Maurits Explained
Maurits is the Dutch equivalent of the masculine given name Maurice. People with the name include:
Royalty
Other people
- Maurits, pseudonym of Paulus Adrianus Daum (1850–1898), Dutch author
- Maurits Allessie (born 1945), Dutch physiologist
- Maurits de Baar (born 1997), Dutch footballer
- Maurits Basse (1868–1944), Belgian writer and teacher
- Maurits Binger (1868–1923), Dutch film director
- Maurits van den Boogert (born 1972, Dutch historian of the Ottoman Empire
- Maurits Caransa (1916–2009), Dutch real-estate developer and kidnapping victim
- Maurits Coppieters (1920–2005), Belgian politician
- Maurits Crucq (born 1968), Dutch field hockey player
- Maurits De Schrijver (born 1951), Belgian football player
- Maurits Dekker (1896–1962), Dutch novelist
- Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898–1972), Dutch graphic artist
- Maurits Gysseling (1919–1997), Belgian researcher
- Maurits Frederik Hendrik de Haas (1832–1895), Dutch-American marine painter
- Maurits Hansen (1794–1842), Norwegian writer
- Maurits Hendriks (born 1961), Dutch field hockey coach
- Maurits Jonkman (born 1986), Dutch cricket player
- Maurits Lammertink (born 1990), Dutch racing cyclist
- (1904–1985), Dutch zoologist
- Maurits Lindström (1932–2009), a Swedish geologist
- Maurits van Löben Sels (1876–1944), Dutch fencer
- Maurits Niekerk (1871–1940), Dutch impressionist painter
- Maurits van Nierop (1983–2008), Dutch cricket player
- Maurits Pasques de Chavonnes (1654–1724), Dutch Governor of the Cape Colony
- Maurits Post (1645–1677), Dutch architect
- Maurits van Rooijen (born 1956), Dutch social and economic historian
- Maurits Sabbe (1873–1938), Belgian writer
- Maurits Schmitz (born 1993), Dutch football player
- (1840–1907), Dutch meteorologist and polar explorer
Other
- the Mauritshuis, a museum in The Hague, which was built by John Maurice of Nassau
- Staatsmijn Maurits, a state-owned coal mine in Geleen, Netherlands
- Mauritsstad, capital of Dutch Brazil and is now a part of Recife
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