Bloch

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

A–F

Abraham Bloch (1859-1914), French rabbi
Adele Bloch-Bauer (1881-1925), Austrian entrepreneur
Adolpho Bloch (1908–1995), Ukrainian-Brazilian entrepreneur
Albert Bloch (1882–1961), American painter
Alexander Bloch (born 1972), German motor journalist and presenter
Alexander Yulianovich Bloch (1878–?), Russian lawyer, journalist, lawyer, and revolutionary
Alexandre Bloch (1857–1919), French painter
Alfred Bloch (born 1877), French footballer
Alfred Bloch (linguist) (1915–1983), Swiss linguist
Alfred M. Bloch (1904–1979), German-British engineer
Aliza Bloch (born 1957), First female mayor of Bet Shemesh, Israel
Ambrosius Bloch (1768–1838), Swiss Benedictine monk
André Bloch (composer) (1873–1960), French composer and music educator
André Bloch (mathematician) (1893–1948), French mathematician
André Bloch (SOE) (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
Armand Bloch (1866–1933), French sculptor
Armand Isaac Bloch (1865–1952), French-German rabbi and author.
Arthur Bloch (born 1948), American writer, author of Murphy's Law
Arthur Bloch (murder victim) (1882–1942), victim of a massacre of Jews in Switzerland
Artur Bloch (born 1992), Polish e-sportsman
August Bloch (1876–1949), German landscape painter
August Friedrich Bloch (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
Boris Bloch (born 1951), Russian-Ukrainian pianist and conductor
Bruno Bloch (1878–1933), Swiss dermatologist and university professor
Camille Bloch (1891–1970), Swiss chocolate producer
Carl Heinrich Bloch, (1834–1890), Danish painter
Chaim Yitzchak Bloch Hacohen (1867–1948), Lithuanian-American rabbi
Chajim Bloch (1881–1973), Ukrainian-Romanian writer
Charles Bloch (1921–1987), French historian
Clare Bloch (1908–1988), German Resistance member
Claude Bloch (1923–1971), French theoretical nuclear physicist
Claude Bloch (Convoy 77) (born 1928), survivor of the Jewish genocide
Claude C. Bloch (1878–1967), American naval admiral
Dalit Bloch (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
Daniel Bloch (born 1938), French engineer and physicist
David Bloch-Blumenfeld (1880–1947), Israeli politician
David Ludwig Bloch (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
Eduard Bloch (1872–1945), Austrian physician and family doctor of Adolf Hitler from 1903 to 1907
Eduard Bloch (publisher) (1831–1895), German theater book dealer and author
Eleonora Abramovna Bloch (1881–1943), Ukrainian and Soviet sculptor, artist, and teacher
Élie Bloch (1909–1943), French rabbi and Resistance member
Elisa Bloch (1848-1905), Silesian-French sculptor
Emanuel Hirsch Bloch (1902–1954), American lawyer
Erich Bloch (writer) (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
Étienne Bloch (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
Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer (1864–1945), Austrian-Czech sugar manufacturer and art lover
Francine Bloch (1916–2005), French literary critic
François Bloch-Lainé (1912–2002), French politicians and administrative professionals of the postwar period
Friedel Bloch (1917–2010), German manager
Friedrich Bloch (1904–1996), Lord Mayor of the city of Gera from 1945 to 1948
Friedrich Bloch (mining engineer) (1889–1942), German mining engineer

