Duif ("dove, pigeon") is an archaic Dutch male given name and patronymic surname. Variant spellings include Duijf, Duyf and Duive. Female forms are Duifje, Duifke, Duijfie, etc., some of which are still in use.
- Jan Ariens Duif (1617–1649), Dutch Golden Age painter from Gouda
- Tjeertje Bergers-Duif (born 1944), Dutch sprint canoer
- Duyff
- Jan Willem Duyff [nl] (1907–1969), Dutch World War II resistance fighter
References
- Duive at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands
- Duif at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.
See also
- De Duif, a church on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam
- Daub
- Douwe, West-Frisian given name of the same origin
Surname listThis page lists people with the surname Duif, Duijf, Duyff. If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.
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