Blok (surname)

Blok is a Dutch surname. Dutch blok has similar meanings as English "block" and the name has a variety of origins, including descriptive, metonymic occupational (referring e.g. to a miller or shoemaker), toponymic or even patronymic.[1] The Russian and Polish surnames appear of German and Dutch descent. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Alexander Blok (1880–1921), Russian lyrical poet
  • Alexander Lvovitch Blok (1852–1909), Russian law professor, father of Alexander Blok
  • Anneke Blok (born 1959), Dutch actress
  • Anthony Johannes Blok (1868–1934), Dutch jurist and university president
  • Anton Blok (born 1935), Dutch anthropologist
  • Arthur Blok (1882–1974), English first administrative head of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
  • Benjamin Block (1631–1690), German-Hungarian painter, son of Daniel
  • Daniel Blok (1580–1660), German painter of Dutch ancestry
  • Dick Blok (born 1925), Dutch scholar of onomastics
  • Ger Blok (1939–2016), Dutch football manager
  • Hetty Blok (1920–2012), Dutch cabaret artist, singer, and actress
  • Irina Blok (born c.1977), Russian-born American graphic designer and artist
  • Ivan Blok (1858–1906), Russian governor of Samara, uncle of Alexander Blok
  • Johanna Blok (1650–1715), Dutch silhouette cutter, painter, drawer, etc.
  • Josine Blok (born 1953), Dutch classical scholar
  • Liubov' Blok (1881–1939), Russian artist and historian, wife of Alexander Blok, daughter of Dmitri Mendeleev
  • Peter Blok (born 1960), Dutch stage, television, film and voice actor
  • Petrus Johannes Blok (1855–1929), Dutch historian
  • Stanisław Blok (1916–1994), Polish fighter ace in World War II
  • Stef Blok (born 1964), Dutch politician (VVD)
  • Tom de Blok (born 1996), Dutch baseball pitcher
  • Vladimir Blok (1932–1996), Russian musicologist, composer and orchestrator
  • Willem Johannes "Wim" Blok (1947–2003), Dutch logician
  • Willy Blok Hanson (1914–2012), Javanese-born Canadian dancer and choreographer

See also
  • Block (disambiguation)#People with the surname

References
  1. Blok at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.
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