• Source: Pieter

      • Pieter is a male given name, the Dutch form of Peter. The name has been one of the most common names in the Netherlands for centuries, but since the mid-twentieth century its popularity has dropped steadily, from almost 3000 per year in 1947 to about 100 a year in 2016.
      Some of the better known people with this name are below. See All pages with titles beginning with Pieter for a longer list.

      Pieter de Coninck (?-1332), Flemish revolutionary
      Pieter van der Moere (c. 1480–1572), Flemish Franciscan missionary in Mexico known as "Pedro de Gante"
      Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502–1550), Flemish artist, architect, and author
      Pieter Aertsen (1508–1575), Dutch Mannerist painter
      Pieter Pourbus (1523–1584), Netherlandish painter, sculptor, draftsman and cartographer
      Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c 1525–1569), Netherlandish painter
      Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (1540–1596), Dutch navigator who mapped the southern sky
      Pieter Platevoet (1552–1622), Dutch-Flemish astronomer and cartographer better known as "Petrus Plancius"
      Pieter Pauw (1564–1617), Dutch botanist
      Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564–1633), Netherlandish painter
      Pieter Both (1568–1615), first Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
      Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581–1647), Dutch historian, poet and playwright
      Pieter Lastman (1583–1633), Dutch painter of historical and biblical scenes
      Pieter de Carpentier (1586–1659), Dutch Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1623–27
      Pieter Nuyts (1598–1655), Dutch explorer, diplomat, and politician
      Pieter Claesz (1597–1660), Dutch still life painter
      Pieter Jansz Saenredam (1597–1665), Dutch painter of interiors
      Pieter van Laer (1599–1642), Dutch painter and printmaker
      Pieter de Grebber (c.1600–1653), Dutch Golden Age painter
      Pieter Post (1608–1669), Dutch architect
      Pieter Stuyvesant (later Peter) (c.1611–1672), Dutch Director-General of New Netherland 1647–64
      Pieter van der Faes (1618–1680), Dutch portrait painter in England known as "Peter Lely"
      Pieter Boel (1626–1674), Flemish still life and animal painter
      Pieter de Hooch (1629–1684), Dutch genre painter
      Pieter Leermans (1635-1706), Dutch painter
      Pieter van der Aa (1659–1733), Dutch publisher of maps and atlases
      Pieter Burmann the Elder (1668–1741), Dutch classical scholar
      Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692–1761), Dutch scientist and inventor
      Pieter Teyler van der Hulst (1702–1778), Dutch merchant and banker (of Teyler's Museum)
      Pieter Burmann the Younger (1714–1778), Dutch philologist
      Pieter Hellendaal (1721–1799), Dutch composer, organist and violinist
      Pieter van Maldere (1729–1768), South-Netherlandish violinist and composer
      Pieter Boddaert (1730–1795), Dutch physician and naturalist
      Pieter Gerardus van Overstraten (1755–1801), Governor-general of the Dutch East Indies 1796–1801
      Pieter Maurits Retief (1780–1838), South African Voortrekker leader
      Pieter Harting (1812–1885), Dutch biologist and naturalist
      Pieter de Decker (1812–1891), Prime Minister of Belgium 1855–57
      Pieter Bleeker (1819–1878), Dutch medical doctor, ichthyologist, and herpetologist
      Pieter Oyens (1842–1894), Dutch painter
      Pieter Cort van der Linden (1846–1935), Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1913–18
      Pieter Jelles Troelstra (1860–1930), Dutch socialist politician and republican
      Pieter Zeeman (1865–1943), Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate
      Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (1872–1944), Dutch abstract painter
      Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy (1885–1961), Prime Minister of the Netherlands in exile, 1940–45
      Pieter Geyl (1887–1966), Dutch historian
      Pieter Willem Botha (1916–2006), President of South Africa 1978–89
      Pieter Kooijmans (1933–2013), Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs (1973–77, 1993–94)
      Pieter van Vollenhoven (born 1939), the husband of princess Margriet of The Netherlands
      Pieter Aspe (1953–2021), Belgian crime fiction writer
      Pieter Hoekstra (born 1953), Dutch-American politician and diplomat
      Pieter De Crem (born 1962), Belgian Minister of Defence 2007–14
      Pieter Wispelwey (born 1962), Dutch cellist
      Pieter Smit (1963–2018), Dutch politician
      Pieter Timmermans, Belgian businessman
      Pieter Huistra (born 1967), Dutch footballer and football coach
      Pieter van den Hoogenband (born 1978), Dutch freestyle swimmer
      Pieter Weening (born 1981), Dutch road bicycle racer
      Pieter Timmers (born 1988), Belgian freestyle swimmer


      See also


      Sint Pieter, a village now incorporated in Maastricht
      Sint-Pieters, a suburb of Bruges
      Pieterburen, a village in the north of Groningen
      Peeter


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