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Voorhees (surname)

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Voorhees is a surname. Its origins can be traced to Dutch settler Steven Van Voorhees, who was named after a village in Drente, Netherlands. Notable people with the name include:

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Real people

  • Alan Voorhees (1922–2005), American transportation engineer
  • Charles Stewart Voorhees (1853–1909), American lawyer and politician
  • Clark Voorhees (1871–1933), American landscape painter
  • Daniel Voorhees (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
  • Daniel W. Voorhees (1827–1897), American lawyer and Senator from Indiana
  • Daniel S. Voorhees (born 1913), confessed to the 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short
  • Daniel Spader Voorhees (1852–1935), New Jersey State Treasurer
  • Debi Sue Voorhees (born 1961), American actress
  • Donald Voorhees (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
  • Donald Voorhees (conductor) (1903–1989), American composer and conductor
  • Donald E. Voorhees (born 1930), American politician from Iowa
  • Donald S. Voorhees (1916–1989), U.S. federal judge
  • Erik Voorhees, American entrepreneur
  • Foster McGowan Voorhees (1856–1927), American politician, governor of New York
  • Lida Voorhees (1864–1934), American tennis player
  • Richard Lesley Voorhees (born 1941), U.S. federal judge
  • Steven Van Voorhees (1600–1684), Dutch colonial magistrate, founder of a Dutch Reformed Church
  • Tracy Voorhees (1890–1974), American Under Secretary of the U.S. Army
  • Vern Voorhees (died 1934), American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives

    • Fictional characters

  • Jason Voorhees and his mother Pamela Voorhees, the killers in the Friday the 13th movies
  • Klaus Voorhees, Marvel Comics supervillain
  • Curtis Vorhees, from The Passage
  • Nitia Vorhees, from The Passage
  • Jacqueline Voorhees, from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

    • References

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