G–L

Grete Bloch (1892–1944), German industrial employee, letter partner of Franz Kafka
Grigory Ilyich Bloch (1871–1938), Soviet otorhinolaryngologist and phthisiologist
Gustave Bloch (1848–1923), French Jewish historian of ancient history
Günther Bloch (born 1953), German cynologist and author
Hans Bloch (painter) (1881–1914), German painter and art teacher
Hans Glad Bloch (1791–1865), Norwegian politician
Hans-Jürgen Bloch (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
Hermann Reincke-Bloch (1867–1929), German historian, university teacher, and politician (DVP)
Ignaz Bloch (1878–1942), German chemist
Immanuel Bloch (born 1972), German experimental physicist
Isaac Bloch, French rabbi
Isidore Grigorievich Bloch (1888–1958), Belarusian scientist
Israel Bloch (1889–1955), arrived in Palestine during the Second Aliyah
Issaschar-Beer Bloch (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
Jan Robert Bloch (1937–2010), German natural scientist, educator, and social philosopher
Jean-Marc Bloch (born 1946), French policeman
Jeanne Bloch (1858–1916), French singer
Jean-Richard Bloch (1884–1947), French writer
Joachim-Dieter Bloch (1906–1945), German jurist
Jochanan Bloch (1919–1979), Israeli Jewish religious scholar
Jonas Bloch (1939), Brazilian actor
Joseph Bloch (1875–1970), French Rabbi
Joseph Bloch (publicist) (1871–1936), German Social Democratic publicist
Joseph Samuel Bloch (1850–1923), Austrian rabbi
Joshua Bloch (1961), American software engineer
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
Lena Bloch (born 1971), Russian Jazz saxophonist
Leo Bloch (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
Marcel Bloch (painter, 1882–1966) (1882–1966), French painter, lithographer, aquafortist, pastellist, portraitist, and illustrator
Marcel Bloch (painter, 1884–1953) (1884–1953), French painter and sculptor
Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723–1799), German medical doctor and naturalist
Marie Bloch (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
Martin Bloch (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
Moritz Bloch (1815–1891), Hungarian linguist and theologian
Moses Bloch (1804–1841), German rabbi
Moses Löb Bloch (1815–1909), Hungarian rabbi
Moshe Rudolf Bloch (1902–1985), Israeli scientist
Moshe Yitzhak Bloch (1893–1942), Lithuanian engineer, architect, educator and Zionist
Noë Bloch (1875–1937), Russian-born film producer
Ofer Bloch (born 1959), Israeli CEO
Olga Bloch (1900–1945), German art historian
Orville Emil Bloch (1915–1983), American military officer and Medal of Honor recipient
Oscar Bloch (1877–1937), French linguist and lexicographer
Oskar Bloch (1881–1937), German architect
Paul Bloch (c. 1940–2018), American publicist
Pedro Bloch (1914–2004), Brazilian writer
Peter Bloch (1900–1984), German politician (CDU)
Peter Bloch (art historian) (1925–1994), German art historian and museum director
Peter André Bloch (born 1936), Swiss Germanist
Peter Rafael Bloch (1921–2008), German-American art historian, writer and journalist
Philipp Bloch (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
Raymond Bloch (1914–1997), French ancient historian, classical philologist and Etruscologist
Raymond-René Bloch (1911–2001), French painter
René Bloch (1923–2016), French engineer
René Bloch (Judaist) (born 1969), Swiss Judaist and classical philologist
René Bloch (psychiatrist) (born 1937), Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist
Renée Bloch (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
Robert Josef Bloch (1888–1942), German judge
Rolf Bloch (1930–2015), Swiss entrepreneur
Roman Yurievich Bloch (born 1986), Belarusian ice hockey player
Rosa Bloch-Bollag (1880–1922), Swiss revolutionary Marxist activist
Rosine Bloch (1844–1891), French operatic mezzo-soprano
Sabine Bloch (born 1966), German diplomat
Samson Bloch (1784–1845), Educator of Galicia
Scott Bloch, American lawyer and government official
Scotty Bloch, American actress
Sean Bloch (born 1973), South African Olympic cyclist
Serge Bloch (born 1956), French illustrator
Shani Bloch (born 1979), Israeli Olympic racing cyclist
Shlomo Bloch (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
Stef Bloch (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
Uwe Bloch (born 1956), German football player
Vincent Bloch (born 1975), French sociologist and anthropologist
Waldemar Bloch (1906–1984), Austrian composer
Walter Bloch (born 1943), Swiss philologist, philosopher, and writer
Werner Bloch (1890–1973), German politician of the SPD
Wilhelm Bloch (sports physician) (born 1959), German sports physician and university teacher
Yakov Noevich Bloch (1892–1968), Russian journalist, translator and publisher, theater expert
Yitzhak Bloch (1913–1994), Israeli hotel manager
Yoni Bloch (born 1981), Israeli musician, songwriter, composer, rock singer, and hi-tech entrepreneur
Yosef Yehuda Leib Bloch (1860–1929), Lithuanian rabbi

Named for André Bloch

Bloch space, space of holomorphic functions
Bloch's theorem (complex variables), mathematical theorem
Bloch's principle, mathematical principle

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

Bloch

A–F

G–L

M–Z

Named for André Bloch

Named for Felix Bloch

See also