a

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and

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in the

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. It had a population of in . De Bilt houses the headquarters of the

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(KNMI). It is the ancestral home and namesake for the prominent

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of the United States.

Population centres

The municipality of De Bilt consists of the following cities, towns, villages and/or districts:

Bilthoven Bilthoven is a village in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of De Bilt. It has a railway station with connections to Utrecht, Amersfoort and Baarn. It is home to the Netherlands National Institute for Public Health a ...

, De Bilt,

Groenekan Groenekan is a village in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of De Bilt, and lies about 3 km west of Bilthoven. History It was first mentioned in 1607 as De Groene Kan, and is a reference to an inn with a green ...

Hollandsche Rading Hollandsche Rading is a village in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of De Bilt, and lies about 5 km south of Hilversum. Hollandsche Rading has a railway station on the route between Utrecht and Hilversum. The na ...

Maartensdijk Maartensdijk is a village in the Netherlands, Dutch province of Utrecht (province), Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of De Bilt, and lies about 4 km north of Bilthoven. History Maartensdijk was a separate municipality until 2001, w ...

Westbroek Westbroek is a village in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of De Bilt, and lies about 6 km northwest of Bilthoven Bilthoven is a village in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of ...

Topography

''Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of De Bilt, June 2015''

Notable people

Gouda-Sint-Janskerk-Glas61 - Nicolaas van Nieulandt 1559

Nicolaas van Nieuwland Nicolaas van Nieuwland, or Nicolas Van Nienlant (9 June 1510 – July 15, 1580) was a Dutch Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Haarlem and abbot of Egmond Abbey from 1562 to 1569 and as Auxiliary Bishop of Utrecht (1541–?).

(1510 in Maartensdijk – 1580) Bishop of Haarlem and abbot of

Egmond Abbey Egmond Abbey or St. Adalbert's Abbey ( nl, Abdij van Egmond, ''Sint-Adelbertabdij'') is a Benedictine monastery of the Congregation of the Annunciation between Egmond aan den Hoef and Bakkum in Egmond-Binnen in the municipality of Bergen in the ...

1562 to 1569. *

Joan Gideon Loten Joan Gideon Loten (also spelt Johan or John, in school records as Johannes Gideon Looten) (16 May 1710 – 25 February 1789) was a Dutch servant in the colonies of the Dutch East India Company, the 29th Governor of Zeylan, Fellow of the Royal So ...

(1710 in Groenekan – 1789) worked in the

Dutch East India Company The United East India Company ( nl, Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the VOC) was a chartered company established on the 20th March 1602 by the States General of the Netherlands amalgamating existing companies into the first joint-stock ...

, the 29th

Governor of Zeylan The following is a list of governors of Dutch Ceylon. The Dutch arrived on the island of Ceylon on 2 May 1639. Parts of the island were incorporated as a colony administrated by the Dutch East India Company on 12 May 1656. The first governor, Wi ...

* The

, prominent in the USA during the

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, has its name from the town, meaning 'from De Bilt'. * Johan Beyen (1897 in Bilthoven – 1976) a politician, helped create the

European Economic Community The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organization created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the ''Treaty on the functioning of the European Union'', as renamed by the Lisb ...

Auke Bloembergen Auke Reitze Bloembergen (28 August 1927 – 1 November 2016) was a Dutch jurist and legal scholar. He was a professor of civil law at Leiden University from 1965 to 1979. Bloembergen was a justice at the Supreme Court of the Netherlands from 1979 t ...

(1927 in De Bilt – 2016) a jurist, justice at the Supreme Court of the Netherlands 1979 to 1993 *

Els Borst Else "Els" Borst-Eilers (; 22 March 1932 – 8 February 2014) was a Dutch politician of the Democrats 66 (D66) party and physician. She was granted the honorary title of Minister of State on 21 December 2012. Borst worked as a medical researcher ...

