Van der Veer is a Dutch surname and may refer to:
- Roger van der Veer (b.1977), Dutch / Mexican in Playa del Carmen
- Jeroen van der Veer (b. 1947), a Dutch businessman
- Kelly van der Veer, a Dutch former Big Brother contestant
- Peter van der Veer, Dutch anthropologist, now in Göttingen
Famous quotes containing the words van, der and/or veer:
“The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“Under the lindens on the heather,
There was our double resting-place.”
—Walther Von Der Vogelweide (1170?–1230?)
“He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)