Van Doren may refer to:
- Carl Clinton Van Doren, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer
- Charles Van Doren, a quiz show contestant, professor and Encyclopædia Britannica editor
- Dorothy Graffe Van Doren, an American novelist
- Irita Bradford Van Doren, an American literary figure and editor of the New York Herald Tribune
- Philip Van Doren Stern, an American author and Civil War historian
- Mamie Van Doren, an American actress
- Mark Van Doren, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and critic
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Famous quotes containing the words van and/or doren:
“For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in Homer’s gods; and I consider it a scientific error to believe otherwise.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“Ferdinand De Soto, sleeping
In the river, never heard
Four-and-twenty Spanish hooves
Fling off their iron and cut the green,
Leaving circles new and clean
While overhead the wing-tips whirred.”
—Mark Van Doren (1894–1973)