Van Dam

van Dam (Dutch for "of the dam") may refer to:

  • Rob Van Dam
  • José van Dam
  • Andries van Dam
  • Sabu and Rob Van Dam
  • Rip Van Dam
  • Nicolette van Dam
  • Annick Van Dam
  • Marinus van Dam
  • Lloyd van Dams

The forms VanDam, Vandam or Vandamm are often indicative of a family of Dutch or Flemish origin which had lived for generations in a non-Dutch speaking environment, for example:

  • Kevin VanDam
  • Major William Vandam, fictional British officer in Ken Follett's "The Key to Rebecca"
  • Phillip Vandamm, fictional spy in Hitchcock's "North by Northwest"
  • "Prisoner of Vandam Street", 2004 book by Richard S. "Kinky" Friedman
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Famous quotes containing the words van and/or dam:

    “‘Ouch’ is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    “The devil take one party and his dam the other!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)