Albertus Jacobus Duymaer van Twist
{{short description|Dutch politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Albertus Jacobus Duymaer van Twist
| image = Duymaer van Twist.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Albertus Jacobus Duymaer van Twist in 1861
| order =
| office = Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
| term_start = 15 May 1851
| term_end = 22 May 1856
| monarch = William III
| primeminister =
| predecessor = Jan Jacob Rochussen
| successor = Charles Ferdinand Pahud
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1809|2|20|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Deventer, Kingdom of Holland
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1887|12|3|1809|2|20|df=yes}}
| death_place = Diepenveen, Netherlands}}
Albertus Jacobus Duymaer van Twist (20 February 1809 – 3 December 1887) was the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1851 to 1856.{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.parlement.com/id/vg09ll05tywt/a_j_duymaer_van_twist Mr. A.J. Duymaer van Twist], Parlement & Politiek; retrieved 17 January 2015.
File:Herman Antonie de Bloeme - Albertus Jacob Duymaer van Twist.jpg
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Taxon named in his honor
- The fish yellow-breasted wrasse, Anampses twistii was named after him.{{cite journal | author = Bleeker, P. | year = 1856 | title = Beschrijvingen van nieuwe en weinig bekende vischsoorten van Amboina, verzameld op eene reis door den Molukschen Archipel, gedaan in het gevolg van den Gouverneur Generaal Duymaer van Twist, in September en Oktober 1855 | journal = Acta Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Indo-Neêrlandicae | volume = 1 | pages = 1–72, 73–76 | url = https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=C1SnVRgXINoC&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.RA3-PP27| language = nl}}
- Iniistius twistii, the Redblotch razorfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish from the family Labridae, the wrasses. It is found in the Western Pacific Ocean.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/labriformes2/ | title = Order LABRIFORMES: Family LABRIDAE (i-x) | access-date= 7 February 2023 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018}}
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{{S-aft|after=Charles Ferdinand Pahud}}
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