What's Dutch » Culture http://www.whatsdutch.org Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:22:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Notable Dutch Americans http://www.whatsdutch.org/2009/notable-dutch-americans/ http://www.whatsdutch.org/2009/notable-dutch-americans/#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:36:56 +0000 rickwhelan http://www.whatsdutch.org/?p=207 LITERATURE

Janwillem van de Wetering – Renowned for detective fiction; his most popular writing was Grijpstra and de Gier
Edward W. Bok – Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographer and magazine editor credited with coining the term “living room.”
Herman Melville – American novelist who created masterpieces of American and world literature, such as Moby-Dick and Billy Budd.
John Updike – American novelist, poet, literary critic.

MEDIA/ENTERTAINMENT/SPORTS

Anderson Cooper – Journalist, news anchor, and son of Gloria Vanderbilt.
Anneliese van der Pol – Singer and actress.
Audrey Hepburn – Iconic actress born of Dutch parents.
Benjamin Spock – First American pediatrician to focus on children’s needs and family dynamics.
Bruce Springsteen – Songwriter, singer, and musician nicknamed “the Boss”.
Clint Eastwood – Actor, film producer/director, composer.
Dick Van Dyke – Actor, presenter, entertainer.
Eddie van Halen – Lead guitarist and founder of the VanHalen band.
Gloria Vanderbilt – Artist, actress, apparel designer, and heiress of the prominent Vanderbilt family.
Greta Van Susteren – Broadcast journalist of Dutch descent.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar – Actor from the series Saved by the Bell, was born to Dutch parents.
Rebecca Romijn – Television and film actress.
Mary Steenburgen – Television and film actress.
Meryl Streep – Award winning actress of theater, film, and television.
Tiger Woods – Among the most successful and highest-paid professional athletic of all times.
Tom Brokow – Television journalist, news anchor, author.
Walter Cronkite – Broadcast journalist and news anchor.

MEDICINE/SCIENCE

Nicolaas Bloembergen – Won the Nobel Prize in 1981 for his work in laser spectroscopy.
Samuel Abraham Goudsmit and George Eugene Uhlenbeck – Physicists who proposed the concept of electron spin.

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  • The first settlers shared a history of friendship and cooperation encouraged by the Dutch love of liberty, democracy, and tolerance. Dutch practicality, inclusiveness, and entrepreneurial qualities were essential characteristics to New Netherland – and are part of the founding DNA of America.
  • The Dutch were socially progressive, enterprising with a on commerce as the source of the common good.
  • The Dutch tradition of tolerance became a hallmark of conduct in its new world colonies.
  • Dutch-inspired values like freedom of the press, religious tolerance, and public education seeped into
  • Pioneers from Amsterdam planted the seeds of democracy, a zeal for freedom, entrepreneurial spirit, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, and the principle of tolerance.
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