Goos (name)

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Goos is a Dutch and Low German masculine given name, a short form of Goswin,[1] as well as a patronymic surname ("son of Goos").[2]

Surname
  • Abraham Goos (c.1590–1643), Dutch cartographer and publisher, father of Pieter Goos
  • (1835–1917), Danish lawyer, professor and Minister of Iceland
  • Carl Andreas August Goos (1797–1855), German-Danish painter
  • Chris Goos (born 1981), American soccer player
  •  [de; fr] (born 1989), Belgian volleyball player
  • Fritz Goos (1883–1968), German physicist and astronomer a.o. known for the Goos–Hänchen effect
  • Marc Goos (born 1990), Dutch racing cyclist
  • Maria Goos (born 1956), Dutch playwright and screenwriter
  • Merrilyn Goos, Australian mathematician
  • Michelle Goos (born 1989), Dutch handball player
  • Pieter Goos (1616–1675), Dutch cartographer, copperplate engraver, publisher and bookseller
  • Sofie Goos (born 1980), Belgian triathlete
Given name

References[]

  1. ^ Goos at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands.
  2. ^ Goos at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.

See also[]

  • Goos (disambiguation)
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