Sobol (surname)

Sobol is a surname derived from the Slavic word sobol ("sable"), which may also have been a nickname for a fur trader.[1] As a Yiddish surname, it may be a variant of Sobel, which also derives from sobol.[2] It may refer to:

People
  • Donald J. Sobol (1924–2012), American writer best known for children's books, including the Encyclopedia Brown series
  • Jacob Aue Sobol (born 1975), Danish photographer
  • Jan Sobol (born 1984), Czech handball player
  • Joshua Sobol (born 1939), Israeli playwright, writer, and director
  • Richard B. Sobol (1937–2020), American lawyer
  • Spiridon Sobol (died 1645), printer, educator and writer
  • Yuri Sobol (born 1966), Russian retired footballer
  • Lyubov Sobol (born 1987), Russian lawyer and politician
  • Soból, nom de guerre of Jan Stanisław Jankowski (1882–1953), Polish politician and member of the Polish civil resistance during World War II
  • Ilya M. Sobol (born 1926), Soviet mathematician of Lithuanian Jewish origin, inventor of the Sobol sequence

See also

References
  1. "Sobol". Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press. 2013. as cited by [ ancestry.com]
  2. "Sobel". Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press. 2013. as cited by [ ancestry.com]
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