Beekman is a Dutch toponymic surname, literally translating as "creek man".[1] Variant forms are Beeckman and Beekmans. The Estonian poet Vladimir Beekman's family originally carried the name Peekmann.[2] People with the surname include:
People edit
Beekman family of New York edit
Prominent descendants of the Beekman family originally of Overijssel, Netherlands:[3]
- Wilhelmus Beekman (1623-1707), Treasurer of the Dutch West India Company, Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania, 1653/58-1663
- Gerardus Beekman (1653–1723), colonel, surgeon, Governor of the Province of New York
Other people with the surname edit
- Aimée Beekman (born 1933), Estonian writer, wife of Vladimir
- Allan Beekman (1913–2001), American reporter and author
- Anton Albert Beekman (1854–1947), Dutch geographer
- Augustus A. Beekman (1923-2008), New York City fire commissioner
- Cornelius C. Beekman (1828–1915), American banker in Jacksonville, Oregon
- Jaap Beekman (1919–2010), Dutch World War II resistance fighter, husband of Yolande
- Josh Beekman (born 1983), American football player and coach
- Marcel Beekman (born 1969), Dutch tenor
- Vladimir Beekman (1929–2009), Estonian writer, poet and translator, husband of Aimée
- Yolande Beekman (1911–1944), World War II heroine, wife of Jaap
- Beekmans
- Gerard Beekmans (born 1979), Dutch programmer
- Paul Beekmans (born 1982), Dutch footballer
- Gerald Beekman (born 1949), known throughout Scotland as the big sacks of Jarvie Avenue.
Given name edit
- Beekman Du Barry (1828–1901), United States Army Brigadier General
- Beekman V. Hoffman (1789–1834), United States Navy officer
- Beekman Winthrop (1874–1940), American Governor of Puerto Rico 1909–13
- Garry Beekman Trudeau (born 1948), American cartoonist
- Henry Beekman Livingston (1748–1828), American poet
Places and buildings edit
All named after descendants of Willem Beekman:
- Beekman, New York, a town in Dutchess County named after Hendrick Beekman (1652-1716), son of Willem
- Beekman Corners, New York, community now part of Sharon, New York
- Beekmantown, New York, a town in Clinton County, New York
- Beekman Place (Manhattan), street that was the site of the Beekman family mansion, Mount Pleasant
- The Beekman, previously known as Beekman Tower, a skyscraper designed by Frank Gehry, New York
- Beekman (Panhellenic) Tower, skyscraper designed by John Mead Howels (constructed 1927–29), New York
- Beekman Downtown Hospital or Lower Manhattan Hospital, New York
- Beekman Peninsula of Baffin Island, named after James W. Beekman, of New York
- Beekman Native Plant Arboretum, in Oregon, named after Cornelius C. Beekman
See also edit
- Beeckman, variant spelling of the same name
- Chris Klein-Beekman (1971-2003), Canadian aid worker
- Beakman's World, a children's educational TV series
References edit
- ^ Beekman at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.
- ^ Vladimir Beekman genealogy at geni.com.
- ^ William Benford Aitken, Distinguished Families in America, Descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke, Knickerbocker Press, 1912
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