Roos (surname)
Roos is a surname with multiple origins. In Dutch, Low German and Swiss German “Roos” means “Rose” and the surname is often of toponymic origin (e.g. someone lived in a house named “the rose”)[1] In 2007, 8600 people were named Roos and another 2880 “de Roos” in the Netherlands.[2] In the UK, Roos may be of patronymic origin (“Andrews”) or indicating red hair (Old English “Rouse”). [3] The name is also relatively common in Sweden (5,902 people in 2010) and Finland (1219 in 2012)[4]
People with the name "Roos" or "de Roos" include:
- Arts
- Amy Mothersbaugh Roos (b. 1962), American artist and gallerist
- Cajetan Roos (1690-1770), Italian landscape painter, son of Philipp Peter
- Camilla Overbye Roos (b. 1969), Danish film actress
- Don Roos (born 1959), American screenwriter and film director
- Enn Roos (1908-1990), Estonian Soviet sculptor
- Eva Roos (1872-1956), British children's books illustrator
- Fred Roos (born 1934), American film producer
- Graham Roos (b. 1966), British producer, writer and performer
- Jaime Roos (b. 1953), Uruguayan musician
- Jan Roos (c.1591-1638), Flemish painter who worked in Italy as Giovanni Rosa
- Joanna Roos (1901-1989), American actress and playwright
- Johann Heinrich Roos (1631-1685), German painter, father of Philipp Peter and Johann Melchior
- Johann Melchior Roos (1663-1731), German painter, son of Johann Heinrich
- Joseph Roos (1726-1805), Austrian painter, son of Cajetan
- Kelly Roos, pseudonym of William Roos (1911-1987) and Audrey Kelley (1912-1982), American crime fiction writers
- Kjell Roos (b. 1965), Swedish guitarist and singer
- Martin Roos (b. 1972), Swedish guitarist and manager of Kent
- Mary Roos (b. 1949), German singer and actor
- Noella Roos (b. 1969), Dutch painter
- Philipp Peter Roos (1655-1706), German painter, son of Johann Heinrich
- S.H. de Roos (1877-1962), Dutch type and book cover designer and artist
- Stefan Roos (b. 1970), Swedish actor and screen writer
- Theodor Roos (1638-1698), German painter, brother of Johann Heinrich
- Toon Roos (b. 1964), Dutch jazz saxophonist and composer
- William Roos (1808-1878), Welsh painter and engraver
- Sports
- Aat de Roos (1919-1992), Dutch field hockey player
- Ann-Sofi Roos (b. 1959), Swedish Olympic swimmer
- Axel Roos (b. 1964), German football player and coach
- Bertil Roos (1943-2016), Formula One driver from Sweden
- David Roos (b. 1982), South African paralympian athlete
- Elisandro Naressi Roos (b. 1976), a.k.a. Santiago, Brazilian footballer
- JC Roos (b. 1990), South African rugby player
- Jake Roos (b. 1980), South African golfer
- Michael Roos (b. 1982), Estonian-born American football player
- Michael Roos (b. 1991), Swiss ice hockey player
- Nancy Roos (1905–1957), American chess champion
- Paul Roos (1880–1948), South African rugby player, first Springbok captain
- Paul Roos (b. 1963), Australian rules football player and coach
- Suzy Powell-Roos (b. 1976), American discus thrower
- Military
- Axel Erik Roos (1684-1765), Swedish general
- Carl Gustaf Roos (1655-1702), Swedish general
- George Roos-Keppel (1866-1921), British military officer
- Margareta Elisabeth Roos (1696–1772), Swedish-Estonian cross-dressing female in the Swedish army
- Politics
- John Roos (b. 1955), American diplomat, former Ambassador to Japan
- Karl Roos (1878-1940), Alsace politician
- Lawrence K. Roos (1918-2005), American (Missouri) banker and politician
- Mike Roos (b. 1946), American (Californian) politician
- Thea de Roos (born 1949), Dutch historian and politician
- Tielman Roos (1879-1935), South African politician
- Other
- Barney Roos (1888-1960), American automotive engineer
- Folkert de Roos (1920-2000), Dutch economist
- J P Roos (b. 1945), Finnish sociologist
- Jan Roos (b. 1977), Dutch columnist
- Johan Roos (born 1961), Swedish organizational theorist
- Jorgen Roos (1922-1998), Danish documentary filmmaker
- Magnus Friedrich Roos (1727-1803), German theologian
- Martin Roos (b. 1942), Romanian Roman Catholic bishop
- Robert de Roos (c.1170-1227), ancestor of the Barons Ros of Helmsley
- Rosalie Roos (1823-1898), Swedish feminist activist and writer
- Victor Roos (1888-1964), American founder of several aircraft companies, including Cessna
See also
References
- ^ Roos Name Meaning at ancestry.com
- ^ Roos at the Meertens Institute database of surnames in the Netherlands
- ^ Roos at the HouseofNames.com
- ^ Roos in Finland
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