Bloch is a

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of German origin. Notable people with this surname include:

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Adele Bloch-Bauer Adele Bloch-Bauer (née Bauer; August 9, 1881 – January 24, 1925) was a Vienna, Viennese socialite, Salon (gathering), salon hostess, and patron of the arts from Austria-Hungary, married to sugar industrialist Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer. A Jewish wo ...

(1881–1925), Austrian entrepreneur *

Albert Bloch Albert Bloch (August 2, 1882 – March 23, 1961) was an American Modernist artist and the only American artist associated with Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group of early 20th-century European modernists. Biography Bloch was born on ...

(1882–1961), American painter *

Alexandre Bloch Alexandre Bloch (29 May 1857–11 November 1919) was a French academic painter, specialising in military subjects. Biography Bloch was born in the Boulevard de la Chapelle, 18th arrondissement of Paris.

(1857–1919), French painter *

Alfred Bloch Alfred Bloch (22 February 1878 – 20 June 1902), also known as Jean Bloch and sometimes written Block, was a Belgian-born French footballer who played as a defender and who competed in the football tournament at the 1900 Olympic Games in Pari ...

(1877-?), French footballer * Aliza Bloch (born 1957), first female mayor of Bet Shemesh, Israel *

André Bloch (composer) André Bloch (14 January 1873, in Wissembourg – 7 August 1960, in Viry-Châtillon) was a French composer and music educator. Biography Bloch studied with André Gedalge, Ernest Guiraud, and Jules Massenet at the Conservatoire de Paris. I ...

(1873–1960), French composer and music educator *

André Bloch (mathematician) André Bloch (20 November 1893 – 11 October 1948) was a French mathematician who is best remembered for his fundamental contribution to complex analysis. Bloch killed three of his family members, for which he was institutionalized in a mental ...

(1893–1948), French mathematician *

Andreas Bloch Andreas Bloch (29 July 1860 – 11 May 1917) was a Norwegian painter, illustrator and costume designer. Biography Andreas Schroeter Schelver Bloch was born on the Hellerud farm in Skedsmo, in Akershus county, Norway, as the son of Jens ...

(1860–1917), Norwegian painter, illustrator and costume designer *

Andy Bloch Andrew Elliot Bloch (born June 1, 1969) is a professional poker player. He holds two electrical engineering degrees from MIT and a JD from Harvard Law School. Blackjack While studying at MIT, Bloch became part of the MIT blackjack team, featur ...

(born 1969), American poker player * Anna Bloch (1868–1953), Danish actress *

Armand Bloch Armand Lucien Bloch (1 July 1866, Montbéliard - 5 March 1932, Paris) was a French sculptor. Life and work His father, Maurice Bloch, was a sculptor, who established a metal casting company in 1857. He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1884 ...

(1866–1932), French sculptor *

Arthur Bloch Arthur Bloch (born January 1, 1948) is an American writer, author of the ''Murphy's Law'' books. He has also written a self-help satire called ''Healing Yourself with Wishful Thinking''. From 1986 to 2002 he was the producer and director of the ...

(born 1948), American writer, author of ''Murphy's Law'' *

Augustyn Bloch Augustyn Bloch (13 August 1929 in Grudziądz – 6 April 2006 in Warsaw) was a Polish composer and organist An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ (music), organ. An organist may play organ repertoire, solo organ works, play with ...

(1929–2006), Polish composer and organist *

Avraham Yitzchak Bloch Avraham Yitzchak Bloch (; 1891 - July 15, 1941) was the ''Rosh yeshiva'' of the Telz Yeshiva in Lithuania, and one of the greatest pre-Holocaust rabbinic figures. Early life Avraham Yitzchak Bloch was born in 1891 into a Jewish family and was ...

(1891–1941), Lithuanian rabbi

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Bernard Bloch (linguist) Bernard Bloch (18 June 1907, New York City, New York – 26 November 1965, New Haven, Connecticut) was an American linguist. He taught at Brown University and was Professor of Linguistics at Yale University. His father, Albert Bloch, was the onl ...

