List of Famous people with last name Rensselaer

Stephen Van Rensselaer III was a New York landowner, businessman, militia officer, and politician.

Henry Bell Van Rensselaer was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and a politician who served in the United States Congress as a Representative from the state of New York.

Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler ;, also known as "Kitty", was a Colonial and post-Colonial American socialite and the matriarch of the prominent colonial Schuyler family as wife of Philip Schuyler.

Johan van Rensselaer also Johannes van Rensselaer, second patroon of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, was the eldest son of Kiliaen van Rensselaer, and his only son by his first wife, Hillegonda van Bylaer.

Kiliaen van Rensselaer was a Dutch diamond and pearl merchant from Amsterdam who was one of the founders and directors of the Dutch West India Company, being instrumental in the establishment of New Netherland.

Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, from the prominent Van Rensselaer family, was Lieutenant Governor of New York and a member of Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing New York in the 1st United States Congress.