Goos (name)

Goos is a Dutch and Low German masculine given name, a short form of Goswin,[1] as well as a patronymic surname ("son of Goos").[2]

Surname
  • Abraham Goos (c.1590–1643), Dutch cartographer and publisher, father of Pieter Goos
  • August Hermann Ferdinand Carl Goos (1835–1917), Danish lawyer, professor and Minister of Iceland
  • Carl Andreas August Goos (1797–1855), German-Danish painter
  • Chris Goos (born 1981), American soccer player
  • Elies Goos (born 1989), Belgian volleyball player
  • Fritz Goos (1883–1968), German physicist and astronomer a.o. known for the Goos–Hänchen effect
  • Marc Goos (born 1990), Dutch racing cyclist
  • Maria Goos (born 1956), Dutch playwright and screenwriter
  • Merrilyn Goos, Australian mathematician
  • Michelle Goos (born 1989), Dutch handball player
  • Pieter Goos (1616–1675), Dutch cartographer, copperplate engraver, publisher and bookseller
  • Sofie Goos (born 1980), Belgian triathlete
Given name

References
  1. Goos at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands.
  2. Goos at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.

See also
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