Pollak Explained

Pollak is an Austrian surname, and is a variant of Polak usually of Jewish Ashkenazic origin, it originates as an ethnic surname for Jews between Austria, Poland and Germany. Notable people with the surname include:

Athletes

• Burglinde Pollak (1951–), German athlete
• Egon Pollak (1898–1994), Austrian football player
• James Howard Pollak Jr. (1963–), American cyclist
• Jaroslav Pollák (1947–), Slovak football player
• Josef Pollák, Czech orienteering competitor
• Mike Pollak (1985–), American football player
• Zoltán Pollák (1984–), Hungarian football player

Other people

• Cheryl Pollak (1967–), American actress
• Felix Pollak (1909–1987), American poet
• Henry O. Pollak (1927–), Austrian-American mathematician
• Jacob Pollak (c. 1460–1541), Polish rabbi, founder of the Pilpul method of halakic study
• Joachim Pollak (1798–1879), Austrian rabbi
• Joel Pollak (1977–), American politician and author
• Jonathan Pollak (1982–), Israeli anarchist
• Kaim Pollák (1835–1905), Hungarian writer
• Katherine Pollak Ellickson (1905-1996), American labor economist
• Kay Pollak (1938–), Swedish film director
• Kevin Pollak (1957–), American comedian and actor
• Leo Wenzel Pollak (1888–1964), Czechoslovakian meteorologist
• Linsey Pollak, Australian musician and composer
• Louis H. Pollak (1922–2012), American district court judge and dean of Yale Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Mimi Pollak (1903–1999), Swedish actress
• Oskar Pollak, Czech art historian
• Otto Pollak (1908–1998), American sociologist
• (1880–1962), Austrian violinist and violin teacher
• Seth Pollak, American psychologist
• Stuart R. Pollak (1937–), American judge

See also

• Pollack (disambiguation)
• Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia v. Pollak
• Shass Pollak (Jewish mnemonist group)