occupational surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community.
Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, ...
meaning
cooper
Cooper, Cooper's, Coopers and similar may refer to:
* Cooper (profession), a maker of wooden casks and other staved vessels
Arts and entertainment
* Cooper (producers), alias of Dutch producers Klubbheads
* Cooper (video game character), in ' ...
. Common spelling variants include Kuyper, Kuipers, Kuijper,
Kuijpers Kuijpers or Kuypers is a Dutch language, Dutch surname corresponding to the English Cooper (surname), Cooper.Kuypers, and
De Kuyper
de Kuyper or Dekuyper is a surname. Notable people with this surname include:
*Petrus De Kuyper, founder of DeKuyper
* Calvin Dekuyper (born 2000) Belgian soccer player
* Eric de Kuyper
Eric de Kuyper (born 2 September 1942) is a Flemish-Bel ...
. Notable people with the name include:
Kuiper
* Adrian Kuiper (born 1959), South African cricketer
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Barend Klaas Kuiper
Barend Klaas Kuiper (July 16, 1877 – July 21, 1961) was a history professor and author who wrote about Dutch Calvinist church history and the Protestant Reformation.
Personal life
Kuiper was born in Oud-Loosdrecht in the Netherlands on Ju ...
(1877–1961), Dutch-American historian
* David Kuiper (born 1980), Dutch rower
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Duane Kuiper
Duane Eugene Kuiper (born June 19, 1950), nicknamed "Kuip", is an American sportscaster and former professional baseball player. As a player, he was a second baseman for the Cleveland Indians and San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball ( ...
Kuiper belt
The Kuiper belt () is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune at 30 astronomical units (AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun. It is similar to the asteroid belt, but is far larger—20 t ...
was named
* Glen Kuiper (born 1963) American broadcaster
* Hennie Kuiper (born 1949), Dutch cyclist
* J. P. Kuiper (1922–1985), Dutch professor of social medicine
* Michael Kuiper (born 1989), Dutch martial artist
* Nick Kuiper (born 1982), Canadian ice hockey player
* Nicky Kuiper (born 1989), Dutch footballer
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Nicolaas Kuiper
Nicolaas Hendrik Kuiper (; 28 June 1920 – 12 December 1994) was a Dutch mathematician, known for Kuiper's test and proving Kuiper's theorem. He also contributed to the Nash embedding theorem.
Kuiper studied at University of Leiden in 1937-4 ...
Peter Kuiper
Peter Kuiper ( Langsa, 30 March 1929 – Berlin, 28 September 2007) was a German actor of film
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simu ...
(1929–2007), Dutch-German actor
* Piet Kuiper (born 1934), Dutch botanist
* Rienk Kuiper (1886–1966), Frisian-Dutch president of Calvin College
* Roel Kuiper (born 1962), Dutch historian, philosopher and politician
* Taco Kuiper (1941–2004), South African publisher and journalist
Kuyper
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Abraham Kuyper
Abraham Kuyper (; ; 29 October 1837 – 8 November 1920) was the Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905, an influential neo-Calvinist theologian and a journalist. He established the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, which u ...
(1837–1920), Dutch prime minister, theologian, and founder of a
Protestant church
Protestantism is a Christian denomination, branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Reformation, Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century agai ...
* Elisabeth Kuyper (1877–1953), Dutch Romantic composer and conductor
* Frans Kuyper (1629–1691), Dutch Socinian writer and printer
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Jacques Kuyper
Jacques Kuyper (29 June 1761 – 1 June 1808) was a Dutch printmaker, painter, draftsman, watercolourist, etcher, musician, and composer.