Jurjen van der Kooi (Hurdegaryp, 22 December 1943 – Drachten, 4 September 2018) was a Dutch university lecturer and folklorist from Frisia.
In 1984, he obtained his doctorate cum laude on Volksverhalen in Friesland: Lectuur en Mondelinge Overlevering.
In 1997 he was awarded the Europäische Märchenpreis, and in 2004 he received the Totius Frisiae Siegel from the Ostfriesische Landschaft [de] for his entire oeuvre.
Van der Kooi considered folktales as a common cultural asset, from which it can be deduced how people used to live and how society has developed over the years.
Van der Kooi wrote many publications, including De Nachtmerje van Rawier, in which he brought together a number of Frisian legends about the supernatural, and De Wiete Poes, in which together with Douwe Kootstra [fy] he compiled a series of wild folk tales collected in which were omitted from most other books.