Bemelmans is a surname. Notable people with that surname: Fons Bemelmans (born 1938) Dutch artist Ludwig Bemelmans (1898–1962), Austria-Hungary-born American writer and illustrator of children's books Bemelmans Bar in the Carlyle Hotel, New York City, named after Ludwig Madeleine Bemelmans (born Madeleine Freund), animal rights activist Ruben Bemelmans (born 1988), Belgian tennis player Theo Bemelmans (born 1943), Dutch computer scientist