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
 * 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 (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