title: Bongers
text: # Bongers
  
  Bongers or Bonger is a Dutch toponymic surname akin to modern Dutch boomgaards ("from the orchard") and is thereby equivalent to Bogaert and van den Boogaard.
  
  People with this surname include:
  
  ## Bongers
  
  * Bart Bongers (1946–2007), Dutch water polo player
  * Bram Bongers (1926–1980), Dutch magician known as "Fred Kaps"
  * Els Bongers (born ca. 1970), Dutch soprano
  * Gert Bongers (born 1948), Dutch track cyclist
  * H. Bongers (1873–1940), photographer of Borobudur in Java
  
  ## Bonger
  
  * Andries Bonger (1861–1936), Dutch art collector, brother of Johanna
  * Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (1862–1925), wife of Theo van Gogh and keyplayer in the growth of Vincent van Gogh's fame
  * Willem Adriaan Bonger (1876–1940), Dutch criminologist
  