(1907–1965), American linguist *

Bernard Bloch (actor) Bernard Bloch (born 11 December 1949) is a French actor and theatre director. Filmography * 1972: ''Albert Einstein'' (TV): ''Un membre de l'académie d'Olympia'' * 1974: '' The Story of Paul'': ''L'harmonica'' * 1980: '' Fernand'': ''Ferna ...

(born 1949), French actor * Bianca Bloch (1848–1901), German author

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Carl Heinrich Bloch Carl Heinrich Bloch (; 23 May 1834 – 22 February 1890) was a Danish painter. Early life and education Bloch was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and studied there at the Royal Danish Academy of Art (''Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi'') un ...

(1834–1890), Danish painter *

Chaim Yitzchak Bloch Hacohen Hayyim Yitzhak HaCohen Bloch (; 1864–1948) was a prominent Lithuanian born rabbi. In 1922 he left Latvia for the United States, where he became the Rabbi and Av Beit Din (head judge of religious court) of Jersey City, New Jersey. He remained th ...

(1867–1948), Lithuanian-American rabbi *

Charles E. Bloch Charles Edward Bloch (December 22, 1861 – September 2, 1940) was a Jewish-American publisher from New York. Life Bloch was born on December 22, 1861, in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Edward Bloch and Henrietta Miller. His father founded the pr ...

(1861–1940), American publisher *

Claude Bloch Claude Bloch (18 March 1923 – 29 December 1971) was a French theoretical nuclear physicist. He authored over 60 published articles and made significant impact on the fields of quantum field theory, nuclear physics, and the many-body problem. Bl ...

(1923–1971), French theoretical nuclear physicist * Claude C. Bloch (1878–1967), American naval admiral

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*Darius Paul Bloch, birthname of

Darius Paul Dassault Darius Paul Dassault ( Bloch; 13 January 1882 – 3 May 1969) was a French general who was in the French Résistance in World War II. He was born in Paris. His alias Dassault developed when he was in the French Résistance. The name alludes to ...

(1882–1969), French Army general of Jewish origin, who adopted "Dassault" as ''nom de guerre'' during French Resistance service *

David Bloch-Blumenfeld David Bloch-Blumenfeld (; 1887 – 1947), sometimes simply David Bloch, was one of the leaders of the Labor Zionism movement in Mandate Palestine and mayor of Tel Aviv in 1925–27. Moshav Dovev in northern Israel Israel, officially the St ...

(1880–1947), Israeli politician *

Débora Bloch Débora Bloch (born 29 May 1963) is a Brazilian actress. She is known nationally for participating in telenovelas such as '' Caminho das Índias'', '' Cordel Encantado'', and '' Avenida Brasil''. Biography Bloch was born in Belo Horizonte, Mi ...

(born 1963), Brazilian actress *

Denise Bloch Denise Madeleine Bloch (; 21 January 1916 – 5 February 1945) was a French citizen who worked as an agent with the clandestine British Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization in the Second World War. The purpose of SOE was to conduct e ...

(1916–1945), French Resistance member *

Dora Bloch Dora Bloch (; October 1902July 1976) was an Israeli hostage on Air France Flight 139 on 26 June 1976. Taking off from Tel Aviv, Israel, and destined for Paris, France, the plane soon landed in Athens, Greece, for a scheduled stopover and was ...

, Israeli-British citizen murdered in 1976 *

Dorete Bloch Dorete Bloch, married name Dorete Bloch Danielsen, (14 June 1943 in Rungsted – 28 February 2015 in Tórshavn) was a Danish zoologist, former director of (the Faroes Natural History Museum), editor of ''Fróðskaparrit'' and author of numerous ...

