Holland (surname)
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Toponomical surname indicative of ancestral origin in the Dutch region of Holland, the Netherlands, or the English region of Holland, Lincolnshire. It is also an Anglicized version of Ó hUallacháin (or Houlihan or Holohan) and is a common surname on the Beara Peninsula in southwestern County Cork, Ireland. It is also found in places where Beara immigrants settled, such as Butte, Montana and southeastern Massachusetts.
Architecture and engineering
- Clifford Milburn HollandClifford Milburn HollandClifford Milburn Holland was born in Somerset, Massachusetts. He was the only child of Edward John Holland and Lydia Frances Hood. He graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in 1905 and a B.S. in Civil Engineering in 1906. On November 5, 1908 he married Anna Coolidge Davenport...
, designer of the Holland Tunnel - Henry HollandHenry HollandHenry Holland may refer to:* Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter , Lancastrian leader during the Wars of the Roses* Henry Holland , English writer on witchcraft...
, 18th century Georgian architect - John Holland (engineer)John Holland (engineer)Sir John Holland AC was an Australian engineer and construction magnate, who founded the John Holland Construction Group in 1949, was Managing Director until 1972, Chairman until 1986, and President from 1986 until his death...
, Australian engineer and construction magnate - John Philip HollandJohn Philip HollandJohn Philip Holland was an Irish engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the U.S...
, Irish submarine designer
Film, theatre and television
- Agnieszka HollandAgnieszka HollandAgnieszka Holland is a Polish film and TV director and screenwriter. Best recognized for her highly political contributions to Polish cinema, Holland is one of Poland's most prominent filmmakers.-Personal life:...
, Polish film director - Arnie HollandLightyear EntertainmentLightyear Entertainment, headquartered in Sherman Oaks, California, is a distributor of independent motion pictures on DVD, Video On Demand, as well as a distributor of music and music videos on CD, DVD, and digital distribution....
, American film distribution CEO of Lightyear EntertainmentLightyear EntertainmentLightyear Entertainment, headquartered in Sherman Oaks, California, is a distributor of independent motion pictures on DVD, Video On Demand, as well as a distributor of music and music videos on CD, DVD, and digital distribution.... - Deidre HollandDeidre HollandDeidre Holland is a Dutch porn star and member of the AVN Hall of Fame.She was once married to porn star Jon Dough, and has been a contract performer with Vivid Entertainment.- Awards :...
, Dutch porn star - Diane HollandDiane HollandDiane Holland was a British actress.She was unmarried and trained as a dancer before being given the part of Yvonne Stewart-Hargreaves in Hi-de-Hi! by her brother-in-law, Jimmy Perry...
, British actress - George HollandGeorge HollandGeorge Holland was an English American stage actor, born in London, December 6, 1791. His father was a tradesman. The boy was first sent to preparatory schools in Lambeth, and afterward to a boarding-school. He did not prove a devoted student: he was more remarkable for his pranks than for his...
, nineteenth-century actor - Savage Steve HollandSavage Steve HollandSavage Steve Holland is an animator and film director who wrote and directed the cult films Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer , starring John Cusack. He also directed the film How I Got Into College , and animated the "Whammy" on the game show Press Your Luck. He later went on to create and...
, American animator - Steve Holland (actor), American actor and model
- Tom Holland (director)Tom Holland (director)-Early life:Holland was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, the son of Lee and Tom Holland. He graduated from Worcester Academy in 1962. He is the uncle of Dexter Holland, the singer and guitarist for the American punk rock band, The Offspring, and father of American actor Josh Holland.-Dead Rabbit...
, American film director - Willa HollandWilla HollandWilla Joanna Chance Holland is an American actress and fashion model. She is best known for her role as Kaitlin Cooper, Marissa Cooper's devious younger sister, on the television series The O.C.. She also appeared as Agnes Andrews on The CW series Gossip Girl...
, American model and actress
Literature and Linguistics
- Cecelia HollandCecelia Holland-Biography:She was born December 31, 1943 in Henderson, Nevada, and began writing at the age of twelve, recording the stories she made up for her own entertainment. From the beginning, her focus was on history because "being twelve, I had precious few stories of my own...
, American historical novelist - Merlin HollandMerlin HollandChristopher Merlin Vyvyan Holland is a biographer and editor. He is the son of the author Vyvyan Holland and his second wife, the former Thelma Besant, and is the only grandchild of Oscar Wilde...
