Wouter is a Dutch masculine

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popular in the Netherlands and Belgium. It is the Dutch equivalent of the English name

Walter Walter may refer to: People * Walter (name), both a surname and a given name * Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968) * Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born 19 ...

and French name Gauthier, both of Germanic origin, meaning "ruler of the army", "army of the forest" or "bright army". Wouter is sometimes shortened to Wout. The patronymic surname of Wouter is

Wouters Wouters is a Dutch patronymic surname, meaning son of Wouter, and corresponding to Walters in English. In 2007/2008 there were about 8700 people in the Netherlands and 15700 people in Belgium with that name.Wouter olde Heuvel, Dutch speed skater *

Wouter Claes Wouter Claes (born 28 October 1975 in Leuven, Belgium) is a male left-handed Belgian badminton player. He won 20 Belgian titles, 10 in men's doubles with Fréderic Mawet and Ruud Kuijten, 10 in mixed doubles with Manon Albinus, Corina Herrle ...

, Belgian badminton player * Wouter Mol, Dutch professional road racing cyclist *

Wouter Toledo Wouter Maria Toledo (17 May 1944 - 21 July 2018) was a Dutch figure skater Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, ...

, Dutch figure skater * Wouter Poels, Dutch professional road bicycle racer * Wout van Aert, Belgian professional cyclist * Wouter Wippert, Dutch professional road racing cyclist * Wouter Jolie, Dutch field hockey player * Wouter Brouwer, Dutch fencer * Wouter van Pelt, Dutch field hockey player * Wouter Corstjens, Dutch-Belgian footballer * Wouter D'Haene, Belgian sprint canoer * Wouter Biebauw, Belgian footballer * Wouter Marinus, Dutch professional footballer *

Wouter de Vogel Wouter de Vogel () (born 17 September 1990 in Gouda) is a Dutch footballer who most recently played as a winger for FC Lienden.

, Dutch footballer *

Wouter Weylandt Wouter Weylandt (27 September 1984 – 9 May 2011) was a Belgian professional cyclist for UCI ProTeam and later for . His first major win was the 17th stage of the 2008 Vuelta a España. He also won the third stage of the 2010 Giro d'Italia ...

, Belgian professional cyclist *

Wouter van der Steen Wouter van der Steen (born 3 June 1990) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for FC Den Bosch in the Dutch Eerste Divisie. He formerly played for Helmond Sport and SC Heerenveen. Club career Van der Steen did not extend ...

, Dutch professional footballer *

Wouter Degroote Wouter Degroote (born 28 January 1978) is a Belgian footballer. He previously played for clubs including FCV Dender EH Football Club Verbroedering Dender Eendracht Hekelgem, also simply known as Dender or Verbroedering Dender, is a Belgian ...

, Belgian footballer *

Wouter Scheelen Wouter Scheelen (born 16 October 1985) is a Belgian football player currently playing for Bocholt in the Belgian Second Amateur Division The Belgian Division 2, commonly referred to as simply Tweede Afdeling (in Dutch) or Division 2 (in Frenc ...

, Belgian footballer *

Wouter Artz Wouter is a Dutch masculine given name popular in the Netherlands and Belgium. It is the Dutch equivalent of the English name Walter and French name Gauthier, both of Germanic origin, meaning "ruler of the army", "army of the forest" or "bright ...

, Dutch professional footballer *

Wouter Gudde Wouter Gudde (born 5 August 1984) is a Dutch former footballer. Club career Gudde is a defender who was born in Schiedam and made his debut in professional football, being part of the Sparta Rotterdam Sparta Rotterdam () is a Dutch profess ...

, Dutch footballer *

Wouter Vrancken Wouter Vrancken (born 3 February 1979) is a Belgian football manager and a former defensive midfielder. He is the manager of Genk. Playing career Wouter Vrancken started his playing career as a youth at lower division clubs, beginning at FC Oud ...

, Belgian footballer *

Wouter Vandenhaute Wouter Vandenhaute (born 16 February 1962) is a Belgian Entrepreneur, Television producer and former sports-journalist. He is currently managing director of the Belgian media holding De Vijver, which includes the TV production company Woestijnvis ...

, Belgian sports journalist *

Wouter Sybrandy Wouter Sybrandy (born 20 February 1985) is a Dutch former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally for between 2009 and 2013. Biography Sybrandy was born in the Netherlands but spent most of his career in the United Kingdom. Alt ...

, Dutch professional road racing cyclist *

Wout Wagtmans Wouter "Wout" Wagtmans (10 November 1929 – 15 August 1994) was a Dutch road bicycle racer. Together with Wim van Est he belonged to the generation that brought great popularity to cycling in the Netherlands in the 1950s. In 1947, Wagtmans st ...

, Dutch road racing cyclist * Wouter Leefers, Dutch field hockey player *

Wout Weghorst Wout François Maria Weghorst (born 7 August 1992) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a striker for club Manchester United, on loan from club Burnley, and the Netherlands national team. Weghorst began his professional career in ...

, Dutch footballer

Entertainment

* Wouter "Wally" De Backer, Belgian-Australian multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, known as Gotye *

Wouter Deprez Wouter Deprez (born 14 February 1975 in Geluwe Geluwe (Hilwe in West Flemish) is a town in the West Flemish province of Belgium. It is contained within the municipality of Wervik. The town is known for the "yawning festival" (Dutch: gapersfeest ...

, Belgian comedian *

Wouter Hamel Wouter Hamel (born 1977) is a Dutch Pop singer. He released his debut album ''Hamel'' in March 2007. Hamel's style has been compared to Jamie Cullum's.

