Nijland (surname)

Nijland is a Dutch toponymic surname. Nijland, modern Dutch nieuw land means "new land", indicating that a person may have lived on newly recovered land or that he came from any number of places named such.[1] Equivalent surnames are Dutch Nieuwland, Scandinavian Nyland, German Neuland, and English Newland. People named Nijland include:

• Albertus Antonie Nijland (1868–1936), Dutch astronomer
• Dorus Nijland (1880–1968), Dutch cyclist
• de:Maarten Nijland (born 1976), Dutch cyclist
• Stef Nijland (born 1988), Dutch footballer
• Stern Nijland (born 1976), Dutch illustrator

• Nijland, a town in Friesland
• Nijland, a lunar crater named after Albert A. Nijland

Surname list

This page lists people with the surname Nijland.
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