Ball (surname)

Ball is an English surname that has multiple potential origins, as do quite a few other short surnames:

According to Bowman, Ball and related names had only "limited application as personal names and that generally they have come into existence as nicknames."[1]

List of people with the surname

Arts and music

see Writing and education below for writers

Business

  • Decimus Alfred Ball (1836-1890), British slumlord
  • Edmund Ball (1855–1925), American entrepreneur, one of the Ball Brothers
  • Edward Ball (businessman) (1888–1981), American businessman and political figure
  • Ernie Ball (1930–2004), American entrepreneur, musician, and guitar innovator
  • Frank Ball (1857–1943), American entrepreneur, one of the Ball Brothers
  • Harvey Ball (1921–2001), American entrepreneur; earliest known designer of the Smiley

Media

  • Dave Ball, Survivor: Samoa competitor
  • Johnny Ball (born 1938), English children's television presenter
  • Krystal Ball (born 1981), American political pundit, host of Rising with The Hill's Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti
  • Molly Ball, American political journalist and writer

Military

  • Albert Ball (1896–1917), English World War I fighter pilot; recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Alexander Ball (c. 1756 – 1809), English admiral of the Royal Navy and Governor of Malta
  • Henry Lidgbird Ball (1756–1818), British Royal Navy officer who discovered and explored Lord Howe Island
  • William L. Ball III (born 1948), United States Secretary of the Navy

Politics, law, and diplomacy

Religion

Sciences and mathematics

Sports

Writing and education

Other

See also

Notes

  1. Bowman, William Dodgson (2012) [1932]. "Chapter IV: Patronymics". The Story of Surnames and Genealogy (Republication). Read Books Limited. Baldwin. ISBN 9781447487357 via Google Books.
  2. "Last Name: Ball", Internet Surname Database, Name Origin Research, retrieved 21 Dec 2011
  3. Heck, Earl L. W. (1928). Colonel William Ball of Virginia, the Great-Grandfather of Washington. The Damron-Dameron Genealogy, Compiled by H. F. Snow. London via Google Books.
  4. Seary, E; Kirwin, William; Lynch Sheila MP, Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland, p. 20, ISBN 9780773517820 via Google Books

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