Bloch

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Bloch is a surname of German origin. Notable people with this surname include:

A–F[]

  •  [fr] (1859-1914), French rabbi
  • Adele Bloch-Bauer (1881-1925), Austrian entrepreneur
  • Albert Bloch (1882–1961), American painter
  •  [de] (born 1972), German motor journalist and presenter
  •  [ru] (1878–?), Russian lawyer, journalist, lawyer, and revolutionary
  • Alexandre Bloch (1857–1919), French painter
  • Alfred Bloch (born 1877), French footballer
  •  [de] (1915–1983), Swiss linguist
  •  [de] (1904–1979), German-British engineer
  • Aliza Bloch (born 1957), First female mayor of Bet Shemesh, Israel
  •  [de] (1768–1838), Swiss Benedictine monk
  • André Bloch (composer) (1873–1960), French composer and music educator
  • André Bloch (mathematician) (1893–1948), French mathematician
  •  [fr] (1914–1942), French agent of the Special Operations Executive
  • Andreas Bloch (1860–1917), Norwegian painter, illustrator and costume designer
  • Andy Bloch (born 1969), American poker player
  • Anna Bloch (1868–1953), Danish actress
  •  [fr] (1866–1933), French sculptor
  •  [de] (1865–1952), French-German rabbi and author.
  • Arthur Bloch (born 1948), American writer, author of Murphy's Law
  •  [de] (1882–1942), victim of a massacre of Jews in Switzerland
  •  [de; pl] (born 1992), Polish e-sportsman
  •  [de] (1876–1949), German landscape painter
  •  [de] (Abraham) (1780 or 1781–1866), German merchant and president of the Prussian Seehandlung
  • Augustyn Bloch (1929–2006), Polish composer and organist
  • Avraham Yitzchak Bloch (1891–1941), Lithuanian rabbi
  • Bernard Bloch (linguist) (1907–1965), American linguist
  • Bernard Bloch (actor), (born 1949) French actor
  • Bianca Bloch (1848–1901), German author
  •  [de] (born 1951), Russian-Ukrainian pianist and conductor
  •  [de] (1878–1933), Swiss dermatologist and university professor
  •  [de] (1891–1970), Swiss chocolate producer
  • Carl Heinrich Bloch, (1834–1890), Danish painter
  • Chaim Yitzchak Bloch Hacohen (1867–1948), Lithuanian-American rabbi
  •  [de] (1881–1973), Ukrainian-Romanian writer
  •  [de] (1921–1987), French historian
  •  [de] (1908–1988), German Resistance member
  • Claude Bloch (1923–1971), French theoretical nuclear physicist
  •  [fr] (born 1928), survivor of the Jewish genocide
  • Claude C. Bloch (1878–1967), American naval admiral
  •  [de] (born 1959), Israeli-Swiss actress, director, theater pedagogue, and respiratory therapist
  • Darius Paul Bloch, birthname of Darius Paul Dassault (1882–1969), French Army general of Jewish origin, who adopted "Dassault" as nom de guerre during French Resistance service
  •  [fr] (born 1938), French engineer and physicist
  • David Bloch-Blumenfeld (1880–1947), Israeli politician
  •  [de] (1910–2002), German painter
  • Débora Bloch (born 1963), Brazilian actress
  • Denise Bloch (1916-1945), French Resistance member
  • Dora Bloch, Israeli-British citizen murdered in 1976
  • Dorete Bloch (1943–2015), Danish zoologist
  • Eduard Bloch (1872–1945), Austrian physician and family doctor of Adolf Hitler from 1903 to 1907
  •  [de] (1831–1895), German theater book dealer and author
  •  [uk] (1881–1943), Ukrainian and Soviet sculptor, artist, and teacher
  •  [fr] (1909–1943), French rabbi and Resistance member
  • Elisa Bloch (1848-1905), Silesian-French sculptor
  • Emanuel Hirsch Bloch (1902–1954), American lawyer
  •  [de] (1897–1994), German writer
  • Ernest Bloch (1880–1959), Swiss-born American composer
  • Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), German philosopher
  • Erich Bloch (1925–2016), American electrical engineer and administrator
  •  [fr] (1921–2009), French magistrate and Resistance member
  • Eugene Bloch (1878–1944), French physicist and professor
  • France Bloch-Sérazin (1913–1943), French Resistance member during World War II
  • Felix Bloch (1905–1983), Swiss physicist
  • Felix Bloch (diplomatic officer) (born 1935), American diplomat accused of spying for the Soviets
  •  [de] (1864–1945), Austrian-Czech sugar manufacturer and art lover
  •  [fr] (1916–2005), French literary critic
  •  [fr] (1912–2002), French politicians and administrative professionals of the postwar period
  •  [de] (1917–2010), German manager
  •  [de] (1904–1996), Lord Mayor of the city of Gera from 1945 to 1948
  •  [de] (1889–1942), German mining engineer

