Wagenaar

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Wagenaar is a Dutch occupational surname meaning "wagoner" or "wagon builder" (cartwright).[1] Variant forms are De Wagenaar, Wagenaars, Wag(h)enaer (archaic), and Wagener. The name is shared by the following people:

  • Aad Wagenaar [de; nl] (1939–2021), Dutch journalist
  • Aad Wagenaar (born 1940), Dutch Reformed Protestant politician
  • Alexander Wagenaar (born 1955), American epidemiologist
  • Bernard Wagenaar (1894–1971), Dutch-born American composer, pupil but not family of Johan Wagenaar
  • Diderik Wagenaar (born 1946), Dutch composer and musical theorist, second cousin of Johan Wagenaar
  • Gerben Wagenaar (1912–1993), Dutch Communist Party politician
  • Jan Wagenaar (water polo) (born 1965), Dutch water polo player
  • Jan Wagenaar (1709–1773), Dutch historian
  • Jan Wagenaar (1937–2022), Dutch harness racing driver
  • Jelle Wagenaar (born 1989), Dutch football defender
  • Johan Wagenaar (1862–1941), Dutch composer and organist
  • Josh Wagenaar (born 1985), Canadian football goalkeeper
  • Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer (1533/34–1606), Dutch sailor and cartographer
  • Rene Wagenaar (1954 -2007), Dutch Professor of Information and Communication Technology
  • Willem Albert Wagenaar (1941–2011), Dutch psychologist
  • Zacharias Wagenaer (1614–1668), German-born Dutch merchant, illustrator and Governor of the Cape Colony

References

  1. ^ Wagenaar at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.
Surname list
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