List of Famous people named Nicolaas

Similar names: Nikolas, Nikolaas, Nickolas. Here are some famous Nicolaases:

Nicolaas Bloembergen

First Name Nicolaas
Born on March 11, 1920
Died on September 5, 2017 (aged 97)

Nicolaas "Nico" Bloembergen was a Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy. During his career, he was a professor at Harvard University and later at the University of Arizona and at Leiden University in 1973.

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Nicolaas Kruik

First Name Nicolaas
Born on December 2, 1678
Died on February 5, 1754 (aged 75)

Nicolaas Samuelszoon Kruik, also known as Klaas Kruik and Nicolaes Krukius, was a Dutch land surveyor, cartographer, astronomer and weatherman. He is commemorated by the Museum De Cruquius.

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Nicolaas Pierson

Nicolaas Gerard Pierson
First Name Nicolaas
Born on February 7, 1839
Died on December 24, 1909 (aged 70)

Nicolaas Gerard Pierson was a Dutch economist and Liberal statesman who served as the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands from 1897 until 1901.

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Nicolaas Jouwe

First Name Nicolaas
Born on November 24, 1923
Died on September 16, 2017 (aged 93)
Born in Indonesia

Nicolaas Jouwe was a Papuan leader who was elected vice president of the New Guinea Council that governed the Dutch colony of Netherlands New Guinea. As the president of the New Guinea Council was the Dutch civil servant Frits Sollewijn Gelpke, Jouwe was the highest ranking Papuan politician in the colony. After the colony was ceded to the United Nations Temporary Executive Authority in October 1962 and subsequently to Indonesia six months later, he left New Guinea for the Netherlands, where he settled in the town of Delft. He vowed never to return to his native land if it were still occupied by Indonesia, but returned in 2010 to die there.

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Nicolaas Kuiper

First Name Nicolaas
Born on June 28, 1920
Died on December 12, 1994 (aged 74)

Nicolaas Hendrik "Nico" Kuiper was a Dutch mathematician, known for Kuiper's test and proving Kuiper's theorem. He also contributed to the Nash embedding theorem.

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Nicolaas Bastert

Syvert Nicolaas Bastert
First Name Nicolaas
Born on January 7, 1854
Died on April 18, 1939 (aged 85)

Syvert Nicolaas Bastert, was a 19th-century Dutch landscape painter, best known for his scenes along the river Vecht. He is counted among the "second generation" of the Hague School.

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Nicolaas I Hoen

First Name Nicolaas
Died on August 21, 1371
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Nicolaas Laurens Burman

First Name Nicolaas
Died on September 11, 1793

Nicolaas Laurens Burman was a Dutch botanist.

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Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus

First Name Nicolaas
Born on February 26, 1880
Died on April 18, 1960 (aged 80)

Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus or N.W. Posthumus was a Dutch economic historian, political scientist, and professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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Nicolaas Henneman

First Name Nicolaas
Born on November 8, 1813
Died on January 18, 1898 (aged 84)
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