Schouten is a surname of Dutch 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, but can also be patronymic, 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 Scholten is a surname of Dutch origin and a variant of the name Schouten. It may refer to: *Arnold Scholten (b. 1962), Dutch professional football player * Carel S. Scholten (1925–2009), Dutch physicist and pioneer of computing, a.o. known fo ...

'' 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 (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 Henk Schouten (16 April 1932 – 18 April 2018) was a Dutch footballer who was active as a midfielder. Schouten made his debut at Excelsior Rotterdam and also played for Holland Sport and Feijenoord. Schouten died of pancreatic cancer on 18 Apri ...

(1932–2018), Dutch footballer * Irene Schouten (b. 1992), Dutch speed skater *

Jaap Schouten Jaap Schouten (born 9 December 1984 in The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and ...

(b. 1984), Dutch rower * Jan Arnoldus Schouten (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, Australian illustrator in the field of zoology and palaeontology. *

Pieter Schouten Pieter Schouten ( fl. 1622-1625) was a 17th-century Dutch corsair and privateer. He was one of the first Dutchmen to explore to the Caribbean and, while employed by the Dutch West Indies Company, was involved in extensive reconnaissance to establi ...

(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 Willem "Wim" Schouten (5 May 1878 – 18 January 1941) was a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. Schouten, as crew member on the Dutch 6 Metre The International Six Me ...

(1878–1941), Dutch Olympic sailor * (1638-1704), Dutch physician and travel writer ;Schoute *

(1846–1913), Dutch mathematician ;Schout *

Pieter Jacobsz Schout Pieter Jacobsz Schout (1570–1645), was a Dutch Golden Age mayor of Haarlem. He was born in Haarlem and in 1588 he married Anna Matheusdr Steyn there, the daughter of Matheus Augustijnsz Steyn. He became capitain of the St. George militia from 1 ...

(1570 – 1645), Dutch mayor of Haarlem. *Members of the Haarlem schutterij portrayed by Frans Hals between 1616 and 1639, including Cornelis Jacobsz Schout, Jacob Cornelisz Schout, Loth Schout, and Pieter Schout

Named after a Schouten

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