G–L[]

  • Grete Bloch (1892–1944), German industrial employee, letter partner of Franz Kafka
  •  [ru] (1871–1938), Soviet otorhinolaryngologist and phthisiologist
  • Gustave Bloch (1848–1923), French Jewish historian of ancient history
  •  [de] (born 1953), German cynologist and author
  •  [de] (1881–1914), German painter and art teacher
  • Hans Glad Bloch (1791–1865), Norwegian politician
  •  [de] (born 1936), German radio play author
  • Harriet Bloch (1881–1975), Danish first female film screenwriter
  • Heinz P. Bloch, American mechanical engineer
  • Henry W. Bloch (1922–2019), American businessman and Kansas City philanthropist.
  • Herbert Bloch (1911–2006), German archaeologist and epigrapher
  • Herbert J. Bloch (1907–1987), philatelist of New York City
  • Herman S. Bloch (1912–1990), American chemist and an inventor
  •  [de] (1867–1929), German historian, university teacher, and politician (DVP)
  •  [de] (1878–1942), German chemist
  • Immanuel Bloch (born 1972), German experimental physicist
  • Isaac Bloch, French rabbi
  •  [be] (1888–1958), Belarusian scientist
  •  [he] (1889–1955), arrived in Palestine during the Second Aliyah
  •  [de] (1730–1798), German rabbi
  • Iwan Bloch (1872–1922), Berlin dermatologist
  • Jacqueline Bloch (born 1967), French physicist
  • Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836–1902), also known as Ivan Bloch, Polish banker and warfare expert
  •  [de] (1937–2010), German natural scientist, educator, and social philosopher
  •  [fr] (born 1946), French policeman
  •  [fr] (1858–1916), French singer
  • Jean-Richard Bloch (1884–1947), French writer
  •  [de] (1906–1945), German jurist
  •  [de] (1919–1979), Israeli Jewish religious scholar
  • Jonas Bloch (1939), Brazilian actor
  •  [fr] (1875–1970), French Rabbi
  •  [de] (1871–1936), German Social Democratic publicist
  • Joseph Samuel Bloch (1850–1923), Austrian rabbi
  • Joshua Bloch (1961), American software engineer
  • Joshua Bloch (rabbi) (1890–1957), Lithuanian-American rabbi and librarian
  • Jules Bloch (1880–1953), French linguist
  • Julia Chang Bloch (born 1942), American diplomat
  • Karola Bloch (1905–1994), Polish-German architect, socialist, and feminist
  • Konrad Emil Bloch (1912–2000), American biochemist
  • Kurt Bloch (born 1960), American musician
  • Lars Bloch (born 1938), Danish actor and producer
  •  [de] (born 1971), Russian Jazz saxophonist
  •  [de] (1864–1920), German alto-philologist, classical archaeologist, and teacher
  • Lloyd Bloch, a fictional character
  • Lucienne Bloch (1909–1999), artist and photographer, daughter of Ernest Bloch

M–Z[]

