Vosloo

Vosloo is a surname.

The Vosloo progenitor (Jan Vosloo) was born around 1649, a grandson of Johan Crantz (1575) from the farm Voßloh(Vossloh) in Westphalia Germany.

Jan Vosloo (1649) joined the VOC in order to escape poverty that gripped Germany after the thirty year war. ^[1]

Notable people with the surname include

• Abraham Vosloo (born 1966), South African politician
• Arnold Vosloo (born 1962), South African-American actor
• Gerhard Vosloo (born 1979), South African rugby union player
• Jacques Vosloo (born 2001), South African cricketer
• Phillip Vosloo (born 1971), South African cricket umpire
• Wian Vosloo (born 1995), South African rugby union player

Vosloo Book

Daniel Jacobs at the request of Ton Vosloo compiled a book in two parts to tell the story of the Vosloos.^{[1] [2]}