Boot (surname)
Appearance
Boot is both a Dutch and English metonymic occupational surname. In Dutch, boot (/ˈboːt/) sounds like and means boat and the name refers to a "boatman". In English the name refers to the maker or seller of boots.[1]
Boot:
- Arnold Boot later Boate (1606-1653), Dutch physician, writer and Hebraist in Ireland
- Charles Boot (1874-1945), English businessman
- Cornelis Hendrik Boudewijn Boot (1813–1892), Dutch politician
- Eddie Boot (1915-1999), English footballer
- Elise Boot (born 1932), Dutch jurist and former politician
- Fred Boot (born 1965), Dutch theatre producer
- Geoffrey Boot, Manx air racer
- Gerard Boot later Boate (1604-1650), Dutch writer and physician in Ireland
- Harry Boot (1917-1983), English physicist
- Henri Frédéric Boot (1877–1963), Dutch painter and printmaker
- Henry Boot (1851–1931), English businessman and founder of Henry Boot PLC, father of Charles Boot
- Jaap Boot (1903-1986), Dutch track and field athlete
- Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent (1850–1931), English businessman
- Joe Boot (probably an alias), one of the last stagecoach robbers in the United States - see Pearl Hart
- John Boot, 2nd Baron Trent (1889-1956), English businessman and philanthropist, son of Jesse Boot
- Leonard Boot (1899-1937), English footballer
- Max Boot (born 1969), American author, consultant, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian
- Micky Boot (born c.1945), English footballer
- Oliver Boot, English stage and television actor
- Pat Boot (1914-1947), New Zealand athlete
- Ton Boot (born 1940), Dutch basketball coach and player
- Vitali Boot, German amateur boxer
- William Henry James Boot (1848–1918), English oil and watercolour artist, illustrator and author
Boots:
- Dave Boots (born 1955), American college basketball coach
- George Boots (1874–1928), Welsh international rugby union forward
- Phil Boots, American politician