(1943–2015), Danish zoologist

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Eduard Bloch Eduard Bloch (30 January 1872 – 1 June 1945) was an Austrian physician practicing in Linz. Born to a Jewish family of Czechoslovakian origin, Bloch was the family doctor of Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) wa ...

(1872–1945), Austrian physician and family doctor of Adolf Hitler from 1903 to 1907 * Elisa Bloch (1848–1905), Silesian-French sculptor *

Emanuel Hirsch Bloch Emanuel Hirsch Bloch (May 12, 1901 – January 30, 1954) was an American attorney known for defending clients associated with left-wing and Communist causes. He and Marshall Perlin defended Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Background He was born in ...

(1902–1954), American lawyer *

Ernest Bloch Ernest Bloch (; ; July 24, 1880 – July 15, 1959) was a Swiss-born American composer. Bloch was a preeminent artist in his day, and left a lasting legacy. He is recognized as one of the greatest Swiss composers in history. Several of his most no ...

(1880–1959), Swiss-born American composer *

Ernst Bloch Ernst Simon Bloch (; ; July 8, 1885 – August 4, 1977; pseudonyms: Karl Jahraus, Jakob Knerz) was a German Marxist philosopher. Bloch was influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx, as well as by apocalyptic and religious thinker ...

(1885–1977), German philosopher *

Erich Bloch Erich Bloch (January 9, 1925 – November 25, 2016) was a German-born American electrical engineer and administrator. He was involved with developing IBM's first transistorized supercomputer, 7030 Stretch, and mainframe computer, System/360. He ...

(1925–2016), American electrical engineer and administrator *

Eugene Bloch Eugène Bloch (10 June 1878 1944) was a French physicist and professor at the École Normale Supérieure, and at the Faculty of Science of the University of Paris. Early life and education Bloch was born on 10 June 1878 in Soultz-Haut-Rhin, ...

(1878–1944), French physicist and professor

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France Bloch-Sérazin France Bloch-Sérazin (; (21 February 1913 – 12 February 1943) was a chemist and militant communist who fought in the French resistance against German occupation during World War II. Biography Born in Paris into a Jewish family, she was ...

(1913–1943), French Resistance member during World War II *

Felix Bloch Felix Bloch (; ; 23 October 1905 – 10 September 1983) was a Swiss-American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics with Edward Mills Purcell "for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and di ...

(1905–1983), Swiss-American physicist * Felix Bloch (diplomatic officer) (born 1935), American diplomat accused of spying for the Soviets

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* Grete Bloch (1892–1944), German industrial employee, letter partner of Franz Kafka *

Gustave Bloch Gustave Bloch (21 July 1848 – 3 December 1923) was a French Jewish historian of ancient history. He was the father of historian Marc Bloch (1886–1944), who along with Lucien Febvre (1878–1956) was co-founder of the École des Annales. Biogra ...

(1848–1923), French Jewish historian of ancient history

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* Hans Glad Bloch (1791–1865), Norwegian politician *

Harriet Bloch Harriet Bloch (1881-1975) was a Danish screenwriter who worked in the industry during the silent era. During her career, she wrote over 100 screenplays, some of which were never produced. Her scripts were made into films in Denmark, Germany, Swed ...

(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 Herbert Bloch (18 August 1911 – 6 September 2006) was a professor of Classics at Harvard and a renowned authority on Greek historiography, Roman epigraphy and archaeology, medieval monasticism, and the transmission of classical culture and litera ...

(1911–2006), German archaeologist and epigrapher * Herbert J. Bloch (1907–1987), philatelist of New York City *

Herman S. Bloch Herman Samuel Bloch (June 15, 1912 – June 16, 1990) was an American chemist and an inventor. Bloch invented the catalytic converter, a device that removes pollutants from automobile exhaust fumes. Bloch held more than 270 patents. He was the depu ...

(1912–1990), American chemist and an inventor

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Immanuel Bloch Immanuel Bloch (born 16 November 1972, Fulda) is a German experimental physicist. His research is focused on the investigation of quantum many-body systems using ultracold atomic and molecular quantum gases. Bloch is known for his work on atoms ...

