# Wynant

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**Wijnands**, **Wynants** and variants are [Dutch](/source/Dutch_language) [patronymic surnames](/source/Patronymic_surname), meaning son of [Wijnand](/source/Wijnand) (also spelled Wijnant, Winand, and, in [Afrikaans](/source/Afrikaans), [Wynand](/source/Wynand)).[1] Among more common variant spellings in the Low Countries[2] are *Wijnands* (3442 + 108), *Wynants* (28 + 1985), *Wijnants* (429 + 1143), *Wynant* (<5 + 554), *Wijnant* (38 + 268), and *Wijnand* (280 + 13). The form *Winant* is more common in the United States.

## Surname

People with these surnames include:

### Wijnands

- [Ad Wijnands](/source/Ad_Wijnands) (born 1959), Dutch racing cyclist
- [Onno Wijnands](/source/Onno_Wijnands) (1945–1993), Dutch botanist

### Wijnants

- [Jan Wijnants](/source/Jan_Wijnants) (1632–1684, buried 1684), Dutch painter
- [Jan Wijnants (cyclist)](/source/Jan_Wijnants_(cyclist)) (born 1958), Belgian racing cyclist
- [Ludwig Wijnants](/source/Ludwig_Wijnants) (born 1956), Belgian professional road bicycle racer
- [Olaf Wijnants](/source/Olaf_Wijnants) (born 1948), Dutch actor
- [Sarah Wijnants](/source/Sarah_Wijnants) (born 1999), Belgian football forward

### Winant

- [Carmen Winant](/source/Carmen_Winant) (born 1983), American writer and visual artist
- [Ethel Winant](/source/Ethel_Winant) (1922–2003), American casting director and vice-president of CBS
- [Howard Winant](/source/Howard_Winant) (born 1946), American sociologist and race theorist
- [John Gilbert Winant](/source/John_Gilbert_Winant) (1889–1947), American politician
- [Scott Winant](/source/Scott_Winant), American television director and producer
- [William Winant](/source/William_Winant) (born 1953), American percussionist

### Winants

- [Luc Winants](/source/Luc_Winants) (born 1963), Belgian chess player

### Wynand

- [Patrecia Wynand](/source/Patrecia_Wynand), stagename of Patrecia Scott (1940–1977), American model and actress
- [Paul Wynand](/source/Paul_Wynand) (1879–1956), German sculptor and medalist

### Wynant

- [H. M. Wynant](/source/H._M._Wynant) (born 1927), American film and television actor

### Wynants

- [Dirk Wynants](/source/Dirk_Wynants) (born 1964), Flemish furniture designer
- [Laure Wynants](/source/Laure_Wynants), Belgian epidemiologist
- [Maarten Wynants](/source/Maarten_Wynants) (born 1982), Belgian racing cyclist
- [Milton Wynants](/source/Milton_Wynants) (born 1972), Uruguayan racing cyclist
- [Pierre Wynants](/source/Pierre_Wynants) (born 1939), Belgian chef

## Given name

- [Winant Sidle](/source/Winant_Sidle) (1916–2005), major general in the United States Army
- [Winant Van Winkle](/source/Winant_Van_Winkle) (1879–1943), New Jersey politician

## See also

- [Wynants Kill](/source/Wynants_Kill), a stream in New York named after Wijnant Gerritsen van der Poel (1617–1699)
- [Wilbur Wynant House](/source/Wilbur_Wynant_House), in Indiana
- [Gail Wynand](/source/Gail_Wynand), character in the novel *The Fountainhead*
- [Wijnen](/source/Wijnen), a Dutch surname of similar origin
- [Winans (disambiguation)](/source/Winans_(disambiguation)), a similar surname

## References

1. [Wijnands](http://www.cbgfamilienamen.nl/nfb/detail_naam.php?gba_naam=&nfd_naam=Wijnands+%28y%29&info=aantal+en+verspreiding&operator=eq&taal=) at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.

1. Numbers given are individuals in the Netherlands in 2007 + in Belgium in 2008.[\[1\]](https://familienaam.be)

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