Baas
title: "Baas" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["dutch-language-surnames"] topic_path: "geography/netherlands" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baas" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
Baas:
- An Afrikaans word for boss and Dutch word for supervisor/leader/master, from which the English word "boss" is derived.
Surname
- Balduin Baas (1922–2006), German actor
- David Baas (born 1981), American football center
- Gilberto Keb Baas (born 1977), Mexican boxer
- Heinz Baas (1922–1994), German football player and manager
- Ian Baas (born 1982), American race car driver
- Jan Baas (born 1950), Dutch politician
- Justin Baas (born 2000), Filipino footballer
- Johann Hermann Baas (1838–1909), German medical historian
- Lourens Baas Becking (1895–1963), Dutch botanist and microbiologist
- Maarten Baas (born 1978), Dutch industrial designer
- Pieter Baas (1944–2024), Dutch botanist
- Stien Baas-Kaiser (1938–2022), Dutch speed skater
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