Falk (name)

FalkOrigin

Word/name| Old Norse, Middle High German
Meaning| falcon
Region of origin| Northern Europe
Other names
Variant form(s)| Falck, Falke, Falco, Valke, Valcke, Faulk

Falk is a given name and surname cognate with the word falcon.

## Surname

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* Adalbert Falk (1827–1900), Prussian minister of culture
* Adam Falk (born 1965), Physicist
* Alexander A. Falk (1900–1975), New York politician
* Armin Falk (born 1968), German economist
* Bayla Falk, Talmudist
* Bernard Falk (1943–1990), UK television reporter
* Bibb Falk (1899–1989), American baseball player and coach
* David Falk (born 1950), American sports agent
* Elin Falk (1872-1942), Swedish gymnastics director and educator
* Gertrude Falk (1925–2008), American physiologist
* Greger Falk (1910–1990), Swedish Air Force major general
* Hayyim Samuel Jacob Falk (1708–1782), better known as Baal Shem of London, British rabbi
* Henri Falk (1881–1937), French writer
* Jacob Joshua Falk (Jacob Joshua ben Tzebi Hirsch Falk; 1680–1756), Talmudist and author of Pene Yehoshua
* James Falk (born 1954), American inventor
* Jim Falk (born 1946), Physicist and academic researcher
* Johan Peter Falk (sometimes spelled Falck; 1733–1774), Swedish botanist
* Johannes Daniel Falk (1768–1826), German writer
* Joshua Falk (Joshua ben Alexander ha-Kohen Falk; 1555–1614), author of commentaries on the Arba'ah Turim and Shulkhan Arukh
* Luke Falk (born 1994), American football quarterback
* Marjeta "Neca" Falk (born 1950), Slovenian and Yugoslav singer, actress and visual artist
* Miksa Falk (1828–1908), Hungarian journalist
* Nelson H. Falk (1874-1924), American politician
* Norbert Falk (1872-1932), Austrian journalist and writer
* Paul Falk (1921–2017), German figure skater
* Pesach Eliyahu Falk (1944–2020), British rabbi
* Peter Falk (1927–2011), American actor
* Richard A. Falk, (born 1930), Jewish-American professor of international law
* Robert Falk, (1886–1958), Jewish Russian painter
* Robert A. Falk (1926-2014), American farmer and politician
* Roland Falk, (1915–1985), British test pilot
* Rossella Falk, (1926–2013), Italian actress
* Robert Conrad, (1934–2020), American actor born Conrad Robert Falk
* Ted Falk, Canadian politician

## Given name

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* Falk Hentschel (born 1982), German actor
* Falk Balzer (born 1973), German hurdler
* Falk Boden (born 1960), German cyclist
* Falk Cohn (1833–1901), German rabbi
* Falk Huste (born 1971), German boxer
* Falk Struckmann (born 1958), German opera singer
* Falk Maria Schlegel (Christian Jost; born 1975), German keyboardist

## See also

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* Falck (disambiguation)

Surname list

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Family names derived from the word "falcon"

Germanic|

* Falk, Falck, Falcke, Falco, Falke, Valcke, Valke, Faulk, Faulks

Romance|

* French: Faucon, Falconet
* Iberian: Halcon, Falcon, Falcao
* Italian: Falcone

Slavic|

* Sakałoŭski/Sakalowski, Sokol, Sokolenko, Sokolík, Sokolov/Sokoloff/Sokolow, Sokolović, Sokołowski/Sokolovsky

Other|

* Baltic: Sakalas, Sakalauskas, Sokolovskis
* Hungarian: Sólyom
* Turkish: Doğan, Erdoğan, Şahin
* Persian: Shahin

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