Blok (surname) explained

Blok is a surname of Dutch origin. 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
• (1852–1909), Russian law professor, father of Alexander Blok
• Anneke Blok (born 1959), Dutch actress
• (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 (1925–2019), 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
• (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
• (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

Notes and References

1. http://www.cbgfamilienamen.nl/nfb/detail_naam.php?gba_lcnaam=blok&gba_naam=Blok&nfd_naam=Blok&operator=eq&taal= Blok