Kruk (surname)
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Kruk is a surname. The word means "raven" in Polish, Belarusian, and Ukrainian languages. Polish archaic feminine forms: Krukówna (after father), Krukowa (after husband).[1]
Notable people with the surname include:
- Elżbieta Kruk (born 1959), Polish politician
- Frances Kruk, Polish-Canadian poet
- Herman Kruk (1897–1944), Polish-Jewish activist during World War II
- Isaiah Kruk, birth surname of Isaiah Shavitt, Israeli-American theoretical chemist
- Janusz Kruk, (1946–1992), Polish singer, guitarist and composer
- John Kruk (born 1961), American baseball player
- Joseph Kruk (1885−1972), Polish-Jewish politician
- Mariusz Kruk, Polish sprint canoer
- Pavel Kruk (born 1992), Belarusian football player
- Petro Kruk (born 1985), Ukrainian sprint canoer
- Svetlana Kruk (born 1979), Belarusian beauty queen
- Agnieszka Krukówna, Polish actress
