Jan Frederik Veldkamp (31 March 1941, Amsterdam - 12 November 2017) was a Dutch botanist, plant taxonomist and grass specialist.
[1] He worked in the Rijksherbarium (National Herbarium of the Netherlands), he undertook various plant expeditions in Papua New Guinea.
He was a student, friend and also Bridge partner of Dutch botanist Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van Steenis (1901–1986).
[2] In 2008, botanists Yasushi Ibaragi and Shiro Kobayashi in J. Jap.
vol.83 on page 108 published Veldkampia, which is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Poaceae.