Bol (surname)

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

Dutch surname
Bol is Dutch surname 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 named Bol
People with this surname Bol include:
 * Cees Bol (born 1995), Dutch cyclist
 * Cornelis Bol/Boel (c. 1575 – after 1621), Flemish draughtsman and engraver
 * Cornelis Bol (1589–1666), Flemish painter
 * Femke Bol (born 2000), Dutch track and field athlete
 * 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 still life painter
 * Jan Bol (1924–2010), 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
 * Peter Bol (historian) (born 1948), American historian and sinologist
 * Todd Bol (1956–2018), American public bookcase maker

South Sudanese surname

 * Abraham Makoi Bol, governor of Western Lakes State, South Sudan
 * Bol Bol (born 1999), Sudanese-born American basketball player; son of Manute Bol
 * Francis Piol Bol Bok (born 1979), Dinka tribesman, abolitionist and author living in the United States
 * Grace Bol (born 1990), South Sudanese fashion model
 * Kerubino Kuanyin Bol (1948-1999), a leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Army
 * Manute Bol (1962–2010), Sudanese-born American basketball player and political activist
 * Peter Bol (runner) (born 1994), Australian middle-distance runner
 * Peter Bol Koang, governor of Eastern Bieh, South Sudan
 * Samuel Aru Bol (1929–2000), prominent politician who signed the Khartoum Peace Agreement of 1997