Vermeer (disambiguation)
Vermeer is a Dutch toponymic surname. It is a contraction of Van der Meer, meaning "from the lake."[1]
Vermeer usually refers to the Dutch genre painter Jan or Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675); aka Jan Vermeer van Delft, which distinguishes him from the other three painters named Jan Vermeer, one from Utrecht and the father and son pair from Haarlem.
Other people with the surname Vermeer include:
- Al Vermeer (1911–1980), American cartoonist
- Anne Vermeer (born 1916), Dutch Labour Party politician and centenarian
- Arie Vermeer (1922–2013), Dutch football defender
- Hans Vermeer (1930–2010), German linguist and translation scholar
- Jan Vermeer van Haarlem the Elder (1628–1691), Dutch landscape painter
- Jan Vermeer van Haarlem (II) (1656–1705), Dutch landscape painter and son of the former
- Jan Vermeer van Utrecht (1628–1691), Dutch painter who travelled to Italy
- Kenneth Vermeer (b. 1986), Dutch football goalkeeper
- Natasja Vermeer (born 1973), Dutch model and actress
- Vinnie Vermeer (born 1995), Dutch football midfielder
Vermeer could also refer to (unless otherwise noted, the following are named after Johannes Vermeer):
- 4928 Vermeer, a main belt asteroid
- Cape Vermeer, a 5 star guesthouse in South Africa
- Restaurant Vermeer, Michelin starred restaurant in the Netherlands
- Vermeer Company, manufacturer of agricultural machines founded by Gary Vermeer
- Vermeer Dutch Chocolate Cream Liqueur
- Vermeer Quartet, DeKalb, IL-based string quartet
- Vermeer Technologies, software company from 1994 to 1996
- Vermeer (video game series), a series of strategy and business simulation video games
- AMD Vermeer, the codename for the desktop line of AMD's Zen 3 CPUs
See also
- A Real Vermeer, a biographical film about art forger Han van Meegeren
- All the Vermeers in New York, a 1990 independent film
- Chasing Vermeer, a children's mystery novel
- Tim's Vermeer, a documentary film on attempts to duplicate Vermeer's painting techniques
- Vermeer's Hat, a book on the roots of world trade in the 17th century
- Writing to Vermeer, a 1999 opera by Louis Andriessen
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