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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
• Olivier van Ghent (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