Bos (surname)
Bos is a Dutch surname. Meaning "woods" or "forest", the name often is toponymic. Alternatively, the surname sometimes has a patronymic origin, referring to the now rare given name Bos. In 2007, 35,405 people carried the name in the Netherlands, making it the 14th most common surname there.
Notable people named Bos include:
- Abraham Bos, Dutch historian and philosopher
- Annie Bos, Dutch theater and silent film actress
- Bert Bos, Dutch computer scientist
- Burny Bos, Dutch producer, scenarist and children's book writer
- Caroline Bos, Dutch architect
- Coenraad V. Bos, Dutch classical pianist
- Cornelis Bos, Flemish engraver, printseller and book publisher
- Cyril Bos, French racing cyclist
- Dianne Bos, Canadian photographer
- Ery Bos, Dutch-German dancer and film actress, daughter of Coenraad V. Bos
- Frederik Bos, Dutch farmer and politician
- Gijsbert Bos, Dutch football forward
- Hans Bos, Dutch biochemist
- Henk Bos (footballer), Dutch football midfielder
- Henk Bos (painter), Dutch painter
- Henk J. M. Bos, Dutch historian of mathematics
- Iwona Bos-Swiecik, Polish-Dutch chess master
- , Dutch footballer
- Jan Bos, Dutch speed skater & cyclist, brother of cyclist Theo Bos
- Jan-Just Bos, Dutch botanist, television presenter and rower
- Jan Ritzema Bos, Dutch phytopathologist, brother of Pieter Roelof
- Jane Bos, pseudonym of French film score composer Jane Malka
- Johnny Bos, American boxer and writer
- Kimberley Bos, Dutch skeleton racer
- Kirsten Bos, Canadian physical anthropologist
- Lambert Bos, Dutch scholar and critic
- Lex Bos, Dutch field hockey goalkeeper
- Loek Bos, Dutch cartoonist, painter and sculptor
- Marcelien Bos-de Koning, Dutch competitive sailor
- Marco Bos, Dutch racing cyclist
- Mark Bos, Australian-rules footballer
- Nel Bos, Dutch swimmer
- Peter Bos, Dutch actor
- Peter Bos (rower), American rower
- , Dutch teacher and atlas publisher, brother of Jan Ritzema
- Renée Jones-Bos, Dutch diplomat, Netherlands Ambassasor to Russia
- Roel Bos, Dutch movie actor with the stage name Glenn Saxson
- , Dutch museum curator and art historian
- Stef Bos, Dutch pop singer active in South Africa
- Tamara Bos, Dutch screenwriter
- Theo Bos, Dutch road and track cyclist, brother of speed skater Jan Bos
- Theo Bos (footballer), Dutch footballer and manager
- Thomas Bos, Dutch speed skater
- Willemijn Bos, Dutch field hockey player
- Wouter Bos, Dutch politician, leader of the Labour Party, PvdA
Fictional characters
- Dick Bos, protagonist of the Dutch detective comics series by the same name