Vink

Vink, Dutch for chaffinch, is a Dutch surname. It usually is a metonymic occupational surname, referring to one who catches chaffinches (and other small birds) in a vinkenbaan, for food or entertainment. Variants of the name are De Vink and Vinck. The forms Vinke and Vinken could be of patronymic origin, as Vink/Finke was a masculine given name. People with this name include:

• Elsbeth van Rooy-Vink (born 1973), Dutch mountain biker
• Gery Vink (born 1965), Dutch football coach
• Hendrik Jan Vink [nl] (1915–2009), Dutch physicist
  • Named after him: the Kröger–Vink notation for electric charge and lattice
• John Vink [de; fr; nl] (born 1948), Belgian photographer
• Kevin Vink (born 1984), Dutch football striker
• Marciano Vink (born 1970), Dutch football midfielder
• Michael Vink (born 1991), New Zealand racing cyclist
• Niels Vink (born 2002),Dutch champion wheelchair tennis player
• Pieter Vink (born 1967), Dutch football referee
• Rachelle Vink (born 1991), Canadian curler
• Ronald Vink (born 1976), Dutch wheelchair tennis player
• Willem Vink (born 1931), Dutch botanist
• Wimilio Vink (born 1993), Dutch football midfielder

See also

• Blinde vink, a Dutch veal dish
• De Vink, a railway station in Leiden near the former hamlet of De Vink
• Vink [li; nl], a hamlet in Dutch Limburg
• Vink [li; nl], a neighborhood of Kerkrade, Dutch Limburg

References

Surname list

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