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

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* (1859-1914), French rabbi *

Adele Bloch-Bauer Adele Bloch-Bauer (née Bauer; August 9, 1881 – January 24, 1925) was Viennese socialite, salon hostess, and patron of the arts from Austria-Hungary. A Jewish woman, she is most well known for being the subject of two of artist Gustav Klimt's ...

(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 o ...

(1882–1961), American painter * (born 1972), German motor journalist and presenter * (1878–?), Russian lawyer, journalist, lawyer, and revolutionary * Alexandre Bloch (1857–1919), French painter * Alfred Bloch (born 1877), French footballer * (1915–1983), Swiss linguist * (1904–1979), German-British engineer * Aliza Bloch (born 1957), First female mayor of Bet Shemesh, Israel * (1768–1838), Swiss Benedictine monk * André Bloch (composer) (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 a ...

(1893–1948), French mathematician * (1914–1942), French agent of the Special Operations Executive *

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 Pe ...

(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, feat ...

(born 1969), American poker player *

Anna Bloch Anna Kirstine Bloch (née Lindemann; 2 February 1868, in Horsens – 25 November 1953, in Copenhagen) was a Danish actress. Early life Anna Lindemann's mother Bodil Margrethe Gylding (1838–1875) died when she was seven years old. Her father J ...

(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 * (1865–1952), French-German rabbi and author. *

Arthur Bloch Arthur Bloch (born on 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''. Since 1986 he has been the producer and director of the ' ...

(born 1948), American writer, author of ''Murphy's Law'' * (1882–1942), victim of a massacre of Jews in Switzerland * (born 1992), Polish e-sportsman * (1876–1949), German landscape painter * (Abraham) (1780 or 1781–1866), German merchant and president of the Prussian Seehandlung *

Augustyn Bloch Augustyn Bloch (13 August 1929 in Grudziądz – 6 April 2006 in Warsaw) was a Polish composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers ...

(1929–2006), Polish composer and organist * Avraham Yitzchak Bloch (1891–1941), Lithuanian rabbi *

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 only ...

(1907–1965), American linguist * Bernard Bloch (actor), (born 1949) French actor * Bianca Bloch (1848–1901), German author * (born 1951), Russian-Ukrainian pianist and conductor * (1878–1933), Swiss dermatologist and university professor * (1891–1970), Swiss chocolate producer *

Carl Heinrich Bloch Carl Heinrich Bloch (23 May 1834 – 22 February 1890) was a Danish artist. Biography He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and studied there at the Royal Danish Academy of Art (''Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi'') under Wilhelm Marstr ...

, (1834–1890), Danish painter *

Chaim Yitzchak Bloch Hacohen Hayyim Yitzhak HaCohen Bloch ( he, חיים יצחק בלוך הכהן; 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 ...

(1867–1948), Lithuanian-American rabbi * (1881–1973), Ukrainian-Romanian writer * (1921–1987), French historian * (1908–1988), German Resistance member * Claude Bloch (1923–1971), French theoretical nuclear physicist * (born 1928), survivor of the Jewish genocide * Claude C. Bloch (1878–1967), American naval admiral * (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 * (born 1938), French engineer and physicist * David Bloch-Blumenfeld (1880–1947), Israeli politician * (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 *

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 *

Eduard Bloch Eduard Bloch (30 January 1872 – 1 June 1945) was an Austrian physician practicing in Linz, who, for many years until 1907, was the family doctor of Adolf Hitler and his family. When Hitler's mother, Klara, was dying of breast cancer, Bloch bill ...

(1872–1945), Austrian physician and family doctor of Adolf Hitler from 1903 to 1907 * (1831–1895), German theater book dealer and author * (1881–1943), Ukrainian and Soviet sculptor, artist, and teacher * (1909–1943), French rabbi and Resistance member * Elisa Bloch (1848-1905), Silesian-French sculptor * Emanuel Hirsch Bloch (1902–1954), American lawyer * (1897–1994), German writer *

Ernest Bloch Ernest Bloch (July 24, 1880 – July 15, 1959) was a Switzerland, Swiss-born Americans, 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. As ...

(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 thinkers ...

(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. H ...

