Bol (surname)
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Bol is a surname in the Low Countries and in South Sudan.
People named Bol
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 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
