De Groot
De Groot is a surname of Dutch origin.
Translating as "the great/big/large/tall" it originated as a nickname for a big or tall person. The name has sometimes been Latinized as Grotius, as in the case of Hugo Grotius. In 2007, there were 36,147 people with this surname in the Netherlands, making it the 13th most common surname in the country, and 1179 in Belgium. Less common variants are De Groote, De Grooth, Groot and Groote. The form "De Grote", matching modern Dutch grammar, is very rare, and names like Karel de Grote tend to refer to historical figures called "the Great"", in this case Charlemagne. The agglutinated forms DeGroot and Degroot are mostly found abroad.
People with the name include:
- Adriaan de Groot, Dutch chess master and psychologist
- Adriaan de Groot , Canadian-born Dutch software engineer
- Alejandro López de Groot, Spanish footballer
- Anne De Groot, American immunologist and entrepreneur
- Barbara Hallquist DeGroot, American tennis player
- Bart de Groot, Dutch footballer
- Bob de Groot, Belgian comic book writer
- Boudewijn de Groot, Dutch singer and songwriter
- Bram de Groot, Dutch road bicycle racer
- Bruce DeGroot, American politician in Missouri
- Carlijn de Groot, Dutch cricketer
- Chad Degroot, American bike motocross rider
- Cor de Groot, Dutch pianist and composer
- , Dutch jurist
- Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, Dutch art collector, art historian and museum curator
- Daan de Groot, Dutch road and track cyclist
- David de Groot, Dutch-born British violinist
- Dick de Groot, Dutch-born American painter
- Diede de Groot, Dutch tennis Grand Slam Champion
- Dirk de Groot, Dutch football player and coach
- Donny de Groot, Dutch footballer
- Dudley DeGroot, American football player and coach
- Edward Stanley de Groot, Irish-born violinist and entertainer known as Stanelli
- Ethan de Groot, New Zealand rugby union player
- , President of the Belgian Constitutional Court
- Francis de Groot, Irish Colonel who "upstaged" New South Wales Premier, Jack Lang during opening of Sydney Harbour Bridge
- Frederik de Groot, Dutch actor
- Guillaume de Groot, Belgian sculptor
- , Dutch composer, accordionist and singer
- Hugo de Groot , Dutch jurist and poet
- , Dutch composer and conductor
- Huug de Groot, Dutch footballer
- Jan de Groot, Dutch painter
- Jan Jakob Maria de Groot, Dutch Sinologist and historian of religion
- Jannie de Groot, Dutch swimmer
- Jeanne Lampl-de Groot, Dutch psychiatrist
- Joeri de Groot, Dutch rower
- Johannes de Groot, Dutch mathematician
- Klaas de Groot, Dutch biomedical engineer
- Klaas de Groot , Dutch Greco-Roman wrestler
- Leen de Groot, Dutch racing cyclist
- Luc de Groot, Dutch type designer
- Marie-José de Groot, Dutch rower
- Morris H. DeGroot, American statistician
- Myra De Groot, English-Australian actress
- Nanno de Groot, Dutch-American abstract painter
- Nicholas de Groot, Canadian cricketerl
- Paul de Groot, Dutch communist politician
- Petrus Hofstede de Groot, Dutch theologian
- Pieter de Groot, Dutch regent and diplomat
- Raphaëlle de Groot, Canadian artist and educator
- Robyn de Groot, South African road bicycle racer
- Ron de Groot, Dutch footballer
- Roy Andries De Groot, British and American food writer
- , Dutch theoretical physicist
- Sytske de Groot, Dutch rower
- Tom de Grooth, Dutch cricketer
- Tavish Finnegan DeGroot, fictional character from 2007 game Team Fortress 2