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 words van de and/or van:
“Less is more.”
—Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe (1886–1969)
“The line that I am urging as today’s conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, a repudiation of mind. It is indeed a repudiation of mind as a second substance, over and above body. It can be described less harshly as an identification of mind with some of the faculties, states, and activities of the body. Mental states and events are a special subclass of the states and events of the human or animal body.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)