Kuiper

Kuiper is a Dutch occupational surname meaning cooper. Common spelling variants include Kuijper, Kuyper, Kuipers, Kuijpers, Kuypers, and De Kuyper. Notable people with the name include:

Kuiper

• Adrian Kuiper (born 1959), South African cricketer
• Albertine van Vliet-Kuiper (born 1951), Dutch mayor
• Barend Klaas Kuiper (1877–1961), Dutch-American historian
• David Kuiper (born 1980), Dutch rower
• Duane Kuiper (born 1950), American baseball player
• Edith Kuiper (born 1960), Dutch economist
• Elmar Kuiper (born 1969), Frisian poet
• Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper (1907–2003), Dutch Indologist
• Geert Kuiper (born 1960), Dutch speed skater
• Gerard Kuiper (1905–1973), Dutch-American astronomer after whom the Kuiper belt was named
• Glen Kuiper (born 1963) American broadcaster
• Hennie Kuiper (born 1949), Dutch cyclist
• J. P. Kuiper (1922–1985), Dutch professor of social medicine
• Michael Kuiper (born 1989), Dutch martial artist
• Nannie Kuiper (born 1939), Dutch children's author
• Nick Kuiper (born 1982), Canadian ice hockey player
• Nicky Kuiper (born 1989), Dutch footballer
• Nicolaas Kuiper (1920–1994), Dutch mathematician, known for Kuiper's test, Kuiper's theorem, and the Eells–Kuiper manifold
• Peter Kuiper (1929–2007), Dutch-German actor
• Piet Kuiper (born 1934), Dutch botanist
• Rienk Kuiper (1886–1966), Frisian-Dutch president of Calvin College
• Roel Kuiper (born 1962), Dutch historian, philosopher and politician
• Taco Kuiper (1941–2004), South African publisher and journalist

Kuyper

• Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920), Dutch prime minister, theologian, founder of a Protestant church and of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Elisabeth Kuyper (1877–1953), Dutch Romantic composer and conductor
• Frans Kuyper (1629–1691), Dutch Socinian writer and printer
• Jacob Kuyper (1821–1908), Dutch cartographer
• Jacques Kuyper (1761–1808), Dutch draftsman and composer
• Sjoerd Kuyper (born 1952), Dutch author