# Mostert

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'''Mostert''' or '''Mostaert''' is a [Dutch](/source/Dutch-language) and [Afrikaans](/source/Afrikaans) [metonymic](/source/metonymic) [occupational surname](/source/occupational_surname). Meaning "mustard", it originally referred to a mustard miller or salesman. The [Middle Dutch](/source/Middle_Dutch) spelling ''Mostaert'' and modern Dutch spelling ''Mosterd'' are among variant forms of the surname.<ref>[http://www.cbgfamilienamen.nl/nfb/detail_naam.php?gba_lcnaam=mostert&gba_naam=Mostert&nfd_naam=Mostert&operator=eq&taal= Mostert] at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands</ref> People with these surnames include:

* [Chaz Mostert](/source/Chaz_Mostert) (born 1992), Australian racing driver
* [Chris Mostert](/source/Chris_Mostert) (born ca. 1950), Dutch saxophonist
* [Franco Mostert](/source/Franco_Mostert) (born 1990), South African rugby player
* [Frederick Mostert](/source/Frederick_Mostert) (born 1959), South African trademark attorney and legal writer
* [Gerhard Mostert](/source/Gerhard_Mostert) (born 1984), South African rugby player
* {{illm|Heinz Mostert|de||nl|}} (born 1949), German football defender
* {{illm|Henk Mostert|de||nl|}} (1925–2002), Dutch correspondence chess player and president
* [Herman Mostert](/source/Herman_Mostert) (born 1969), South African rugby player
* [JP Mostert](/source/JP_Mostert) (born 1988), South African rugby player
* [Joseph Mostert](/source/Joseph_Mostert) (1912–1967), Belgian middle-distance runner
* [Karla Mostert](/source/Karla_Mostert) (born 1990), South African netball player
* [Mark Mostert](/source/Mark_Mostert) (born 1950s), South African-born American non-fiction writer
* [Mary Mostert](/source/Mary_Mostert) (1929–2016), American Mormon missionary and writer
* [Natasha Mostert](/source/Natasha_Mostert), South African novelist and screenwriter
* [Nicol Mostert](/source/Nicol_Mostert) (born 1985), South African rugby player
* [Phil Mostert](/source/Phil_Mostert) (1898–1972), South African rugby player
* [Raheem Mostert](/source/Raheem_Mostert) (born 1992), American football running back
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* [Antoon Mostaert](/source/Antoine_Mostaert) (1881–1971), Belgian Roman Catholic missionary in Inner Mongolia
* [Frans Mostaert](/source/Frans_Mostaert) (1528–1598), Flemish landscape painter, twin brother of Gillis
* [Gillis Mostaert](/source/Gillis_Mostaert) (1528–1560), Flemish landscape painter, twin brother of Frans
* [Jan Mostaert](/source/Jan_Mostaert) (c.1475–1553), Dutch portrait painter, possibly grandfather of Frans and Gillis

==See also==
*[Mostert's Mill](/source/Mostert's_Mill), historic windmill in Cape Town, South Africa
*[Moster (disambiguation)](/source/Moster_(disambiguation))

==References==
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Category:Afrikaans-language surnames
Category:Dutch-language surnames
Category:Occupational surnames

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