Rienk Bouke Kuiper (January 31, 1886 - April 22, 1966) was born in Garrelsweer, in the municipality of Loppersum, in the Netherlands. His family moved to Grand Haven, Michigan in 1891 when his father accepted a call to be minister of the Christian Reformed congregation there. Kuiper graduated from the University of Chicago (A.B., 1907); Indiana University (A.M., 1908); Calvin Theological Seminary (diploma, 1911); and Princeton Seminary (B.D., 1912).