(born 1945), British writer and grandson of Oscar Wilde - Norman Holland (born 1927), American literary critic and psychoanalytic theorist
- Philemon HollandPhilemon HollandPhilemon Holland was an English translator.His father, John Holland, was a clergyman who fled the Kingdom of England during the persecutions of Mary I of England...
, 16th/17th century English translator - Richard HollandRichard HollandRichard Holland or Richard de Holande , Scottish writer, author of the Buke of the Howlat, was secretary or chaplain to Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray and rector of Halkirk, near Thurso....
, 15th century Scottish writer - Thomas Holland (translator)Thomas Holland (translator)Thomas Holland was an English Calvinist scholar and theologian, and one of the translators of the King James Version of the Bible.He was a 1570 graduate of Exeter College, Oxford and Fellow of Baliol...
(1539–1612) - Tom Holland (author)Tom Holland (author)-Biography:Holland was born near Oxford and brought up in the village of Broadchalke near Salisbury, England. His younger brother is the historian and novelist James Holland...
(born 1968), British author - Vyvyan HollandVyvyan HollandVyvyan Holland, OBE , born Vyvyan Oscar Beresford Wilde in London, was a British author and translator. He was the second son of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd, after his brother Cyril.-Biography:...
(1886–1967), British author, translator and son of Oscar Wilde - William Holland (diarist) (1776–1819), English diarist
Music
- Brian HollandBrian HollandBrian Holland is an American songwriter and record producer, best known as a member of Holland–Dozier–Holland. That songwriting and production team that was responsible for much of the Motown sound and numerous hit records by artists such as Martha and the Vandellas, The Supremes, The Four Tops,...
, African-American songwriter and record producer - Dave HollandDave HollandDave Holland is an English jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades. He has lived in the United States for 40 years....
, British jazz bassist and composer - Dave Holland (drummer)Dave Holland (drummer)Dave Holland is an English rock drummer, best remembered from his stint with Judas Priest between 1979 and 1989. He served time in prison for attempted rape of a 17-year-old boy...
, British rock drummer - Dexter HollandDexter HollandBryan Keith "Dexter" Holland is the singer and rhythm guitarist for the California punk rock band The Offspring...
, singer and guitarist of the American punk band The Offspring - Jerry Holland (fiddler)Jerry Holland (fiddler)Jerry Holland was a fiddler who lived on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada.He was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, United States to Canadian parents - his father was from New Brunswick and his mother was from Quebec. During his childhood, Jerry was exposed to the music of the large Cape...
, a noted Canadian fiddler - Jolie HollandJolie HollandJolie Holland is an American singer and performer who combines elements of folk, traditional, country, rock, jazz, and blues...
, American singer and songwriter - Jools HollandJools HollandJulian Miles "Jools" Holland OBE, DL is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer, and television presenter. He was a founder of the band Squeeze and his work has involved him with many artists including Sting, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, The Who, David Gilmour and Bono.Holland is a...
, British pianist - W. S. HollandW. S. HollandW. S. "Fluke" Holland is a drummer who worked extensively with numerous rock and roll musicians, beginning with Carl Perkins, but became well known as the drummer in singer Johnny Cash's succession of backing bands: The Tennessee Three, The Great Eighties Eight, and The Johnny Cash Show Band...
, American rock drummer
Nobility
- John Holland, 1st Duke of ExeterJohn Holland, 1st Duke of ExeterJohn Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter KG , also 1st Earl of Huntingdon, was an English nobleman, primarily remembered for helping cause the downfall of Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester and then for conspiring against Henry IV.He was the third son of Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent and Joan...
(c. 1352–1400), English nobleman - John Holland, 2nd Duke of ExeterJohn Holland, 2nd Duke of ExeterJohn Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter KG was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War.-Family:...
(1395–1447), English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War - Margaret HollandMargaret HollandMargaret Holland, Countess of Somerset was the daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, who was the son of Joan "the Fair Maid of Kent"...
, daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent - Robert de Holland, 1st Baron HolandRobert de Holland, 1st Baron HolandRobert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand was an English nobleman, born in Lancashire.He was a son of Sir Robert de Holland of Upholland, Lancashire and Elizabeth, daughter of William de Samlesbury....
(1270–1328), English nobleman - Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of KentThomas Holland, 1st Earl of KentThomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, 2nd Baron Holand, KG was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War.-Early Life:...
(c. 1314–1360), English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War. - Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of KentThomas Holland, 2nd Earl of KentThomas Holland , 2nd Earl of Kent, 3rd Baron Holand KG was an English nobleman and a councillor of his half-brother, King Richard II of England.-Family and early Life:...
