Pool (surname)
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Pool is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  • Albert-Jan Pool
    Albert-Jan Pool
    Albert-Jan Pool is a Dutch professional type designer. He studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague....

     (born 1960), Dutch type designer
  • Andre Pool
    Andre Pool
    Andre Pool is a member of the National Assembly of Seychelles. A teacher by profession, he is a member of the Seychelles People's Progressive Front, and has been elected to the Assembly four times.-References:*...

    , member of the National Assembly of Seychelles
  • David de Sola Pool
    David de Sola Pool
    David de Sola Pool was an American rabbi and writer.-Early life and education:He was born in London, England, and later received his rabbinic ordination from the Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary, located in Berlin, Germany.-Career:In 1907, de Sola Pool was invited to become the minister of...

     (1885–1970), spiritual leader of the Sephardic Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City; father of Ithiel
  • E. Ion Pool
    E. Ion Pool
    Ernest Ion Pool was a British athlete who competed in the Marathon at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris. He did not complete the race....

     (1858–1939), British marathon runner and Olympics critic
  • Ithiel de Sola Pool
    Ithiel de Sola Pool
    Ithiel de Sola Pool was a revolutionary in the field of social sciences. Pool led groundbreaking research on technology and its effects on society. He coined the term "convergence" to describe the effect of various scientific innovations on society in a futuristic world...

     (1917–1984), pioneer in the development of social science; son of David
  • Hamp Pool
    Hamp Pool
    Hampton John "Hamp" Pool was a football player, coach and scout who was part of two National Football League championship teams during his playing career and served as head coach for three professional teams....

     (1915–2000), US player of American football
  • Hugh Pool
    Hugh Pool
    Hugh Pool is an American musician who plays guitar in a unique style that melds traditional Delta blues with country music and classic and psychedelic rock and roll. His instrument of choice is a National, a resonator guitar somewhat like a Dobro, played through a distortion pedal...

     (born 1964), New York guitarist
  • Joe R. Pool
    Joe R. Pool
    Joe Richard Pool was a U.S. Representative from Texas.Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Pool graduated from Oak Cliff High School Joe Richard Pool (February 18, 1911 – July 14, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Texas.Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Pool graduated from Oak Cliff High School Joe...

     (1911–1968), US Representative from Texas
  • John Pool
    John Pool
    John Pool was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of North Carolina between 1868 and 1873. He was also the uncle of Congressman Walter Freshwater Pool....

     (1826–1884), US Senator from North Carolina
  • Jonathan Pool
    Jonathan Pool
    Jonathan Pool, born 1942 in Chicago, is a political scientist from the United States. He works on the political and economic consequences of linguistic circumstances and language policy....

     (born 1942), US political scientist
  • Judith Graham Pool
    Judith Graham Pool
    Judith Graham Pool was an American scientist. She is best known for the discovery of cryoprecipitation, a process for creating concentrated blood clotting factors which significantly improved the quality of life for hemophiliacs around the world.-References:*...

     (1919–1975), American scientist, discoverer of cryoprecipitation
  • Léa Pool
    Léa Pool
    Léa Pool is a Swiss-Canadian filmmaker who has also taught film at UQAM. She is openly lesbian. Her 1986 film Anne Trister was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. Her 1999 film Emporte-moi was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Special...

     (born 1950), Swiss filmmaker, and film instructor in Quebec, Canada
  • Malcolm Pool
    Malcolm Pool
    Malcolm Pool was the bassist with the 1960s R&B group The Artwoods from 1963, until the band split up in 1968....

     (born 1943), British bass player with The Artwoods and other bands
  • Maria Louise Pool
    Maria Louise Pool
    Maria Louise Pool was an American writer.-Biography:She was born in Rockland, Massachusetts to Elias Pool and Lydia Lane. She attended the public school of the town , and later taught school for two years...

     (1841–1898), US writer, best known for A Vacation in a Buggy
  • Robert Roy Pool
    Robert Roy Pool
    Robert Roy Pool is an American screenwriter, best known for his authorship of the motion pictures Outbreak , starring Dustin Hoffman, and The Big Town , starring Matt Dillon. He also received a "story by" credit on the motion picture Armageddon , which starred Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton...

     (born 1953), an American screenwriter, best known for Outbreak (1995), The Big Town (1987) and Armageddon (1998)
  • Solomon Pool
    Solomon Pool
    Solomon Pool was the fourth president of the University of North Carolina.-References:*Alumni Files ; Samuel A. Ashe, ed., Cyclopedia of Eminent and Representative Men of the Carolinas ;*Kemp P...

     (1832–1901), fourth president of the University of North Carolina
  • Steve Pool
    Steve Pool
    Steve Pool is the principal weather anchor for KOMO-TV in Seattle, having joined the station as an intern while attending the University of Washington...

     (born 1955), weather anchor for KOMO-TV in Seattle, Washington
  • Ted Pool
    Ted Pool
    Ted Pool was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the VFL.Pool was a rover and by playing 200 games of VFL football he became the first ever West Australian born player to reach the milestone....

     (1906–1975), Australian rules football player, with the Hawthorn Hawks in the VFL
  • Walter F. Pool
    Walter F. Pool
    Walter Freshwater Pool was a United States Representative from North Carolina. Born at Elm Grove, near Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, N.C., October 10, 1850, he attended the public school conducted by his family and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1870 he moved with his...

     (1850–1883), US Congressman from North Carolina
  • Wim Pool
    Wim Pool
    Willen "Wim" Pool is a former Dutch sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s. At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, he finished sixth in the K-2 1000 m event.-References:*...

    (born 1927), former Dutch Olympic sprint canoer
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