Boll
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The boll is an obsolete unit formerly used for grain.
Boll or Böll is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Boll or Böll is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Buzz Boll (1911–1990), Canadian ice hockey player
- Don BollDon BollDonald Elroy Boll was an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins and the New York Giants. He played college football at the University of Nebraska and was drafted in the fourth round of the 1953 NFL Draft....
(1927–2001), American football player - Ernst BollErnst BollErnst Friedrich August Boll was a German naturalist and historian. He was a brother to historian Franz Boll , with whom he worked with on numerous projects...
(1817–1868), German naturalist and historian - Fabian BollFabian BollFabian Boll is a football midfielder who plays for FC St. Pauli, a club from Hamburg, Germany. As a police officer he is the only one on his St. Pauli team who has a non-football job. He inherited his number 17 from Ivan Klasnić who left St. Pauli for Werder Bremen.-External links:* at...
(born 1979), German football player - Franz BollFranz BollFranz Boll was a German scholar. He became Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Heidelberg.He is known for his editorial and biographical work on Claudius Ptolemy. He also wrote on astrology. He is quoted as saying "Astrology wants to be religion and science at the same time; that...
(1867–1924), German historian of astrology - Franz Boll (historian)Franz Boll (historian)Franz Boll was a Lutheran theologian and historian. He was the father of physiologist Franz Christian Boll , and the brother of naturalist Ernst Boll , with whom he collaborated throughout his career.He studied theology in Halle, Berlin and Rostock, and in 1835 returned to Neubrandenburg as a...
(1805–1875), theologian and historian - Franz Christian BollFranz Christian BollBoll, Franz, 1849-1879. was a German physiologist and histologist. He was the son of Lutheran theologian Franz Boll ....
(1849–1879), discoverer of rhodopsin - Greg BollGreg BollGreg Boll is a former American politician and member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party . Boll was, somewhat unintentionally, one of the key players in the DFL Party’s “firestorm” that swept through southwestern Minnesota in the mid-1980s at the height of the Midwestern Farm Crisis...
(born 1960), American politician - Heinrich BöllHeinrich BöllHeinrich Theodor Böll was one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers. Böll was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.- Biography :...
(1917–1985), German novelist - Jacob BollJacob BollJacob Boll was a Swiss naturalist and entomologist especially noted for his exploration of Texas.Boll was born 1828 in Würenlos, Switzerland, and educated in Switzerland and Germany. Established as a naturalist he turned his attention to microlepidopteraand established contact with Philipp...
(1828–1880), Swiss naturalist and entomologist - Jared BollJared BollJared Rittenhouse Boll is a professional ice hockey forward with the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League.-Playing career:...
(born 1986), American ice hockey player - Paul BollPaul BollPaul Boll is a German ice dancer. With former partner Tanja Kolbe, he is the 2006 German junior national champion. They placed 16th at the 2006 World Junior Figure Skating Championships....
(born 1986), German ice dancer - Robert Henry BollRobert Henry BollRobert Henry Boll was a German-born American preacher in the Churches of Christ. Boll is most known for advancing a premillennialist eschatology within the Churches of Christ, in articles written during his editorship of the front page of the Gospel Advocate from 1909 to 1915 and after 1915 in...
(1875–1956), preacher in the Churches of Christ - Timo BollTimo BollTimo Boll is a German professional table tennis player who currently plays with Borussia Düsseldorf and is the German No.1 of the German Table Tennis National League...
(born 1981), German table tennis player - Uwe BollUwe BollUwe Boll is a German director, producer and screenwriter, whose work includes several films adapted from video games. He finances his own films through his Boll KG production company. He is often cited as the worst director of all time.-Early life:...
(born 1965), German movie director
See also
- Bad BollBad BollBad Boll is a municipality in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.-History:Since the Middle Ages there has been a thermal spa there, at one time a hunting lodge of the Dukes of Württemberg. In the 19th Century, the spa was acquired by Pastor Johann Christoph...
, a municipality in Germany - Bolling (disambiguation)
- Bølling (disambiguation)
- CottonCottonCotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective capsule, around the seeds of cotton plants of the genus Gossypium. The fiber is almost pure cellulose. The botanical purpose of cotton fiber is to aid in seed dispersal....