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This project provides an overview of notable, direct descendants of New Amsterdam immigrants (1609-1674).

Wikipedia provides an interesting overview of famous Americans of Dutch descent. On this Geni page, we focus only on direct descendants from the 1609-1674 immigration (not necessarily of Dutch origin).

Famous New Amsterdam descendants

Politics

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt, US President
• Theodore Roosevelt, US President
• Martin Van Buren, US President

Media & Entertainment

• Humphrey Bogart, actor
• Marlon Brando, actor
• Walter Cronkite, journalist
• Cecil B. DeMille, film director
• Henry Fonda, actor
• Jane Fonda, actress
• Peter Fonda, actor
• Dennis Hopper, actor
• Bruce Springsteen, singer

Business

• Henry Rutgers, philantropist and benefactor to Rutgers University
• Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, philantropist and sportsman
• Cornelius Vanderbilt, shipping and railroad magnate
• Jacob Aaron Westervelt, shipbuilder and politician

Science

• Myndert Van Schaick, founder of New York University

Arts & Literature

• Keith Haring, artist and social activist
• John Updike, novelist and poet

Sports