Bol (surname)

Bol is a surname in the Low Countries and in Southern Sudan.

Dutch surname

"Bol" and "Bols" are Dutch surnames with a variety of origins. These can be patronymic (after Bolle/Bole short forms of the Germanic personal name Baldo), occupational (bol = bread roll, referring to a baker), and descriptive (someone with a bol hoofd =round/bald head). People with this surname include:

Bol

• Cornelis Bol/Boel (c. 1575 – after 1621), Flemish draughtsman and engraver
• Cornelis Bol (1589–1666), Flemish painter
• 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 stil life painter
• Jan Bol (born 1924), 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

Bols

• Eric Bols (1904–1985), British Army officer of Belgian descent
• Jan Bols (born 1944), Dutch speed skater
• Louis Bols (1867–1930), South African military officer in the British Army
• Lucas Bols (1652-1719), Dutch distiller
• Mikael Bols (born 1961), Danish organic chemist

Southern Sudanese surname

• Francis Piol Bol Bok (born 1979), Dinka tribesman, abolitionist and author living in the United States
• Kerubino Kuanyin Bol (1948-1999), a leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Army
• Manute Bol (1962–2010), Sudanese-born basketball player in the US and political activist
• Samuel Aru Bol (1929–2000), prominent politician who signed the Khartoum Peace Agreement of 1997

See also

• Bol (disambiguation)
• Bols (disambiguation)