Van der Burg is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from the fortress / stronghold". Variations are Van de Burg, Van den Burg, Van den Burgh and Van der Burgh. Anglicized versions of these names show a variety of agglutinations and capitalizations. Notable people with the surname include:

Van der Burg / Vanderburg

Adriaan van der Burg (1693–1733), Dutch painter

Agnes Vanderburg (1901–1989), Native American (Salish) translator and writer

Ben van der Burg (born 1968), Dutch speed skater

Brigitte van der Burg (born 1961), Dutch politician

Dave van der Burg (born 1993), Dutch off-road bicycle racer

Dirk van der Burg (1721–1773), Dutch landscape painter and watercolorist

George VanderBurg (born 1957), Canadian politician

Helen Vanderburg (born 1959), Canadian synchronized swimmer

Johan van der Burg (died 1640), Dutch Governor of Formosa

Joost van der Burg (born 1993), Dutch track cyclist

Willem H. Vanderburg (born 1944), Dutch-born Canadian technologist and writer

Van Deburg

William L. Van Deburg (born 1948), American professor of Afro-American Studies

Van den Burg / Vandenburg

Hans Vandenburg (born 1946), Dutch pop musician

Herman Vandenburg Ames (1865–1935), American legal historian and documentary preservationist Ieke van den Burg (1952–2014), Dutch politician Malcolm VandenBurg (born c.1950), English physician

Van der Burg

Van den Burgh / Vandenburgh

G. van den Burgh (fl. 1938), Netherlands Indies footballer

Jane Vandenburgh (born 1948), American writer

John Van Denburgh (1872–1924), American herpetologist

Shelli VanDenburgh (born 1969), American politician

Van der Burgh / Vanderburgh

Cameron van der Burgh (born 1988), South African swimmer

Charles E. Vanderburgh (1829–1898), American jurist

Federal Vanderburgh (1788–1868), American physician and homeopath

Hendrick van der Burgh (1627–aft.1664), Dutch genre painter

Henry Vanderburgh (1760–1812), Indiana Territory judge, namesake of Vanderburgh County, Indiana Pieter Daniel van der Burgh (1805–1879), Dutch landscape painter Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness (1818–1868), American businessman

Van der Burg

See also

Van der Burgh, Dutch surname

Van den Berg, Dutch surname

Vandenberg (surname), concatenated form of Dutch surname

References

Dutch-language surnames

Surnames of Dutch origin

Dutch toponymic surnames

Van der Burg