(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 Anne Sjerp Troelstra (10 August 1939 – 7 March 2019) was a professor of pure mathematics and foundations of mathematics at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam. He was a Constructivism (mathem ...

(1939 in Maartensdijk – 2019) a maths professor the

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at the University of Amsterdam. *

Madelon Hooykaas Else Madelon Hooykaas (born 28 September 1942, in Maartensdijk) is a Dutch video artist, photographer and film maker. She makes films, sculptures, audio-video installations and has published several books. Biography Madelon Hooykaas grew up ...

(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 The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) is an international architectural firm with offices in Rotterdam, New York, Hong Kong, Doha, and Australia. The firm is currently led by eight partners - Rem Koolhaas, Reinier de Graaf, Ellen van ...

* Erik van der Wurff (1945 in De Bilt – 2014) a pianist, composer, arranger, producer and conductor *

Frederik de Groot Frederik Percy de Groot (born 23 May 1946 in Bilthoven) is a Dutch actor. In the Netherlands he appeared in the detective series ''Bureau Kruislaan'' and its spin-off '' Unit 13''. Biography He is best known, however, in Canada where he was th ...

(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 The Papua New Guinea University of Technology (Unitech) is a university located in Lae, Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea. Courses offered Unitech offers courses in the following fields: *Agriculture *Architecture *Construction Management (P ...

Bas Haring Sebastiaan (Bas) Haring (born 23 April 1968 in De Bilt) is a Dutch writer of popular science and children's literature, television presenter and professor. He is a full professor at Leiden University, where he has held a chair in "public unde ...

(born 1968 in De Bilt) a writer of popular science and children's literature and TV presenter *

Jetske van den Elsen Jetske van den Elsen (De Bilt, 1 September 1972) is a Dutch female television presenter. At the age of four, she moved to Nieuwegein and followed her education there. After that, she went to the HKU-theatre school in Utrecht. She has taught at ...

(born 1972 in De Bilt) a Dutch female television presenter IMDb Database
retrieved 26 October 2019

Sport

John Blankenstein John Blankenstein (12 February 1949 in De Bilt – 25 August 2006 in The Hague) was a Dutch football referee and gay rights activist. He was notable for being one of the first homosexual athletes to come out in the Netherlands. Professional ca ...

(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 Johannes Franciscus "Hans" van Breukelen (; born 4 October 1956) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He was the technical director of the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) from 2017 until 2018. Van Breuke ...

(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 The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

Joost Broerse Joost Broerse (, born 8 May 1979) is a Dutch former footballer who played as a centre back or defensive midfielder. Club career Groningen / Utrecht Broerse made his debut in professional football, being part of the FC Groningen squad in the 199 ...

(born 1979 in De Bilt) a Dutch former footballer with 448 club caps *

Lisa Westerhof Lisa Laetitia Westerhof (born 2 November 1981, in De Bilt) is a sailor from the Netherlands. Westerhof represented her country at the Optimist World Championship in 1995 and 1996, becoming only the second girl to win the championship outright. ...

(born 1981 in De Bilt) a sailor, competed at the

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

and

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

Thierry Brinkman Thierry Brinkman (born 19 March 1995) is a Dutch field hockey player who plays as a forward or midfielder for Bloemendaal and the Dutch national team. He is the son of former Dutch international Jacques Brinkman and the brother of Tim Brinkman ...

(born 1995 in Bilthoven) a Dutch field hockey player

Gallery

File:Overzicht van de westgevel - De Bilt - 20418264 - RCE.jpg, Overzicht van de westgevel - De Bilt File:Granito Kegels Carel Lanters SoestdijksewegZuid Bilthoven.jpg, Granito Kegels by Carel Lanters, Soestdijkseweg, Bilthoven File:KantoorORMIT.jpg, Kantoor File:Buurtschap Nieuwe Wetering.JPG, Buurtschap Nieuwe Wetering

References

External links

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