Walraven is a Dutch

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. The given name is first attested in 1294 and has the Germanic roots *wald- ("ruler") and *χraban- ("raven"). The German equivalent of the name is ''Walram''.Walraven
at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands. Variants are ''Walrave'' and ''Walravens''. People with this name include:

As a given name

Walraven I van Brederode Walraven I van Brederode (Santpoort, ca.1370/73 – Gorinchem, 1 December 1417) was Burgrave of Stavoren from 1400 to 1401, lord of van Brederode, Brederode from 1402 to 1417, and Stadtholder of County of Holland, Holland from 1416 to 1417. Li ...

(c.1370–1417), Dutch nobility, Stadtholder of Holland 1416–1417 * (1393–1456), Dutch Roman Catholic bishop *

Walraven II van Brederode Walraven II van Brederode (8 January 1462 – 14 January 1531) was Lord of Brederode, Vianen, Ameide, Bailiff of Hagestein and Burgrave of Utrecht. Life He was the son of Reinoud II van Brederode and Yolanda de Lalaing. When he was three years ...

(1462–1531), Dutch nobility, council of Maximilian of Austria * Walraven III van Brederode (1547–1614), Dutch noble and ambassador * (1776–1845), Dutch mayor of Utrecht *

Walraven van Hall Walraven "Wally" van Hall (10 February 1906 – 12 February 1945) was a Dutch banker and resistance leader during the occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. He founded the bank of the Resistance, which was used to distribute funds to ...

(1906–1945), Dutch banker and World War II resistance leader

As a surname

Walraven *

Isaac Walraven Isaac Walraven (1686 – 1765), was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. Biography According to the RKD, he was a pupil of Jan Ebbelaar and the history painter Gerrit Rademaker. He made copies of old masters and was a ...

(1686–1765, Dutch painter, engraver and jeweler *

Jean Walraven Jean Walraven (September 26, 1926 – December 17, 2014) was an American hurdler. She competed in the women's 80 metres hurdles at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also kn ...

(1926–2014), American hurdler *

Jeanne Beijerman-Walraven Jeanne Beijerman-Walraven (14 June 1878 – 20 September 1969) was a Dutch composer. She was born in Semarang, Indonesia, and studied privately with Frits Koeberg in The Hague. Beijerman-Walraven's early compositions were late Romantic in style, ...

(1878–1969), Dutch composer *

Jook Walraven Joannes Theodorus Maria (Jook) Walraven (born August 20, 1947, Amsterdam) is a Dutch experimental physicist at the Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute for experimental physics in Amsterdam. From 1967 he studied physics at the University of Amsterdam. ...

(born 1947), Dutch experimental physicist * Sharon Walraven (born 1970), Dutch wheelchair tennis player * (1887–1943), Dutch writer and journalist Walrave * (born 1939), Dutch track cycle motor pacer Walravens * (1841–1915), Belgian Roman Catholic bishop *

Hartmut Walravens Hartmut Walravens (born 1944) is a German librarian. He was the director of the International ISBN Agency ?-2006 and the International ISMN Agency ?-2006. He is presently Chairman of the International ISMN The International Standard Music N ...

(born 1944), German librarian * Jean-Paul Walravens (born 1942), Belgian cartoonist, animator and film director known as "Picha"

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