Van de Wetering is a Dutch toponymic surname, meaning "from/of the (drainage) channel".^[1] Among spelling variants are Watering, Weetering and Weteringh. Many waters in the Netherlands have the name as well a number of towns, themselves named after a wetering, e.g. Wetering, Nieuwe-Wetering, Nieuwe-Wetering, and Oude Wetering. Forms without the article (Van Wetering etc.) likely refer to such a settlement. People with these names name include:

Van de Wetering

• Ernst van de Wetering (1938–2021), Dutch Rembrandt expert
• Henricus van de Wetering (1850–1929), Dutch archbishop
• Janwillem van de Wetering (1931–2008), Dutch–American author of detective novels
• Peter Van de Wetering (1931–2014), Dutch–American horticulturist

Van Wetering

• Bo van Wetering (born 1999), Dutch handball player
• Ineke van Wetering (1934–2011), Dutch anthropologist and Surinamist

Van de Weetering

• Conrad van de Weetering [nl] (1929–2017), Dutch ballet dancer and choreographer
• Myrthe van de Weetering (born 1988), Dutch violinist and composer

Surname list

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