Van der Woude is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from the forest". The dative form of the particle indicates that the first people carrying the name came from a place called Het Woud of De Woud(e) ("the forest").Woude, van der at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands. Less common variants are Van der Wouden and Van der Woud. People with this name include:
Adriaan van der Woude (1930–2017), Dutch physicist Elizabeth van der Woude (1657–1694), Dutch traveller and writer Hatte van der Woude (born 1969), Dutch politician John Vander Woude, American politician Marc van der Woude (born 1960), Dutch jurist Willem van der Woude (1876–1974), Dutch mathematician
See also Van der Woude syndrome, congenital disorder first described in 1954 by American physician Anne Van der Woude (?–?) 5916 van der Woude, main-belt asteroid, named after Jet Propulsion Laboratory Image Coordinator Jurrie van der Woude (1935–2015)Jim Scarborough, Jurrie van der Woude at IMDb; Looking Back: Jurrie van der Woude's 37 years at JPL at planetary.org
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