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 (born 1937), 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 Windmill De Adriaan, Haarlem, a windmill in Haarlem, North Holland Dutch masculine given names