Kolker

Kolker is either a German-language occupational surname for a lime burner (cf. Kalker, Kalkbrenner) or a Jewish habitational name for someone from Kolki in Ukraine.^[1][2] Notable people with the surname include:

• Alexander Kolker (1933–2023), Soviet and Russian composer
• Ava Kolker (2006), American child actress
• Boris Kolker (1939), Russian esperantist
• Chris Kolker, American politician from Colorado
• Henry Kolker (1874–1947), American actor and director
• Jimmy J. Kolker (1948), American diplomat
• Robert Kolker, American journalist
• Robert P. Kolker, American film historian, theorist, and critic
• Sabrina Kolker (1980), Canadian rower
• Yuri Kolker (1946), Russian poet