Pollock (surname)

Pollock is a surname. In some cases, it originates as a locative name derived from Upper Pollock, Renfrewshire, Scotland. An early bearer of a form of this surname is Peter de Pollok, in about 1172–1178. In other cases, the surname is derived from the Middle English personal name *Pollok (Old English *Pulloc). An early bearer of a form of this surname is Roger Pollok, in 1332.

People surnamed Pollock

• A. J. Pollock (born 1987), American baseball player
• Alexander Pollock, Canadian actor
• Alexander Pollock (politician), Scottish parliamentarian
• Algernon J. Pollock (1864–1957), Evangelist and writer from the Plymouth Brethren movement
• Allyson Pollock, Scottish professor of public health policy
• Andrew Pollock (disambiguation)
  • Andrew Maclean Pollock (1914–1969), Scottish-born South African cricketer
  • Andrew Graeme Pollock (born 1969), South African cricketer, son of Andrew Maclean Pollock
• Bertram Pollock (1863–1943), Anglican bishop
• Carl Arthur Pollock (1903–1978), Canadian businessman
• Channing Pollock (disambiguation)
• Charles Edward Pollock (1823–1897), English judge
• Craig Pollock (born 1956), F1 manager
• Daniel Pollock (1969–1992), Australian actor
• Daniel C. Pollock (1913–2007), United States Marine Corps colonel and Navy Cross recipient
• David Pollock (disambiguation)
  • David Pollock (judge) (1780 –1847), British judge in India
  • David Pollock (actor) (born 1961), former American child actor
  • David Pollock (rugby union) (born 1987), rugby union player for Ulster Rugby
  • David Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth (born 1946), British peer, academic and Labour member of the House of Lords
  • David Pollock (humanist) (1942–2023), British secular humanist
  • Dave Pollock (born 1942), former Australian politician
  • David C. Pollock (1939–2004), sociologist
• Dee Pollock (1937–2005), American film and television actor
• Sir J. Donald Pollock (1868–1962), Scottish industrialist and Rector of Edinburgh University
• Eddie Pollock (born 1957), Scottish cricketer
• Edward Pollock (1823–1858), American poet
• Edwin A. Pollock (1899–1982), United States Marine Corps general and Navy Cross recipient
• Sir Edward James Pollock (1841–1930), British barrister and Official Referee of Supreme Court of Judicature
• Edwin Taylor Pollock (1870–1943), Captain, USN
• Eileen Pollock (1947–2020), Northern Irish actress
• Eileen "Mike" Pollock, American screenwriter
• Eliza Pollock (1840–1919), American archer
• Emma Pollock, Scottish Musician
• Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth (1861–1936), English Attorney General
• Fergus Pollock, British automobile designer
• Francis Pollock (1876–1957), Canadian science fiction writer
• Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet (1783–1870), British lawyer and politician
• Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet (1845–1937), British jurist
• F. H. Pollock Frederick Hart Pollock (1842–1908), actor and theatrical manager in Australia
• Friedrich Pollock (1894–1970), German philosopher and economist
• Gale Pollock, acting U.S. Army Deputy Surgeon General
• George Pollock (1786–1872), British field marshal
• George Pollock (Australian politician) (1890–1939), speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
• George Pollock (director) (1907–1979), English film director
• George David Pollock (1817–1897), British surgeon
• George Frederick Pollock (1821–1915), British lawyer
• Graeme Pollock (born 1944), South African cricketer
• Griselda Pollock (born 1949), British art historian
• Harry Frederick Pollock (1857–1901), British lawyer and politician
• Henry Pollock (1864–1953), Hong Kong politician and barrister
• Henry W. Pollock (1878–1954), New York state senator
• Howard Wallace Pollock (1920–2011), American politician
• Hugh Alexander Pollock (1888–1971), British editor, soldier and husband of Enid Blyton and Ida Pollock
• Hugh MacDowell Pollock (1852–1937), Northern Ireland Minister of Finance
• Ida Pollock, romance novelist and centenarian; wife of Hugh Pollock
• Jackson Pollock (1912–1956), American artist
• Jame Pollock (born 1979), Canadian ice hockey player
• James Pollock (American politician) (1810–1890), Governor of Pennsylvania
• James Dalgleish Pollock VC (1890–1958), British soldier
• Jamie Pollock (born 1974), English footballer
• Jamie Pollock (woman soccer player), American soccer player
• Jean-Yves Pollock, French linguist and professor
• Jim Pollock (1930–2021), Canadian politician
• John L. Pollock (1940–2009), American philosopher
• Kevin Pollock (born 1970), Canadian referee in the National Hockey League
• Linda Pollock, historian of early modern England and professor at Tulane University [1]
• Lloyd Pollock (1909–1993), president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association
• Mark Pollock, blind Northern Irish adventurer.
• Mary Pollock, pseudonym used by Enid Blyton
• Michael Pollock (Royal Navy officer), British Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord
• Michael Pollock (tenor) (1921—2003), American operatic tenor, opera director, and voice teacher
• Mike Pollock (voice actor) (born 1965), American actor
• Mike Pollock (rugby league), New Zealand rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s and 1920s
• Oliver Pollock (1737–1823), American Revolutionary and financier
• Paul Pollock (born 1986), Irish Marathon runner and medical doctor
• Peter Pollock (born 1941), South African cricketer
• Robert Pollock (disambiguation)
  • Robert Pollock (actor) (born 1960), New Zealand actor
  • Robert L. Pollock, business writer for The Wall Street Journal
  • Robert M. Pollock (1856–1920), Republican member of the North Dakota House of Representatives
  • Robert Mason Pollock (1926–2012), American television writer
  • Robert A. Pollock (1930–2003), footballer turned writer-novelist who wrote the novel Loophole
  • Robert Pollok (poet) (1798–1827), Scottish poet best known for The Course of Time
  • Robert Pollok (British Army officer) (1884–1979), Irish-born British Army officer
• Sam Pollock (1925–2007), Canadian hockey manager
• Sharon Pollock (1936–2021), Canadian playwright
• Shaun Pollock (born 1973), South African cricketer
• Sheldon Pollock, American Sanskritist
• Wellesca Pollock (1871–1940), American educator
• William H. K. Pollock (1859–1896), chess player
• Sir William Frederick Pollock, 2nd Baronet (1815–1888), British lawyer
• William P. Pollock (1870–1922), Senator from South Carolina

Fictional people named Pollock

• Bertie Pollock

Other

• Clan Pollock, Scottish clan
• Pollock baronets

See also

• Pollack (surname)
• Pollock (disambiguation)

References

• Hanks, P; Coates, R; McClure, P, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Vol. 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-879883-5.
• Reaney, P. H. (1995). Wilson, R. M. (ed.). A Dictionary of English Surnames (3rd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-8631464.