Van Gils or Van Gilse is a

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Gilze Gilze en Rijen () is a municipality in the southern Netherlands. The municipality contains four villages: Rijen, Gilze, Hulten and Molenschot. It is home to the Gilze-Rijen Air Base. Rijen grew in the 19th century due to its leather factories. P ...

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at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands. People with this name include: ;Van Gils * (born 1986), Dutch snowboarder * Stéphanie Van Gils (born 1991), Belgian football forward * Wanny van Gils (1959–2018), Dutch football forward and coach ;Van Gilse * Jan van Gilse (1881–1944), Dutch composer and conductor * Nicolaï van Gilse van der Pals (1891–1969), Russian conductor and musicologist * Leopold van Gilse van der Pals (1884–1966), Russian composer

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