John F. Frelinghuysen (1776–1833) was a New Jersey lawyer, militia officer in the War of 1812, and state legislator. The son of U.S. Senator Frederick Frelinghuysen, he also served in the New Jersey Legislative Council representing Somerset County.
Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen (1691–1747) was a Dutch Reformed minister who arrived in New Jersey in 1720 and became a leading revivalist preacher in the Raritan Valley. He was the patriarch of the Frelinghuysen family political dynasty.
William S. Hofstra (1861–1932), son of a Dutch immigrant from Friesland, was a successful lumber businessman whose Hempstead, Long Island estate later became the site of Hofstra University, established through a memorial trust created by his widow, Kate Mason Hofstra.
John Hospers (1918–2011) was an American philosopher and political figure who became the Libertarian Party’s first presidential candidate in 1972. A longtime professor at the University of Southern California, he wrote extensively on philosophy, art, and libertarian political theory.
Hendrik S. Houthakker (1924–2008) was a Dutch-born American economist and Harvard professor known for his work on consumer behavior and revealed preference theory. A survivor of World War II in the Netherlands, he later advised President Richard Nixon.
Tjalling C. Koopmans (1910–1985) was a Dutch-born American economist who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Economics for work on optimal resource allocation and linear programming, helping establish the field of mathematical economics.
A.J.F. Van Laer (1869–1955) was a Dutch American archivist and historian who translated and edited early Dutch records of New Netherland and Albany, preserving key seventeenth-century colonial documents despite major losses in the 1911 New York Capitol fire.
Richard J. Mouw (b. 1940) is an American philosopher and theologian who served as president of Fuller Theological Seminary. A leading evangelical thinker, he has written extensively on Christian philosophy, culture, and interfaith dialogue.
Heiko A. Oberman (1930–2001) was a Dutch-American historian and theologian known for his scholarship on the Reformation and late medieval theology. His influential biography Luther: Man Between God and the Devil reshaped modern understanding of Martin Luther and the Reformation.
Alvin Plantinga (b. 1932) is an American philosopher known for influential work in philosophy of religion, epistemology, and metaphysics. A longtime professor at the University of Notre Dame, he is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary Christian philosophers.
