Barend
This article is about the given name. For other uses, see Barend (disambiguation).
Barend or (somewhat dated spelling) Barent is a Dutch male given name and occasional middle name. As of 2014, there are over than 4,000 men in the Netherlands with this as their first name, and nearly 3,000 with it as their middle name.[1] It was likely derived from Bernard.[2] Notable people with the name include:
- Barent Avercamp, Dutch painter
- Barend Biesheuvel, Dutch politician
- Barend Bonneveld, Dutch wrestler
- Barent Fabritius, Dutch painer
- Barent Gael, Dutch painter
- Barent Gardenier, American lawyer and politician
- Barend Graat, Dutch painter
- Barend Mons, Dutch biologist
- Barent Momma, Dutch modern pentathlete
- Barend Pieterse, South African rugby player
- Barent Staats, American politician
- Barend van der Meer, Dutch painter
- Barent van Kalraet, Dutch painter
- Barend van Someren, Dutch painter
- Levy Barent Cohen, Dutch-English financer
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