Falk (name)

Falk

Origin
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

• 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
• Miksa Falk (1828–1908), Hungarian journalist
• Nelson H. Falk (1874-1924), American politician
• Paul Falk, (1921–2017), German figure skater
• 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

• 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

• Falck (disambiguation)