Bol is a surname in the Low Countries and in South Sudan.

Dutch surname

Bol (Dutch pronunciation: [bɔl] ⓘ) is Dutch surname with a variety of origins. These can be patronymic (after Bolle/Bole short forms of the Germanic personal name Baldo),[1] occupational (bol = bread roll, referring to a baker), and descriptive (someone with a bol hoofd =round/bald head).[2]

People named Bol

People with this surname Bol include:

  • Cees Bol (born 1995), Dutch cyclist
  • Cornelis Bol/Boel (c. 1575 – after 1621), Flemish draughtsman and engraver
  • Cornelis Bol (1589–1666), Flemish painter
  • Femke Bol (born 2000), Dutch track and field athlete
  • Ferdinand Bol (1616–1680), Dutch painter, etcher, and draftsman
  • Gerrit Bol (1906–1989), Dutch mathematician
  • Hans Bol (1534–1593), Flemish painter in the Northern Mannerist style
  • Henri Bol (1945–2000), Dutch still life painter
  • Jan Bol (1924–2010), Dutch Olympic sailor
  • Jetse Bol (born 1989), Dutch road bicycle racer
  • Kees Bol (1916–2009), Dutch painter and art educator
  • Laurens J. Bol (1898–1994), Dutch art historian specialized in 17th-century painters
  • Peter Bol (historian) (born 1948), American historian and sinologist
  • Todd Bol (1956–2018), American public bookcase maker

South Sudanese surname

  • Abraham Makoi Bol, governor of Western Lakes State, South Sudan
  • Bol Bol (born 1999), Sudanese-born American basketball player; son of Manute Bol
  • Francis Piol Bol Bok (born 1979), Dinka tribesman, abolitionist and author living in the United States
  • Grace Bol (born 1990), South Sudanese fashion model
  • Kerubino Kuanyin Bol (1948-1999), a leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Army
  • Manute Bol (1962–2010), Sudanese-born American basketball player and political activist
  • Peter Bol (runner) (born 1994), Australian middle-distance runner
  • Peter Bol Koang, governor of Eastern Bieh, South Sudan
  • Samuel Aru Bol (1929–2000), prominent politician who signed the Khartoum Peace Agreement of 1997

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Verklaring voornaam Bole" (in Dutch), Meertens Institute.
  2. ↑ "Bol – documentatie" (in Dutch), Nederlandse Familienamenbank.
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