Van Gent is a Dutch toponymic surname indicating an origin in the city Ghent, East Flanders. A variant spelling is Van Ghent. People with this name include:

• Eugene Van Gent (1889–1949), American college football and basketball coach

• Hendrik van Gent (c.1217–1293), Flemish theologian

Hendrik van Gent (1899–1947), Dutch astronomer

• Van Gent (crater), lunar crater named for the astronomer

• 1666 van Gent, asteroid discovered by Hendrik van Gent

• Henk van Gent (born 1951), Dutch competitive sailor

• Ineke van Gent (born 1957), Dutch GreenLeft politician

• Jan van Gent (1340–1399), Dutch name of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, born in Ghent

• Joris van Gent (fl. 1552–1577) or Joris van Straeten, a Flemish portrait and history painter from Ghent

• Justus van Gent or Joos van Ghent (c.1410–1480), Early Netherlandish painter

• Maarten van Gent (1947–2025), Dutch basketball coach, scout and businessman

• (c.1470–1512), Flemish sculptor active in Portugal

• Pieter van Gent (c.1480–1572), Flemish missionary in Mexico known there as Pedro de Gante

• Willem Joseph van Ghent (1626–1672), Dutch admiral

See also

• Van Gendt, Dutch surname referring to Gendt, Gelderland

• Jan-van-gent, Dutch name for the Northern gannet

• Sas van Gent, town in the Dutch province of Zeeland on the border with Belgium

• Van Gend & Loos, Dutch distribution company established by Jan-Baptist van Gend (1772–1831)

• Gazette van Ghendt, 18th-century newspaper in Ghent

• HNLMS Van Ghent (1926), Royal Netherlands Navy destroyer named after Willem Joseph van Ghent

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