Voorhees is a surname. Its origins can be traced to Dutch settler Steven van Voorhees, who was from a village in Drenthe, Netherlands.[1]
Notable people with the name include:
- Alan Voorhees (1922–2005), American transportation engineer
- Andrew Vorhees (born 1999), American football player
- 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 politician from Indiana
- Daniel S. Voorhees (1913–possibly 2004), confessed to the 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short
- Daniel Spader Voorhees (1852–1935), American politician from New Jersey
- 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 (1930–2001), American politician from Iowa
- Donald S. Voorhees (1916–1989), American judge
- Ellen Voorhees (born 1958), American computer scientist
- Erik Voorhees (born 1985), American entrepreneur
- Foster McGowan Voorhees (1856–1927), American politician, governor of New Jersey
- Lark Voorhies, American actress
- Lida Voorhees (1864–1934), American tennis player
- Richard Lesley Voorhees (born 1941), American judge
- Steven C. Voorhees (born c. 1955), American business executive
- 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 (1878–1934), American politician from Michigan
Fictional characters
- Jason Voorhees, a killer in the Friday the 13th franchise
- Pamela Voorhees, Jason's mother in the Friday the 13th franchise
- Klaus Voorhees, Marvel Comics supervillain
- Curtis Vorhees, from The Passage
- Nitia Vorhees, from The Passage
- Jacqueline Voorhees, from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
- Megan Voorhees, a minor character in Scary Movie 2
- Xanthippe Lannister Voorhees, from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
- Dr. Voorhees in The Thing from Another World
See also
References
- ↑ "Map of Hees near Ruinen, Netherlands". Retrieved 2015-10-26.
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