University of Franeker

Notable professors and alumni

• Jean-Nicolas-Sébastien Allamand, professor of philosophy then professor of mathematics and philosophy, University of Leiden
• Lieuwe van Aitzema, historian and diplomat
• William Ames, theologian
• Willem Baudartius, theologian
• Balthasar Bekker, theologian
• Court Lambertus van Beyma, delegate of the Frisian States
• Govert Bidloo, anatomist and personal physician of William III of Orange-Nassau, Dutch stadholder and king of England
• Cornelius van Bynkershoek, jurist and legal theorist, president of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands
• Steven Blankaart Dutch physician and entomologist
• Johannes Bogerman, professor for theology, president of the Synod of Dort
• Sebald Justinus Brugmans, professor of physics and mathematics 1585
• Petrus Camper, professor of philosophy, anatomy and surgery in 1750
• Johannes Cocceius, professor for Hebrew and theology, 1643
• René Descartes, student
• Johannes van den Driesche, professor of Oriental languages at Oxford in 1575 and in Franeker in 1585
• Sicco van Goslinga, Dutch statesman and diplomat
• Willem van Haren, poet and politician
• Onno Zwier van Haren, writer and politician
• Daniel Heinsius, student and later professor in Leiden
• Tiberius Hemsterhuis, professor of Greek and history, 1720–1740
• Ulrik Huber, professor of law and a political philosopher
• Theodorus van Kooten, professor of Latin language and history, poet and politician
• Johann Samuel König, professor for mathematics and philosophy, 1744–1749
• Joannes Antonides van der Linden, physician and medical bibliographer, 1639-1651
• Sibrandus Lubbertus, professor of theology 1585-1625
• Johannes Maccovius, professor of theology in 1615, brother in law of Saskia van Uylenburgh
• Henricus Antonides Nerdenus, professor of theology 1585-1614
• Adriaan Metius, mathematician and astronomer, professor extraordinarius in 1598
• Johannes Mulder, student and later professor in groningen
• Mattheus Brouërius van Nidek poet
• Jacob Perizonius, professor eloquence and history 1682-1693
• Murk van Phelsum, physician
• Herman Alexander Röell, professor of theology
• Petrus Stuyvesant, governor of New Amsterdam
• Jean Henri van Swinden, professor of physics and philosophy in 1766
• Christiaan Hendrik Trotz, professor of law 1741
• Johan Valckenaer, lawyer, patriot and diplomat
• Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer, professor of Greek 1741-1765
• Johannes Henricus Voorda, professor of law 1797-1802
• William IV, Prince of Orange, stadtholder of the Netherlands
• Eise Eisinga amateur astronomer who built the Eise Eisinga Planetarium in his house in Franeker, later became professor of astronomics