(1350–1397), English nobleman and a councillor of his half-brother Richard II (1374–1400) - Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of SurreyThomas Holland, 1st Duke of SurreyThomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, 3rd Earl of Kent, 4th Baron Holland, KG, Earl Marshal was an English nobleman.-Early life and family:...
(1374–1400), aka 3rd Earl of Kent
Politics
- Derek Holland (activist), figure of the European far right
- Harry HollandHarry HollandHenry Edmund Holland was a New Zealand politician and unionist. He was the first leader of the New Zealand Labour Party.-Early life:...
, New Zealand politician and unionist - Henry Holland, 1st Viscount KnutsfordHenry Holland, 1st Viscount KnutsfordHenry Thurstan Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford GCMG, PC , known as Sir Henry Holland, Bt, from 1873 to 1888 and as The Lord Knutsford from 1888 to 1895, was a British Conservative politician, best known for serving as Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1887 to 1892.-Background and...
, the 19th and 20th century politician - Henry Holland (mayor)Henry Holland (mayor)Henry Holland, CBE was a New Zealand politician of the Reform Party, and Mayor of Christchurch from 1912 to 1919.-Member of Parliament:...
, mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand - James Holland (American politician), U.S. congressman from the state of North Carolina in the 18th/19th century
- Lionel HollandLionel HollandLionel Raleigh Holland was a British politician, the youngest son of Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford. He was elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Bow and Bromley in 1895. He resigned in 1899 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead.- External links :...
(1865 - 1936), British politician - Mark HollandMark HollandMark Holland is a Canadian politician. In the 2004 federal election he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a candidate of the Liberal Party in the Ontario riding of Ajax-Pickering. Holland was subsequently re-elected in the 2006 and 2008 federal elections...
, member of the Canadian parliament - Samuel HollandSamuel HollandSamuel Johannes Holland was a Royal Engineer and first Surveyor General of British North America.-Life in the Netherlands:...
, American politician in the 20th century - Sidney HollandSidney HollandSir Sidney George Holland, GCMG, CH was the 25th Prime Minister of New Zealand from 13 December 1949 to 20 September 1957.-Early life:...
, Prime Minister of New Zealand - Spessard HollandSpessard HollandSpessard Lindsey Holland was an American lawyer, politician and elected officeholder. He was the 28th Governor of Florida from 1941 until 1945, during World War II. After finishing his term as governor, he was a United States Senator from Florida from 1946 until 1971...
, governor of Florida and U.S. senator - Stuart HollandStuart HollandStuart Kingsley Holland is a British Labour politician and academic.He represented the Vauxhall constituency in Lambeth, London from 1979 until 1989, when he applied for the Chiltern Hundreds to take up a post at the European University Institute, Florence...
, British Labour politician and academic
Science
- Sir Henry Holland, 1st BaronetSir Henry Holland, 1st BaronetSir Henry Holland, 1st Baronet FRS, DCL , was a British physician and travel writer.-Private Life:Born in Knutsford, Cheshire, Holland was the son of the physician Peter Holland and his wife Mary Willets. Peter's sister Elizabeth was the mother of the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, and Mary was the...
, the 19th century physician and travel writer - John Henry HollandJohn Henry HollandJohn Henry Holland is an American scientist and Professor of Psychology and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is a pioneer in complex systems and nonlinear science. He is known as the father of genetic algorithms. He was awarded...
, pioneer in genetic algorithms - John L. HollandJohn L. HollandJohn Luther Holland was an American psychologist who created the career development model known as the Holland Occupational Themes. It is often referred to as the Holland Codes....
developer of RIASEC theory - Thomas Henry HollandThomas Henry HollandSir Thomas Henry Holland KCSI KCIE FRS was a British geologist and educational administrator.Thomas Holland was born in Helston, Cornwall. In 1884, he won a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Science, graduating with a first class degree in Geology...
(1868–1947), British geologist - William Jacob HollandWilliam Jacob HollandWilliam Jacob Holland was the eighth Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. He was an accomplished zoologist and paleontologist, as well as an ordained Presbyterian minister.-Life:Holland was born August 16, 1848 in Jamaica, West Indies, the...
(1848–1932), zoologist, palaeontologist, and ordained Presbyterian minister
Sports
- Bill HollandBill HollandBill Holland was an American race car driver from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who won the Indianapolis 500 in 1949. He nearly won as a rookie in 1947 but slowed and allowed teammate Mauri Rose to pass him seven laps from the end, mistakenly believing that Rose was a lap down...