  • Marc Bloch (1886–1944), French historian
  • Marcel Bloch, later Marcel Dassault (1892–1986), French aircraft industrialist, founder of the firm Société des Avions Marcel Bloch; he adopted his younger brother's (Darius Paul Bloch) nom de guerre
  •  [fr] (1882–1966), French painter, lithographer, aquafortist, pastellist, portraitist, and illustrator
  •  [fr] (1884–1953), French painter and sculptor
  • Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723–1799), German medical doctor and naturalist
  •  [de] (1871–1944), German teacher and member of the bourgeois women's movement
  • Marjorie Bloch (born 1956), Irish painter
  • Mark Bloch (linguist) (born 1924), Russian linguist
  • Mark Bloch (born 1956), American artist
  •  [fr] (1883–1954), English-German painter
  • Maurice Bloch (born 1939), British anthropologist
  • Maurice Bloch (politician) (1891–1929), New York assemblyman
  • Meli Polishook-Bloch (born 1953), former Israeli politician
  • Michael Bloch (barrister) (born 1951)
  • Michael Bloch (born 1953), Author and historian
  • Mohammed Ibrahim Bloch (born 1949), Indian film director
  •  [de] (1815–1891), Hungarian linguist and theologian
  •  [de] (1804–1841), German rabbi
  • Moses Löb Bloch (1815–1909), Hungarian rabbi
  • Moshe Rudolf Bloch (1902–1985), Israeli scientist
  •  [he] (1893–1942), Lithuanian engineer, architect, educator and Zionist
  • Noë Bloch (1875–1937), Russian-born film producer
  •  [he] (born 1959), Israeli CEO
  •  [de] (1900–1945), German art historian
  • Orville Emil Bloch (1915–1983), American military officer and Medal of Honor recipient
  •  [fr] (1877–1937), French linguist and lexicographer
  •  [de] (1881–1937), German architect
  • Paul Bloch (c. 1940–2018), American publicist
  • Pedro Bloch (1914–2004), Brazilian writer
  •  [de] (1900–1984), German politician (CDU)
  •  [de] (1925–1994), German art historian and museum director
  •  [de] (born 1936), Swiss Germanist
  • Peter Rafael Bloch (1921–2008), German-American art historian, writer and journalist
  •  [de] (1841–1923), German historian and Reform rabbi
  • Pierrette Bloch (1928–2017), Swiss painter and textile artist
  • Ray Bloch (1902–1982), American composer, songwriter, and conductor
  •  [fr] (1914–1997), French ancient historian, classical philologist and Etruscologist
  •  [fr] (1911–2001), French painter
  •  [fr] (1923–2016), French engineer
  •  [de] (born 1969), Swiss Judaist and classical philologist
  • (born 1937), Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist
  •  [fr] (1924–1955), French biblical pioneer of studies on targumic, midrashic, and homiletic literature
  • Richard Bloch (1926–2004), American businessman
  • Richard L. Bloch (1929–2018), American investor, real estate developer, banker, and philanthropist
  • Richard Milton Bloch (1921–2000), pioneering American computer programmer
  • Robert Bloch (1917–1994), American writer
  • Robert Bloch (racing driver), French race car driver
  •  [de] (1888–1942), German judge
  •  [de] (1930–2015), Swiss entrepreneur
  •  [ru] (born 1986), Belarusian ice hockey player
  • Rosa Bloch-Bollag (1880–1922), Swiss revolutionary Marxist activist
  • Rosine Bloch (1844–1891), French operatic mezzo-soprano
  •  [de] (born 1966), German diplomat
  •  [he] (1784–1845), Educator of Galicia
  • Scott Bloch, American lawyer and government official
  • Scotty Bloch, American actress
  • Sean Bloch (born 1973), South African Olympic cyclist
  •  [fr] (born 1956), French illustrator
  • Shani Bloch (born 1979), Israeli Olympic racing cyclist
  •  [he] (1886–1976), Lithuanian Jew
  • Shmaryahu Yitzchak Bloch (c. 1862–1923), English rabbi
  • Sonny Bloch (c. 1937–1998), American radio show host
  • Spencer Bloch (born 1944), American mathematician
  •  [fr] (born 1971), French director and photographer
  • Stella Bloch (1897–1999), American artist, dancer and journalist
  • Susan Bloch (1940–1982), American theatrical press agent
  • Suzanne Bloch (1907–2002), Swiss-American musician and an influential pioneer of Early Music Revival during the 20th century
  • Thomas Bloch (born 1962), French classical musician
  •  [de] (born 1956), German football player
  •  [fr] (born 1975), French sociologist and anthropologist
  • Waldemar Bloch (1906–1984), Austrian composer
  •  [de] (born 1943), Swiss philologist, philosopher, and writer
  •  [de] (1890–1973), German politician of the SPD
  •  [de] (born 1959), German sports physician and university teacher
  •  [ru] (1892–1968), Russian journalist, translator and publisher, theater expert
  •  [he] (1913–1994), Israeli hotel manager
  • Yoni Bloch (born 1981), Israeli musician, songwriter, composer, rock singer, and hi-tech entrepreneur
  • Yosef Leib Bloch (1860–1929), Lithuanian rabbi

Named for André Bloch[]

Named for Felix Bloch[]

  • Bloch oscillation, oscillation of a particle if a constant force is acting on it
  • Bloch spectrum, concept in quantum mechanics
  • Bloch sphere, geometrical representation of the pure state space of a two-level quantum mechanical system
  • Bloch wall, narrow transition region at the boundary between magnetic domains
  • Bloch function, wavefunction of a particle placed in a periodic potential

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