Bol (surname)
Bol is a surname in the Low Countries and in Southern Sudan.
Dutch surname
"Bol" and "Bols" are Dutch surnames with a variety of origins. These can be patronymic (after Bolle/Bole short forms of the Germanic personal name Baldo), occupational (bol = bread roll, referring to a baker), and descriptive (someone with a bol hoofd =round/bald head). People with this surname include:
- Bol
- Cornelis Bol/Boel (c. 1575 – after 1621), Flemish draughtsman and engraver
- Cornelis Bol (1589–1666), Flemish painter
- 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 stil life painter
- Jan Bol (born 1924), 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
- Bols
- Eric Bols (1904–1985), British Army officer of Belgian descent
- Jan Bols (born 1944), Dutch speed skater
- Louis Bols (1867–1930), South African military officer in the British Army
- Lucas Bols (1652-1719), Dutch distiller
- Mikael Bols (born 1961), Danish organic chemist
Southern Sudanese surname
- Francis Piol Bol Bok (born 1979), Dinka tribesman, abolitionist and author living in the United States
- Kerubino Kuanyin Bol (1948-1999), a leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Army
- Manute Bol (1962–2010), Sudanese-born basketball player in the US and political activist
- Samuel Aru Bol (1929–2000), prominent politician who signed the Khartoum Peace Agreement of 1997
See also
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