Maas is a Dutch and North German surname allegedly from a short form of Thomas The Dutch spelling of the French name Maes (Joannes Hendricus Maes [1759-1847] gave the family name Maas to his children) Many believe Maas to be a shortened Americanized form of the surname Moskowitz[1]
People
- Hermann Maas, German pastor and opponent of Nazism
- James Maas, American social psychologist, Professor at Dartmouth University, and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow
- Kevin Maas (born 1965), American former major league baseball player
- Melvin Maas (1898-1964), American Marine aviator and politician from Minnesota.
- Peter Maas (1929–2001), American journalist and author
- Paulus Johannes Maria Maas (born 1939), Dutch botanist and a specialist in the flora of the neotropics
- Willard Maas (1906-1971), American experimental filmmaker and poet
- Johannes Maas, founder and international president, Worldwide Faith Missions
- Timo Maas, German DJ
Technology
Miscellanea
- Dutch for Meuse River
- Oedipa Maas is the fictional protagonist in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49.
- MAAS, Multimedia Analysis and Archive System
- Maas, an open water racing shells manufacturer
- A recording name for Ewan Pearson
- An alternative name for Amasi
- An alternative name for Maghas, the capital city of the medieval kingdom of Alania
- Kfar Ma'as, a moshav in Israel
- The German or Dutch name for the Meuse River
- Mobility as a Service, Business use of mobile technology through an Internet-based information technology (IT) platform
- Maas Biotek is the name of a fictional company in William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy
- Dutch spelling for the French name Maes
References
- ^ Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-508137-4.
