Eduard Daniël van Oort

{{Short description|Dutch ornithologist}}

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{{Infobox scientist

| name = Eduard Daniël van Oort

|image = Oort, E.D. van.jpg

| birth_date = {{birth date|1876|10|31|df=y}}

| birth_place = Barneveld, Gelderland, Netherlands

| death_date = {{death date and age|1933|09|21|1876|10|31|df=y}}

| death_place = Leiden, Netherlands

| nationality = Dutch

| fields =Ornithology

| workplaces = Rijksmuseum of Natural History

}}

Eduard Daniël van Oort (31 October 1876 in Barneveld, Gelderland – 21 September 1933 in Leiden) was a Dutch ornithologist.

Oort was in charge of the bird collections at the Rijksmuseum of Natural History in Leiden; in 1915 he was made Director of this museum, a position which he held until his death. He was the author of Ornithologia Neerlandica, de vogels van Nederland (1922-1935), with plates by Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek (1873-1944). These plates were later licensed by Harry Witherby for use in The Handbook of British Birds (1938-1941).

A species of Indonesian gecko, Lepidodactylus oortii, is named in his honor.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Oort", p. 195).