, race car driver - Brad HollandBrad HollandJohn Bradley Holland is a retired American professional basketball player. He played for four years at UCLA and was the 14th player taken in the first round of the 1979 NBA Draft by the Los Angeles Lakers. He served as a member of the 1980 NBA L.A. Lakers championship team...
, American basketball player and coach - Joe HollandJoe HollandJoe Holland is an American nordic combined skier who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His best finish at the Olympic Winter Games was eighth in the 3 x 10 km event at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France...
, an American nordic combined skier - Joe Holland (basketball)Joe Holland (basketball)Joseph Burnett Holland, Sr. was an American basketball player. He won an NCAA championship at the University of Kentucky and played three years in the National Basketball Association from 1949 to 1952....
, an American basketball player - Matt HollandMatt HollandMatthew Rhys "Matt" Holland is a former English-born Irish footballer, who represented Republic of Ireland at international level...
, Irish footballer - Tom Holland (footballer)Tom Holland (footballer)Thomas "Tom" Holland was an English association football player who played professionally for clubs including Watford and Gillingham. He made nearly 120 Football League appearances for the latter club....
, English footballer - Derek HollandDerek Holland (baseball)Derek Lane Holland is a Major League Baseball left-handed starting pitcher for the Texas Rangers. He is noted for his kid-like appearance....
, American baseball player
Religion
- Jeffrey R. HollandJeffrey R. HollandJeffrey Roy Holland is an American educator and religious leader. He served as the ninth President of Brigham Young University and is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . As a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, Holland is accepted by...
, LDS apostle - Thomas Holland (Jesuit)Thomas Holland (Jesuit)Thomas Holland was an English Jesuit priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929 .-Life:...
(d. 1642), Catholic priest, Jesuit and martyr - Thomas Holland (Puritan), Puritan divine
Other
- Cedric HollandCedric HollandCedric Swinton Holland CB was an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the First and Second World Wars, rising to the rank of vice-admiral....
(1889-1950), Royal Navy officer - Cyril HollandCyril HollandCyril Holland was the first son of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd and brother to Vyvyan Holland....
(1885–1915), son of Oscar Wilde, brother of Vyvyan Holland - Dave Holland (Klansman)Dave Holland (Klansman)Dave Holland is the founder and Grand Dragon of the Southern White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.He was among those ordered to pay restitution for organizing a demonstration that became a violent attack against a civil rights march on Jan 17, 1987. The Supreme Court upheld the decision.- External...
, U.S. white supremacist - Ed HollandEd HollandDaniel Edward Holland , commonly known as Ed Holland, was an American editorial cartoonist. Holland spent the bulk of his career with the Chicago Tribune.-Education and career:...
, American editorial cartoonist - Henry Holland (rifleman), British shotgun manufacturer
- Kimberly Holland, American Playboy playmate
- Lancelot HollandLancelot HollandVice Admiral Lancelot Ernest Holland, CB commanded the British force in the Battle of Denmark Strait in May, 1941 against the German battleship Bismarck. Holland was killed during the battle.-Early life:...
(1887-1941), Royal Navy officer - Wau HollandWau HollandHerwart Holland-Moritz, known as Wau Holland, cofounded the Chaos Computer Club in 1981, one of the world's oldest hacking clubs. The CCC became world famous when its members exposed security flaws in Germany's "Bildschirmtext" online television service by getting a bank to send them DM 134,000...
, computer hacker - Ron Holland (author)Ron Holland (author)Ron G. Holland is a British entrepreneur and author. He is one of the worlds leading exponents on the subject of thinking and non-thinking. He specialises in raising equity funding for early stage and start-up companies. His passion is cars, motorcycles and motorboats...
, (born 1949) British enterpreneur, author, motivational speaker - Megan Holland (born 1992), English body artiste and motivational thinker on all things life-related
See also
- Holland (disambiguation)Holland (disambiguation)- Relating to the Netherlands :* In strict usage, Holland is the name of a former province of the Netherlands, now split into Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland. In English , "Holland" is informally used as a name for the whole of the Netherlands...
- Hollande
- HollanderHolländerHollander is the Dutch term from people from the Netherlands or specifically Holland proper. Variants of German origin include Hollaender and Holländer.-People:* Anthony Hollander Hollander is the (informal and incorrect) Dutch term from people from the Netherlands or specifically Holland proper....
(includes Hollaender and Holländer)