Van Wijngaarden is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from Wijngaarden", a town in South Holland. Alternatively, it can refer to an origin in Sint Jacobiparochie in Friesland, which originally also was called "Wijngaarden".Wijngaarden, van at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands. People with this name include:
Adriaan van Wijngaarden (1916–1987), Dutch mathematician and computer scientist He devised a.o. the Van Wijngaarden grammar and the Van Wijngaarden transformation (born 1964), Dutch archeologist Jeroen van Wijngaarden (born 1978), Dutch VVD politician (1898–1950), Dutch motorcycle racer Theo van Wijngaarden (1874–1952), Dutch art forger
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