Ruijs

Ruijs or Ruys is a Dutch patronymic surname, derived from the archaic Dutch given name Ruis.^[1][2] Variant forms are Ruijsch, Ruis, Ruisch and Ruysch. People with the surname include:

• Anna Charlotte Ruys (1898–1977), Dutch bacteriologist and epidemiologist
• Anthony Ruys (born 1947), Belgian-born Dutch business executive
• Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck (1873–1936), Dutch statesman, Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1918–25 and 1929–33
• Cor Ruys (1889–1952), Dutch actor, stage director and comedian
• Jos Ruijs (born 1955), Dutch rower
• Mien Ruys (1904–1999), Dutch landscape and garden architect
• Tini Ruijs (born 1957), Dutch football coach
• Willem Ruis (1945–1986), Dutch game show host
• Willem Ruys (1894–1942) [nl; pl] (1894–1942), Dutch director of shipowner Rotterdamsche Lloyd and executed resistance fighter in World War II
  • MS Willem Ruys, a Koninklijke Rotterdamsche Lloyd-owned passenger liner named after him; known for the hijacking incident under the later name Achille Lauro
• Willem Jan Danielsz Ruys [nl] (1809–1889), Dutch shipowner, whose family founded Rotterdamsche Lloyd

See also

• Ruijs-Aalfs syndrome
• Ruys's bird-of-paradise, named after Theodoor Hilbert Ruys (1880–1942), Dutch merchant and missionary in northwest New Guinea^[3]

References

1. Ruijs (y) at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.
2. Ruis at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands
3. Ruys's Bird of Paradise … in English and Dutch