Bloem (name)

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Bloem (Dutch pronunciation:

occupational (gardener, miller, baker).[2] The variants Bloeme and Bloemen are thought to be primarily matronymic.[3]
People with the name include:

Given name

Surname

Bloem

  • Adriaen Bloem or Adriaen van Bloemen (1639–c.1697), Flemish painter active in Austria
  • An Bloem, eponymous character from the 1983 Dutch movie
  • Arend Bloem (born 1947), Dutch sprint canoer
  • J. C. Bloem (1887–1966), Dutch poet and essayist, grandson of Jacobus Cornelis Bloem
  • Jacobus Cornelis Bloem
    (1825–1902), Dutch politician, Minister of Finances 1885–88
  • Jamie Bloem (born 1971), Australian rugby player and referee
  • Marion Bloem (born 1952), Dutch writer and film maker
  • Walter Bloem (1868–1951), German novelist and soldier
  • Walter Julius Bloem (1898–1945), German writer and soldier, son of the above
  • Willem Bloem (Willie) (1981-), Inventor and engineer, son of Willem Bloem Snr.

Bloemen

Three brothers Van Bloemen:

Places

  • The nickname and shortened form of Bloemfontein, a city in South Africa

See also

References

  1. ^ Bloem at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands.
  2. ^ Bloem at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.
  3. ^ Bloemen at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.