Boudewijn Maria Ignatius Büch (14 December 1948[1] – 23 November 2002) was a Dutch writer, poet and television presenter.

[2] One of Büch's most successful television programmes was De wereld van Boudewijn Büch (VARA, summer 1988 – autumn 2001), in which he travelled all around the world to show and give his views on various places, people and phenomena.

[3] Büch was a bibliophile, specializing in various subjects, including biology, Goethe and explorers.

He wrote five non-fiction books on the subject of islands, commonly known in Dutch as the 'Islands series'.

Büch was found dead in his house on Amsterdam's Keizersgracht on 23 November 2002 and is believed to have died that day at circa 2pm of a cardiac arrest.