Boot is both a Dutch and English metonymic occupational surname. In Dutch, boot (/ˈboːt/) sounds like and means boat and the name refers to a "boatman". In English the name refers to the maker or seller of boots.[1]
Boot:
Arnold Boot later Boate (1606-1653), Dutch physician, writer and Hebraist in Ireland
Charles Boot (1874-1945), English businessman
Cornelis Hendrik Boudewijn Boot (1813–1892), Dutch politician
Eddie Boot (1915-1999), English footballer
Elise Boot (born 1932), Dutch jurist and former politician
Fred Boot (born 1965), Dutch theatre producer
Geoffrey Boot, Manx air racer
Gerard Boot later Boate (1604-1650), Dutch writer and physician in Ireland
Harry Boot (1917-1983), English physicist
Henri Frédéric Boot (1877–1963), Dutch painter and printmaker
Henry Boot (1851–1931), English businessman and founder of Henry Boot PLC, father of Charles Boot
Jaap Boot (1903-1986), Dutch track and field athlete
Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent (1850–1931), English businessman
Joe Boot (probably an alias), one of the last stagecoach robbers in the United States - see Pearl Hart
John Boot, 2nd Baron Trent (1889-1956), English businessman and philanthropist, son of Jesse Boot
Leonard Boot (1899-1937), English footballer
Max Boot (born 1969), American author, consultant, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian
Micky Boot (born c.1945), English footballer
Oliver Boot, English stage and television actor
Pat Boot (1914-1947), New Zealand athlete
Ton Boot (born 1940), Dutch basketball coach and player
Vitali Boot, German amateur boxer
William Henry James Boot (1848–1918), English oil and watercolour artist, illustrator and author
Boots:
Dave Boots (born 1955), American college basketball coach
George Boots (1874–1928), Welsh international rugby union forward
Phil Boots, American politician