(1925–2016), American electrical engineer and administrator * (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 Felix Bloch (23 October 1905 – 10 September 1983) was a Swiss- American physicist and Nobel physics laureate who worked mainly in the U.S. He and Edward Mills Purcell were awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for "their development of n ...

(1905–1983), Swiss physicist * Felix Bloch (diplomatic officer) (born 1935), American diplomat accused of spying for the Soviets * (1864–1945), Austrian-Czech sugar manufacturer and art lover * (1916–2005), French literary critic * (1912–2002), French politicians and administrative professionals of the postwar period * (1917–2010), German manager * (1904–1996), Lord Mayor of the city of Gera from 1945 to 1948 * (1889–1942), German mining engineer

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Grete Bloch Margarete Bloch (21 March 1892 – Precise date unknown, 1944, Auschwitz concentration camp) was a friend of Felice Bauer and a pen-friend of Franz Kafka. Grete Bloch was born in Berlin, a daughter of the sales representative Louis Bloch and Je ...

(1892–1944), German industrial employee, letter partner of Franz Kafka * (1871–1938), Soviet otorhinolaryngologist and phthisiologist * Gustave Bloch (1848–1923), French Jewish historian of ancient history * (born 1953), German cynologist and author * (1881–1914), German painter and art teacher * Hans Glad Bloch (1791–1865), Norwegian politician * (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 Herbert J. Bloch (November 21, 1907 – September 7, 1987), who emigrated from Europe to New York City in 1936, was a philatelist and stamp dealer who became recognized as a leading expert on authentication of rare European postage stamps. ...

(1907–1987), philatelist of New York City *

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

(1912–1990), American chemist and an inventor * (1867–1929), German historian, university teacher, and politician (DVP) * (1878–1942), German chemist *

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, French rabbi * (1888–1958), Belarusian scientist * (1889–1955), arrived in Palestine during the Second Aliyah * (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 * (1937–2010), German natural scientist, educator, and social philosopher * (born 1946), French policeman * (1858–1916), French singer * Jean-Richard Bloch (1884–1947), French writer * (1906–1945), German jurist * (1919–1979), Israeli Jewish religious scholar *

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'' (1984) * ''Avaet ...

(1939), Brazilian actor * (1875–1970), French Rabbi * (1871–1936), German Social Democratic publicist *

Joseph Samuel Bloch Joseph (Josef) Samuel Bloch (20 November 1850 in Dukla – 1923) was an Austrian rabbi and Deputy (legislator), deputy of Polish people, Polish descent. Biography Bloch's parents, who were poor, destined him for the rabbinical career, and he devo ...

(1850–1923), Austrian rabbi * Joshua Bloch (1961), American software engineer *

Joshua Bloch (rabbi) Joshua Bloch (December 9, 1890 – September 26, 1957) was a Lithuanian-born Jewish-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 immigrate ...

(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 (born 1942), American diplomat * Karola Bloch (1905–1994), Polish-German architect, socialist, and feminist * Konrad Emil Bloch (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 Produc ...

(born 1960), American musician *

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 emba ...

(1938–2022), Danish actor and producer * (born 1971), Russian Jazz saxophonist * (1864–1920), German alto-philologist, classical archaeologist, and teacher * Lloyd Bloch, a fictional character *

Lucienne Bloch Lucienne Bloch (January 5, 1909 – March 13, 1999) was a Switzerland-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 ...

(1909–1999), 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 Medieval France ov ...

(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. Early life and education Born on 23 January 1892 in Paris, he was the young ...

(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'' * (1882–1966), French painter, lithographer, aquafortist, pastellist, portraitist, and illustrator * (1884–1953), French painter and sculptor *

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 * (1871–1944), German teacher and member of the bourgeois women's movement * Marjorie Bloch (born 1956), Irish painter * Mark Bloch (linguist) (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, in ...

(born 1956), American artist * (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 * Mohammed Ibrahim Bloch (born 1949), Indian film director * (1815–1891), Hungarian linguist and theologian * (1804–1841), German rabbi *

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 Pilsen, Bloch was entrusted ...

(1815–1909), Hungarian rabbi *

Moshe Rudolf Bloch Moshe Rudolf "Rudi" Bloch ( he, משה רודולף בלוך, 2 August 1902 – 1985) was an Israeli scientist. Biography Born in 1902 in the city of Ústí nad Labem, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, he received a PhD from the University of Bern. In 192 ...

