Oort (disambiguation)
Oort is a Dutch toponymic surname[1] most commonly referring to the astronomer Jan Oort. Oort was one spelling of a Middle Dutch word for "edge" or "end", as in "the edge of town".[2] Variant forms are Oord, Oordt and Ort, as well as Van Oort, Van den Oord etc. ("from (the) edge of town"). People with these surnames include:
- Oort
- Abraham H. Oort (born 1934), Dutch-American climatologist, son of Jan Oort
- Frans Oort (born 1935), Dutch mathematician
- André–Oort conjecture, a number theory conjecture by Yves André and Frans Oort
- Henricus Oort (1836–1927), Dutch theologist and philologist
- Jan Oort (1900–1992), Dutch astronomer. Named after him:
- Oort cloud, a cloud of solid objects surrounding the solar system
- Oort constants, characterizing the rotational properties of the Milky Way
- Oort (crater), a crater on Pluto
- Oort limit, theoretical edge of the Oort cloud
- 1691 Oort (1956 RB), a main-belt asteroid
- Van Oort
- Adam van Oort (1561/62–1641), Flemish painter
- Bart van Oort (born 1959), Dutch classical pianist
- Eduard Daniel van Oort (1876–1933), Dutch ornithologist
- Jan van Oort (1921–2006), Dutch writer, working under the pseudonym of Jean Dulieu
- Johannes (Hans) van Oort (born 1949), Dutch patristic and gnostic scholar
- Hendrik van Oort (1775–1847), Dutch painter
- Pieter van Oort (1804–1834), Dutch painter and illustrator, son of Hendrik
- Named after him: Vanoort's crow, an Indonesian butterfly
- Oord
- Thomas Jay Oord (born 1965), American theologian and philosopher
- Pieter van Oord (born 1961), CEO of the Dutch dredging company "Van Oord"
- Willem van der Oord (born 1919), Dutch hydraulic engineer and diplomat
- Oordt
- Darwin Oordt (born 1944), American newspaper publisher and horse breeder
- Schuylar Oordt (born 1987), American football tight end
- Adri Bleuland van Oordt (1862–1944), Dutch artist and draftswoman
- Gabriël van Oordt (1757–1836), Dutch theologian
- Ort
- Bastiaan Ort (1854–1927), Dutch lawyer, judge and politician, Minister of Justice 1914–18
See also
- Ort (disambiguation)
- Noort, Dutch surname (including "Van Noort")
References
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