Van den Bosch
Appearance
Van den Bosch is a Dutch toponymic surname, originally indicating either an association with a forest ("bosch", modern Dutch "bos"), with a place/dwelling named "Den Bosch" or with the city Den Bosch. In the Netherlands about 10,200 carried the name in 2007,[1] while in Belgium 3755 people were named Van Den Bosch and another 3164 were named Vandenbosch, Vandebosch or Vanden Bosch in 2008.[2] Other variant spellings are Van der Bosch and Van den Bos.
People with this surname include:
- Engelbertus Batavus van den Bosch (1789-1851), Dutch admiral and Minister of Colonies
- Hippolyte Van den Bosch (1926-2011), Belgian footballer
- Ingrid Vandebosch (b. 1970), Belgian model and actress
- Jean Van Den Bosch (1898-1985), Belgian cyclist
- Jean van den Bosch (1910-1985), Belgian diplomat
- Jean Van Der/den Bosch, guitarist and vocalist of the The Vipers Skiffle Group
- Johannes van den Bosch (1780-1844), Dutch Lieutenant General and Minister of Colonies.
- Johannes van den Bosch (1906-1994), Dutch chess player
- Johannes Adrianus van den Bosch (1813-1870), Dutch officer and politician; Minister of War from 1866-1868
- Kyle Vanden Bosch (b. 1978), American football player
- Linde van den Bosch (b. 1963), Dutch linguist
- Peter van der Bosch (1686-1736), Flemish Jesuit hagiographer
- Pieter Van den Bosch (1927-2009), Belgian footballer
- Rinus van den Bosch (1938-1996), Dutch artist
- Roelof Benjamin van den Bosch (1810-1862), Dutch botanist
- Tjalling van den Bosch (b. 1958), Dutch strongman
- Tom Van Den Bosch (b. 1985), Belgian cyclo-cross racer
See also
- Van den Bos, Dutch surname
- Van den Bossche, Flemish surname
- Bosch (disambiguation), both a Dutch and Catalan surname.
- fr:Vandenboschia, fern genus named after Roelof Benjamin van den Bosch
References
- ^ Bosch, van de / den / der in the Netherlands Surname Databse
- ^ van den bosch etc. at www.familienaam.be