Bloch is a
surname
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give ...
of German origin. Notable people with this surname include:
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Adele Bloch-Bauer (1881–1925), Austrian entrepreneur
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Albert Bloch (1882–1961), American painter
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Alexandre Bloch (1857–1919), French painter
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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
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Aliza Bloch (born 1957), first female mayor of Bet Shemesh, Israel
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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
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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
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Andreas Bloch (1860–1917), Norwegian painter, illustrator and costume designer
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Andy Bloch (born 1969), American poker player
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Anna Bloch (1868–1953), Danish actress
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Armand Bloch (1866–1932), French sculptor
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Arthur Bloch (born 1948), American writer, author of ''Murphy's Law''
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Augustyn Bloch (1929–2006), Polish composer and organist
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Avraham Yitzchak Bloch (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
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Bernard Bloch (actor) (born 1949), French actor
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Bianca Bloch (1848–1901), German author
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Carl Heinrich Bloch (1834–1890), Danish painter
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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
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Charles E. Bloch (1861–1940), American publisher
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Claude Bloch (1923–1971), French theoretical nuclear physicist
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Claude C. Bloch (1878–1967), American naval admiral
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*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
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David Bloch-Blumenfeld (1880–1947), Israeli politician
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Débora Bloch (born 1963), Brazilian actress
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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
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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
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Dorete Bloch (1943–2015), Danish zoologist
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Eduard Bloch (1872–1945), Austrian physician and family doctor of Adolf Hitler from 1903 to 1907
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Elisa Bloch (1848–1905), Silesian-French sculptor
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Emanuel Hirsch Bloch (1902–1954), American lawyer
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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
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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
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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
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Eugene Bloch (1878–1944), French physicist and professor
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France Bloch-Sérazin (1913–1943), French Resistance member during World War II
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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
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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
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Gustave Bloch (1848–1923), French Jewish historian of ancient history
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Hans Glad Bloch (1791–1865), Norwegian politician
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Harriet Bloch (1881–1975), Danish first female film screenwriter
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Heinz P. Bloch, American mechanical engineer
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Henry W. Bloch (1922–2019), American businessman and Kansas City philanthropist
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Herbert Bloch (1911–2006), German archaeologist and epigrapher
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Herbert J. Bloch (1907–1987), philatelist of New York City
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Herman S. Bloch (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
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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
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Isabelle Bloch, French computer scientist
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Iwan Bloch (1872–1922), Berlin dermatologist
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Jacqueline Bloch (born 1967), French physicist
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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
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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
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Joachim Bloch (born 1963), German politician
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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
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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
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Joseph Samuel Bloch (1850–1923), Austrian rabbi
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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
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Joshua Bloch (rabbi) (1890–1957), Lithuanian-American rabbi and librarian
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Jules Bloch (1880–1953), French linguist
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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 (1905–1994), Polish-German architect, socialist, and feminist
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Konrad Emil Bloch (1912–2000), American biochemist
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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.
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(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
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Lloyd Bloch, a fictional character in Marvel Comics
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Lucienne Bloch (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''
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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
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Marjorie Bloch (born 1956), Irish painter
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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
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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
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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
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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
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(1891–1929), New York assemblyman
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Meli Polishook-Bloch (born 1953), Israeli politician
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Michael Bloch (barrister) (born 1951), British barrister
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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
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Mohammed Ibrahim Bloch (born 1949), Indian film director
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Moses Löb Bloch (1815–1909), Hungarian rabbi
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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 (1915–1983), American military officer and Medal of Honor recipient
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Paul Bloch (c. 1940–2018), American publicist
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Pedro Bloch (1914–2004), Brazilian writer
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Peter Rafael Bloch (1921–2008), German-American art historian, writer and journalist
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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
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Richard Bloch (1926–2004), American businessman
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Richard L. Bloch (1929–2018), American investor, real estate developer, banker, and philanthropist
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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
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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
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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
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Rosa Bloch-Bollag (1880–1922), Swiss revolutionary Marxist activist
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Rosine Bloch (1844–1891), French operatic mezzo-soprano
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Samson Bloch (1782–1845), Galician writer
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Scott Bloch, American lawyer and government official
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Scotty Bloch, American actress
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Sean Bloch (born 1973), South African Olympic cyclist
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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
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Shmaryahu Yitzchak Bloch (c. 1862–1923), English rabbi
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Sonny Bloch (c. 1937–1998), American radio show host
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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
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Stella Bloch (1897–1999), American artist, dancer and journalist
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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
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Suzanne Bloch (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 (1906–1984), Austrian composer
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Yoni Bloch (born 1981), Israeli musician, songwriter, composer, rock singer, and hi-tech entrepreneur
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Yosef Leib Bloch (1860–1929), Lithuanian rabbi
See also
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Block (surname)
References
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