Hoek is a Dutch surname. It may have a patronymic origin, as Hoek was a West Frisian form of the name Hugo. It can also be a shortened form of names like Van den Hoek ("from the corner").Hoek at the Database of Surnames in The NetherlandsHoek at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands People with the surname include:
Hoek Evert Hoek (1933–2024), South African-Canadian geotechnical engineer Frans Hoek (born 1956), Dutch football goalkeeper and coach (1878–1951), German pioneering ski mountaineer, namesake of the Hoek Glacier Martin Hoek (1834–1873), Dutch astronomer and experimental physicist Milan Hoek (born 1991), Dutch football defender (1851–1914), Dutch ichthyologist Sylvia Hoeks (born 1983), Dutch film and television actress
Hoeck Horst Hoeck (1904–1969), German Olympic rower Johann Hoeck (1499–1553), German Lutheran theologian known as "Johannes Aepinus" Karl Hoeck (1794–1877), German classical historian and philologist
Fictional characters Ren Höek, chihuahua from The Ren & Stimpy Show
See also Van den Hoek, incl. "Van Hoek" and "Van der Hoek"
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