Bol (surname)

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

Dutch surname

Bol (Dutch pronunciation: [bɔl] ^ⓘ ) is a 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

• Boll (surname)
• Bols (surname)
• Bowles (surname)

References

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