Jan Willem Spruyt (4 July 1826 in Uithoorn, Netherlands – 8 September 1908 in Inanda, Natal), also known as Jan Willem Spruijt and Jan Willem Landskroon Spruijt (birthname), was a South African civil servant, lawyer and statesman of Dutch descent.
For health reasons he moved further inland to Inanda in 1868, where he ran a trading store and did some farming.
The Mount Edgecombe Ganesha Temple is a provincial heritage site in Inanda in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.
The Narainsamy Temple is a provincial heritage site in Inanda in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.
They were sent to South Africa as missionaries by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and they arrived in Inanda, north of Durban, in 1881.