Blount (surname)

Blount (or Blunt) is a common surname of English derivation, meaning "blonde, fair" (Old French blund), or dull (Middle English blunt, blont)[1]

  • Anna Blount, physician, suffragist and birth control activist in the United States
  • Bessie Blount, mistress of Henry VIII of England and mother of his only illegitimate son, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset
  • Bessie Blount, (1914–2009) an African American inventor
  • Charles Blount (deist), (1654–1693), author and son of Sir Henry Blount
  • Charles Hubert Boulby Blount (1893-1940), English airman and cricketer
  • Sir Christopher Blount (d. 1601), companion of Sir Walter Raleigh and cousin of Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire
  • Edward Blount (or Blunt), publishing partner for the First Folio of the works of Shakespeare
  • Elizabeth Blount (1502–1540), mistress of Henry VIII and the mother of his illegitimate son, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset
  • Sir James Blount (d. 1493), English commander of the fortress of Hammes and a minor character in Shakespeare's play Richard III
  • F. Nelson Blount, (1918–1967), President and founder of Blount Seafood Corporation, millionaire and collector of vintage steam locomotives and rail cars.
  • Henry Blount (knight), author of Voyage into the Levant (1635)
  • Herman Blount, (1914–1993), birth name of jazz musician Sun Ra
  • James Henderson Blount (1837–1903), U.S. congressman from Georgia, Minister to Hawaii
  • James Blunt born James Hillier Blount, British musician, singer/songwriter
  • Keith Blount (born 1966), British admiral and Fleet Air Arm officer
  • LeGarrette Blount (1986—), National Football League player
  • Mark Blount (1975—), American basketball player
  • Mel Blount (1948—), American professional football player
  • Ralph Blount (or Blunt), merchant tailor of London, father of Edward Blount
  • Richard Blount, S.J. (1565–1638), English Priest and Jesuit Provincial
  • Roy Blount, Jr. (1941—), American humorist
  • Sir Thomas Blount (died 1400), courtier, executed for his part in the Epiphany Rising
  • Thomas Blount (born c 1604), English civil war soldier, MP and inventor.
  • Thomas Blount (1618–1679), English antiquarian and lexicographer
  • Thomas Blount (1759–1812), American Revolutionary War veteran and congressman from North Carolina
  • William Blount (1749–1800), American statesman and senator from Tennessee
  • W. Frank Blount (1938—), American businessman
  • William Grainger Blount (1784–1827), American statesman from Tennessee, son of William Blount
  • Willie Blount (1768–1835), American Governor of Tennessee, half-brother of William Blount
  • Winton M. Blount (1921–2002), American industrialist and US Postmaster-General
  • Cecil Blount DeMille (1881–1959), American film producer and businessman
  • Michael Blount (1529–c.1597), Sheriff of Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire
  • Blount baronets, English baronets of Sodington and Tittenhanger

English nobility, Barons Mountjoy and Earls of Newport in the English Peerage:

See also

References
    • Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press
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