De Bruijn

De Bruijn is a Dutch surname meaning "the brown". Notable people with the surname include:


 * (1887–1968), Dutch politician
 * Brian de Bruijn (b. 1954), Dutch-Canadian ice hockey player
 * Chantal de Bruijn (b. 1976), Dutch field hockey defender
 * Cornelis de Bruijn (1652–1726/7), Dutch artist and traveler
 * Daniëlle de Bruijn (b. 1978), Dutch water polo player
 * Frans de Bruijn Kops (1886–1979), Dutch footballer
 * Hans de Bruijn (b. 1962), Dutch political scientist
 * Inge de Bruijn (b. 1973), Dutch swimmer
 * (born 1965), Dutch billiards player
 * Jean Victor de Bruijn (1913–1979), Dutch district officer and ethnologist in the Dutch East Indies
 * Maarten de Bruijn (b. 1965), Dutch engineer
 * Maria Brigitta Catherina de Bruijn (1938–2006), Dutch GreenLeft politician
 * Matthijs de Bruijn (b. 1977), Dutch waterpolo player
 * Meike de Bruijn (born 1970), Dutch racing cyclist
 * Nick de Bruijn (b. 1987), Dutch racing driver
 * Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (1918–2012), Dutch mathematician
 * Pi de Bruijn (b. 1942), Dutch architect
 * Sophia Adriana de Bruijn (1816–1890), Dutch museum founder
 * Ruben Jacob de Bruijn (b. 2003), Dutch clothing designer

Mathematics
In mathematics, de Bruijn may refer to one of the following topics named after Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn:
 * De Bruijn sequence, a cyclic sequence of a given alphabet such that every length n subsequence appears exactly once
 * De Bruijn torus, a generalization of the De Bruijn sequence in two dimensions
 * De Bruijn graph, a graph representing overlaps between sequences of symbols
 * De Bruijn–Erdős theorem (disambiguation)
 * De Bruijn–Erdős theorem (graph theory), a theorem about graph coloring
 * De Bruijn–Erdős theorem (incidence geometry), a theorem about lines determined by points in the projective plane
 * De Bruijn index, a nameless representation of the λ calculus
 * De Bruijn–Newman constant, Λ, a mathematical constant related to the Riemann zeta-function
 * De Bruijn notation, a syntax for terms in the λ calculus
 * De Bruijn's theorem, a theorem regarding the packing of bricks into boxes