Blount (surname)

Blount (or Blunt) is a common surname of English derivation, meaning "blonde, fair" (Old French blund), or dull (Middle English blunt, blont)

• Anna Blount, physician, suffragist and birth control activist in the United States
• Bessie Blount, mistress of Henry VIII of England and mother of his only illegitimate son, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset
• Bessie Blount, (1914–2009) an African American inventor
• Charles Blount (deist), (1654–1693), author and son of Sir Henry Blount
• Charles Hubert Boulby Blount (1893-1940), English airman and cricketer
• Sir Christopher Blount (d. 1601), companion of Sir Walter Raleigh and cousin of Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire
• Edward Blount (or Blunt), publishing partner for the First Folio of the works of Shakespeare
• Elizabeth Blount (1502–1540), mistress of Henry VIII and the mother of his illegitimate son, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset
• Sir James Blount (d. 1493), English commander of the fortress of Hammes and a minor character in Shakespeare's play Richard III
• F. Nelson Blount, (1918–1967), President and founder of Blount Seafood Corporation, millionaire and collector of vintage steam locomotives and rail cars.
• Henry Blount (knight), author of Voyage into the Levant (1635)
• Herman Blount, (1914–1993), birth name of jazz musician Sun Ra
• James Henderson Blount (1837–1903), U.S. congressman from Georgia, Minister to Hawaii
• James Blunt born James Hillier Blount, British musician, singer/songwriter
• Keith Blount (born 1966), British admiral and Fleet Air Arm officer
• LeGarrette Blount (1986—), National Football League player
• Mark Blount (1975—), American basketball player
• Mel Blount (1948—), American professional football player
• Ralph Blount (or Blunt), merchant tailor of London, father of Edward Blount
• Richard Blount, S.J. (1565–1638), English Priest and Jesuit Provincial
• Roy Blount, Jr. (1941—), American humorist
• Sir Thomas Blount (died 1400), courtier, executed for his part in the Epiphany Rising
• Thomas Blount (born c 1604), English civil war soldier, MP and inventor.
• Thomas Blount (1618–1679), English antiquarian and lexicographer
• Thomas Blount (1759–1812), American Revolutionary War veteran and congressman from North Carolina
• William Blount (1749–1800), American statesman and senator from Tennessee
• W. Frank Blount (1938—), American businessman
• William Grainger Blount (1784–1827), American statesman from Tennessee, son of William Blount
• Willie Blount (1768–1835), American Governor of Tennessee, half-brother of William Blount
• Winton M. Blount (1921–2002), American industrialist and US Postmaster-General
• Cecil Blount DeMille (1881–1959), American film producer and businessman
• Michael Blount (1529–c.1597), Sheriff of Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire
• Blount baronets, English baronets of Sodington and Tittenhanger

English nobility, Barons Mountjoy and Earls of Newport in the English Peerage:

• Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy (1420–1474)
• Edward Blount, 2nd Baron Mountjoy (1467–1475)
• John Blount, 3rd Baron Mountjoy (1445–1485)
• William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy (1478–1534) scholar and chamberlain to Catherine of Aragon
• Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy (1516–1544)
• James Blount, 6th Baron Mountjoy (died 1581)
• William Blount, 7th Baron Mountjoy (1561–1594)
• Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon and 8th Baron Mountjoy (1562–1606), English courtier, soldier, and colonial administrator
• Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport (1597–1665)
• Mountjoy Blount, 2nd Earl of Newport (1630–1674)
• Thomas Blount, 3rd Earl of Newport (died 1675)
• Henry Blount, 4th Earl of Newport (died 1679)

See also

• Blunt (surname)
• Blount (disambiguation)