Van Alen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- James Isaac Van Alen (1776-1870), member of the United States House of Representatives
- James John Van Alen (1846-1923), sportsman and politician
- James Van Alen (1902-1991), founder of the International Tennis Hall of Fame
- John Evert Van Alen (1749-1807), American surveyor, merchant, and politician
- William Van Alen (1883-1954), American architect
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Famous quotes containing the word van:
“The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)