(born 1972), German experimental physicist *

Isaac Bloch Isaac Bloch (1848–1925) served as Chief Rabbi in Nancy, France. He wrote 16 articles for the ''Jewish Encyclopedia''. Bloch was a native of Alsace Alsace (, ; ) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in the Grand Est adminis ...

, French rabbi *

Isabelle Bloch Isabelle Bloch (also published as Isabelle Bloch-Boulanger) is a French computer scientist working in artificial intelligence, image understanding, explainable artificial intelligence, and spatial reasoning. She is a professor in LIP6, the comp ...

, French computer scientist *

Iwan Bloch Iwan Bloch (8 April 1872 – 21 November 1922), also known as Ivan Bloch, was a German dermatologist, and psychiatrist, psychoanalyst born in Delmenhorst, Grand Ducal Oldenburg, Germany, and often called the first sexologist. Together with Mag ...

(1872–1922), Berlin dermatologist

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* Jacqueline Bloch (born 1967), French physicist *

Jan Gotlib Bloch Jan Gotlib "Bogumił" Bloch ( or Блох; July 24, 1836 – January 7, 1902) was a Polish banker and railway financier who devoted his private life to the study of modern industrial warfare. Born Jewish and a convert to Calvinism, he spent cons ...

(1836–1902), also known as Ivan Bloch, Polish banker and warfare expert *

Jean-Richard Bloch Jean-Richard Bloch (25 May 1884 in Paris – 15 March 1947) was a French critic, novelist and playwright. He was a member of the French Communist Party (PCF) and worked with Louis Aragon in the evening daily ''Ce soir''. Early life Jean Bloc ...

(1884–1947), French writer *

Joachim Bloch Joachim Ralf Josef Bloch (born 2 August 1963) is a German politician who was elected as a member of the Bundestag in 2025. He has served as chairman of the Alternative for Germany in the district council of Tuttlingen Tuttlingen (; Alemannic: ...

(born 1963), German politician *

Jocelyne Bloch Jocelyne Bloch (born 1968) is a Swiss neuroscientist and a neurosurgeon at Lausanne University Hospital and at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). Life Bloch graduated in the Faculty of Medicine of Lausanne University in Dec ...

(born 1971), Swiss neurosurgeon *

Jonas Bloch Jonas Bloch (born February 8, 1939) is a Brazilian actor. Most known for his television roles as villains, Bloch is descendant of Ukrainian-Jewish people and father of actress Débora Bloch. Selected filmography * ''Quilombo A ''quilombo'' ...

(born 1939), Brazilian actor *

Joseph Samuel Bloch Joseph (Josef) Samuel Bloch (20 November 1850 in Dukla – 1923) was an Austrian rabbi and deputy of Polish descent. Biography Bloch's parents, who were poor, destined him for the rabbinical career, and he devoted himself to the exclusive study o ...

(1850–1923), Austrian rabbi *

Joshua Bloch Joshua J. Bloch (born August 28, 1961) is an American software engineer and a technology author. He led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features, including the Java Collections Framework, the package, and the mechanism ...

(born 1961), American software engineer *

Joshua Bloch (rabbi) Joshua Bloch (December 9, 1890 – September 26, 1957) was a Lithuanian-born American rabbi and librarian. Life Bloch was born on December 9, 1890, in Dorbian, Kovno Governorate, the son of Baer-Moses Bloch and Necha Stoch. Bloch immigrated to ...

(1890–1957), Lithuanian-American rabbi and librarian *

Jules Bloch Jules Bloch (May 1, 1880 in Paris – November 29, 1953) was a French linguist who studied Indian languages, and was also interested in languages in their cultural and social contexts. Doctor of Letters in 1914, he was director of studies at the � ...

