Ruijs

Ruijs or Ruys is a Dutch patronymic surname, derived from the archaic Dutch given name Ruis.[1][2] Variant forms are Ruijsch, Ruis, Ruisch and Ruysch. People with the surname include:

  • Anna Charlotte Ruys (1898–1977), Dutch bacteriologist and epidemiologist
  • Anthony Ruys (born 1947), Belgian-born Dutch business executive
  • Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck (1873–1936), Dutch statesman, Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1918–25 and 1929–33
  • Cor Ruys (1889–1952), Dutch actor, stage director and comedian
  • Jos Ruijs (born 1955), Dutch rower
  • Mien Ruys (1904–1999), Dutch landscape and garden architect
  • Tiny Ruys (1957–2025), Dutch football coach
  • Willem Ruis (1945–1986), Dutch game show host
  • Willem Ruys (1894–1942) (1894–1942), Dutch director of shipowner Rotterdamsche Lloyd and executed resistance fighter in World War II
    • MS Willem Ruys, a Koninklijke Rotterdamsche Lloyd-owned passenger liner named after him; known for the hijacking incident under the later name Achille Lauro
  • Willem Jan Danielsz Ruys (1809–1889), Dutch shipowner, whose family founded Rotterdamsche Lloyd

See also

References

  1. ^ Ruijs (y) at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.
  2. ^ Ruis at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.