Voorhees (surname)

Voorhees is a surname. Its origins can be traced to Dutch settler Steven van Voorhees, who was from a village in Drenthe, Netherlands.

Notable people with the name include:


 * Alan Voorhees (1922–2005), American transportation engineer
 * Andrew Vorhees (born 1999), American football player
 * Charles Stewart Voorhees (1853–1909), American lawyer and politician
 * Clark Voorhees (1871–1933), American landscape painter
 * Daniel Voorhees (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
 * Daniel W. Voorhees (1827–1897), American lawyer and politician from Indiana
 * Daniel S. Voorhees (1913–possibly 2004), confessed to the 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short
 * Daniel Spader Voorhees (1852–1935), American politician from New Jersey
 * Debi Sue Voorhees (born 1961), American actress
 * Donald Voorhees (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
 * Donald Voorhees (conductor) (1903–1989), American composer and conductor
 * Donald E. Voorhees (1930–2001), American politician from Iowa
 * Donald S. Voorhees (1916–1989), American judge
 * Ellen Voorhees (born 1958), American computer scientist
 * Erik Voorhees (born 1985), American entrepreneur
 * Foster McGowan Voorhees (1856–1927), American politician, governor of New Jersey
 * Lark Voorhies, American actress
 * Lida Voorhees (1864–1934), American tennis player
 * Richard Lesley Voorhees (born 1941), American judge
 * Steven C. Voorhees (born c. 1955), American business executive
 * Steven van Voorhees (1600–1684), Dutch colonial magistrate, founder of a Dutch Reformed Church
 * Tracy Voorhees (1890–1974), American Under Secretary of the U.S. Army
 * Vern Voorhees (1878–1934), American politician from Michigan

Fictional characters

 * Jason Voorhees, a killer in the Friday the 13th franchise
 * Pamela Voorhees, Jason's mother in the Friday the 13th franchise
 * Klaus Voorhees, Marvel Comics supervillain
 * Curtis Vorhees, from The Passage
 * Nitia Vorhees, from The Passage
 * Jacqueline Voorhees, from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
 * Megan Voorhees, a minor character in Scary Movie 2
 * Xanthippe Lannister Voorhees, from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
 * Dr. Voorhees in The Thing from Another World