Bol is a surname in the Low Countries and in Southern Sudan.
"Bol" and "Bols" are Dutch surnames with a variety of origins. These can be patronymic (after Bolle/Bole short forms of the Germanic personal name Baldo),[1] occupational (bol = bread roll, referring to a baker), and descriptive (someone with a bol hoofd =round/bald head).[2] People with this surname include:
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Cornelis Bol/Boel (c. 1575 – after 1621), Flemish draughtsman and engraver
Cornelis Bol (1589–1666), Flemish painter
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 stil life painter
Jan Bol (born 1924), 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
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Eric Bols (1904–1985), British Army officer of Belgian descent
Jan Bols (born 1944), Dutch speed skater
Louis Bols (1867–1930), South African military officer in the British Army
Lucas Bols (1652-1719), Dutch distiller
Mikael Bols (born 1961), Danish organic chemist
Francis Piol Bol Bok (born 1979), Dinka tribesman, abolitionist and author living in the United States
Kerubino Kuanyin Bol (1948-1999), a leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Army
Manute Bol (1962–2010), Sudanese-born basketball player in the US and political activist
Samuel Aru Bol (1929–2000), prominent politician who signed the Khartoum Peace Agreement of 1997
