Piet (name)
Piet is a male name .
Origin and meaning
Piet is a short form of the Dutch male given name Pieter (derived from Peter ). The name is particularly common in the Dutch-speaking area (e.g. the Netherlands , Flanders , Buren ), but also sporadically in the German border area with the Netherlands (including East Friesland , Emsland , Grafschaft Bentheim , Lower Rhine ).
Name bearer
First name
- Piet Bouman (1892–1980), Dutch football player
- Piet Dankert (1934–2003), Dutch politician
- Piet Fransen (soccer player) (1936–2015), Dutch soccer player
- Piet Hein (1905–1996), Danish mathematician, inventor and man of letters
- Piet Pieterszoon Heyn (1577–1629), Dutch privateer and folk hero
- Piet de Jong (1915–2016), Dutch politician
- Piet Kee (1927–2018), Dutch organist
- Piet Keizer (1943-2017), Dutch football player
- Piet Kleine (* 1951), Dutch speed skater
- Piet Klocke (* 1957), German musician, cabaret artist, author and actor
- Piet van Mever (1899–1985), Dutch composer
- Piet Mondrian (1872–1944), Dutch painter
- Jann-Piet Puddu (* 2004), German child actor
- Piet van Reenen (1909–1969), Dutch football player
- Pieter Retief (1780–1838), South African explorer
- Piet Rooijakkers (* 1980), Dutch cyclist
- Piet O. Schmidt (* 1970), German physicist
- Piet Schoenmakers (1919–2009), Dutch painter
- Piet Schrijvers (* 1946), Dutch football goalkeeper
- Piet Sielck (* 1964), German guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer
- Piet Stalmeier (1912–1990), Dutch composer, conductor and musician
- Piet Steenkamp (1925–2016), Dutch politician
- Piet Valkenburg (1888–1950), Dutch football player
- Piet van Wijngaarden (1898–1950), Dutch motorcycle racer
- Piet Zwart (1885–1977), Dutch typographer, photographer, designer and interior designer
regional customs
In Dutch customs, the Zwarte Piet ('Black Peter') is the helper of Sinterklaas (Nicholas), comparable to the servant Ruprecht .
family name
- Fernand Piet (1869–1942), French post-impressionist artist
- Matt Piet , American jazz musician