{{Infobox noble house , surname = Hugenholtz , type = family , native_name = , native_name_lang = , other_name = , coat of arms = Hugenholtz familiewapen

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, estates = , parent house = , titles = , styles = , founded = 18th century , founder = Petrus Bernardus Hugenholtz , final ruler = , current head = , dissolution = , deposition = , ethnicity = Dutch , cadet branches = , notes = Hugenholtz is a Dutch-German patrician family.

History

The family starts with Petrus Bernardus Hugenholtz, teacher at the Latin school in

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who died in 1736. His grandson, the reverend Petrus Hermannus Hugenholtz (1728-1766) moved to the Netherlands.

Notable members

* Jan Albert Hendrik Hugenholtz (1825–1874), colonial official. *

John Hugenholtz Johannes Bernhardus Theodorus "Hans" Hugenholtz, known in English-speaking countries as John Hugenholtz (October 31, 1914, Vledder – March 25, 1995, Bentveld) was a Dutch designer of race tracks and cars. Hugenholtz's father, of the same name ...

(1914–1995), race track designer. *

Nicolaas Marinus Hugenholtz Nicolaas Marinus Hugenholtz (born 26 April 1924) is a Dutch physicist. He was a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Groningen between 1960 and 1989. Hugenholtz was born in Wormerveer. He studied physics at Leiden University and o ...

(born 1924), physicist

Literature

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'' 14 (1924). Dutch patrician families