(1880–1953), French linguist *

Julia Chang Bloch Julia Chang Bloch (; born 1942) is a Chinese American businessperson and diplomat, who was the first U.S. ambassador of Asian descent. She is the founder and executive chair of the US-China Education Trust. Life and political career Bloch was ...

(born 1942), American diplomat

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Karola Bloch Karola Bloch (born Karola Piotrkowska; January 22, 1905, Łódź — July 31, 1994, Tübingen) was a Polish-German architect, socialist, and feminist. She was the third wife of the German philosopher Ernst Bloch. Early life and education Bloch w ...

(1905–1994), Polish-German architect, socialist, and feminist *

Konrad Emil Bloch Konrad Emil Bloch (; 21 January 1912 – 15 October 2000) was a German-American biochemist. Bloch received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1964 (joint with Feodor Lynen) for discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the ...

(1912–2000), American biochemist *

Kurt Bloch Kurt Bloch (born August 28, 1960) is an American songwriter, guitarist, engineer and record producer. Music career Bloch is best known as songwriter and lead guitarist of Fastbacks, and is a member of The Young Fresh Fellows. Record Production ...

(born 1960), American musician

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Lars Bloch Lars Bloch (6 August 1938 – 27 March 2022), was a Danish-Italian actor and producer, sometimes credited as ''Lars Block'' or ''Carlos Ewing''. Born in Hellerup, after military service in the Navy, Bloch moved to Italy and in the late 1950s embar ...

(1938–2022), Danish actor and producer *

Lloyd Bloch Nefarius (Lloyd Bloch), previously known as Moonstone, is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Publication history The character first appeared in ''Captain America'' #169 (1974) and was created by writer ...

, a fictional character in Marvel Comics *

Lucienne Bloch Lucienne Bloch (1909-1999) was a Switzerland, Swiss-born American artist. She was best known for her murals and for her association with the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, for whom she produced the only existing photographs of Rivera's mural ''Man ...

(1909–1999), Swiss-American artist and photographer, daughter of Ernest Bloch

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Marc Bloch Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch ( ; ; 6 July 1886 – 16 June 1944) was a French historian. He was a founding member of the Annales School of French social history. Bloch specialised in medieval history and published widely on France in the Middle ...

(1886–1944), French historian *Marcel Bloch, later

Marcel Dassault Marcel Dassault (; born Marcel Ferdinand Bloch; 23 January 1892 – 17 April 1986) was a French engineer and industrialist who spent his career in aircraft manufacturing. He was also involved in politics, serving intermittently over more than thr ...

(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'' *

Marcus Elieser Bloch Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723–1799) was a German physician and naturalist who is best known for his contribution to ichthyology through his multi-volume catalog of plates illustrating the fishes of the world. Brought up in a Hebrew-speaking Jewish ...

(1723–1799), German medical doctor and naturalist * Marjorie Bloch (born 1956), Irish painter *

Mark Bloch (linguist) Mark Yakovlevich Bloch (; 16 August 1924 – 16 September 2022) was a Soviet and Russian linguist, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of the English Language Grammar Department of the Moscow Pedagogical State University, Head of the Foreign Lang ...

(1924–2022), Russian linguist *

Mark Bloch (artist) Mark Bloch (born 1956) is an American conceptual artist, mail artist, performance artist, visual artist, archivist and writer whose work combines visuals and text as well as performance and media to explore ideas of long-distance communication, ...

(born 1956), American artist *

Maurice Bloch Maurice Émile Félix Bloch (born 21 October 1939) is a British anthropologist. He is famous for his fieldwork on the shift of agriculturalists in Madagascar, Japan and other parts of the world, and has also contributed important neo-Marxian w ...

(born 1939), British anthropologist *

Maurice Bloch (politician) Maurice Bloch (April 26, 1891 in New York City – December 5, 1929 in Manhattan, New York City) was an American lawyer and politician from New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States ...

