Schouten is a surname of

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 ...

origin. It generally has an

occupational Employment is a relationship between two party (law), parties Regulation, regulating the provision of paid Labour (human activity), labour services. Usually based on a employment contract, contract, one party, the employer, which might be a co ...

root, where the forebear was a

schout In Dutch-speaking areas, a ''schout'' was a local official appointed to carry out administrative, law enforcement and prosecutorial tasks. The office was abolished with the introduction of administrative reforms during the Napoleonic period. Fun ...

, but can also be

patronymic A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor. Patronymics are still in use, including mandatory use, in many countries worldwide, alt ...

, as ''Schoute'' once was used as a given name. The name is quite common in the Netherlands, ranking 37th in 2007 (17,626 people).Leender Brouwer
The top 100 surnames in the Netherlands
/ref> Variations include ''Schout'', ''Schoute'', ''Schoutens'', '' Scholten'' and '' Scholte''. People with this surname include: *

Ank Bijleveld-Schouten Anna Theodora Bernardina "Ank" Bijleveld-Schouten (born 17 March 1962) is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) who has been serving as acting mayor of Almere since 10 January 2022. She served as Minister of Defence in the ...

(b. 1962), Dutch politician *

Antonie Schouten Antoine Schouten (born 25 December 1946) is a Canadian former field hockey player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into for ...

(b. 1946), Canadian field hockey player * (b. 1967), Dutch speedskating coach *

Bas Schouten Bas Schouten (born 19 October 1994 in Hoorn) is a Dutch auto racing driver. Schouten has raced in various international racing series such as the TCR International Series and Acceleration 2014. Career After a career in karting in his home coun ...

(b. 1994), Dutch racing driver *

Bryan Schouten Bryan Schouten (born 10 September 1994) is a Dutch former motorcycle racer who retired at the end of the 2017 season. Schouten is a former winner of the Dutch ONK 125GP Championship and the Dutch ONK Moto3 Championship, and has also competed in th ...

(b. 1994), Dutch motorcycle racer *

Carola Schouten Cornelia Johanna "Carola" Schouten (born 6 October 1977) is a Dutch politician serving as third Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands and Minister for Poverty Policy, Participation and Pensions in the IV Rutte Cabinet since 10 January 2022. Sh ...

(b. 1977), Dutch politician *

Dirk Bernard Joseph Schouten Dirk Bernard Joseph (Dick) Schouten (25 January 1923 – 3 February 2018) was a Dutch economist, and Professor of General Economics and Economic History at Tilburg University, known for his work concerning macroeconomic modelling. Biograph ...

(1923–2018), Dutch economist * Erik Schouten (b. 1991), Dutch footballer * (b. 1977), Dutch boxer *

Gerrit Schouten Gerrit Schouten (16 January 1779 – 28 January 1839) was a Surinamese artist, who has become famous for his painted papier-maché dioramas of Surinamese life. Schouten was born in Paramaribo, the capital of Surinam, then a Dutch colony. The so ...

(1779-1839), Surinamese diorama artist * Henk Schouten (1932–2018), Dutch footballer *

Irene Schouten Irene Schouten (; born 21 June 1992) is a Dutch speed skater who competes in allround marathon and inline-skating events. She is a five-time Olympic medalist and a triple Olympic Champion, having won the 3,000m, 5,000m, and mass start events at t ...

(b. 1992), Dutch speed skater * Jaap Schouten (b. 1984), Dutch rower *

Jan Arnoldus Schouten Jan Arnoldus Schouten (28 August 1883 – 20 January 1971) was a Dutch mathematician and Professor at the Delft University of Technology. He was an important contributor to the development of tensor calculus and Ricci calculus, and was one of the ...

(1883-1971), Dutch mathematician *

Jan Frederik Schouten Jan Frederik Schouten (29 May 1910 – 12 August 1980) was a Dutch physicist, and Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, known for his contributions to biophysics. H. BoumaLevensbericht J.F. Schouten in: ''Jaarboek, 1980'', Amsterdam ...

(1910-1980), Dutch physician * Jerdy Schouten (b. 1977), Dutch footballer *

Johanna Schouten-Elsenhout Johanna Schouten-Elsenhout (11 July 1910 – 23 July 1992) was a Surinamese poet and an eminent community leader who fought for acknowledgement of Sranan and of the Afro-Surinamese culture. Life Schouten-Elsenhout was born in Paramaribo in 1910. ...

(1910-1992), Surinamese poet *

Joost Schouten Joost Schouten (c. 1600 – 1644) was a Dutch East Indies Company figure of considerable repute, in demand as an astute administrator, diplomat, courtier and negotiator for this Dutch colonial and mercantile outpost in the South-East Asian archipel ...

(c.1600-1640), Member of the Council of the Dutch East India Company *

Lydia Schouten Lydia Schouten (born 1948, Leiden, Netherlands) is an internationally-known Dutch performance and video artist. Early in her career she critiqued traditional women's roles and the portrayal of women as sex objects. More recently, her work consi ...

