F. P. (François Petrus) Van den Heever

François Petrus "Toon" van den Heever was a South African writer best known as an Afrikaans poet. Sources identify him as a Hertzog Prize-winning poet, and also note that he worked as a scholar of Roman-Dutch law.

Alongside his literary work, he had a prominent legal career. He later served as a judge of South Africa’s Appellate Division from 1948 until 1956.

He is often remembered for the unusual combination of strong literary influence and high-level legal scholarship, which gave him a distinctive place in Afrikaans cultural history.