Ruysch or Ruijsch is a Dutch

patronymic surname A patronymic surname is a surname originated from the given name of the father or a patrilineal ancestor. Different cultures have different ways of producing patronymic surnames. For example, early patronymic Welsh surnames were the result of th ...

, derived from the archaic Dutch given name ''Ruis''.Ruis
at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands Variant forms are ''

Ruijs Ruijs or Ruys is a Dutch patronymic surname, derived from the archaic Dutch given name ''Ruis''. Variant forms are ''Ruijsch'', ''Ruis'', ''Ruisch'' and '' Ruysch''. People with the surname include: *Anna Charlotte Ruys (1898–1977), Dutch bacter ...

'', ''Ruis'' and ''Ruisch''. People with the surname include: *

Johannes Ruysch Johannes Ruysch (c. 1460? in Utrecht – 1533 in Cologne), a.k.a. ''Johann Ruijsch'' or ''Giovanni Ruisch'' was an explorer, cartographer, astronomer, manuscript illustrator and painter from the Low Countries who produced a famous map of the world ...

(c.1460–1533), Dutch explorer, cartographer, astronomer, manuscript illustrator and painter ** Ruysch Map of the World, his 1507 map, second to show the New World * Frederik Ruysch (1638—1731), Dutch doctor and anatomist, remembered for his developments in anatomical preservation * Rachel Ruysch (1664—1750), Dutch artist who specialized in still-life paintings of flowers, daughter of Frederik Ruysch *

Anna Ruysch Anna Ruysch (baptized 19 December 1666, in The Hague – buried 7 January 1754, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch Golden Age flower painter. Life Anna Ruysch (sometimes called Anna Elisabeth Ruysch) was the daughter of Maria Post and Frederik Ruysch, a ...

(1666–1741), Dutch flower painter, daughter of Frederik Ruysch

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