Bert Blyleven is a Dutch-born Major League Baseball pitcher who starred for six teams over 22 seasons, won two World Series, recorded 3,000 strikeouts, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Humphrey Bogart was a legendary twentieth-century screen actor, born in New York City to an elite Dutch American family, educated at prestigious schools, and renowned for defining classic Hollywood cinema.
Bart Jan Bok was a Dutch-born astronomer trained at Leiden, who earned his doctorate in 1928 and spent decades at Harvard University, collaborating closely with his wife Priscilla Fairfield Bok.
Dan Bylsma transformed the struggling Pittsburgh Penguins midseason, leading them to an improbable 2009 Stanley Cup victory, becoming an NHL legend despite limited coaching experience that shocked fans.
Emilie Boon is an illustrator and author of children’s books. She was born in the Netherlands and was educated at the Royal Academy of Art where she majored in graphic design from 1976 to 1981.
Marlon Brando, one of the great and most enigmatic stage and screen actors of the second half of the twentieth century was born in Omaha, Nebraska on April 3, 1924.
William J. Bouwsma was a leading twentieth-century Renaissance historian, renowned for studies of humanism, Calvin, and early modern European culture.
William J. Bouwsma was a leading twentieth-century Renaissance historian, renowned for studies of humanism, Calvin, and early modern European culture.
Edward W. Bok (1863–1930), Dutch-born American editor, rose from immigrant office boy to influential editor of Ladies’ Home Journal. He later wrote a Pulitzer Prize–winning autobiography and founded Florida’s Bok Tower Gardens.
Jacob Brinkerhoff, New York–born lawyer and politician, served as a U.S. congressman (1843–1847), authored the antislavery Wilmot Proviso, and later served as a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.
