Van den Hoek
Van den Hoek is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from the corner".[1] Variations on the name include Van Hoek, Van der Hoek, Van den Hoeck, Van den Hoecke, and concatenated forms of these. The surname Verhoek is a contraction of "Van der Hoek". People with these surnames include:
- Van den Hoek
- Aad van den Hoek (born 1951), Dutch racing cyclist
- Arnold van den Hoek (1921–1945), Dutch chess player
- Bianca van den Hoek (born 1976), Dutch racing cyclist
- Cornelis Pieter van den Hoek (1921–2015), Dutch World War II resistance fighter
- Leanne van den Hoek (born 1958), Dutch army officer
- Martyn van den Hoek (1957–2022), Dutch classical pianist [1]
- Van der Hoek
See Van der Hoek.
- Van den Hoeck
- Abraham Vandenhoeck (1700–1750), Dutch founder of the German scholarly publishing house Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
- Anna Vandenhoeck (1709–1787), German printer
- Van den Hoecke
- Gaspar van den Hoecke (c. 1585–after 1648), Flemish still life painter
- Jan van den Hoecke (1611–1651), Flemish painter and draughtsman, son of Gaspar
- Robert van den Hoecke (1622–1668), Flemish battle scenes painter, son of Gaspar
- Van Hoek
- Hans van Hoek (born 1947), Dutch painter and woodcarver
- John Van Hoek (born 1952), Australian judoka
- Lotte van Hoek (born 1991), Dutch racing cyclist
See also
[edit]- Hoek (surname), Dutch surname of the same origin
- Hoek (disambiguation)
References
[edit]- ^ Hoek, van den at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands