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Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

occupational surname In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, ...

meaning

cooper Cooper, Cooper's, Coopers and similar may refer to: * Cooper (profession), a maker of wooden casks and other staved vessels Arts and entertainment * Cooper (producers), alias of Dutch producers Klubbheads * Cooper (video game character), in ...

. Common spelling variants include Kuyper, Kuipers, Kuijper, Kuijpers,

Kuypers Kuijpers or Kuypers is a Dutch language, Dutch surname corresponding to the English Cooper (surname), Cooper.De Kuyper. Notable people with the name include:

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* Adrian Kuiper (born 1959), South African cricketer *

Barend Klaas Kuiper Barend Klaas Kuiper (July 16, 1877 – July 21, 1961) was a history professor and author who wrote about Dutch Calvinist church history and the Protestant Reformation. Personal life Kuiper was born in Oud-Loosdrecht in the Netherlands on July 1 ...

(1877–1961), Dutch-American historian * David Kuiper (born 1980), Dutch rower *

Duane Kuiper Duane Eugene Kuiper (born June 19, 1950), nicknamed "Kuip", is an American sportscaster and former professional baseball player. As a player, he was a second baseman for the Cleveland Indians and San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball ( ...

(born 1950), American baseball player *

Edith Kuiper Edith Kuiper (born 1960) is the assistant professor of economics at State University of New York at New Paltz, and she was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2006 to 2007. In 1993 Kuiper organized ...

(born 1960), Dutch economist *

Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper (July 7, 1907 – November 14, 2003) was a distinguished scholar in Indology, and "one of the last great Indologists of the past century ... His very innovative work covers virtually all the fields of Indo-Irania ...

(1907–2003), Dutch Indologist *

Gerard Kuiper Gerard Peter Kuiper (; ; born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper; 7 December 1905 – 23 December 1973) was a Dutch astronomer, planetary scientist, selenographer, author and professor. He is the eponymous namesake of the Kuiper belt. Kuiper is ...

(1905–1973), Dutch-American astronomer after whom the

Kuiper belt The Kuiper belt () is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune at 30 astronomical units (AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun. It is similar to the asteroid belt, but is far larger—20 times ...

was named *

Glen Kuiper Glen Alan Kuiper (born May 20, 1963) is a broadcaster for the Oakland Athletics Major League Baseball team. Kuiper serves as the primary announcer for A's games on NBC Sports California and is also an occasional announcer for the Athletics Ra ...

(born 1963) American broadcaster *

Hennie Kuiper Hendrikus Andreas "Hennie" Kuiper (born 3 February 1949) is a Dutch former professional road racing cyclist. His career includes a gold medal in the Olympic road race at Munich in 1972, becoming world professional road race champion in 1975, a ...

(born 1949), Dutch cyclist * J. P. Kuiper (1922–1985), Dutch professor of social medicine *

Michael Kuiper Michael Jan Hugo Kuiper (born June 7, 1989) is a Dutch mixed martial artist who most recently competed in the Light Heavyweight division. A professional competitor since 2009, he has competed for the UFC and Titan FC. Mixed martial arts career ...

(born 1989), Dutch martial artist * Nick Kuiper (born 1982), Canadian ice hockey player * Nicky Kuiper (born 1989), Dutch footballer *

Nicolaas Kuiper Nicolaas Hendrik Kuiper (; 28 June 1920 – 12 December 1994) was a Dutch mathematician, known for Kuiper's test and proving Kuiper's theorem. He also contributed to the Nash embedding theorem. Kuiper studied at University of Leiden in 1937-4 ...

(1920–1994), Dutch mathematician, known for Kuiper's test,

Kuiper's theorem In mathematics, Kuiper's theorem (after Nicolaas Kuiper) is a result on the topology of operators on an infinite-dimensional, complex Hilbert space ''H''. It states that the space GL(''H'') of invertible bounded endomorphisms of ''H'' is such ...

, and the

Eells–Kuiper manifold In mathematics, an Eells–Kuiper manifold is a compactification of \R^n by a sphere of dimension n/2, where n=2,4,8, or 16. It is named after James Eells and Nicolaas Kuiper. If n=2, the Eells–Kuiper manifold is diffeomorphic to the real proje ...

Peter Kuiper Peter Kuiper (Langsa, 30 March 1929 – Berlin, 28 September 2007) was a German actor of film, theatre and television. He died in Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany ...

(1929–2007), Dutch-German actor *

Piet Kuiper Pieter Jan Cornelis "Piet" Kuiper (30 July 1934 – 10 December 2017) was a Dutch botanist. He was professor of plant physiology at the University of Groningen from 1974 to 1999. Kuiper was born in Hoorn. He obtained his PhD in 1961 at the Landbo ...

(born 1934), Dutch botanist *

Rienk Kuiper Rienk Bouke Kuiper (January 31, 1886 – April 22, 1966)
at Westminster Theological Seminary was a pastor and prof ...

(1886–1966), Frisian-Dutch president of Calvin College *

Roel Kuiper Roelof (Roel) Kuiper (born 5 April 1962 in Mariënberg) is a Dutch historian, philosopher, ideologue, politician and university professor. He was from 2007 to 2019 a member of the Dutch Senate, and is professor of Reformational philosophy at th ...

(born 1962), Dutch historian, philosopher and politician *

Taco Kuiper Taco Esgo Kuiper (11 November 1941 in Batavia, Dutch East Indies – 24 September 2004 in Johannesburg, South Africa) was an investigative journalist and wealthy publisher in South Africa. He was best known in the late 20th century as owner a ...

(1941–2004), South African publisher and journalist

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Abraham Kuyper Abraham Kuyper (; ; 29 October 1837 – 8 November 1920) was the Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905, an influential neo-Calvinist theologian and a journalist. He established the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, which upo ...

(1837–1920), Dutch prime minister, theologian, and founder of a

Protestant church Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to b ...

* Elisabeth Kuyper (1877–1953), Dutch Romantic composer and conductor * Frans Kuyper (1629–1691), Dutch Socinian writer and printer * Jacques Kuyper (1761–1808), Dutch draftsman and composer

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