Adriaan Explained
Adriaan is the Dutch and Afrikaans spelling of the given name Adrian. Before the 19th century the spelling Adriaen was also common, and people used the spelling interchangeably.
People with the given name
Artists
- Adriaen Backer (1635–1684), Dutch portrait painter
- Adriaen Cornelisz Beeldemaker (1618–1709), Dutch Golden Age painter
- Adriaen de Bie (1593–1668), Flemish painter
- Adriaan Bloemaert (c. 1609 – 1666), Dutch painter
- Adriaen van Bloemen (1639 – c. 1679), Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman and engraver
- Adriaan Bonsel (1918–2011), Dutch composer
- Adriaen Brouwer (1605–1638), Flemish genre painter
- Adriaen Frans Boudewijns (1644–1719), Flemish landscape painter
- Adriaan van der Burg (1693–1733), Dutch painter
- Adriaen van der Cabel (1631–1705), Dutch painter of the Dutch school
- Adriaen Frans Boudewijns (1644–1719), Flemish landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher
- Adriaen Collaert (c. 1560 – 1618), Flemish designer and engraver
- Adriaen Coorte (c. 1665 – 1707+), Dutch still life painter
- Adriaen Pietersz Crabeth (1510–1553), Dutch Renaissance glass painter
- Adriaen van Cronenburg (c. 1525 – 1604+), Dutch portrait painter
- Adriaen van Diest (1655–1704), Dutch painter
- Adriaan Dortsman (1635–1682), Dutch architect
- Adriaen van Eemont (1626–1662), Dutch still life and landscape painter
- Adriaen Foly (1664–1701), Danish painter
- Adriaen van Gaesbeeck (1621–1650), Dutch genre painter
- Adriaan Geuze (born 1960), Dutch landscape architect
- Adriaen de Grijef (1657–1722), Dutch painter
- Adriaen Hanneman (1603–1671), Dutch portrait painter
- Adriaan Jozef Heymans (1839–1921), Belgian impressionist landscape painter
- Adriaen Honich (1643 – c. 1684), Dutch landscape painter
- Adriaen Isenbrandt (c.1485–1551), Flemish Northern Renaissance painter
- Adriaen Thomasz Key (c. 1544 – c. 1599), Flemish portrait painter
- Adriaen Jansz Kraen (1619–1679), Dutch still life painter
- Adriaan de Lelie (1755–1820), Dutch painter
- Adriaen Cornelisz van Linschoten (1590–1677), Dutch Golden Age painter
- Adriaen Matham (1590–1660), Dutch Golden Age painter, engraver and art dealer
- Adriaen van Nieulandt (1587–1658), Dutch painter, draughtsman and engraver
- Adriaen van Oolen (c. 1650 – 1709), Dutch bird, landscape and still life painter
- Adriaen van Ostade (1610–1685), Dutch genre painter
- Adriaen Oudendijck (1677–1704), Dutch landscape painter
- Adriaen van Salm (c. 1660 – 1720), Dutch marine draftsman and painter
- Adriaen van der Spelt (c. 1630 – 1673), Dutch Golden Age flower painter
- Adriaan van Stalbemt (1580–1662), Flemish Baroque painter
- Adriaen van Utrecht (1599–1652), Flemish Baroque still life painter
- Adriaen Valerius (c. 1575 – 1625), Dutch poet and composer
- Adriaen van de Velde (1636–1672), Dutch animal and landscape painter
- Adriaen van de Venne (1589–1662), Dutch painter, miniaturist, book-illustrator and designer of political satires
- Adriaen Hendriksz Verboom (1627–1673), Dutch Golden Age landscape painter
- Adriaan Verbuch (fl. 1600), Dutch Golden Age painter
- Adriaen Verdoel (c. 1620 – 1675), Dutch Golden Age painter
- Adriaen de Vries (c. 1556 – 1626), Dutch Northern Mannerist sculptor
- Adriaan Gerritsz de Vrije (c. 1570 – 1643), Dutch glass painter
- Adriaen de Weever (c. 1510 – c. 1590), Flemish Renaissance painter
- Adriaen van der Werff (1659–1722), accomplished Dutch painter
- Adriaan Willaert (c. 1490 – 1562), Flemish composer
Scholars and scientists
- Adriaan Adriaanszoon (1571–1635), Dutch geometer and astronomer
- Adriaan Anthonisz (1541–1620), Durtch mathematician and engineer, mayor of Alkmaar, father of above
- Adriaan van Baarland (1486–1538), Dutch historian
- Adriaan Bax (born 1956), Dutch molecular biophysicist
- Adriaan Blaauw (1814–2000), Dutch astronomer
- Adriaan Gilles Camper (1759–1820), Dutch mathematics and physicist
- Adriaan Fokker (1887–1972), Dutch physicist and musician
- Adriaan de Groot (1914–2006), Dutch chess master and psychologist
- Adriaan de Groot (born 1973), Dutch computer programmer
- Adriaan Heereboord (1613–1661), Dutch philosopher and logician
- Adriaen de Jonghe (1511–1575), Dutch physician, classical scholar, translator, lexicographer, etc.
