Pollak

Pollak is an Austrian surname, and is a variant of Polak usually of Jewish Ashkenazic origin, it originates as an ethnic surname for Jews between Austria, Poland and Germany. Notable people with the surname include:

Athletes

 * Burglinde Pollak (1951–), German athlete
 * Egon Pollak (1898–1994), Austrian football player
 * James Howard Pollak Jr. (1963–), American cyclist
 * Jaroslav Pollák (1947–), Slovak football player
 * Josef Pollák, Czech orienteering competitor
 * Mike Pollak (1985–), American football player
 * Zoltán Pollák (1984–), Hungarian football player

Other people

 * Cheryl Pollak (1967–), American actress
 * Felix Pollak (1909–1987), American poet
 * Henry O. Pollak (1927–), Austrian-American mathematician
 * Jacob Pollak (c. 1460–1541), Polish rabbi, founder of the Pilpul method of halakic study
 * Joachim Pollak (1798–1879), Austrian rabbi
 * Joel Pollak (1977–), American politician and author
 * Jonathan Pollak (1982–), Israeli anarchist
 * Kaim Pollák (1835–1905), Hungarian writer
 * Katherine Pollak Ellickson (1905-1996), American labor economist
 * Kay Pollak (1938–), Swedish film director
 * Kevin Pollak (1957–), American comedian and actor
 * Leo Wenzel Pollak (1888–1964), Czechoslovakian meteorologist
 * Linsey Pollak, Australian musician and composer
 * Louis H. Pollak (1922–2012), American district court judge and dean of Yale Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School
 * Mimi Pollak (1903–1999), Swedish actress
 * Oskar Pollak, Czech art historian
 * Otto Pollak (1908–1998), American sociologist
 * Robert Pollak (violinist) (1880–1962), Austrian violinist and violin teacher
 * Seth Pollak, American psychologist
 * Stuart R. Pollak (1937–), American judge