(1891–1929), New York assemblyman *

Meli Polishook-Bloch Meli Polishook-Bloch (; born 14 January 1953) is an Israeli former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Shinui and the Secular Faction between 2003 and 2006. Biography Born in Ra'anana, Polishook-Bloch gained a BA in political s ...

(born 1953), Israeli politician *

Michael Bloch (barrister) Michael Gordon Bloch KC (born 18 October 1951) is a British barrister who is a member of Blackstone Chambers. Life Born at Hampstead, a son of the marriage of John Bloch and Thelma E. Platzky, Bloch was educated at Bedales School, Corpus Chr ...

(born 1951), British barrister *

Michael Bloch Michael Anthony Bloch (born 24 September 1953) is an author and historian. Educated at Portadown College and St John's College, Cambridge, he was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1978 and in 1979 became an assistant to Maître Suzan ...

(born 1953), British author and historian * Mohammed Ibrahim Bloch (born 1949), Indian film director *

Moses Löb Bloch Moses Löb Bloch (15 February 1815 – 6 August 1909) was a Hungarian rabbi and rector at the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest. Life After studying under Philipp Kohner, a pupil of Ezekiel Landau, district rabbi of Plzeň, Pilsen, Bloch was entru ...

(1815–1909), Hungarian rabbi * Moshe Rudolf Bloch (1902–1985), Israeli scientist

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* Noë Bloch (1875–1937), Russian-born film producer

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Orville Emil Bloch Orville Emil Bloch (February 10, 1915 – May 28, 1983) was a United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II. Biography Bloch joined the Arm ...

(1915–1983), American military officer and Medal of Honor recipient

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* Paul Bloch (c. 1940–2018), American publicist *

Pedro Bloch Pedro Bloch (1914, Ukraine – February 23, 2004, Brazil) was a Brazilian writer. His family immigrated to Brazil at the beginning of the 20th century. He is famous for his plays, such as ''Dona Xepa'' and ''Mãos de Eurídice''. Also, he wrote mo ...

(1914–2004), Brazilian writer *

Peter Rafael Bloch Peter Rafael Bloch (October 19, 1921 – July 31, 2008) was an art historian, writer and journalist and an expert of Puerto Rican music and art. He was fluent in four languages. Living in New York since 1949, he kept in contact with his home to ...

(1921–2008), German-American art historian, writer and journalist * Pierrette Bloch (1928–2017), Swiss painter and textile artist

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Ray Bloch Raymond Arthur Bloch (August 3, 1902 – March 29, 1982) was an American composer, songwriter, conductor, pianist, author and arranger. He is best remembered as the arranger and orchestra conductor for ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' during its entire run ...

(1902–1982), American composer, songwriter, and conductor * Richard Bloch (1926–2004), American businessman * Richard L. Bloch (1929–2018), American investor, real estate developer, banker, and philanthropist *

Richard Milton Bloch Richard Milton Bloch (June 18, 1921 – May 22, 2000) was a pioneering American computer programmer. Bloch, Grace Hopper, and Robert Campbell were the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I, an electromechanical computer which, when it began oper ...

(1921–2000), pioneering American computer programmer *

Robert Bloch Robert Albert Bloch (; April 5, 1917September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime fiction, crime, psychological horror fiction, horror and Fantasy Fiction, fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and ...

(1917–1994), American writer *

Robert Bloch (racing driver) Robert Bloch (26 April 18887 March 1984) was a French racing driver who, along with André Rossignol, won the 1926 24 Hours of Le Mans for French manufacturer Lorraine-Dietrich. Career Bloch had been part of Lorraine-Dietrich's racing team sinc ...

, French race car driver * Rosa Bloch-Bollag (1880–1922), Swiss revolutionary Marxist activist *

Rosine Bloch Rosine Bloch (7 November 1844 – 1 February 1891)Pierre 1900p. 701 "née à Paris, 7 nov. 1844", "† Monte Carlo (Nice?), 1 fév. 1891". Other sources differ with regard to her dates and places of birth and death. Walsh 1981, p. 374: "(1832? 1 ...