(b. 1948), Dutch performance and video artist *

Peter Schouten Peter Mark Schouten is an Australian artist and illustrator of publications in the field of zoology and palaeontology. David Attenborough termed his skills as "rare and precious" and among the world's best. His works are characterized by natu ...

, Australian illustrator in the field of zoology and palaeontology. * Pieter Schouten (fl. 1622-1625), Dutch corsair and privateer *

Pieter Hendrik Schoute Pieter Hendrik Schoute (21 January 1846, Wormerveer – 18 April 1913, Groningen) was a Dutch mathematician known for his work on regular polytopes and Euclidean geometry. He started his career as a civil engineer, but became a professor of ...

(1846-1923), Dutch mathematician *

Raymond Schouten Raymond Schouten (born 15 March 1985) is a Dutch motorcycle racer Motorcycle racing (also called moto racing and motorbike racing) is the motorcycle sport of racing motorcycles. Major varieties include motorcycle road racing and off-road rac ...

(b. 1985), Dutch motorcycle racer *

Willem Schouten Willem Cornelisz Schouten ( – 1625) was a Dutch navigator for the Dutch East India Company. He was the first to sail the Cape Horn route to the Pacific Ocean. Biography Willem Cornelisz Schouten was born in c. 1567 in Hoorn, Holland, Seven ...

(c. 1567-1625), Dutch explorer and circumnavigator who named Cape Horn * Wim Schouten (1878–1941), Dutch Olympic sailor * (1638-1704), Dutch physician and travel writer ;Schoute *

(1846–1913), Dutch mathematician ;Schout * Pieter Jacobsz Schout (1570 – 1645), Dutch mayor of Haarlem. *Members of the

Haarlem schutterij The Haarlem schutterij refers to a collective name for the voluntary civic guard of Haarlem, from medieval times up to the Batavian Revolution in 1794, when the guilds of Haarlem were disbanded. History During the Hook and Cod wars in 1402, Ha ...

portrayed by Frans Hals between 1616 and 1639, including Cornelis Jacobsz Schout, Jacob Cornelisz Schout,

Loth Schout Loth Schout (1600 – 1655), was a Dutch Golden Age brewer of Haarlem. Biography He was born in Haarlem as the son of judge Jan Jacobsz Schout and Dirkje Steyn, brewers of ''Twee Gecroonde Starren''. Loth became a flag bearer of the St Adrian ...

, and Pieter Schout

Named after a Schouten

*Islands: **

Schouten Island Schouten Island (formerly Schouten's Isle), part of the Schouten Island Group, is an island with an area of approximately lying close to the eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia, located south of the Freycinet Peninsula and is a part of Frey ...

, island in Tasmania named after Joost Schouten **

Schouten Islands The Schouten Islands ( id, Kepulauan Biak, also Biak Islands or Geelvink Islands) are an island group of Papua province, eastern Indonesia in the Cenderawasih Bay (or Geelvink Bay) 50 km off the north-western coast of the island of New ...

or ''Biak Islands'' or ''Geelvink Islands'', in Indonesia, north of New Guinea, named after Willem Schouten, who visited them in 1616 **

or ''Eastern Schouten Islands'' or ''Le Maire Islands'', of Papua New Guinea, named after Willem Schouten, who visited them in 1616 ***

Schouten languages The Schouten languages are a linkage of Austronesian languages in northern Papua New Guinea. They are in contact with various North Papuan languages, particularly the Skou and some Torricelli languages. They are named after the Schouten Isl ...

, spoken on and near the Schouten Islands of Papua New Guinea * 11773 Schouten, a main-belt asteroid named after Willem Schouten *Mathematics (named after Jan Arnoldus Schouten) **

Schouten tensor In Riemannian geometry the Schouten tensor is a second-order tensor introduced by Jan Arnoldus Schouten defined for by: :P=\frac \left(\mathrm -\frac g\right)\, \Leftrightarrow \mathrm=(n-2) P + J g \, , where Ric is the Ricci tensor (defined by ...

, a mathematical object related to differential geometry **

Schouten–Nijenhuis bracket In differential geometry, the Schouten–Nijenhuis bracket, also known as the Schouten bracket, is a type of graded Lie bracket defined on multivector fields on a smooth manifold extending the Lie bracket of vector fields. There are two different ...

, mathematical operator **

Weyl–Schouten theorem In the mathematical field of differential geometry, the existence of isothermal coordinates for a ( pseudo-)Riemannian metric is often of interest. In the case of a metric on a two-dimensional space, the existence of isothermal coordinates is uncon ...

Schoutenia ''Schoutenia'' is a genus of flowering plants. It ranges from Indochina through Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, and Northern Australia."''Schoutenia'' Korth.". ''Plants of the World Online'', Kew Science. Accessed 22 August 2021/ref> Traditiona ...

, a plant genus named after the explorer Willem Schouten * J.F. Schouten School for User System Interaction named after Jan Frederik Schouten

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