Van der Pol explained

Van der Pol (also "Van de Pol", "Van de Poll", "Van den Pol" or "Van Pol") is a Dutch, toponymic surname, originally meaning "from the raised land".^[1] Notable people with the surname include:

Van der Pol(l) / Vanderpol

• Alfred Vanderpol (1854–1915), French engineer, philanthropist and author
• Anneliese van der Pol (born 1984), Dutch-born American actress and singer
• Balthasar van der Pol (1889–1959), Dutch physicist
  • a.o. known for the Van der Pol oscillator and the Bonhoeffer-van der Pol model
• Jaap van der Poll (1914–2010), Dutch javelin thrower
• Jos van der Pol (born 1961), Dutch conceptual and installation artist
• Liesbeth van der Pol (born 1959), Dutch architect

Van de Pol

• (1907–1996), Dutch billiards player

Van den Pol

• Anthony van den Pol (1949–2020), Yale Professor of Neurosurgery

Van Pol

• Christiaan van Pol (1752–1813), Dutch flower painter
• Thijs van Pol (born 1991), Dutch football forward
• Vera van Pol (born 1993), Dutch artistic gymnast
• Louis van der Pol (1896–1982), Dutch impressionist painter

See also

• 10443 van der Pol, main-belt asteroid named after Balthasar van der Pol
• Pol (disambiguation)
• , Dutch noble family
• Jacob R. H. Neervoort van de Poll (1862–1924), Dutch entomologist

Notes and References

1. http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nfb/detail_naam.php?gba_naam=van%20der%20Pol&nfd_naam=Pol,%20van%20de%20/%20den%20/%20der&info=analyse%20en%20verklaring&operator=eq Pol, van de / den / der