Blount

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Blount (or Blunt) is a common surname of English derivation, meaning "blonde, fair" (Old French blund), or dull (Middle English blunt, blont)

  • Bessie Blount, (b. 1914) an African American inventor
  • Charles Blount (deist), (1654-1693), author
  • Sir Christopher Blount (d. 1601), companion of Sir Walter Raleigh and cousin of Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire
  • Edward Blount (or Blunt), publishing partner for the First Folio of the works of Shakespeare
  • Elizabeth Blount (1502–1540), mistress of Henry VIII
  • Sir James Blount (d. 1493), English commander of the fortress of Hammes and a minor character in Shakespeare's play Richard III
  • Herman Blount, (1914–1993), birth name of jazz musician Sun Ra
  • James Henderson Blount (1837–1903), U.S. congressman from Georgia, Minister to Hawaii
  • Sir John Blount of Shropshire, father of Bessie Blount
  • Mary Grainger Blount, wife of William Blount
  • Mel Blount (1948—), American professional football player
  • Ralph Blount (or Blunt), merchant tailor of London, father of Edward Blount
  • Richard Blount, S.J. (1565-1638), English Priest and Jesuit Provincial
  • Roy Blount, Jr. (1941—), American humorist
  • Sumner Blount (1947—), Computer Professional
  • Thomas Blount (1618–1679), English antiquarian and lexicographer
  • Thomas Blount (1759–1812), American Revolutionary War veteran and congressman from North Carolina
  • William Blount (1749–1800), American statesman and senator from Tennessee
  • William Grainger Blount (1784–1827), American stateman from Tennessee, son of William Blount
  • Willie Blount (1768–1835), American Governor of Tennessee, half-brother of William Blount
  • Winton M. Blount (1921–2002), American industrialist and U.S. Postmaster-General
  • Cecil Blount DeMille (1881–1959), American film producer and businessman
  • Michael Blount (1529–c.1597), Sheriff of Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire

English nobility, Barons Mountjoy and Earls of Newport in the English Peerage:

  • Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy (1420–1474)
  • Edward Blount, 2nd Baron Mountjoy (1467–1475)
  • John Blount, 3rd Baron Mountjoy (1445–1485)
  • William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy (1478–1534) scholar and chamberlain to Catherine of Aragon
  • Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy (1516–1544)
  • James Blount, 6th Baron Mountjoy (d. 1581)
  • William Blount, 7th Baron Mountjoy (1561–1594)
  • Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon and 8th Baron Mountjoy (1562–1606), English courtier, soldier, & colonial administrator
  • Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport (1597–1665)
  • Mountjoy Blount, 2nd Earl of Newport (1630–1674)
  • Thomas Blount, 3rd Earl of Newport (d. 1675)
  • Henry Blount, 4th Earl of Newport (d. 1679)

[edit] Place names

In the United States:

  • Blount, Georgia
  • Blount, North Carolina
  • Blount, West Virginia
  • see also: Blount County

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