Van der Wal

Van der Wal (or van de Wal, Vander Wal, Vanderwal, van de Wall, VanderWaal) is a toponymic surname of Dutch origin. The name most likely means someone who lived in the vicinity of the Waal (river) in the Netherlands, a branch of the Rhine. A less likely explanation is the original bearer of the name may have lived or worked at or near a "wal": a river embankment, quay, or rampart.^[1] In 2007, Van de(r) Wal was the 47th most common surname in the Netherlands (15,646 people).^[2] In Belgium, the form Van de Walle is more abundant.

List

People with the name Van de(r) Wal include:

• Dolf van der Wal (born 1985), Dutch snowboarder
• Eelke van der Wal [de; fy; nl] (born 1981), Dutch road cyclist
• Frederique van der Wal (born 1967), Dutch fashion model
• Gerrit van der Wal, Dutch president of KLM from 1965 to 1973
• Grace VanderWaal (born 2004), American singer-songwriter
• Henk van der Wal (1886–1982), Dutch Olympic runner
• Ian Vander-Wal (born 1971), Australian Olympic swimmer
• Jan Jaap van der Wal (born 1979), Dutch stand-up comedian
• Jannes van der Wal (1956–1996), Dutch/Frisian draughts (checkers) world champion
• Johanna Carolina van der Wal [id] (1852–1908), Dutch-Indonesian pianist
• John Vander Wal (born 1966), American baseball player
• Kody Vanderwal (born 2001), American stock car driver
• Laurel van der Wal (1924–2009), American aeronautical engineer
• Marian van de Wal (born 1970), Dutch singer residing in Andorra
• Marieke van der Wal (born 1979), Dutch handball goalkeeper
• Nick van de Wall (born 1987), Dutch DJ better known as Afrojack
• Rachael Vanderwal (born 1983), British basketball player
• Rence van der Wal (born 1989), Dutch footballer
• Ron Vanderwal (born 1938), American-Australian anthropologist and archeologist
• Thomas Vander Wal (born 1966), American information architect

See also

• Van der Waals (disambiguation)
• Van de Walle
• Wal (disambiguation)