Holland (surname)
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
Film, theatre and television
Literature and Linguistics
Music
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
Sports
Religion
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
See also