Kouwenhoven is a Dutch toponymic surnameKouwenhoven at the Database of Surnames in the Netherlands Notable people with the surname include:
Ben Kouwenhoven (born 1965), Dutch sailor, twin brother of Jan Elly Kouwenhoven (born 1949), Dutch politician Ernest Kouwen-Hoven (1875–1940), Dutch-born founder of Indialantic, Florida Guus Kouwenhoven (born 1942), Dutch national who stood trial for arms smuggling and war crimes in Liberia Jan Kouwenhoven (born 1965), Dutch competitive sailor, twin brother of Ben Leo Kouwenhoven (born 1963), Dutch physicist Marisca Kouwenhoven (born 1976), Dutch chess master Mike Kouwenhoven (born 1959), Canadian-born Dutch ice hockey player William B. Kouwenhoven (1886–1975), American electrical engineer and co-inventor of CPR Wolfert Gerritse van Couwenhoven (1579–1662), Dutch settler in America in 1625; a founder of the New Netherland colony
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See also Coudenhove-Kalergi, Bohemian family. The Dutch part of the surname has the same origin and meaning as Kouwenhoven