Wynant
Wijnands, Wynants and variants are Dutch patronymic surnames, meaning son of Wijnand (also spelled Wijnant, Winand, and, in Afrikaans, Wynand).[1] Among more common variant spellings in the Low Countries[2] are Wijnands (3442 + 108), Wynants (28 + 1985), Wijnants (429 + 1143), Wynant (<5 + 554), Wijnant (38 + 268), and Wijnand (280 + 13). The form Winant is more common in the United States.
Surname
[edit]People with these surnames include:
Wijnands
[edit]- Ad Wijnands (born 1959), Dutch racing cyclist
- Onno Wijnands (1945–1993), Dutch botanist
Wijnants
[edit]- Jan Wijnants (1632–1684, buried 1684), Dutch painter
- Jan Wijnants (cyclist) (born 1958), Belgian racing cyclist
- Ludwig Wijnants (born 1956), Belgian professional road bicycle racer
- Olaf Wijnants (born 1948), Dutch actor
- Sarah Wijnants (born 1999), Belgian football forward
Winant
[edit]- Carmen Winant (born 1983), American writer and visual artist
- Ethel Winant (1922–2003), American casting director and vice-president of CBS
- Howard Winant (born 1946), American sociologist and race theorist
- John Gilbert Winant (1889–1947), American politician
- Scott Winant, American television director and producer
- William Winant (born 1953), American percussionist
Winants
[edit]- Luc Winants (born 1963), Belgian chess player
Wynand
[edit]- Patrecia Wynand, stagename of Patrecia Scott (1940–1977), American model and actress
- Paul Wynand (1879–1956), German sculptor and medalist
Wynant
[edit]- Adam Wynant (born 1977), American boxer
- H. M. Wynant (born 1927), American film and television actor
Wynants
[edit]- Dirk Wynants (born 1964), Flemish furniture designer
- Laure Wynants, Belgian epidemiologist
- Maarten Wynants (born 1982), Belgian racing cyclist
- Milton Wynants (born 1972), Uruguayan racing cyclist
- Pierre Wynants (born 1939), Belgian chef
Given name
[edit]- Winant Sidle (1916–2005), major general in the United States Army
- Winant Van Winkle (1879–1943), New Jersey politician
See also
[edit]- Wynants Kill, a stream in New York named after Wijnant Gerritsen van der Poel (1617–1699)
- Wilbur Wynant House, in Indiana
- Gail Wynand, character in the novel The Fountainhead
- Wijnen, a Dutch surname of similar origin
- Winans (disambiguation), a similar surname
- All pages with titles containing Wijnants
- All pages with titles containing Winant
- All pages with titles containing Wynant
- All pages with titles containing Wynants
References
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