title: Aart
text: # Aart
  
  Aart is a Dutch short form of the given name Arnout (English Arnold). Notable people with the name include:
  
  * Aart Alblas (1918–1944), Dutch navy officer, resistance member
  * Aart van Antum (1580–1620), Dutch marine painter
  * Aart van Asperen (born 1956), Dutch television director
  * Aart den Boer (1852–1941), Dutch architect and contractor
  * Aart Brederode (1942–2020), Dutch field hockey player
  * Aart van Dobbenburgh (1899–1988), Dutch graphic artist
  * Aart Jansz Druyvesteyn (1577–1627), Dutch lawyer, painter, and mayor of Haarlem
  * Aart de Geus (born 1954), Dutch-born American computer businessman
  * Aart Jan de Geus (born 1955), Dutch politician and chairman of the Bertelsmann Foundation
  * Aart van den IJssel (1922–1983), Dutch sculptor, painter and draftsman
  * Aart Klein (1909–2001), Dutch photographer
  * Aart Koopmans (1946–2007), Dutch businessman
  * Aart van der Leeuw (1876–1931), Dutch writer
  * Aart Malherbe (born c. 1930), South African Vice Admiral
  * Aart Schouman (1710–1792), Dutch painter
  * Aart Staartjes (1938–2020), Dutch actor, director, television presenter and documentary maker, "Mr. Aart" in the Dutch Sesame Street program
  * Aart Vierhouten (born 1970), Dutch racing cyclist
  * Aart van Wilgenburg (1902–1955), Dutch swimmer
  