Van der Elst
Van der Elst or Van Der Elst is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from the alder ". The forms Elst and Van Elst may also refer to an origin in the city of Elst, Gelderland, the town Elst, Utrecht, or other villages by that name. The name may refer to:
- Bartel van der Elst, Dutch portrait painter
- Cédric Van der Elst, Belgian football midfielder
- François Van Der Elst, Belgian football winger, brother of Leo
- Franky Van Der Elst, Belgian football midfielder and manager
- Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, German Roman Catholic bishop
- Ingrid van der Elst, Dutch cricketer and field hockey player
- , Belgian diplomat, art collector and writer
- Karl Frans van der Elst, Dutch KLM airline captain of KLM Flight 867 which flew into a cloud of volcanic ash
- Leo Van Der Elst, Belgian football midfielder, brother of François
- Lodewijk van der Elst, Dutch portrait painter, son of Bartel
- Violet Van der Elst, English businesswoman who campaigned against capital punishment
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- Eric Walter Elst, Belgian astronomer
- Koenraad Elst, Belgian orientalist and Indologist
