Beekman

Beekman is a Dutch toponymic surname, literally translating as "creek man".^[1] Variant forms are Beeckman and Beekmans. The Estonian poet Vladimir Beekman's family originally carried the name Peekmann.^[2] People with the surname include:

People

Beekman family of New York

Prominent descendants of the Beekman family originally of Overijssel, Netherlands:^[3]

• Wilhelmus Beekman (1623-1707), Treasurer of the Dutch West India Company, Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania, 1653/58-1663
  • Gerardus Beekman (1653–1723), colonel, surgeon, Governor of the Province of New York

Other people with the surname

• Aimée Beekman (born 1933), Estonian writer, wife of Vladimir
• Allan Beekman (1913–2001), American reporter and author
• Anton Albert Beekman (1854–1947), Dutch geographer
• Augustus A. Beekman (1923-2008), New York City fire commissioner
• Cornelius C. Beekman (1828–1915), American banker in Jacksonville, Oregon
• Jaap Beekman [nl] (1919–2010), Dutch World War II resistance fighter, husband of Yolande
• Josh Beekman (born 1983), American football player and coach
• Marcel Beekman (born 1969), Dutch tenor
• Vladimir Beekman (1929–2009), Estonian writer, poet and translator, husband of Aimée
• Yolande Beekman (1911–1944), World War II heroine, wife of Jaap

Beekmans

• Gerard Beekmans (born 1979), Dutch programmer
• Paul Beekmans (born 1982), Dutch footballer

Given name

• Beekman Du Barry (1828–1901), United States Army Brigadier General
• Beekman V. Hoffman (1789–1834), United States Navy officer
• Beekman Winthrop (1874–1940), American Governor of Puerto Rico 1909–13
• Garry Beekman Trudeau (born 1948), American cartoonist
• Henry Beekman Livingston (1748–1828), American poet

Places and buildings

All named after descendants of Willem Beekman:

• Beekman, New York, a town in Dutchess County named after Hendrick Beekman (1652-1716), son of Willem
  • Beekman Fire District
  • Beekman Park
• Beekman Corners, New York, community now part of Sharon, New York
• Beekmantown, New York, a town in Clinton County, New York
• Beekman Place (Manhattan), street that was the site of the Beekman family mansion, Mount Pleasant
• The Beekman, previously known as Beekman Tower, a skyscraper designed by Frank Gehry, New York
• Beekman (Panhellenic) Tower, skyscraper designed by John Mead Howels (constructed 1927–29), New York
• Beekman Downtown Hospital or Lower Manhattan Hospital, New York
• Beekman Peninsula of Baffin Island, named after James W. Beekman, of New York
• Beekman Native Plant Arboretum, in Oregon, named after Cornelius C. Beekman

See also

• Beeckman, variant spelling of the same name
• Chris Klein-Beekman (1971-2003), Canadian aid worker
• Beakman's World, a children's educational TV series

References

1. Beekman at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.
2. Vladimir Beekman genealogy at geni.com.
3. William Benford Aitken, Distinguished Families in America, Descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke, Knickerbocker Press, 1912