Gerrit van Santen or Gerard Cornelisz van Santen (1591/92–1656) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and writer.

[2] Van Santen's farce Lichte Wigger was printed in Leiden in 1617.

[3] It was performed by the Amsterdam Chamber of Rhetoric in 1635, and reprinted the same year.

[4] It was followed by a series of other comedic pieces in the 1620s, including a volume of epigrams printed under the titleTijd-Verdrijfjes ("Little Pastimes").

In 1629 Van Santen was admitted to the Guild of St Luke in The Hague.