(1902–1985), Israeli scientist * (1893–1942), Lithuanian engineer, architect, educator and Zionist * Noë Bloch (1875–1937), Russian-born film producer * (born 1959), Israeli CEO * (1900–1945), German art historian * Orville Emil Bloch (1915–1983), American military officer and Medal of Honor recipient * (1877–1937), French linguist and lexicographer * (1881–1937), German architect * Paul Bloch (c. 1940–2018), American publicist * Pedro Bloch (1914–2004), Brazilian writer * (1900–1984), German politician (CDU) * (1925–1994), German art historian and museum director * (born 1936), Swiss Germanist *

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 * (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 * (1914–1997), French ancient historian, classical philologist and Etruscologist * (1911–2001), French painter * (1923–2016), French engineer * (born 1969), Swiss Judaist and classical philologist * René Bloch (psychiatrist) (born 1937), Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist * (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 Robert Albert Bloch (; April 5, 1917September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television. He also wrote a relatively small ...

(1917–1994), American writer * Robert Bloch (racing driver), French race car driver * (1888–1942), German judge * (1930–2015), Swiss entrepreneur * (born 1986), Belarusian ice hockey player * 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 * (born 1966), German diplomat *

Samson Bloch Samson Bloch ha-Levi (; 1782 – 7 October 1845) was a major figure of the Haskalah in Galicia. He is best known for his work ''Shevilei Olam'', the first general geography written in Hebrew. Biography Samson Bloch was born in 1782 in Kuliko ...

(1782–1845), Galician writer * Scott Bloch, American lawyer and government official * Scotty Bloch, American actress *

Sean Bloch Sean Bloch (born 16 December 1973) is a South African former Olympic cyclist. Early life Bloch was born in South Africa, and is Jewish. He is the older brother of Olympian cyclist Garen Bloch of South Africa. Cycling career Bloch won 12 Sout ...

(born 1973), South African Olympic cyclist * (born 1956), French illustrator *

Shani Bloch Shani Bloch, also known as Shani Bloch-Davidov ( he, שני בלוך; 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 ...

(born 1979), Israeli Olympic racing cyclist * (1886–1976), Lithuanian Jew * Shmaryahu Yitzchak Bloch (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. Career Sonny Bloch was a lounge singer who dovetailed his career into a f ...

(c. 1937–1998), American radio show host * Spencer Bloch (born 1944), American mathematician * (born 1971), French director and photographer *

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 (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 * (born 1956), German football player * (born 1975), French sociologist and anthropologist *

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 * (born 1943), Swiss philologist, philosopher, and writer * (1890–1973), German politician of the SPD * (born 1959), German sports physician and university teacher * (1892–1968), Russian journalist, translator and publisher, theater expert * (1913–1994), Israeli hotel manager * Yoni Bloch (born 1981), Israeli musician, songwriter, composer, rock singer, and hi-tech entrepreneur * Yosef Leib Bloch (1860–1929), Lithuanian rabbi

Named for André Bloch

* Bloch space, space of holomorphic functions *

Bloch's theorem (complex variables) In complex analysis, a branch of mathematics, Bloch's theorem describes the behaviour of holomorphic functions defined on the unit disk. It gives a lower bound on the size of a disk in which an inverse to a holomorphic function exists. It is named ...

, mathematical theorem *

Bloch's principle Bloch's Principle is a philosophical principle in mathematics stated by André Bloch. Bloch states the principle in Latin as: ''Nihil est in infinito quod non prius fuerit in finito,'' and explains this as follows: Every proposition in whose sta ...

, 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 In quantum mechanics and computing, the Bloch sphere is a geometrical representation of the pure state space of a two-level quantum mechanical system (qubit), named after the physicist Felix Bloch. Quantum mechanics is mathematically formulated i ...

, geometrical representation of the pure state space of a two-level quantum mechanical system *

Bloch wall A domain wall is a term used in physics which can have similar meanings in magnetism, optics, or string theory. These phenomena can all be generically described as topological solitons which occur whenever a discrete symmetry is spontaneously ...

, narrow transition region at the boundary between magnetic domains * Bloch function, wavefunction of a particle placed in a periodic potential

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