title: Marthinus
text: # Marthinus
  
  Marthinus or Martinus is an old Dutch, Danish or Norwegian male given name - a latinised form of Martin.
  
  Notable people with this name include:
  
  * Marthinus Bekker (born 1933), South African Navy officer
  * Marthinus Jacobus Oosthuizen (1818–1897), South African voortrekker
  * Marthinus Otto (born 1980), South African cricketer
  * Marthinus du Plessis (born 1932), South African pentathlete
  * Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1819–1901), South African politician
  * Marthinus Prinsloo (1838-1903), Orange Free State farmer, politician and commander-in-chief in the Second Boer War
  * Marthinus Nikolaas Ras (1853–1900), South African farmer
  * Marthinus van Schalkwyk (born 1959), South African politician
  * Marthinus Theunis Steyn (1857–1916), South African lawyer, politician, and statesman
  * Marthinus Strydom (born 1965), South African investor
  * Martinus Thomsen (born 1890), Danish author, philosopher and mystic.
  * Marthinus Versfeld or Martin Versfeld (1909–1995), South African philosopher
  