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. An early bearer of a form of this surname is Roger Pollok, in 1332.
Notable people surnamed Pollock
- A. J. Pollock, American baseball player
- Adelaide Lowry Pollock, American school educator and bird conservationist
- Alan Pollock, English playwright and scriptwriter
- Alexander Pollock, Canadian actor
- Alexander Pollock (politician), Scottish parliamentarian
- Algernon J. Pollock, Evangelist and writer from the Plymouth Brethren movement
- Allyson Pollock, Scottish professor of public health policy
- Andrew Pollock (disambiguation)
- * Andrew Maclean Pollock, Scottish-born South African cricketer
- * Andrew Graeme Pollock, South African cricketer, son of Andrew Maclean Pollock
- Bertram Pollock, Anglican bishop
- Brice Pollock, American football player
- Carl Arthur Pollock, Canadian businessman
- Channing Pollock (disambiguation)
- Charles Edward Pollock, English judge
- Craig Pollock, British F1 manager and businessman
- Daniel Pollock, Australian actor
- Daniel C. Pollock, United States Marine Corps colonel and Navy Cross recipient
- David Pollock (disambiguation)
- * David Pollock (judge), British judge in India
- * David Pollock (actor), American former child actor
- * David Pollock (rugby union), rugby union player for Ulster Rugby
- * David Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth, British peer, academic and Labour member of the House of Lords
- * David Pollock (humanist), British secular humanist
- * Dave Pollock, Australian politician
- * David C. Pollock, American sociologist
- Dee Pollock, American film and television actor
- Sir J. Donald Pollock, Scottish industrialist and Rector of Edinburgh University
- Eddie Pollock, Scottish cricketer
- Edward Pollock, American poet
- Edwin A. Pollock, United States Marine Corps general and Navy Cross recipient
- Sir Edward James Pollock, British barrister and Official Referee of Supreme Court of Judicature
- Edwin Taylor Pollock, Captain, USN
- Eileen Pollock, Northern Irish actress
- Eileen "Mike" Pollock, American screenwriter
- Eliza Pollock, American archer
- Emma Pollock, Scottish Musician
- Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth, English Attorney General
- Fergus Pollock, British automobile designer
- Francis Pollock, Canadian science fiction writer
- Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet, British lawyer and politician
- Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet, British jurist
- F. H. Pollock, actor and theatrical manager in Australia
- Friedrich Pollock, German philosopher and economist
- Gale Pollock, acting U.S. Army Deputy Surgeon General
- George Pollock, British field marshal
- George Pollock (Australian politician), speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
- George Pollock (director), English film director
- George David Pollock, British surgeon
- George Frederick Pollock, British lawyer
- Graeme Pollock, South African cricketer
- Griselda Pollock, British art historian
- Harry Frederick Pollock, British lawyer and politician
- Henry Pollock, Hong Kong politician and barrister
- Henry W. Pollock, New York state senator
- Howard Wallace Pollock, American politician
- Hugh Alexander Pollock, British editor, soldier and husband of Enid Blyton and Ida Pollock
- Hugh MacDowell Pollock, Northern Ireland Minister of Finance
- Ida Pollock, British romance novelist and centenarian; wife of Hugh Pollock
- Jackson Pollock, American artist
- Jame Pollock, Canadian ice hockey player
- James Pollock (American politician), Governor of Pennsylvania
- James Dalgleish Pollock VC, British soldier
- Jamie Pollock, English footballer
- Jamie Pollock (soccer, born 1989), American soccer player
- Jean-Yves Pollock, French linguist and professor
- Jim Pollock, Canadian politician
- John L. Pollock, American philosopher
- Kevin Pollock, Canadian referee in the National Hockey League
- Lloyd Pollock, 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), American operatic tenor, opera director, and voice teacher
- Mike Pollock (voice actor), American actor
- Mike Pollock (rugby league), New Zealand rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s and 1920s
- Oliver Pollock, American Revolutionary and financier
- Paul Pollock, Irish marathon runner and medical doctor
- Peter Pollock, South African cricketer
- Robert Pollock (disambiguation)
- * Robert Pollock (actor), New Zealand actor
- * Robert L. Pollock, business writer for The Wall Street Journal
- * Robert M. Pollock, Republican member of the North Dakota House of Representatives
- * Robert Mason Pollock, American television writer
- * Robert A. Pollock, footballer turned writer-novelist who wrote the novel Loophole
- * Robert Pollok (poet), Scottish poet best known for The Course of Time
- * Robert Pollok (British Army officer), Irish-born British Army officer
- Sam Pollock, Canadian hockey manager
- Sharon Pollock, Canadian playwright
- Shaun Pollock, South African cricketer
- Sheldon Pollock, American Sanskritist
- Wellesca Pollock, American educator
- William H. K. Pollock, English chess player
- Sir William Frederick Pollock, 2nd Baronet, British lawyer
- William P. Pollock, Senator from South Carolina