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    Boon (surname)

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    This article is about the surname. For other uses, see Boon.
    For the Chinese surname 文, pronounced Boon in Min dialects, see Wen (surname 文).

    Boon is a surname that can be of Dutch, Old French or Chinese origin. The rather common Dutch name Boon (Dutch pronunciation: [boːn]) often represents a patronymic, where the given name Boon was a short form of Boudewijn, Bonifacius or Bonaventure. Alternatively, boon meaning "bean" in Dutch, it can have a metonymic or metaphorical origin, referring to someone growing or selling beans, or one of small stature, respectively.[1] The English surname can be from an attested variant form of Bohon/Bohun, a family descending from a Norman knight.[2]

    Notable people with the surname include:

    A

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    • Alethea Boon (born 1984), Fiji-born New Zealand gymnast and weightlifter
    • Amos Boon (born 1972), Singaporean football goalkeeper

    C

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    • Charles Boon (1877–1943), English publisher
    • Clint Boon (born 1959), English musician, DJ and radio presenter

    D

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    • D. Boon (1958–1985), American punk guitarist and singer of The Minutemen
    • Dante Boon (born 1973), Dutch composer and pianist
    • Dany Boon stage name of Daniel Hamidou (born 1966), French comedian
    • David Boon (born 1960), Australian cricketer
    • Dickie Boon (1878–1961), Canadian ice hockey forward and manager

    E

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    • Ed Boon (born 1964), American video game programmer; co-creator of Mortal Kombat
    • Emilie Boon (born 1959), Dutch-born American children's book author and illustrator
    • Eric Boon (1919–1981), English boxer

    G

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    • Gerrit Boon (1768–1821), Dutch agent of the Holland Land Company, settler of Boonville, New York

    H

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    • Hugh P. Boon (1831–1908), American Union soldier in the American Civil War

    I

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    • Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (born 1954), Dutch sociolinguist

    J

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    • Jaak Boon (born 1948), Belgian television writer
    • Jan Boon (1911–1974), Dutch writer, journalist, and activist
    • Jazz Boon, Hong Kong television producer, director, and writer
    • Jill Boon (born 1987), Belgian field hockey player
    • John D. Boon (1817–1864), American merchant and Oregon politician

    K

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    • Karel Boon [fr; nl] (1909–1996), Dutch art historian and museum curator
    • Kevin Alexander Boon (born 1956), American writer and filmmaker

    L

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    • Louis Paul Boon (1912–1979), Flemish novelist

    M

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    • Martin J. Boon (1840–1888), British trade unionist
    • Mick Boon (1902–1988), New Zealand cricketer
    • Mike Boon (born 1970), New Zealand stand-up comedian

    N

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    • Nika Boon, British singer-songwriter

    R

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    • Ratliff Boon (1781–1844), American politician, Governor of Indiana in 1822
    • Robert Boon (1916–2015), Dutch-born American film, television, and theater actor
    • Ronnie Boon (1909–1998), Welsh rugby player

    S

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    • Stuart Boon (1934–1989), English cricketer

    T

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    • Thierry Boon (born 1944), Belgian immunologist
    • Tim Boon (born 1961), English cricketer
    • Tom Boon (born 1990), Belgian field hockey player

    W

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    • William Boon (1911–1994), British chemist

    Van der Boon

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    • Anthony Hendrik van der Boon Mesch [de; nl] (1804–1874), Dutch chemist and University Dean
    • Karla van der Boon (born 1968), Dutch water polo goalkeeper

    See also

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    • Boom (surname)
    • Boone (surname)

    References

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    1. ^ Boon at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.
    2. ^ ″The Bohun Wills″ (Melville M.) Bigelow, in The American Historical Review, Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Historical Association 1896, Vol. 1, No. 3 p. 1. [1]
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