Voorhees is a surname. Its origins can be traced to Dutch settler

Steven van Voorhees Steven Coertse van Voorhees (1600 – 16 February 1684) was an early Dutch colonization of the Americas, Dutch settler in America and the patriarch of the Van Voorhees and Voorhees family lines as well as related namesakes. In 1664, he was appointe ...

, who was from a village in

Drenthe Drenthe () is a province of the Netherlands located in the northeastern part of the country. It is bordered by Overijssel to the south, Friesland to the west, Groningen to the north, and the German state of Lower Saxony to the east. As of Jan ...

, Netherlands.

People

Notable people with the name include: *

Alan Voorhees Alan Manners Voorhees (December 17, 1922 – December 18, 2005) was an American transportation engineer and urban planner who designed many large public works in the United States and elsewhere. Voorhees was born in Highland Park, New Jersey. ...

(1922–2005), American transportation engineer * Andrew Vorhees (born 1999), American football player * Charles Stewart Voorhees (1853–1909), American lawyer and politician *

Clark Voorhees Clark Greenwood Voorhees (1871 – 1933) was an American Impressionism, American Impressionist and Tonalism, Tonalist landscape painter and one of the founders of the Old Lyme Art Colony. Biography The son of a stockbroker, Voorhees was born o ...

(1871–1933), American landscape painter * Daniel Voorhees (disambiguation), multiple people, including: **

Daniel W. Voorhees Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (September 26, 1827April 10, 1897) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1877 to 1897. He was the leader of the Democratic Party and an anti-war Copperhead during ...

(1827–1897), American lawyer and politician from Indiana ** Daniel S. Voorhees (1913–possibly 2004), confessed to the 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short ** Daniel Spader Voorhees (1852–1935), American politician from New Jersey *

Debi Sue Voorhees Deborah Sue Voorhees (born July 28, 1961) is an American director, actress and writer. She is best known for her role as Tina in the 1985 movie '' Friday the 13th: A New Beginning''. Voorhees directed and portrays a fictionalized version of hers ...

(born 1961), American actress * Donald Voorhees (disambiguation), multiple people, including: **

Donald Voorhees (conductor) Donald Voorhees (July 26, 1903– January 10, 1989)Flint, Peter B ''The New York Times'', January 11, 1989. Accessed September 18, 2017. "Donald Voorhees, for 28 years the conductor and musical director of the ''Bell Telephone Hour,'' one of ...

(1903–1989), American composer and conductor **

Donald E. Voorhees Donald Edwin Voorhees (September 8, 1930 – May 16, 2001) was an American politician in the state of Iowa. Voorhees was born in Winfield, Kansas. He attended St. Johns College in Winfield, Kansas and was a medical representative. He served in t ...

(1930–2001), American politician from Iowa ** Donald S. Voorhees (1916–1989), American judge *

Ellen Voorhees Ellen Marie Voorhees (born March 13, 1958) is an American computer scientist known for her work in document retrieval, information retrieval, and natural language processing. She works in the retrieval group at the National Institute of Standards a ...

(born 1958), American computer scientist *

Erik Voorhees Erik Tristan Voorhees is an American cryptocurrency entrepreneur and founder of the cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift as well as Venice AI. He also co-founded Satoshi Dice and was the Director of Marketing at BitInstant. He has been referred t ...

(born 1985), American entrepreneur *

Foster McGowan Voorhees Foster McGowan Voorhees (November 5, 1856 – June 14, 1927) was an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 30th governor of New Jersey from 1899 to 1902. Biography Voorhees represented Union County in the New Jersey Senate fr ...

(1856–1927), American politician, governor of New Jersey *

Lark Voorhies Lark Voorhies (born Lark Holloway; March 25, 1974) is an American actress. She played Lisa Turtle on the NBC sitcom '' Saved by the Bell'' (1989–1993) and was nominated for the Young Artist Award six times, winning in 1990 and 1993 for her wo ...

(born 1974), American actress * Lida Voorhees (1864–1934), American tennis player * Richard Lesley Voorhees (born 1941), American judge *

Steven C. Voorhees Steven C. Voorhees (born 1954) is an American business executive. Voorhees served as the CEO of WestRock, from the formation of WestRock in July 2015 to March 2021 when he stepped down for health reasons. WestRock was formed in July 2015 by the m ...

(born c. 1955), American business executive *

(1600–1684), Dutch colonial magistrate, founder of a Dutch Reformed Church *

Tracy Voorhees Tracy Stebbins Voorhees (June 30, 1890 – September 25, 1974) served as Under Secretary of the United States Army from August 1949 to April 1950. He held numerous positions within the U.S. Government as a civilian. A practicing attorney, Voorh ...

(1890–1974), American Under Secretary of the U.S. Army *

Vern Voorhees Vern Voorhees (1878-1934) was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives. He was one of six members of the state House killed in the Kerns Hotel fire in Lansing on December 11, 1934. Also killed were representatives Charles D. Parker, ...

(1878–1934), American politician from Michigan

Fictional characters

Jason Voorhees Jason Voorhees () is a fictional character and the antagonist of the Friday the 13th (franchise), ''Friday the 13th'' series. He first appeared in ''Friday the 13th (1980 film), Friday the 13th'' (1980) as the young son of camp-cook-turned-kil ...

, a killer in the ''Friday the 13th'' franchise *

Pamela Voorhees Pamela Voorhees () is a fictional character and the overarching antagonist of the ''Friday the 13th'' series of horror films. She was created by Victor Miller, and first appeared in Sean S. Cunningham's '' Friday the 13th'' (1980), played by ...

, Jason's mother in the ''Friday the 13th'' franchise * Klaus Voorhees, Marvel Comics supervillain *

Curtis Vorhees Curtis or Curtiss is a common English given name and surname of Anglo-Norman origin, deriving from the Old French ''curteis'' (Modern French">-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of Fren ...

, from ''The Passage'' * Nitia Vorhees, from ''The Passage'' * Jacqueline Voorhees, from ''

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt ''Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'' is an American sitcom created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, starring Ellie Kemper in the title role. It premiered on March 6, 2015, on Netflix and ran for four seasons, ending on January 25, 2019. An interactiv ...

'' * Megan Voorhees, a minor character in ''

Scary Movie 2 ''Scary Movie 2'' is a 2001 American parody film directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans. It is the sequel to '' Scary Movie'' and the second installment in the ''Scary Movie'' film series. The film stars Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Shawn Wayans and ...

'' * Xanthippe Lannister Voorhees, from ''

'' * Dr. Voorhees in ''

The Thing from Another World ''The Thing from Another World'', sometimes referred to as just ''The Thing'', is a 1951 American black-and-white science fiction-horror film directed by Christian Nyby, produced by Edward Lasker for Howard Hawks' Winchester Pictures Corporatio ...

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