Provoost

Provoost is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Jan Provoost (1465Ã¢ÂÂ1529), Flemish painter
Samuel Provoost (1742Ã¢ÂÂ1815), third Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, USA
Anne Provoost (born 1964), Belgian author
William Provoost (aka 'Guilliame Provoost') (fl. 1556Ã¢ÂÂ1607), Protestant in Antwerp who fled religious persecution and his descendants settled in New Amsterdam (now New York) in the early 1600s