Maas (surname)

For the dairy product, see amasi. For the service offering, see Mobility as a service.

The Maas is a river in the Low Countries and France better known in English by its French name "Meuse". It also may refer to:

Surname

Maas is a Dutch and North German patronymic surname, from an archaic short form of Thomas. It could also be a toponymic surname derived from the river Maas. The surname is quite common in the Netherlands, ranking 43rd in 2007 (16,070 people).

People with the surname Maas include:

• Abe Maas (1855–1941), German-born American founder of the Maas Brothers stores
• Adriana Maas (1702–1746), Dutch stage actress
• Allan Maas (born 1922), Australian rules footballer
• Annelies Maas (born 1960), Dutch swimmer
• Anthony Maas (1859–1927), German-born American exegete
• Benjamin Maas (born 1989), German footballer
• Bill Maas (born 1962), American football player
• Bob Maas (1907–1996), Dutch Olympic sailor
• Cees Maas (born 1947), Dutch businessman, CFO of the ING Group
• Cheryl Maas (born 1984), Dutch snowboarder
• Chris Maas (born 1957), American canoe sailor and builder
• Cornald Maas (born 1962), Dutch television presenter
• David E. Maas (born 1940), American historian
• Dick Maas (born 1951), Dutch film maker
• Dirk Maas (1659-1717), Dutch landscape painter
• Duke Maas (1929-1976), American baseball player
• Erich Maas (born 1940), German footballer
• Ernest Maas (1892–1986), American screenwriter
• Frans Maas (born 1964), Dutch long jumper
• Fred Maas (born 1957), American businessman
• Frederica Sagor Maas (1900-2012), American playwright, author and supercentenarian
• Georg Maas (born 1960), German screenwriter and movie director
• Greg Maas (born 1966), American soccer goalkeeper
• Günther Maas (born 1941), German wrestler
• Heiko Maas (born 1966), German politician
• Hermann Maas (1877-1970), German pastor and opponent of Nazism
• Hiltje Maas-van de Kamer (born 1941), Dutch botanist
• Isabella Offenbach Maas (1817-1891), German-American opera singer
• James Maas (born 1938), American social psychologist known for his sleep research
• Jan Maas (1900-1977), Dutch racing cyclist
• Jan Maas (1911–1962), Dutch Olympic sailor
• Jason Maas (born 1975), Canadian football quarterback
• Jelle Maas (born 1991), Dutch badminton player
• Jeremy Maas (1928–1997), British art dealer and art historian
• Jo Maas (born 1954), Dutch road cyclist
• Johannes Petrus Maas (1861–1941), Dutch sculptor
• Joseph Maas (1847-1886), English tenor
• Kevin Maas (born 1965), American baseball player
• Melvin Maas (1898–1964), American Marine aviator and politician from Minnesota
• Mirte Maas (b. 1991), Dutch fashion model
• Nell Ginjaar-Maas (1931-2012), Dutch politician
• Nellie Maas (born 1935), Dutch figure skater
• Nicolaes Maas (1634-1693), Dutch genre and portrait painter
• Paul Maas (1880-1964), German philologist known for Maas's law
• Paul Maas (born 1939), Dutch botanist and a specialist in the flora of the neotropics
• Peter Maas (1929–2001), American journalist and author
• Rob Maas (born 1969), Dutch footballer
• Rudolph Arnold Maas Geesteranus (1911-2003), Dutch mycologist
• Rupert Maas (born 1960), English painting specialist and gallery owner
• Sarah J. Maas (born 1986), American fantasy author
• Sharon Maas (born 1951), Guyanese novelist
• Sivan Malkin Maas (born 1970s), Israeli humanistic rabbi
• Timo Maas (born 1969), German DJ
• Tjaarke Maas (1974-2004), Dutch painter
• Willard Maas (1906–1971), American experimental filmmaker and poet
• Winy Maas (born 1958), Dutch architect
• Wolfram Maas (born 1950), German diplomat

Given name

• Maas Thajoon Akbar (1880–1944), Ceylonese judge and lawyer
• Maas Samuel Swartwout (1660–1723), New Netherland / New York landowner

Places

• Maas, Syria, a village in southwestern Syria
• Kfar Ma'as, a village in Israel
• Maghas or Maas was the capital city of Alania, a medieval kingdom in the Greater Caucasus
• Peel en Maas, a municipality in Limburg (Netherlands)

Rivers and Canals

• Afgedamde Maas, a former distributary of the Maas in the Netherlands
• Bergse Maas, a canal made to form a branch of the Maas
• Maas–Waal Canal, a canal in the Netherlands that connects the Maas and Waal rivers
• Nieuwe Maas, a distributary of the Rhine; a former distributary of the Maas
• Oude Maas, a distributary of the Rhine; a former distributary of the Maas

Software

• Mobility as a service (transport), an app which aggregates all forms of transport together, doing trip planning, bookings and payments.
• Monitoring as a Service (MaaS) is one of many cloud delivery models under anything as a service (XaaS). It is a framework that facilitates the deployment of monitoring functionalities for various other services and applications within the cloud. The most common application for MaaS is online state monitoring, which continuously tracks certain states of applications, networks, systems, instances or any element that may be deployable within the cloud.
• MaaS Metal as a Service, similar to Iaas (Infrastructure as a Service) is a technology created by Canonical for provisioning bare-metal servers, whereas IaaS typically deals with provisioning virtual servers.

See also

• Mass
• Amasi, or Maas in Afrikaans - a fermented milk drink
• Maes (disambiguation), French and Flemish spelling of the surname
• Maass, German surname
• Mace, similar-sounding surname