Maas
For the dairy product, see amasi.
Maas is the name of a river that is also named Meuse.
Surname
Maas also is a Dutch and North German surname. It can be toponymic ("from the Maas river"), but usually is of patronymic origin (Maas being a nickname for Thomas).[1] The surname is quite common in the Netherlands, ranking 43rd in 2007 (16,070 people).[2] People with this name include:
- Adriaan Maas (1907-1996), Dutch Olympic sailor
- Adriana Maas (1702–1746), Dutch stage actress
- Annelies Maas (born 1960), Dutch swimmer
- Anthony Maas (1859–1927), German-born American exegete
- Benjamin Maas (born 1989), German footballer
- Bill Maas (born 1962), American football player
- Cees Maas (born 1947), Dutch businessman, CFO of the ING Group
- Cheryl Maas (born 1984), Dutch snowboarder
- Chris Maas, American canoe sailor
- Cornald Maas (born 1962), Dutch television presenter
- David E. Maas, American historian
- Dick Maas (born 1951), Dutch film maker
- Dirk Maas (1659-1717), Dutch landscape painter
- Duke Maas (1929-1976), American baseball player
- Erich Maas (born 1940), German footballer
- Ernest Maas (1892–1986), American screenwriter
- Frans Maas (born 1964), Dutch long jumper
- Fred Maas (born 1957), American businessman
- Frederica Sagor Maas (1900-2012), American playwright, author and supercentenarian
- Greg Maas (born 1966), American soccer goalkeeper
- Günther Maas (born 1941), German wrestler
- Heiko Maas (born 1966), German politician
- Hermann Maas (1877-1970), German pastor and opponent of Nazism
- James Maas, American social psychologist known for his sleep research
- Jan Maas (1900-1977), Dutch racing cyclist
- Jason Maas (born 1975), Canadian football quarterback
- de:Jelle Maas (born 1991), Dutch badminton player
- Jo Maas (born 1954), Dutch road cyclist
- Joseph Maas (1847-1886), English tenor
- Kevin Maas (born 1965), American baseball player
- Melvin Maas (1898–1964), American Marine aviator and politician from Minnesota
- it:Mirte Maas (b. 1991), Dutch fashion model
- Nell Ginjaar-Maas (1931-2012), Dutch politician
- Nellie Maas, Dutch figure skater
- Nicolaes Maas (1634-1693), Dutch genre and portrait painter
- Paul Maas (1880-1964), German philologist
- Paul Maas (born 1939), Dutch botanist and a specialist in the flora of the neotropics
- Peter Maas (1929–2001), American journalist and author
- Rob Maas (born 1969), Dutch footballer
- Rudolph Arnold Maas Geesteranus (1911-2003), Dutch mycologist
- Rupert Maas (born 1960), English painting specialist and gallery owner
- Sharon Maas (born 1951), Guyanese novelist
- Timo Maas (born 1969), German DJ
- Tjaarke Maas (1974-2004), Dutch painter
- Willard Maas (1906–1971), American experimental filmmaker and poet
- Winy Maas (born 1958), Dutch architect
- de:Wolfram Maas (born 1950), German diplomat
Places
- Maas, Syria, a village in southwestern Syria
- Kfar Ma'as, a village in Israel
- Maghas or Maas was the capital city of Alania, a medieval kingdom in the Greater Caucasus
Software
- Mobility as a service (transport), an app which aggregates all forms of transport together, doing trip planning, bookings and payments.
See also
- Amasi, or Maas in Afrikaans - a fermented milk drink
- Maes, French and Flemish spelling of the surname
- Maass, German surname
- Mace, similar sounding surname
Sources and references
- ↑ Maas] at the Meertens Institute's database of Dutch surnames
- ↑ Leender Brouwer, The top 100 surnames in the Netherlands
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