Ruijs

Ruijs or Ruys is a Dutch patronymic surname, derived from the archaic Dutch given name Ruis.[1][2] Variant forms are Ruijsch, Ruis, Ruisch and Ruysch. People with the surname include:

  • Anna Charlotte Ruys (1898–1977), Dutch bacteriologist and epidemiologist
  • Anthony Ruys (born 1947), Belgian-born Dutch business executive
  • Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck (1873–1936), Dutch statesman, Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1918–25 and 1929–33
  • Mien Ruys (1904–1999), Dutch landscape and garden architect
  • Tini Ruijs (born 1957), Dutch football coach
  • Willem Ruis (1945–1986), Dutch game show host
  • Willem Ruys (1894–1942) (1894–1942), Dutch director of Nedlloyd and executed resistance fighter in World War II
    • MS Willem Ruys, Nedlloyd-built passenger liner named after him; known for the hijacking incident under the name "MS Achille Lauro"
  • Willem Jan Danielsz Ruys (1809–1889), Dutch shipbuilder, founder of Nedlloyd

See also

  • Ruys' bird of paradise, named after Theodoor Hilbert Ruys (1880–1942), Dutch merchant and missionary in northwest New Guinea[3]

References

  1. ↑ Ruijs (y) at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.
  2. ↑ Ruis at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands
  3. ↑ Ruys's Bird of Paradise … in English and Dutch
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