Oort (disambiguation)

Oort is a Dutch toponymic surname[1] most commonly referring to the astronomer Jan Oort. Oort was one spelling of a Middle Dutch word for "edge" or "end", as in "the edge of town".[2] Variant forms are Oord, Oordt and Ort, as well as Van Oort, Van den Oord etc. ("from (the) edge of town"). People with these surnames include:

Oort
  • Abraham H. Oort (born 1934), Dutch-American climatologist, son of Jan Oort
  • Frans Oort (born 1935), Dutch mathematician
  • Henricus Oort (1836–1927), Dutch theologist and philologist
  • Jan Oort (1900–1992), Dutch astronomer. Named after him:
    • Oort cloud, a cloud of solid objects surrounding the solar system
    • Oort constants, characterizing the rotational properties of the Milky Way
    • Oort (crater), a crater on Pluto
    • Oort limit, theoretical edge of the Oort cloud
    • 1691 Oort (1956 RB), a main-belt asteroid
Van Oort
  • Adam van Oort (1561/62–1641), Flemish painter
  • Bart van Oort (born 1959), Dutch classical pianist
  • Eduard Daniel van Oort (1876–1933), Dutch ornithologist
  • Jan van Oort (1921–2006), Dutch writer, working under the pseudonym of Jean Dulieu
  • Johannes (Hans) van Oort (born 1949), Dutch patristic and gnostic scholar
  • Hendrik van Oort (1775–1847), Dutch painter
  • Pieter van Oort (1804–1834), Dutch painter and illustrator, son of Hendrik
    • Named after him: Vanoort's crow, an Indonesian butterfly
Oord
Oordt
  • Darwin Oordt (born 1944), American newspaper publisher and horse breeder
  • Schuylar Oordt (born 1987), American football tight end
  • Adri Bleuland van Oordt (1862–1944), Dutch artist and draftswoman
  • Gabriël van Oordt (1757–1836), Dutch theologian
Ort
  • Bastiaan Ort (1854–1927), Dutch lawyer, judge and politician, Minister of Justice 1914–18

See also
  • Ort (disambiguation)
  • Noort, Dutch surname (including "Van Noort")

References
  1. Oort at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands
  2. Oort at the Middle Dutch dictionary
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