A number of people have had the surname Van de Velde (Dutch for "of the field") including:
Artists
- Pedro Campaña (1503–1586), also known as Peter Van de Velde, Flemish Renaissance painter
- Esaias van de Velde (b. 1587), Dutch landscape painter
- Jan van de Velde (b. 1593), Dutch engraver and painter; cousin of the above
- Jan Jansz van de Velde (1620-1662), Dutch still life painter; son of the above
- Willem van de Velde, the elder (c. 1611–1693); no relation to the above
- Willem van de Velde, the younger (1633–1707), son of Willem the Elder
- Adriaen van de Velde (1636–1672), son of Willem the Elder
- Henry van de Velde, Art Nouveau painter, architect and interior designer
Others
- James van de Velde, former Yale University lecturer and a figure in the 1998 Suzanne Jovin case
- Jean van de Velde (golfer), French golfer
- Jean van de Velde (director), film director of The Silent Army (Wit Licht)
- Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, sexologist
Famous quotes containing the word van:
“The first day that we landed upon that fatal shore
The planters they came round us full twenty score or more,
They rank’d us up like horses, and sold us out of hand
Then yok’d us unto ploughs, my boys, to plow Van
Dieman’s Land.”
—Unknown. Van Dieman’s Land (l. 9–12)