# Goos (name)

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**Goos** is a [Dutch](/source/Dutch_language) and [Low German](/source/Low_German) masculine given name, a short form of [Goswin](/source/Goswin_(given_name)),[1] as well as a [patronymic surname](/source/Patronymic_surname) ("son of Goos").[2]

**Surname**

- [Abraham Goos](/source/Abraham_Goos) (c.1590–1643), Dutch cartographer and publisher, father of Pieter Goos
- [August Hermann Ferdinand Carl Goos](/source/August_Hermann_Ferdinand_Carl_Goos) (1835–1917), Danish lawyer, professor and Minister of Iceland
- [Carl Andreas August Goos](/source/Carl_Andreas_August_Goos) (1797–1855), German-Danish painter
- [Chris Goos](/source/Chris_Goos) (born 1981), American soccer player
- [Elies Goos](/source/Elies_Goos) (born 1989), Belgian volleyball player
- [Fritz Goos](/source/Fritz_Goos) (1883–1968), German physicist and astronomer a.o. known for the [Goos–Hänchen effect](/source/Goos%E2%80%93H%C3%A4nchen_effect)
- [Marc Goos](/source/Marc_Goos) (born 1990), Dutch racing cyclist
- [Maria Goos](/source/Maria_Goos) (born 1956), Dutch playwright and screenwriter
- [Merrilyn Goos](/source/Merrilyn_Goos), Australian mathematician
- [Michelle Goos](/source/Michelle_Goos) (born 1989), Dutch handball player
- [Pieter Goos](/source/Pieter_Goos) (1616–1675), Dutch cartographer, copperplate engraver, publisher and bookseller
- [Sofie Goos](/source/Sofie_Goos) (born 1980), Belgian triathlete

**Given name**

- [Goos Meeuwsen](/source/Goos_Meeuwsen) (born 1982), Dutch circus performer

## References

1. [Goos](https://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/naam/is/Goos) at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands.

1. [Goos](http://www.cbgfamilienamen.nl/nfb/detail_naam.php?gba_naam=Goos&nfd_naam=Goos&info=analyse+en+verklaring&operator=eq&taal=) at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.

## See also

- [Goos (disambiguation)](/source/Goos_(disambiguation))

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