Roos_(surname)

Roos (surname)

Roos (surname)

Family name

Roos is a surname with multiple origins. In Dutch, Low German, Swiss German and Estonian “Roos” means “Rose” and the surname is often of toponymic origin (e.g. someone lived in a house named “the rose”).[1] In 2007, 8600 people were named Roos and another 2880 “de Roos” in the Netherlands.[2] In the UK, Roos may be of patronymic origin (“Andrews”) or indicating red hair (Old English “Rouse”).[3] The name is also relatively common in Sweden (5,902 people in 2010), Finland (1219 in 2012)[4] and Estonia (934 people in 2019).[5] People with the name "Roos" or "de Roos" include:

Academics

  • Anna Maria Roos (1862–1938), Swedish educator, author, theosophist and songwriter
  • Antoon Gerard Roos [de] (1877–1953), Dutch philologist
  • Björn Roos [de; sv] (1937–2010), Swedish theoretical chemist
  • Charles F. Roos (1901–1958), American economist
  • Folkert de Roos (1920–2000), Dutch economist
  • Göran Roos, Swedish business theorist
  • Jan-Erik Roos, Swedish mathematician
  • J P Roos (born 1945), Finnish sociologist
  • Johan Roos (born 1961), Swedish organizational theorist
  • Leslie Roos (born 1940), American-Canadian professor of health sciences
  • Noralou P. Roos (born 1942), American-Canadian professor of community health sciences

Arts

  • Alexander Roos (c. 1810–1881), Italian-born British architect and urban planner
  • Bellan Roos (1901–1990), Swedish actress
  • Cajetan Roos (1690–1770), Italian landscape painter, son of Philipp Peter
  • Camilla Overbye Roos (born 1969), Danish film actress
  • Cornelis Sebille Roos (1754–1820), Dutch art dealer
  • Don Roos (born 1959), American screenwriter and film director
  • Eddy Roos [nl] (born 1949), Dutch draughtsman and sculptor
  • Enn Roos (1908–1990), Estonian Soviet sculptor
  • Eva Roos (1872–1956), British children's books illustrator
  • Ewa Roos (born 1949), Swedish singer and actress
  • Fred Roos (1934–2024), American film producer
  • Graham Roos (born 1966), British producer, writer and performer
  • Jaime Roos (born 1953), Uruguayan musician
  • Jan Roos (c. 1591-1638), Flemish painter who worked in Italy as Giovanni Rosa
  • Jennifer Roos (born 1971), American basketball coach
  • Joanna Roos (1901–1989), American actress and playwright
  • Johann Heinrich Roos (1631–1685), German painter, father of Philipp Peter and Johann Melchior
  • Johann Melchior Roos (1663–1731), German painter, son of Johann Heinrich
  • Joseph Roos (1726–1805), Austrian painter, son of Cajetan
  • Kjell Roos (born 1965), Swedish guitarist and singer
  • Martin Roos (born 1972), Swedish guitarist and manager of Kent
  • Mathilda Roos (1852–1908), Swedish writer
  • Mary Roos (born 1949), German singer and actor
  • Philipp Peter Roos (1655–1706), German painter, son of Johann Heinrich
  • Rosalie Roos (1899–1982), American jeweller and silversmith
  • S.H. de Roos (1877–1962), Dutch type and book cover designer and artist
  • Stefan Roos (born 1970), Swedish actor and screenwriter
  • Theodor Roos (1638–1698), German painter, brother of Johann Heinrich
  • Toon Roos [de; nl] (born 1964), Dutch jazz saxophonist and composer
  • William Roos (1808–1878), Welsh painter and engraver
  • William Roos (1911–1987), American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

Military

Politics

  • Ants Roos (1885–1962), Estonian politician
  • John Roos (born 1955), American diplomat, former Ambassador to Japan
  • Karl Roos [ca; de; fr] (1878–1940), Alsace politician
  • Lawrence K. Roos (1918–2005), American (Missouri) banker and politician
  • Mike Roos (born 1946), American (Californian) politician
  • Reet Roos (born 1973), Estonian politician
  • Thea de Roos (born 1949), Dutch historian and politician
  • Tielman Roos (1879–1935), South African politician

Sports

Other

  • Barney Roos (1888–1960), American automotive engineer
  • Charlotta Roos (1771–1809), Swedish occult medium
  • Christian Roos (1826-1896), German Roman Catholic bishop
  • Jan Roos (born 1977), Dutch columnist
  • Jørgen Roos [da; fr] (1922–1998), Danish documentary filmmaker
  • Magnus Friedrich Roos [de; fi; sv] (1727–1803), German theologian
  • Martin Roos (born 1942), Romanian Roman Catholic bishop
  • Rachel Roos (1923–1989), Dutch World War II resistance fighter
  • Robert de Roos (c. 1170-1227), ancestor of the Barons Ros of Helmsley
  • Rosalie Roos (1823–1898), Swedish feminist activist and writer
  • Victor Roos (1888–1964), American founder of several aircraft companies, including Cessna
  • Wilhelm Roos (1858–1944), Finnish Lutheran clergyman and politician
  • Willem Roos (1882–1915), Dutch World War I spy for Germany executed in England

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Roos Name Meaning at ancestry.com
  2. [2]
    Roos at the Meertens Institute database of surnames in the Netherlands
  3. [3]
    Roos at the HouseofNames.com
  4. [4]
    Roos in Finland
  5. [5]
    "Nimede statistika". www.stat.ee. Archived from the original on 2019-08-12.
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