(1844–1891), French operatic mezzo-soprano

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* Samson Bloch (1782–1845), Galician writer *

Scott Bloch Scott Bloch (born c. 1959) is an American attorney and former political appointee of President George W. Bush. Bloch served as United States Special Counsel from December 12, 2003, when Bush signed his appointment, filling out his five-year stat ...

, American lawyer and government official * Scotty Bloch, American actress * Sean Bloch (born 1973), South African Olympic cyclist *

Shani Bloch Shani Bloch () also known as Shani Bloch-Davidov (; born 6 March 1979) is an Israeli racing cyclist. Bloch is the first Israeli road cyclist to compete in the Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale, Giro d'Italia Femminile, and Road World Champ ...

(born 1979), Israeli Olympic racing cyclist *

Shmaryahu Yitzchak Bloch Rabbi Shmaryahu Yitzchak Bloch (1864 – December 1923) was a rabbi and Talmudist in Tsarist Russia and England. Biography There is very scant information about Rabbi Bloch's life. He was born in Kretinga, a shtetl now in Klaipėda County, Li ...

(c. 1862–1923), English rabbi *

Sonny Bloch Irwin H. "Sonny" Bloch (March 1, 1937 - March 10, 1998) was an American financial talk radio show host from 1980 to 1995 who defrauded investors of more than $24 million. Early life and education Sonny Bloch grew up in Detroit, Michigan. As a y ...

(c. 1937–1998), American radio show host *

Spencer Bloch Spencer Janney Bloch (born May 22, 1944; New York City) is an American mathematician known for his contributions to algebraic geometry and algebraic ''K''-theory. Bloch is a R. M. Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Departm ...

(born 1944), American mathematician *

Stella Bloch Stella Bloch (December 18, 1897 – January 20, 1999) was an American artist, dancer and journalist. She headlined as a dancer in Rochester, New York. She also worked as an artist and her work is in several collections. Life Bloch was born ...

(1897–1999), American artist, dancer and journalist *

Susan Bloch Susan Bloch (1940 – 10 May 1982) was a theatrical press agent based in New York City. Biography Bloch was born in Canton, New York and attended Syracuse University. She was the director of public relations for the Repertory Theater of Lincol ...

(1940–1982), American theatrical press agent *

Suzanne Bloch Suzanne Bloch (August 9, 1907 – January 29, 2002) was a Swiss-American musician and an influential pioneer of Early Music Revival during the 20th century. Biography Suzanne Bloch was born in Geneva in 1907 into the family of composer Ernest B ...

(1907–2002), Swiss-American musician and an influential pioneer of Early Music Revival during the 20th century

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* Thomas Bloch (born 1962), French classical musician

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Waldemar Bloch Waldemar Bloch (1906–1984) was an Austrian composer. He wrote several operas, including ''Stella'', ''Das Käthchen von Heilbronn'' and ''Der Diener zweier Herren'', as well as choral and instrumental works. His 1968 oratorio An oratorio ...

(1906–1984), Austrian composer

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Yoni Bloch Yoni Bloch (; born August 11, 1981) is an Israeli musician, songwriter, composer, rock singer and hi-tech entrepreneur. Biography Bloch grew up in Beersheba and at the age of 17 moved with his family to Lehavim. He started taking piano less ...

(born 1981), Israeli musician, songwriter, composer, rock singer, and hi-tech entrepreneur *

Yosef Leib Bloch Rabbi Yosef Yehudah Leib Bloch (February 13, 1860 – November 10, 1929) was a prominent rabbi and ''rosh yeshiva'' in Telshe (Telšiai), Lithuania. Early life Bloch was born on February 13, 1860, in Raseiniai, Lithuania, then part of the Ru ...

(1860–1929), Lithuanian rabbi

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