'''Vogelaar''' is a Dutch occupational surname meaning "bird catcher". It is equivalent to the English surname Fowler. <ref>[http://www.cbgfamilienamen.nl/nfb/detail_naam.php?gba_naam=Vogelaar&nfd_naam=Vogelaar&info=documentatie&operator=bw&taal= Vogelaar] at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.</ref> Notable people with the surname include:
*Carel de Vogelaer (1653–1695), Dutch still life painter *Ella Vogelaar (1949–2019), Dutch politician, minister of Integration and Housing 2007–08 *Jacq Firmin Vogelaar (1944–2013), pseudonym of the Dutch writer Frans Broers *Kate Vogelaar, Irish model
==See also== *Vogler and ''Vogeler'', German forms of the surname *Reinhilde Veugelers (born 1963), Belgian economist with a dialectical form of the name
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Category:Dutch-language surnames Category:Occupational surnames