Van Gent is a Dutch

toponymic surname A toponymic surname or topographic surname is a surname derived from a place name.

Ghent Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in ...

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at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands. A variant spelling is ''Van Ghent''. People with this name include: *

Eugene Van Gent Conrad Eugene Van Gent (December 23, 1889 – June 12, 1949) was an American football and basketball player and coach. He served as the head football at the University of Texas at Austin in 1916, at the University Farm, now the University of Calif ...

(1889–1949), American college football and basketball coach *

Hendrik van Gent Hendrik van Gent (14 September 1899, Pernis – March 29, 1947, Amsterdam)''Album studiosorum Academiæ lugduno-batavæ MDCCCLXXV-MCMXXV'', A. W. Sijthoff, 1925, p. 376 was a Dutch astronomer. He moved to South Africa in 1928 in order to o ...

(c.1217–1293), Flemish theologian *

(1899–1947), Dutch astronomer ** Van Gent (crater), lunar crater named for the astronomer ** 1666 van Gent, asteroid discovered by Hendrik van Gent *

Henk van Gent Hendrik Maarten "Henk" van Gent (born 10 May 1951 in Rotterdam) is a sailor from the Netherlands. A physical education teacher by training, he runs a sailing school in Rotterdam. When the Netherlands boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, he ...

(born 1951), Dutch competitive sailor *

Ineke van Gent Wilhelmina "Ineke" van Gent (born 21 June 1957) is a Dutch politician serving as Mayor of Schiermonnikoog since 2017. A member of GroenLinks, she was a member of the House of Representatives from 1998 to 2012. She focused on matters of emplo ...

(born 1957), Dutch GreenLeft politician * Jan van Gent (1340–1399), Dutch name of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, born in Ghent * Joris van Gent (fl. 1552-1577) or Joris van Straeten, a Flemish portrait and history painter from Ghent *

Justus van Gent Justus van Gent or Joos van Wassenhove (also: Justus or Jodocus of Ghent, or Giusto da Guanto) (c. 1410 – c. 1480) was an Early Netherlandish painter who after training and working in Flanders later moved to Italy Italy ( it, Italia ...

or Joos van Ghent (c.1410–1480), Early Netherlandish painter * Maarten van Gent (born 1947), Dutch basketball coach, scout and businessman * (c.1470–1512), Flemish sculptor active in Portugal * Pieter van Gent (c.1480–1572), Flemish missionary in Mexico known there as ''Pedro de Gante'' *

Willem Joseph van Ghent Willem Joseph baron van Ghent tot Drakenburgh (14 May 1626 – 7 June 1672) was a 17th-century Dutch admiral. His surname is also sometimes rendered Gendt or Gent. Early career Van Ghent was baptised on 14 May 1626, in the church of Win ...

(1626–1672), Dutch admiral

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