Bouts is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Dieric Bouts (c. 1415–1475), an early Netherlandish painter Aelbrecht Bouts (c. 1452–1549), painter, son of Dieric Dieric Bouts the Younger (1448–1491), painter, son of Dieric Jordy Bouts (born 1996), Belgian racing cyclist Paul Bouts, Belgian phrenologist and pedagogue