title: Provoost
text: # Provoost
  
  Provoost is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Jan Provoost (1465–1529), Flemish painter
  * Samuel Provoost (1742–1815), third Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, USA
  * Anne Provoost (born 1964), Belgian author
  * William Provoost (aka 'Guilliame Provoost') (fl. 1556–1607), Protestant in Antwerp who fled religious persecution and his descendants settled in New Amsterdam (now New York) in the early 1600s
  