Van Straten
Van Straten is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from/of Straten". Also van Straaten or van Starting, translated as "street", there are a number of settlements in the Low Countries with that name, including Groningen and Leeuwaden in Northern Netherlands, near Oirschot in North Brabant.
Land-granted nobility noted in the Dutch Hoge Raad van Adel as Baron/Baronness and Knight/Jonkvrouwen title-holders from Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe dating to the pre-1814 Dutch Provincial Period.
Notable people with the surname include:
- , One of the first Dutch settlers of Whidbey Island ; timbering forests for carpentry, settling farm land near present-day Ault Field and establishing a provisions/merchant store in Oak Harbor, WA; that were documented, disassembled and reassembled by the US Government. Later was also an initial settler of Brooks, Alberta before joining family in Pease, MN.
- Florence van Straten, American aerological engineer
- Frank van Straten, Australian historian
- Giorgio van Straten, Italian writer
- , Belgian lithographer
- Kristin Bauer van Straten, American actress
- , Dutch major general who defended Timor in World War II
- Rocco van Straten, Dutch snowboarder