Arend (given name)
Arend, Arent or Arendt is a Dutch masculine given name. Arend means "eagle" in Dutch, but the name derives from Arnoud/Arnout, which itself stems from the Germanic elements aran "eagle" and wald "rule, power". The form Arent also occurs in Norway. People with the name include:
- Arend, Lord of Egmond, Dutch nobility
- Arent Arentsz, Dutch landscape painter
- Arent Berntsen, Dano-Norwegian topographer and statistician
- Arent Greve de Besche, Norwegian bacteriologist
- Arend Bloem, Dutch canoer
- Arend Jan Boekestijn, Dutch politician
- Arend "Arie" van de Bunt, Dutch water polo goalkeeper
- Arent Schuyler Crowninshield, American rear admiral of the United States Navy
- Arent van Curler, Dutch settler in New Netherland
- Arent Schuyler DePeyster, New York-born British military officer
- Arend Dijckman, Dutch merchant who briefly was Admiral of the Polish Navy
- Arent Nicolai Dragsted, Danish goldsmith
- Arent de Gelder, Dutch painter
- Arend Glas, Dutch bobsledder
- Arend Johan van Glinstra, Dutch painter
- Arent Greve, Norwegian jeweler, goldsmith and painter
- Arend "Arie" Haan, Dutch football player and coach
- Arend van Halen, Dutch portrait painter
- Arend Hassink, Dutch former road bicycle racer
- Arent M. Henriksen, Norwegian politician
- Arend Heyting, Dutch mathematician and logician
- Arend van 't Hoft, Dutch racing cyclist
- Arend de Keysere, Flemish printer
- Arend Kisteman, Dutch politician
- Arent Jacobsz Koets, Dutch guard painted by Frans Hals
- Arend Langenberg, Dutch voice actor and radio presenter
- Arend Lijphart, Dutch political scientist
- Arend Lubbers, American college administrator
- Arent Magnin, Dutch Governor of the Gold Coast
- Arent Passer, Dutch stonemason in Estonia
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- Arendt de Roy, Flemish architect
- Arend Joan Rutgers, Dutch/Belgian physical chemist
- Arend Schoemaker, Dutch footballer
- Arent Schuyler, New Netherland surveyor, merchant, and land speculator, ancestor of Arent DePeyster and Arent Crowninshield
- Arent Gustaf Silfversparre, Swedish baron
- Arend Fokke Simonsz, Dutch writer and intellectual
- Arend "Arne" Slot, Dutch football manager
- Arent Solem, Norwegian merchant
- Arend von Stryk, Namibian footballer
- Arent Van Soelen, South African sports sailor
- Arend van der Wel, Dutch footballer
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- Arend Friedrich Wiegmann, German pharmacist and botanist
- Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann, German zoologist and herpetologist, son of the above