Schouten Explained

Schouten is a surname of Dutch origin. It generally has an occupational root, where the forebear was a schout, but can also be patronymic, as Schoute once was used as a given name.^[1] The name is quite common in the Netherlands, ranking 37th in 2007 (17,626 people).^[2] Variations include Schout, Schoute, Schoutens, Scholten and Scholte. People with this surname include:

• Bernardus Dominicus Schouten (born 1979), Dutch Commander G550
• Ank Bijleveld-Schouten (born 1962), Dutch politician
• Antoine Schouten (born 1946), Canadian field hockey player
• (born 1967), Dutch speedskating coach
• Bas Schouten (born 1994), Dutch racing driver
• Bryan Schouten (born 1994), Dutch motorcycle racer
• Carola Schouten (born 1977), Dutch politician
• Dirk Bernard Joseph Schouten (1923–2018), Dutch economist
• Erik Schouten (born 1991), Dutch footballer
• (born 1977), Dutch boxer
• Gerrit Schouten (1779–1839), Surinamese diorama artist
• Henk Schouten (1932–2018), Dutch footballer
• Irene Schouten (born 1992), Dutch speed skater
• Jaap Schouten (born 1984), Dutch rower
• Jan Arnoldus Schouten (1883–1971), Dutch mathematician
• Jan Frederik Schouten (1910–1980), Dutch physician
• Jerdy Schouten (born 1997), Dutch footballer
• Johanna Schouten-Elsenhout (1910–1992), Surinamese poet
• Joost Schouten (c.1600–1640), Member of the Council of the Dutch East India Company
• Lydia Schouten (born 1948), Dutch performance and video artist
• Peter Schouten, Australian illustrator in the field of zoology and palaeontology.
• Pieter Schouten (fl. 1622–1625), Dutch corsair and privateer
• Raymond Schouten (born 1985), Dutch motorcycle racer
• Willem Schouten (c. 1567–1625), Dutch explorer and circumnavigator who named Cape Horn
• Wim Schouten (1878–1941), Dutch Olympic sailor
• (1638–1704), Dutch physician and travel writer

Schoute

• Pieter Hendrik Schoute (1846–1913), Dutch mathematician

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• Pieter Jacobsz Schout (1570–1645), Dutch mayor of Haarlem.
• Members of the Haarlem schutterij portrayed by Frans Hals between 1616 and 1639, including Cornelis Jacobsz Schout, Jacob Cornelisz Schout, Loth Schout, and Pieter Schout

Named after a Schouten

• Islands:
  • Schouten Island, island in Tasmania named after Joost Schouten
  • Schouten Islands or Biak Islands or Geelvink Islands, in Indonesia, north of New Guinea, named after Willem Schouten, who visited them in 1616
  • Schouten Islands or Eastern Schouten Islands or Le Maire Islands, of Papua New Guinea, named after Willem Schouten, who visited them in 1616
    • Schouten languages, spoken on and near the Schouten Islands of Papua New Guinea
• 11773 Schouten, a main-belt asteroid named after Willem Schouten
• Mathematics (named after Jan Arnoldus Schouten)
  • Schouten tensor, a mathematical object related to differential geometry
  • Schouten–Nijenhuis bracket, mathematical operator
  • Weyl–Schouten theorem
• Schoutenia, a plant genus named after the explorer Willem Schouten
• J.F. Schouten School for User System Interaction named after Jan Frederik Schouten

See also

• Scholten

Notes and References

1. http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nfb/detail_naam.php?gba_naam=Schouten&nfd_naam=Schouten&info=analyse%20en%20verklaring&operator=eq&taal=eng Schouten
2. Leender Brouwer, The top 100 surnames in the Netherlands