Kool is a

Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

patronymic surname A patronymic surname is a surname originated from the given name of the father or a patrilineal ancestor. Different cultures have different ways of producing patronymic surnames. For example, early patronymic Welsh surnames were the result of t ...

. ''Kool'' () is an archaic short form of the given name Nicolaas. Since "kool" means both "cabbage" and "coal" in modern Dutch, for some families the name could conceivably have originated as a metonymic occupational surname, referring to a cabbage farmer or seller, or coal worker.Kool
at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands. Among variant forms are Coolen, Cools, ''Koole'',

Koolen Koolen ( esx, Koglu, label=Eskimo–Aleut) is a lake of Chukotsky District, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Its name originated in the Chukchi word ''Koolёn'', a fault or deep chasm.Boris Zhulanov. ''My Stern, Gentle Koolen'' - Ural pathfind ...

and ''Kools''. People with the surname include: * Corien Kool (born 1959), Dutch CDA politician (married name: Corien Wortmann) *

David Kool David Anderson Kool (born September 23, 1987) is a former collegiate basketball player for the Western Michigan Broncos men's basketball team. Kool is WMU's all-time leading scorer and was named Mid-American Conference (MAC) Player of the Year i ...

(born 1987), American college basketball player and coach * Eric Kool (born 1960), American biochemist * Molly Kool (1916–2009), North America's first registered female sea captain *

Noah Kool Noah Kool Yalba (born 10 October 1962) is a Papua New Guinean politician. He has been the Governor of Chimbu Province from 2012 to 2017, as a member of the governing People's National Congress. Kool was a school teacher and member of the Papu ...

(born 1962), Papua New Guinean politician *

Ruud Kool Ruud Kool (born 1 November 1966) is a retired Dutch footballer who played as a midfielder for AZ Alkmaar, FC Twente, Fortuna Sittard and VVV Venlo VVV-Venlo (, ''VVV'' stands for ''Venlose Voetbal Vereniging'' meaning "Venlo Football Club ...

(born 1969), Dutch football midfielder *

Willem Gillisz Kool Willem Gillisz Kool (1608 – 1666), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography He was born in Haarlem and entered the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1638.Ricky Koole Ricky Koole (born 11 September 1972) is a Dutch singer and film actress. She appeared in more than forty films since 1996. Personal life and career Koole graduated in 1995 with a Bachelor of the Arts from the ''Kleinkunstacademie'' in Amsterdam ...

(born 1972), Dutch singer and film actress * (born 1953), Dutch political scientist and Labour Party chair 2001–05 ;Kools *

Cor Kools Cornelis Wilhelmus "Cor" Kools (; 20 July 1907 – 24 September 1985) was a Dutch football player and manager who played his entire career for NAC Breda. Kools played 16 international matches for the Netherlands, scoring three times, and par ...

(1907–1985), Dutch football midfielder and manager *

Mark Fidel Kools ''United States v. Hasan K. Akbar'' was the court-martial of a United States Army soldier for a premeditated attack in the early morning hours of March 23, 2003, at Camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait, during the start of the United States invasion of Ir ...

(born 1971), US Army soldier on death row for

fragging Fragging is the deliberate or attempted killing by a soldier of a fellow soldier, usually a superior. U.S. military personnel coined the word during the Vietnam War, when such killings were most often attempted with a fragmentation grenade, so ...

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