Johannes Camphuys

Johannes Camphuys
Portrait of Johannes Campuys
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
In office 11 January 1684 – 24 September 1691
Preceded by	Cornelis Speelman
Succeeded by	Willem van Outhoorn
Personal details
Born	(1634-07-18)18 July 1634 Haarlem, Dutch Republic
Died	18 July 1695(1695-07-18) (aged 61) Batavia, Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia)

Johannes Camphuys (registered as Kamphuis in the Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie) (18 July 1634 – 18 July 1695) was the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1684 to 1691. Camphuys was born in Haarlem, in the Republic of the United Netherlands.

At this point in Japanese history, the sole VOC outpost (or "factory") was situated on Dejima island in the harbor of Nagasaki on the southern island of Kyushu. Camphuys was three times sent to Japan as Opperhoofd or chief negotiant and officer of the VOC trading post.

Camphuys died in Batavia (Jakarta). He is commemorated in the name of a street in the Lombok neighbourhood of Utrecht; and he is also remembered in the name of a street in the Bezuidenhoutquarter of The Hague.