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Hoek (surname)
Hoek
is a
Dutch surname
. It may have a
patronymic
origin, as
Hoek
was a
West Frisian
form of the name
Hugo
. It can also be a shortened form of
names
like
Van den Hoek
.
People
with the surname include:
Evert Hoek, South
African-Canadian
geotechnical engineer
Frans Hoek,
Dutch
football goalkeeper
and
coach
, German pioneering
ski mountaineer
,
namesake
of the
Hoek Glacier
Martin Hoek, Dutch astronomer and
experimental physicist
Milan Hoek, Dutch
football defender
, Dutch
ichthyologist
Sylvia Hoeks,
Dutch film
and
television actress
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Horst Hoeck, German Olympic rower
Johann Hoeck, German
Lutheran theologian
known as "Johannes Aepinus"
Karl Hoeck, German
classical historian
and
philologist