, Dutch pop singer * Wouter Barendrecht, Dutch film producer *

Wouter Janssen Showtek is a Dutch electronic dance music duo consisting of two brothers from Eindhoven, Sjoerd (born 6 April 1984) and Wouter Janssen (born 20 August 1982). The duo regularly manages to reach the top of multiple music charts and work with artis ...

, Dutch musician *

Wouter Kellerman Wouter Kellerman (born 20 September 1961) is a GRAMMY® Award-winning South African flautist, producer and composer who has won eight South African Music Awards. Using his classical training as a foundation, Kellerman has focused his attention ...

, South African flautist *

Wouter van der Goes Wouter van der Goes (born 18 January 1973, Alkmaar) is a Dutch radio DJ. At age twelve, he was tinkering with audio equipment as a hobby. Later, during his free time, he worked with several local radio stations, as well as pirate stations, wh ...

, Dutch radio DJ

Politics

Wouter Koolmees Wouter Koolmees (born 20 March 1977) is a Dutch economist and politician and of the Democrats 66 (D66) party who has been serving as Minister of Social Affairs and Employment in the Third Rutte cabinet since 2017. He also served as second Deput ...

, Dutch politician *

Wouter Beke Wouter Beke (born 9 August 1974) is a Belgium, Belgian politician and a member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish, CD&V. He was reelected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 2007. In 2014 he became a member of the Belgian Federal House of R ...

, Belgian politician * Wouter De Vriendt, Belgian politician * Wouter Bos, Dutch politician *

Wouter Van Besien Wouter Van Besien (born 1972) is a Belgian politician. From 25 October 2009 until 15 November 2014, he was the chairman of the ecologist party Groen. Van Besien got a master's degree in Sociology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and obtai ...

, Belgian politician *

Wouter Van Bellingen Wouter Van Bellingen (born 20 April 1972) is a Rwandan-born Belgian politician for the Sociaal-Liberale Partij. He was previously employed by the city of Sint-Niklaas as a civil servant working on youth and developing world issues. Since 2 Janu ...

, Flemish politician

Art

Wouter Crabeth I Wouter Pietersz Crabeth (1510–1590) was a Dutch Renaissance glass painter. He was employed by the Sint Janskerk (Gouda) during the Protestant Reformation, where he created six of the stained glass windows during the years 1555 to 1571. His wi ...

, Dutch Renaissance glass painter * Wouter Crabeth II, Dutch Golden Age painter and grandson of Wouter Crabeth I *

Wouter Knijff Wouter Knijff (1605, Wesel – 1694, Bergen op Zoom), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. Biography According to the RKD he was the nephew of Janneke Knijff who married Jan Vermeer van Ham, the grandparents of the Haarlem painter Jan Ver ...

, Dutch Golden Age landscape painter *

Wouter Abts Wouter Abts (in French, Gautier Abts) was born at Lier, near Antwerp, possibly in 1582. He was a pupil of Willem de Vos (Guillaume de Vos in French). Little is known about his life. He was admitted as a master to the Guild A guild ( ) is an a ...

, Belgian painter *

Wouterus Verschuur Wouterus Verschuur (11 June 1812 – 4 July 1874) was a Dutch painter of animal subjects – mainly horses – and of landscapes. He is one of the later representatives of Romanticism in Dutch art. Life and career Born to an Amsterdam jewell ...

, Dutch painter *

Wouter Johannes van Troostwijk Wouter Johannes van Troostwijk (28 May 1782, Amsterdam - 20 September 1810, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter and etcher. Most of his works are landscapes (featuring cattle) or cityscapes. Biography He was born into a wealthy family. His father, ...

, Dutch 19th century painter

Other

Wouter Basson Wouter Basson (born 6 July 1950) is a South African cardiologist and former head of the country's secret chemical and biological warfare project, Project Coast, during the apartheid era. Nicknamed "Dr. Death" by the press for his alleged acti ...

(born 1950), South African cardiologist * Wouter Berthout van Ranst, Belgian nobleman *

Wouter Biesiot Wouter Biesiot (3 January 1951 – 27 April 1998) was an associate professor and the head of the Energy and Materials Group at the IVEM, Interfacultaire Vakgroep Energie en Milieukunde at the University of Groningen. Biesiot studied technical physi ...

(1951–1998), Dutch head of the Energy and Materials Group * Wouter Deelen (c.1500–1563), Dutch Anabaptist *

Wouter den Haan Wouter J. den Haan (or Denhaan) (born 22 July 1962) is a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, research fellow and programme director of the CEPR, and co-director of the Centre for Macroeconomics. Currently, his main areas of ...

(born 1962), Dutch Professor of Economics * Wouter Hanegraaff (born 1961), Dutch Professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy *

Wouter Lutkie Wouterus Leonardus Lutkie (23 February 1887 in 's-Hertogenbosch – 23 January 1968 in Nuland) was a Dutch Catholic priest and fascist. Biography Lutkie came from a wealthy business family and initially was influenced by the idealism of Ernest He ...

(1887–1968), Dutch Catholic priest and fascist *

Wouter Schievink Wouter Ingmar Schievink (born 1963, Amsterdam) is a neurological surgeon noted for expertise in brain and spinal cord vascular disorders.Wouter I. Schievink Director, Microvascular Neurosurgery http://www.cedars-sinai.edu/Bios---Physician/P-Z/Wouter ...

(born 1963), Dutch neurological surgeon * Wouter Snijders (1928–2020), Dutch judge and legal scholar *

Wouter Tebbens Wouter Tebbens, (born 6 May 1974) is a Dutch activist, researcher and social entrepreneur on Free Knowledge. Career Tebbens received a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Twente, Netherlands. His final research projec ...

(born 1974), Dutch activist * Wouter van Twiller (1606–1654), Dutch West India Company employee

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