Vosloo is a surname.

The Vosloo progenitor (Jan Vosloo) was born around 1649, a grandson of Johan Crantz (1575) from the farm Voßloh (Vossloh) in Westphalia, a region in northwestern-Germany.

Jan Vosloo (1649) joined the VOC in order to escape poverty that gripped Germany after the thirty year war.

Notable people

• Abraham Vosloo (born 1966), South African politician

• Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo (born 1975), Polish-American filmmaker and writer

• Arnold Vosloo (born 1962), South African-American actor

• Gerhard Vosloo (born 1979), South African rugby union player

• Jacques Vosloo (born 2001), South African cricketer

• Louis Vosloo (born 1978), South African tennis player

• Marissa Vosloo-Jacobs (born 1976), South African stage actress

• Phillip Vosloo (born 1971), South African cricket umpire

• Wian Vosloo (born 1995), South African rugby union player

Vosloo Book

Daniel Jacobs at the request of Ton Vosloo compiled a book in two parts to tell the story of the Vosloos.

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