Smeets
# Smeets

Smeets is a Limburgian surname (or more broadly, Dutch surname) meaning smith (metal worker). The surname hails specifically from the Limburg region spanning parts of the Southern Netherlands and Eastern Belgium.

## People bearing the Smeets surname

* Axel Smeets (b. 1974), Belgian football defender and manager
* Bryan Smeets (b. 1992), Dutch football midfielder
* Felix Smeets (1904–1961), Dutch football striker
* Hubert Smeets [nl; uk] (b. 1958), Dutchjournalist and historian
* Ionica Smeets (b. 1979), Dutch mathematician, science journalist, and TV presenter
* Jan Smeets (b. 1985), Dutch chess player
* Jorg Smeets (b. 1970), Dutch football midfielder
* Jorrit Smeets (b. 1995), Dutch football midfielder
* Joseph Smeets (b. 1959), Belgian racing cyclist
* Lucian Smeets (fl. 1900), Belgian stamp forger
* Mart Smeets (b. 1947), Dutch radio and television personality, writer and columnist
* Martine Smeets (b. 1990), Dutch handball player
* Minke Smeets (b. 1979), Dutch field hockey player, wife of Tjerk
* Pauline Smeets (b. 1959), Dutch Labour Party politician
* Robert Smeets (b. 1985), Australian tennis player
* Theo Smeets [de] (b. 1964), Dutch jeweler
* Tjerk Smeets (b. 1980), Dutch baseball player, son of Mart Smeets, husband of Minke
* Michele Rocco Smeets (b. 1984), Belgian actor and game developer, AKA Mike "The Spike" Smith.
