Blaauw (Dutch pronunciation: [blʌu]) is a Dutch surname. It is an archaic spelling of modern Dutch blauw, meaning blue. This may have referred to the pale skin, the eyes, or the clothes of the original bearer of the name or the surname may be metonymic, e.g. referring to a dyer or someone who produced bluing in a mill. People with this name include:
Persons with the surname Blaauw include:
- William Henry Blaauw (1793–1870), English antiquarian and historian
- Jacob Blauw (1759-1829), a lawyer, politician and diplomat
- Henriëtte Blaauw (1875-1949), a writer
- Cornelis Blaauw (1885-1947), an architect
- Siegfried Blaauw (1889-1942), a music teacher and pianist
- Jacobus Roelof Blaauw (1911-1961), an engineer and business manager
- Adriaan Blaauw (1914–2010), Dutch astronomer
- 2145 Blaauw, his namesake asteroid
- Harm Engbert Blaauw (1918-1945), a resistance fighter
- Harry Blaauw (1923-1943), Dutch merchant navy engineer
- Gerrit Blaauw (1924–2018), Dutch computer engineer and designer
- Jan Blaauw (1928-2020), a policeman and publicist
- Joop de Blaauw (1941), a sculptor
- Jan Dirk Blaauw (1941-2020), a politician
- Gjalt Blaauw (1945), an artist
- Alexandra Blaauw (1962), an actress and producer
- Marco Blaauw (b. 1965), Dutch trumpet player
- David Theodore Blaauw (born c.1965), American engineer
- Ron Blaauw (chef) (b. 1967), Dutch head chef at an eponymic restaurant and TV-personality
- Connie Blaauw (1970), director & founding partner of Bureau Blaauw
- Marieke Blaauw (b. 1971), Dutch animator
- Arjan Blaauw (1974), a former footballer
- Maarten Blaauw (1974-1999), a comedian and writer
- Wicus Blaauw (b. 1986), South African rugby player
- Jacques Blaauw (1986), a South African golf professional
- Edo Blaauw (1987), a comedian
- Reinder Berend Blaauw (1994), a politician
- Ivar Jens Harald Blaauw (1994), Music producer and Marketing & Communications advisor
- Erik Blaauw (1997), a handball player
- Fianca Blaauw (1997), singer and make-up artist
- Niko Blaauw (2002), a handball player
See also
- Blaeu (disambiguation), variant spelling of the same surname, made famous by the cartographer family Blaeu
- Blau (surname), German surname with the same meaning
References
- Blaauw at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.
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