Hooft, 't Hooft etc. are different Dutch surnames. There are topographic or toponymic surnames related to the location named Hooft meaning "(the) head" (hoofd in modern Dutch) and 't, van der, etc. are tussenvoegsels (surname affixes).Hooft at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands. Notable people with the surnames include:
Tussenvoegsels are ignored in surname sorting. Anna Van Hooft (born 1980s), Canadian actress Cornelis Hooft (1547–1627), Dutch statesman, father of P.C. Hooft Catharina Hooft (1618–1691), woman of the Dutch Golden Age Elroy van der Hooft (born 1990), Dutch football forward Francis van 't Hooft (born 1940), Dutch field hockey player Gerard 't Hooft (born 1946), Dutch theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate Haas Visser 't Hooft (1905–1977), Dutch field hockey player
Hendrik Daniëlsz Hooft (1716–1794), Dutch politician during the Patriottentijd (1617–1678), Dutch mayor of Amsterdam, Henri Hooft (born 1969), Dutch kickboxer and trainer full name: Gerardina Anna Allegonda Martina Hooft Jenny Visser-Hooft born Jeannette Hooft (1888–1939), Dutch traveler, mountaineer, and writer Jotie T'Hooft (1956–1977), Flemish Belgian neo-romantic poet
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581–1647), Dutch historian, poet and playwright Willem Visser 't Hooft (1900–1985), Dutch theologian and the first secretary general of the World Council of Churches
See also
Named after Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft , artificial islet in the IJmeer P. C. Hooft Award, Dutch language literary lifetime achievement award MV Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch ocean liner built in 1925 Named after Gerard 't Hooft 9491 Thooft (without an apostrophe), a main-belt asteroid Quantum field theory terminology: 't Hooft matching condition 't Hooft loop 't Hooft symbol 't Hooft–Polyakov monopole
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