Ruijs or Ruys is a Dutch patronymic surname, derived from the archaic Dutch given name Ruis.[1][2] Variant forms are Ruijsch, Ruis, Ruisch and Ruysch. People with the surname include:
- Anna Charlotte Ruys (1898–1977), Dutch bacteriologist and epidemiologist
- Anthony Ruys (born 1947), Belgian-born Dutch business executive
- Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck (1873–1936), Dutch statesman, Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1918–25 and 1929–33
- Cor Ruys (1889–1952), Dutch actor, stage director and comedian
- Jos Ruijs (born 1955), Dutch rower
- Mien Ruys (1904–1999), Dutch landscape and garden architect
- Tini Ruijs (born 1957), Dutch football coach
- Willem Ruis (1945–1986), Dutch game show host
- Willem Ruys (1894–1942) (1894–1942), Dutch director of shipowner Rotterdamsche Lloyd and executed resistance fighter in World War II
- MS Willem Ruys, a Koninklijke Rotterdamsche Lloyd-owned passenger liner named after him; known for the hijacking incident under the later name Achille Lauro
- Willem Jan Danielsz Ruys (1809–1889), Dutch shipowner, whose family founded Rotterdamsche Lloyd
See also
- Ruijs-Aalfs syndrome
- Ruys's bird-of-paradise, named after Theodoor Hilbert Ruys (1880–1942), Dutch merchant and missionary in northwest New Guinea[3]
References
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