Holland (surname)

1 Architecture and engineering
2 Film, theatre and television
3 Literature and Linguistics
4 Music
5 Nobility
6 Politics
7 Science
8 Sports
9 Religion
10 Other
11 See also

Toponomical surname indicative of ancestral origin in the Dutch region of Holland, the Netherlands, or the English region of Holland, Lincolnshire. It is also an Anglicized version of Ó hUallacháin (or Houlihan or Holohan) and is a common surname on the Beara Peninsula in southwestern County Cork, Ireland. It is also found in places where Beara immigrants settled, such as Butte, Montana and southeastern Massachusetts.

Architecture and engineering

Clifford Milburn Holland, designer of the Holland Tunnel
Henry Holland, 18th century Georgian architect
John Holland (engineer), Australian engineer and construction magnate
John Philip Holland, Irish submarine designer

Film, theatre and television

Agnieszka Holland, Polish film director
Arnie Holland, American film distribution CEO of Lightyear Entertainment
Deidre Holland, Dutch porn star
Diane Holland, British actress
George Holland, nineteenth-century actor
Savage Steve Holland, American animator
Steve Holland (actor), American actor and model
Tom Holland (director), American film director
Willa Holland, American model and actress

Literature and Linguistics

Cecelia Holland, American historical novelist
Merlin Holland (born 1945), British writer and grandson of Oscar Wilde
Philemon Holland, 16th/17th century English translator
Richard Holland, 15th century Scottish writer
Thomas Holland (translator) (1539–1612)
Tom Holland (author) (born 1968), British author
Vyvyan Holland (1886–1967), British author, translator and son of Oscar Wilde
William Holland (diarist) (1776–1819), English diarist

Music

Brian Holland, African-American songwriter and record producer
Dave Holland, British jazz bassist and composer
Dave Holland (drummer), British rock drummer
Dexter Holland, singer and guitarist of the American punk band The Offspring
Jerry Holland (fiddler), a noted Canadian fiddler
Jolie Holland, American singer and songwriter
Jools Holland, British pianist
W. S. Holland, American rock drummer

Nobility

John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter (c. 1352–1400), English nobleman
John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter (1395–1447), English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War
Margaret Holland, daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent
Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand (1270–1328), English nobleman
Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent (c. 1314–1360), English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War.
Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent (1350–1397), English nobleman and a councillor of his half-brother Richard II (1374–1400)
Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey (1374–1400), aka 3rd Earl of Kent

Politics

Derek Holland (activist), figure of the European far right
Harry Holland, New Zealand politician and unionist
Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford, the 19th and 20th century politician
Henry Holland (mayor), mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand
James Holland (American politician), U.S. congressman from the state of North Carolina in the 18th/19th century
Lionel Holland (1865 - 1936), British politician
Mark Holland, member of the Canadian parliament
Samuel Holland, American politician in the 20th century
Sidney Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand
Spessard Holland, governor of Florida and U.S. senator
Stuart Holland, British Labour politician and academic

Science

Sir Henry Holland, 1st Baronet, the 19th century physician and travel writer
John Henry Holland, pioneer in genetic algorithms
John L. Holland developer of RIASEC theory
Thomas Henry Holland (1868–1947), British geologist
William Jacob Holland (1848–1932), zoologist, palaeontologist, and ordained Presbyterian minister

Sports

Bill Holland, race car driver
Brad Holland, American basketball player and coach
Joe Holland, an American nordic combined skier
Joe Holland (basketball), an American basketball player
Matt Holland, Irish footballer
Tom Holland (footballer), English footballer
Derek Holland, American baseball player

Religion

Jeffrey R. Holland, LDS apostle
Thomas Holland (Jesuit) (d. 1642), Catholic priest, Jesuit and martyr

Other

Cedric Holland (1889-1950), Royal Navy officer
Cyril Holland (1885–1915), son of Oscar Wilde, brother of Vyvyan Holland
Dave Holland (Klansman), U.S. white supremacist
Ed Holland, American editorial cartoonist
Kimberly Holland, American Playboy playmate
Lancelot Holland (1887-1941), Royal Navy officer
Wau Holland, computer hacker
Ron Holland (author), (born 1949) British enterpreneur, author, motivational speaker