Pollak

Pollak is an Austrian surname, and is a variant of Polak usually of Jewish Ashkenazic origin, it originates as an ethnic surname for Jews between Austria, Poland and Germany. Notable people with the surname include:

Athletes

• Burglinde Pollak (born 1951), German athlete
• Egon Pollak (1898–1994), Austrian footballer
• James Howard Pollak Jr. (born 1963), American cyclist
• Jaroslav Pollák (born 1947), Slovak footballer
• Josef Pollák (born 1960), Czech orienteering competitor
• Mike Pollak (born 1985), American footballer
• Zoltán Pollák (born 1984), Hungarian footballer

Other people

• Cheryl Pollak (born 1967), American actress
• Felix Pollak (1909–1987), American poet
• Henry O. Pollak (born 1927), Austrian-American mathematician
• Jacob Pollak (c. 1460–1541), Polish rabbi
• Joachim Pollak (1798–1879), Austrian rabbi
• Joel Pollak (born 1977), American politician and author
• Jonathan Pollak (born 1982), Israeli anarchist
• Kaim Pollák (1835–1905), Hungarian writer
• Katherine Pollak Ellickson (1905–1996), American labor economist
• Kay Pollak (born 1938), Swedish film director
• Kevin Pollak (born 1957), American comedian and actor
• Leo Wenzel Pollak (1888–1964), Czech-Irish meteorologist
• Linsey Pollak, Australian musician and composer
• Louis H. Pollak (1922–2012), American district court judge and university dean
• Mimi Pollak (1903–1999), Swedish actress
• Oskar Pollak (1883–1915), Czech art historian
• Otto Pollak (1908–1998), American sociologist
• Seth Pollak, American psychologist
• Stuart R. Pollak (born 1937), American judge

See also

• Pollack (disambiguation)
• Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia v. Pollak
• Shass Pollak, Jewish mnemonist group