- Adriaan Kluit (1735–1807), Dutch linguist
- Adriaan Koerbagh (1633–1669), Dutch scholar and writer
- Adriaan Kortlandt (1918–2009), Dutch ethologist
- Adriaan van Maanen (1884–1946), Dutch–American astronomer
- Adriaan Metius (1571–1635), Dutch geometer and astronomer
- Adriaan Isebree Moens (1846–1891), Dutch physician and physiologist
- Adriaan Nicolaas Petrus Pelzer (1915–1981), South African Afrikaans academic, historian and author
- Adriaan Hendrik Johan Prins (1921–2000), Dutch Africanist and maritime anthropologist
- Adriaan Reland (1676–1718), Dutch Orientalist scholar, cartographer and philologist
- Adriaan van Roomen (1561–1615), Flemish mathematician
- Adriaan Joseph van Rossem (1892–1949), American ornithologist
- Adriaan van Royen (1704–1779), Dutch botanist
- Adriaan van den Spiegel (1578–1625), Flemish anatomist
- Adriaen Verwer (c. 1655 – 1717), Dutch Mennonite merchant, scholar, philosopher and linguist
- Adriaan Vlacq (1600–1667), Dutch book publisher and author of mathematical tables
- Adriaan Wesselink (1909–1995), Dutch astronomer
- Adriaan van Wijngaarden (1916–1987), Dutch mathematician and computer scientist
- Adriaan van der Willigen Pz. (1810–1876), Dutch doctor and historian
- Adriaan Cornelis Zaanen (1913–2003), Dutch mathematician
Sportspeople
Statesmen, religious leaders and military leaders
- Adriaen Banckert (1615–1684), Dutch admiral
- Adriaen Maertensz Block (1582–1661), successively captain, commander, and governor of the Ambon Island
- Adriaan Boeyens (1459–1523), Dutch pope (Adrian VI)
- Adriaan Dijxhoorn (1889–1953), Dutch Minister of Defence during the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940
- Adriaan Engelvaart (1812–1893), Dutch military commander and politician
- Adriaan van Flodroff (died 1690), Dutch Major General of cavalry
- Adriaan Florensz (1459–1523), Dutch pope (Adrian VI)
- Adriaan van der Meyden (fl. 1653–63), Dutch Governor of Ceylon
- Adriaan Pauw (1585–1653), Grand Pensionary of Holland
- Adriaan van der Stel (died 1646), Dutch governor of Mauritius
- Adriaan Valckenier (1695–1751), Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1737 to 1741
- Adriaan Vlok (1937–2023), South African politician
Writers, actors, film directors
- Adriaan van Dis (born 1946), Dutch author
- Adriaan Ditvoorst (1940–1987), Dutch film director and screenwriter
- Adriaan Kyvon (born 1947), Dutch comedian, television producer and screenwriter
- Adriaan Loosjes (1761–1818), Dutch botanist, poet, novelist and publisher
- Adriaan van Hees (1910–1976), Dutch actor and member of the NSB
- Adriaan van Meerbeeck (1563–1627), Flemish writer and translator
- Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak (born 1929), Dutch educator, editor and author
- Adriaan Poirters (1605–1674), Dutch Jesuit poet and prose writer
- Adriaan Roland Holst (1888–1976), Dutch writer, nicknamed the "Prince of Dutch Poets"
- Adriaan van Toor (born 1942), Dutch comedian
Other
- Adriaen van Bergen (fl. 1590), devised the plot to recapture the city of Breda from the Spanish during the Eighty Years' War
- Adriaen Block (1567–1627), Dutch private trader and navigator
- Adriaen van der Donck (1618–1655), Dutch lawyer, landowner and ethnographer in New Netherland after whom Yonkers, New York is named
- Adriaan Justus Enschedé (1829–1896), Dutch archivist, collector, printer and philanthropist
- Adriaan van der Hoop (1778–1854), Dutch banker
- Adriaan Pelt (1892–1981), Dutch journalist, international civil servant and diplomat
- Adriaan van Ravesteijn (1938–2015), Dutch gallerist and art collector
- Adriaan Stoop (1856–1935), Dutch oil explorer
- Adriaen Jorissen Tienpoint (fl. 1624–26), Dutch explorer of the American East coast
- Adriaan Schade van Westrum (1865–1917), Dutch-American newspaper editor
- Adriaan A. van der Willigen (1910–1986), Dutch philatelist
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