Schouten

Schouten is a surname of Dutch origin. It generally has an occupational root, where the forebear was a schout, but can also be patronymic, as Schoute once was used as a given name. The name is quite common in the Netherlands, ranking 37th in 2007 (17,626 people). Variations include Schout, Schoute, Schoutens, Scholten and Scholte. People with this surname include:


 * Bernardus Dominicus Schouten (born 1979), Dutch Commander G550
 * Ank Bijleveld-Schouten (born 1962), Dutch politician
 * Antoine Schouten (born 1946), Canadian field hockey player
 * (born 1967), Dutch speedskating coach
 * Bas Schouten (born 1994), Dutch racing driver
 * Bryan Schouten (born 1994), Dutch motorcycle racer
 * Carola Schouten (born 1977), Dutch politician
 * Dirk Bernard Joseph Schouten (1923–2018), Dutch economist
 * Erik Schouten (born 1991), Dutch footballer
 * (born 1977), Dutch boxer
 * Gerrit Schouten (1779–1839), Surinamese diorama artist
 * Henk Schouten (1932–2018), Dutch footballer
 * Irene Schouten (born 1992), Dutch speed skater
 * Jaap Schouten (born 1984), Dutch rower
 * Jan Arnoldus Schouten (1883–1971), Dutch mathematician
 * Jan Frederik Schouten (1910–1980), Dutch physician
 * Jerdy Schouten (born 1997), Dutch footballer
 * Johanna Schouten-Elsenhout (1910–1992), Surinamese poet
 * Joost Schouten (c.1600–1640), Member of the Council of the Dutch East India Company
 * Lydia Schouten (born 1948), Dutch performance and video artist
 * Peter Schouten, Australian illustrator in the field of zoology and palaeontology.
 * Pieter Schouten (fl. 1622–1625), Dutch corsair and privateer
 * Raymond Schouten (born 1985), Dutch motorcycle racer
 * Willem Schouten (c. 1567–1625), Dutch explorer and circumnavigator who named Cape Horn
 * Wim Schouten (1878–1941), Dutch Olympic sailor
 * (1638–1704), Dutch physician and travel writer
 * Schoute
 * Pieter Hendrik Schoute (1846–1913), Dutch mathematician
 * Schout
 * Pieter Jacobsz Schout (1570–1645), Dutch mayor of Haarlem.
 * Members of the Haarlem schutterij portrayed by Frans Hals between 1616 and 1639, including Cornelis Jacobsz Schout, Jacob Cornelisz Schout, Loth Schout, and Pieter Schout

Named after a Schouten

 * Islands:
 * Schouten Island, island in Tasmania named after Joost Schouten
 * Schouten Islands or Biak Islands or Geelvink Islands, in Indonesia, north of New Guinea, named after Willem Schouten, who visited them in 1616
 * Schouten Islands or Eastern Schouten Islands or Le Maire Islands, of Papua New Guinea, named after Willem Schouten, who visited them in 1616
 * Schouten languages, spoken on and near the Schouten Islands of Papua New Guinea
 * 11773 Schouten, a main-belt asteroid named after Willem Schouten
 * Mathematics (named after Jan Arnoldus Schouten)
 * Schouten tensor, a mathematical object related to differential geometry
 * Schouten–Nijenhuis bracket, mathematical operator
 * Weyl–Schouten theorem
 * Schoutenia, a plant genus named after the explorer Willem Schouten
 * J.F. Schouten School for User System Interaction named after Jan Frederik Schouten