De Bilt () is a municipality and town in the province of Utrecht, Netherlands. It had a population of in . De Bilt houses the headquarters of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI).
It is the ancestral home and namesake of the prominent Vanderbilt family of the United States.
Population centres
The municipality of De Bilt consists of the following cities, towns, villages and/or districts: Bilthoven, De Bilt, Groenekan, Hollandsche Rading, Maartensdijk, and Westbroek.
Topography
Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of De Bilt, June 2015
Notable people
- Nicolaas van Nieuwland (1510 in Maartensdijk â 1580) Bishop of Haarlem and abbot of Egmond Abbey 1562 to 1569.
- Joan Gideon Loten (1710 in Groenekan â 1789) worked in the Dutch East India Company, the 29th Governor of Zeylan
- The Vanderbilt family, prominent in the USA during the Gilded Age, takes its name from the town, meaning 'from De Bilt'.
- Johan Beyen (1897 in Bilthoven â 1976) a politician, helped create the European Economic Community
- Auke Bloembergen (1927 in De Bilt â 2016) a jurist, justice at the Supreme Court of the Netherlands 1979 to 1993
- Els Borst (1932 â 2014 in Bilthoven) a Dutch politician, academic and physician
- Ad Donker (1933 in Bilthoven â 2002) a pioneering publisher of social critical works in South Africa
- Anne Sjerp Troelstra (1939 in Maartensdijk â 2019) a maths professor the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam.
- Madelon Hooykaas (born 1942 in Maartensdijk) a video artist, photographer and film maker
- Madelon Vriesendorp (born 1945 in Bilthoven) an artist, co-founded of the Office of Metropolitan Architecture
- Erik van der Wurff (1945 in De Bilt â 2014) a pianist, composer, arranger, producer and conductor
- Frederik de Groot (born 1946 in Bilthoven) a Dutch actor and TV spokesman for ING Direct Canada
- Thomas von der Dunk (born 1961) a cultural historian, writer and columnist; raised in Bilthoven
- Albert Schram (born 1964 in De Bilt) the Vice Chancellor of the Papua New Guinea University of Technology
- Bas Haring (born 1968 in De Bilt) a writer of popular science and children's literature and TV presenter
- Jetske van den Elsen (born 1972 in De Bilt) a Dutch female television presenter
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