{{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = Lieutenant admiral | name = Luuk Kroon | image = File:Luuk Kroon portrait.jpg | image_size = 250px | alt = | caption = Kroon in 2004 | nickname = | office = Chiefs of the Defence Staff | term_start = 5 June 1998 | term_end = 5 June 2004 | predecessor = General Henk van den Breemen | successor = General Dick Berlijn | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1942|12|13|df=y}} | birth_place = Ridderkerk, Netherlands | death_date = {{Death date and age|2012|6|19|1942|12|13|df=y}} | death_place = The Hague, Netherlands | placeofburial = | allegiance = {{flag|Netherlands}} | branch = {{navy|Netherlands}} | service_years = 1961–2004 | rank = 20px Lieutenant admiral | servicenumber = | unit = | commands = | battles = | awards = | relations = | laterwork = }}
'''Luuk Kroon''' (13 December 1942, Ridderkerk – 19 June 2012) was a Dutch naval officer. Kroon served as the Commander of the Royal Netherlands Navy from 1995 to 1998 and Chief of the Netherlands Defence Staff from 1998 until 2004.<ref name=nos>{{cite news|title=Oud-topmilitair Kroon overleden |url=http://nos.nl/artikel/387555-ouddefensiechef-kroon-overleden.html |work=NOS Nieuws |date=2012-06-24 |access-date=2012-07-03}}</ref> He died in The Hague on 19 June 2012, at the age of 69.<ref name=nos/>
==Awards and decorations== * Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau with Swords * Officer's Long Service Cross * Marriage Medal 2002 (celebrates the wedding of Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and Máxima Zorreguieta) * Navy Medal * Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Belgium * Commander of the Legion of Merit (United States) * Commander of the Legion of Honour (France) * Officer of the National Order of Merit (France) (''Ordre National du Mérite'') * Cross of Honour of the Bundeswehr in Gold (Germany)
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== External links == * {{Commons category-inline|Luuk Kroon}}
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