van Dam (Dutch for "of the dam") may refer to:
- Rob Van Dam
- José van Dam
- Andries van Dam
- Sabu and Rob Van Dam
- Rip Van Dam
- Nicolette van Dam
- Annick Van Dam
- Marinus van Dam
- Lloyd van Dams
The forms VanDam, Vandam or Vandamm are often indicative of a family of Dutch or Flemish origin which had lived for generations in a non-Dutch speaking environment, for example:
- Kevin VanDam
- Major William Vandam, fictional British officer in Ken Follett's "The Key to Rebecca"
- Phillip Vandamm, fictional spy in Hitchcock's "North by Northwest"
- "Prisoner of Vandam Street", 2004 book by Richard S. "Kinky" Friedman
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Famous quotes containing the words van and/or dam:
“Linguistically, and hence conceptually, the things in sharpest focus are the things that are public enough to be talked of publicly, common and conspicuous enough to be talked of often, and near enough to sense to be quickly identified and learned by name; it is to these that words apply first and foremost.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“The devil take one party and his dam the other!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)