Goos (name) explained

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
• August Hermann Ferdinand Carl 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
• (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

• Goos Meeuwsen (born 1982), Dutch circus performer

See also

• Goos (disambiguation)

Notes and References

1. https://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/naam/is/Goos Goos
2. http://www.cbgfamilienamen.nl/nfb/detail_naam.php?gba_naam=Goos&nfd_naam=Goos&info=analyse+en+verklaring&operator=eq&taal= Goos