Kerckhoff or Kerckhoffs is a Dutch and

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toponymic surname meaning "church yard" (modern Dutch ''kerkhof''). An ancestor may have lived near or worked in the church yard, or have come from a number of villages and hamlets named ''Kerkhove'' or ''Kerkhoven''.Kerkhoff
at the Database of Surnames in the Netherlands Variant forms of the surname are

Kerkhof Kerkhof is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "church garden”, Pronounced Kerik-hof. Largely a historically Catholic name in the Netherlands. Alternative spellings include: Kerekhoff, Kerkhoff, Van Kerkhof. An ancestor may have lived near or w ...

, ''Kerkhoff(s)'', Kerkhove(n), and ''Van (de) Kerkhof(f)''. Notable people with the surname include: *

Auguste Kerckhoffs Auguste Kerckhoffs (19 January 1835 – 9 August 1903) was a Dutch linguistics, linguist and cryptographer in the late 19th century. Biography Kerckhoffs was born in Nuth, the Netherlands, as Jean Guillaume Auguste Victor François Huber ...

(1835–1903), Dutch linguist and cryptographer ** Kerckhoffs' principle, a cryptographic principle named for him *

Hermann Kerckhoff Hermann Walter Kerckhoff (December 27, 1937 – April 29, 2023) was a slalom canoeist who competed in the early 1970s. He finished 37th in the K-1 event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Born in Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and ...

(born 1937), German-born Canadian slalom canoeist *

Joseph Kerckhoffs Joseph Romain Louis Kerckhoffs ( Nuth, 3 September 1789 – Mechelen, 10 October 1867) was a Dutch physician. He was a physician in Napoleon's army and after 1815 chief physician of the Dutch military hospitals. Numerous publications have been publ ...

(1789–1867), Dutch physician *

Steven Kerckhoff Steven Paul Kerckhoff (born 1952) is a professor of mathematics at Stanford University, who works on hyperbolic 3-manifolds and Teichmüller spaces. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1978, under the direction of W ...

(born 1952), American mathematician *

Sylvia Kerckhoff Sylvia Kerckhoff (born 1928) is an American politician who served as the mayor of Durham, North Carolina, from 1993 to 1997. Early life and education Kerckhoff was born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1928. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin� ...

(born 1928), American mayor of Durham, North Carolina *

William G. Kerckhoff William George Kerckhoff (1856–1929) was an American businessman. Early life Kerckhoff was born on March 30, 1856, in Terre Haute, Indiana,Short History of the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research', W. G. Kerckhoff Institute] the s ...

(1856–1929), American businessman **

Kerckhoff Dam Kerckhoff Dam is a concrete arch dam on the San Joaquin River in Fresno County, California, about southwest of Big Creek. The tall dam is a run-of-the-river facility impounding of water and is the primary feature of Pacific Gas and Electric's ...

, a reservoir dam in California named after him **

Kerckhoff Marine Lab The William G. Kerckhoffbr>Marine Laboratory'' is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). It is located 101 Dahlia Street, in the Corona del Mar district of Newport Beach, in Orange County, California. History T ...

, southern California marine station owned and operated by Caltech named after him

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