Jaap (given name)
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Jaap is a Dutch given name that is short for Jacob or Jacobus.
Notable people with this name
- Jaap Bakema, Dutch architect
- Jaap Bulder, Dutch athlete
- Jaap Eden, Dutch speed skater
- Jaap Haartsen, inventor of Bluetooth
- Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch politician
- Jaap Kunst, Dutch ethnomusicologist
- Jaap Meijer, Dutch track cyclist
- Jaap Penraat, Dutch resistance fighter during the Second World War
- Jaap van Praag, Dutch sports director
- Jaap van Praag, prominent Dutch humanist
- Jaap Schröder, Dutch violinist and conductor
- Jaap Spaanderman, Dutch musician and conductor
- Jaap Stam, Dutch footballer
- Jaap van Zweden, Dutch violinist and conductor