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 (1951–), German athlete
- Egon Pollak (1898–1994), Austrian football player
- James Howard Pollak Jr. (1963–), American cyclist
- Jaroslav Pollák (1947–), Slovak football player
- Josef Pollák, Czech orienteering competitor
- Mike Pollak (1985–), American football player
- Zoltán Pollák (1984–), Hungarian football player
Other people
- Cheryl Pollak (1967–), American actress
- Felix Pollak (1909–1987), American poet
- Henry O. Pollak (1927–), Austrian-American mathematician
- Jacob Pollak (c. 1460–1541), Polish rabbi, founder of the Pilpul method of halakic study
- Joachim Pollak (1798–1879), Austrian rabbi
- Joel Pollak (1977–), American politician and author
- Jonathan Pollak (1982–), Israeli anarchist
- Kaim Pollák (1835–1905), Hungarian writer
- Katherine Pollak Ellickson (1905-1996), American labor economist
- Kay Pollak (1938–), Swedish film director
- Kevin Pollak (1957–), American comedian and actor
- Leo Wenzel Pollak (1888–1964), Czechoslovakian meteorologist
- Linsey Pollak, Australian musician and composer
- Louis H. Pollak (1922–2012), American district court judge and dean of Yale Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Mimi Pollak (1903–1999), Swedish actress
- Oskar Pollak, Czech art historian
- Otto Pollak (1908–1998), American sociologist
- Robert Pollak (violinist) (1880–1962), Austrian violinist and violin teacher
- Seth Pollak, American psychologist
- Stuart R. Pollak (1937–), American judge
See also
- Pollack (disambiguation)
- Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia v. Pollak
- Shass Pollak (Jewish mnemonist group)
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