'''Van der Pol''' (also "Van de Pol", "Van de Poll", "Van den Pol" or "Van Pol") is a Dutch, toponymic surname, originally meaning "from the raised land".<ref>[http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nfb/detail_naam.php?gba_naam=van%20der%20Pol&nfd_naam=Pol,%20van%20de%20/%20den%20/%20der&info=analyse%20en%20verklaring&operator=eq Pol, van de / den / der] at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands</ref> Notable people with the surname include:
;Van der Pol(l) / Vanderpol *Alfred Vanderpol (1854–1915), French engineer, philanthropist and author *Anneliese van der Pol (born 1984), Dutch-born American actress and singer *Balthasar van der Pol (1889–1959), Dutch physicist **a.o. known for the Van der Pol oscillator and the Bonhoeffer-van der Pol model *Jaap van der Poll (1914–2010), Dutch javelin thrower *Jos van der Pol (born 1961), Dutch conceptual and installation artist *Liesbeth van der Pol (born 1959), Dutch architect ;Van de Pol *{{illm|Piet van de Pol|de||nl|}} (1907–1996), Dutch billiards player ;Van den Pol *Anthony van den Pol (1949–2020), Yale Professor of Neurosurgery ;Van Pol *Christiaan van Pol (1752–1813), Dutch flower painter *Thijs van Pol (born 1991), Dutch football forward *Vera van Pol (born 1993), Dutch artistic gymnast *Louis van der Pol (1896–1982), Dutch impressionist painter
==See also== *10443 van der Pol, main-belt asteroid named after Balthasar van der Pol *Pol (disambiguation) *{{illm|Van de Poll|de||nl|}}, Dutch noble family *Jacob R. H. Neervoort van de Poll (1862–1924), Dutch entomologist
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Category:Dutch-language surnames Category:Surnames of Dutch origin Category:Dutch toponymic surnames