Brugman is a Dutch

toponymic surname A toponymic surname or topographic surname is a surname derived from a place name.

meaning "bridgeman". It could refer to someone living near a bridge, or as an occupational name to a bridge keeper. In some cases it refers to someone originally from

Bruges Bruges ( , nl, Brugge ) is the capital and largest City status in Belgium, city of the Provinces of Belgium, province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country, and the sixth-largest city of the countr ...

(Brugge) in

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.Brugman
at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands. Notable people with the surname include: * Alyssa Brugman (born 1974), Australian author * Gastón Brugman (born 1992), Uruguayan football midfielder *

Jaycob Brugman Jaycob Hull Brugman (born January 18, 1992) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics. Career Brugman attended Desert Vista High School in Phoenix, Arizona. Playin ...

(born 1992), American baseball player *

John Brugman John Brugman, O.F.M., was a 15th-century Franciscan friar A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders founded in the twelfth or thirteenth century; the term distinguishes the mendicants' itinerant apostolic character, exercised broadl ...

(c.1400–1473), Franciscan preacher in the Low Countries *

Mathias Brugman Mathias Brugman (birth name: Mathias Brugman Duliebre) (January 3, 1811 – September 30, 1868), a.k.a. Mathias Bruckman, was a leader in Puerto Rico's independence revolution against Spain known as El Grito de Lares (English: ''The Cry of Lares' ...

(1811–1868), Puerto Rican revolutionary leader *

Til Brugman Mathilda (Til) Brugman (16 September 1888, Amsterdam – 24 July 1958, Gouda) was a Dutch author, poet and linguist. Biography From 1926 to 1936, she lived in The Hague and later in Berlin with the German Dada artist Hannah Höch. In 1935, she ...

(1888–1958), Dutch poet and linguist

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{{surname, Brugman Dutch-language surnames Dutch toponymic surnames Occupational surnames de:Brugman nl:Brugman

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