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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), an alias of Dutch producers Klubbheads * "Cooper", a song by Roxette from ...

. Common spelling variants include Kuyper,

Kuipers Kuipers is a Dutch language, Dutch occupational surname meaning Cooper (profession), cooper's. Common spelling variants include Kuiper, Kuijpers, and Kuypers. Notable people with the surname include: * Aert H. Kuipers (1919–2012), Dutch linguis ...

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Kuijpers Kuijpers or Kuypers is a Dutch language, Dutch surname corresponding to the English Cooper (surname), Cooper.Kuypers Kuijpers or Kuypers is a Dutch surname corresponding to the English Cooper.De Kuyper. Notable people with the name include:

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* Adrian Kuiper (born 1959), South African cricketer *

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 July ...

(1877–1961), Dutch-American historian * David Kuiper (born 1980), Dutch rower *

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 (M ...

(born 1950), American baseball player *

Edith Kuiper Edith Kuiper (born 1960) is the assistant professor of economics at State University of New York at New Paltz, and she was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2006 to 2007. In 1993 Kuiper organized ...

(born 1960), Dutch economist *

F. B. J. Kuiper Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus "Frans" Kuiper ( ; ; 7 July 1907 – 14 November 2003) was a Dutch linguist and Indologist. Between 1939 and 1972, he was professor of Sanskrit at Leiden University. Beginning in 1941, he served as chair of the Balt ...

(1907–2003), Dutch Indologist *

Gerard Kuiper Gerard Peter Kuiper ( ; born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper, ; 7 December 1905 – 23 December 1973) was a Dutch-American astronomer, planetary scientist, selenographer, author and professor. The Kuiper belt is named after him. Kuiper is consi ...

(1905–1973), Dutch-American astronomer after whom the

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 times ...

was named * Glen Kuiper (born 1963) American broadcaster *

Hennie Kuiper Hendrikus Andreas "Hennie" Kuiper (born 3 February 1949) is a Dutch former professional road racing cyclist. His career includes a gold medal in the Olympic Road bicycle racing, road race at 1972 Summer Olympics, Munich in 1972, becoming world ...

(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 *

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- ...

(1920–1994), Dutch mathematician, known for

Kuiper's test Kuiper's test is used in statistics to test whether a data sample comes from a given distribution (one-sample Kuiper test), or whether two data samples came from the same unknown distribution (two-sample Kuiper test). It is named after Dutch math ...

Kuiper's theorem In mathematics, Kuiper's theorem (after Nicolaas Kuiper) is a result on the topology of operators on an infinite-dimensional, complex Hilbert space ''H''. It states that the topological space, space GL(''H'') of invertible bounded operator, b ...

, and the Eells–Kuiper manifold * Peter Kuiper (1929–2007), Dutch-German actor * Piet Kuiper (1934–2017), Dutch botanist *

Rienk Kuiper Rienk Bouke Kuiper (31 January 1886 – 22 April 1966)
at Westminster Theological Seminary was a pastor and profes ...

(1886–1966), Frisian-Dutch president of Calvin College *

Roel Kuiper Roelof (Roel) Kuiper (born 5 April 1962 in Mariënberg) is a Dutch historian, philosopher, ideologue, politician and university professor. He was from 2007 to 2019 a member of the Dutch Senate of the Netherlands, Senate, and is professor of Refo ...

(born 1962), Dutch historian, philosopher and politician * Taco Kuiper (1941–2004), South African publisher and journalist

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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 pastor and a journalist. He established the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, which upo ...

(1837–1920), Dutch prime minister, theologian, and founder of a Protestant church * Elisabeth Kuyper (1877–1953), Dutch Romantic composer and conductor * Frans Kuyper (1629–1691), Dutch Socinian writer and printer * Jacques Kuyper (1761–1808), Dutch draftsman and composer

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