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Pollock (surname)

Pollock is a surname. In some cases, it originates as a locative name derived from Upper Pollock, Renfrewshire, Scotland. An early bearer of a form of this surname is Peter de Pollok, in about 1172–1178. In other cases, the surname is derived from the Middle English personal name *Pollok (Old English *Pulloc). An early bearer of a form of this surname is Roger Pollok, in 1332.

Notable people surnamed Pollock

  • A. J. Pollock (born 1987), American baseball player
  • Adelaide Lowry Pollock (1860–1938), American school educator and bird conservationist
  • Alan Pollock (born 1962), English playwright and scriptwriter
  • Alexander Pollock, Canadian actor
  • Alexander Pollock (politician), Scottish parliamentarian
  • Algernon J. Pollock (1864–1957), Evangelist and writer from the Plymouth Brethren movement
  • Allyson Pollock, Scottish professor of public health policy
  • Andrew Pollock (disambiguation)
    • Andrew Maclean Pollock (1914–1969), Scottish-born South African cricketer
    • Andrew Graeme Pollock (born 1969), South African cricketer, son of Andrew Maclean Pollock
  • Bertram Pollock (1863–1943), Anglican bishop
  • Brice Pollock (born 2005), American football player
  • Carl Arthur Pollock (1903–1978), Canadian businessman
  • Channing Pollock (disambiguation)
  • Charles Edward Pollock (1823–1897), English judge
  • Craig Pollock (born 1956), British F1 manager and businessman
  • Daniel Pollock (1969–1992), Australian actor
  • Daniel C. Pollock (1913–2007), United States Marine Corps colonel and Navy Cross recipient
  • David Pollock (disambiguation)
    • David Pollock (judge) (1780–1847), British judge in India
    • David Pollock (actor) (born 1961), American former child actor
    • David Pollock (rugby union) (born 1987), rugby union player for Ulster Rugby
    • David Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth (born 1946), British peer, academic and Labour member of the House of Lords
    • David Pollock (humanist) (1942–2023), British secular humanist
    • Dave Pollock (born 1942), Australian politician
    • David C. Pollock (1939–2004), American sociologist
  • Dee Pollock (1937–2005), American film and television actor
  • Sir J. Donald Pollock (1868–1962), Scottish industrialist and Rector of Edinburgh University
  • Eddie Pollock (born 1957), Scottish cricketer
  • Edward Pollock (1823–1858), American poet
  • Edwin A. Pollock (1899–1982), United States Marine Corps general and Navy Cross recipient
  • Sir Edward James Pollock (1841–1930), British barrister and Official Referee of Supreme Court of Judicature
  • Edwin Taylor Pollock (1870–1943), Captain, USN
  • Eileen Pollock (1947–2020), Northern Irish actress
  • Eileen "Mike" Pollock, American screenwriter
  • Eliza Pollock (1840–1919), American archer
  • Emma Pollock, Scottish Musician
  • Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth (1861–1936), English Attorney General
  • Fergus Pollock, British automobile designer
  • Francis Pollock (1876–1957), Canadian science fiction writer
  • Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet (1783–1870), British lawyer and politician
  • Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet (1845–1937), British jurist
  • F. H. Pollock (Frederick Hart Pollock; 1842–1908), actor and theatrical manager in Australia
  • Friedrich Pollock (1894–1970), German philosopher and economist
  • Gale Pollock, acting U.S. Army Deputy Surgeon General
  • George Pollock (1786–1872), British field marshal
  • George Pollock (Australian politician) (1890–1939), speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
  • George Pollock (director) (1907–1979), English film director
  • George David Pollock (1817–1897), British surgeon
  • George Frederick Pollock (1821–1915), British lawyer
  • Graeme Pollock (born 1944), South African cricketer
  • Griselda Pollock (born 1949), British art historian
  • Harry Frederick Pollock (1857–1901), British lawyer and politician
  • Henry Pollock (1864–1953), Hong Kong politician and barrister
  • Henry W. Pollock (1878–1954), New York state senator
  • Howard Wallace Pollock (1920–2011), American politician
  • Hugh Alexander Pollock (1888–1971), British editor, soldier and husband of Enid Blyton and Ida Pollock
  • Hugh MacDowell Pollock (1852–1937), Northern Ireland Minister of Finance
  • Ida Pollock (1908–2013), British romance novelist and centenarian; wife of Hugh Pollock
  • Jackson Pollock (1912–1956), American artist
  • Jame Pollock (born 1979), Canadian ice hockey player
  • James Pollock (American politician) (1810–1890), Governor of Pennsylvania
  • James Dalgleish Pollock VC (1890–1958), British soldier
  • Jamie Pollock (born 1974), English footballer
  • Jamie Pollock (soccer, born 1989), American soccer player
  • Jean-Yves Pollock, French linguist and professor
  • Jim Pollock (1930–2021), Canadian politician
  • John L. Pollock (1940–2009), American philosopher
  • Kevin Pollock (born 1970), Canadian referee in the National Hockey League
  • Lloyd Pollock (1909–1993), president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association
  • Mark Pollock, blind Northern Irish adventurer
  • Mary Pollock, pseudonym used by Enid Blyton
  • Michael Pollock (Royal Navy officer), British Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord
  • Michael Pollock (tenor) (1921–2003), American operatic tenor, opera director, and voice teacher
  • Mike Pollock (voice actor) (born 1965), American actor
  • Mike Pollock (rugby league), New Zealand rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s and 1920s
  • Oliver Pollock (1737–1823), American Revolutionary and financier
  • Paul Pollock (born 1986), Irish marathon runner and medical doctor
  • Peter Pollock (born 1941), South African cricketer
  • Robert Pollock (disambiguation)
    • Robert Pollock (actor) (born 1960), New Zealand actor
    • Robert L. Pollock, business writer for The Wall Street Journal
    • Robert M. Pollock (1856–1920), Republican member of the North Dakota House of Representatives
    • Robert Mason Pollock (1926–2012), American television writer
    • Robert A. Pollock (1930–2003), footballer turned writer-novelist who wrote the novel Loophole
    • Robert Pollok (poet) (1798–1827), Scottish poet best known for The Course of Time
    • Robert Pollok (British Army officer) (1884–1979), Irish-born British Army officer
  • Sam Pollock (1925–2007), Canadian hockey manager
  • Sharon Pollock (1936–2021), Canadian playwright
  • Shaun Pollock (born 1973), South African cricketer
  • Sheldon Pollock, American Sanskritist
  • Wellesca Pollock (1871–1940), American educator
  • William H. K. Pollock (1859–1896), English chess player
  • Sir William Frederick Pollock, 2nd Baronet (1815–1888), British lawyer
  • William P. Pollock (1870–1922), Senator from South Carolina

Fictional people named Pollock

  • Bertie Pollock

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References

References

  1. [[#H1. Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016)]] pp. 2137–2138; [[#R1. Reaney; Wilson (1995)]] p. 357.
  2. [[#H1. Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016)]] p. 2138.
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