Pool (surname)

Pool is an English and Dutch surname.[1] Notable people with the surname include:

• Albert-Jan Pool (born 1960), Dutch type designer
• Andre Pool, member of the National Assembly of Seychelles
• Cord Pool, guitarist for American red dirt metal band Texas Hippie Coalition
• David de Sola Pool (1885–1970), spiritual leader of the Sephardic Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City; father of Ithiel
• E. Ion Pool (1858–1939), British marathon runner and Olympics critic
• Ithiel de Sola Pool (1917–1984), pioneer in the development of social science; son of David
• Hamp Pool (1915–2000), American football player
• Hugh Pool (born 1964), New York guitarist
• Joe R. Pool (1911–1968), US Representative from Texas
• John Pool (1826–1884), US Senator from North Carolina
• Jonathan Pool (born 1942), American political scientist
• Judith Graham Pool (1919–1975), American scientist, discoverer of cryoprecipitation
• Juriaen Pool (1665–1745), Dutch painter, husband of Rachel Ruysch
• Lafayette G. Pool (1919–1991), American tank-platoon commander in World War II
• Léa Pool (born 1950), Swiss filmmaker, and film instructor in Quebec, Canada
• Malcolm Pool (born 1943), British bass player with The Artwoods and other bands
• Maria Louise Pool (1841–1898), American writer, best known for A Vacation in a Buggy
• Matthijs Pool (1676–1732), Dutch engraver
• Robert Roy Pool (born 1953), American screenwriter
• Rosey E. Pool (1905–1971), Dutch translator, educator, and anthologist
• Solomon Pool (1832–1901), fourth president of the University of North Carolina
• Steve Pool (born 1955), weather anchor for KOMO-TV in Seattle, Washington
• Ted Pool (1906–1975), Australian rules football player, with the Hawthorn Hawks in the VFL
• Victor Pool (born 1992), Dutch DJ
• Walter F. Pool (1850–1883), US Congressman from North Carolina
• Wim Pool (born 1927), Dutch sprint canoer

References

1. Pool Name Meaning at ancestry.com, sourced to Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press