Boot (surname)

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
• Gerard Boot later Boate (1604–1650), Dutch writer and physician in Ireland
• Gladys Boot (1890-1964), British actress
• Harry Boot (1917–1983), English physicist
• Henri Frédéric Boot (1877–1963), Dutch painter and printmaker
• Henry Boot (1851–1931), English businessman, founder of Henry Boot PLC, father of Charles
• 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 US - 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, lecturer, and military historian
• Micky Boot (born c. 1945), English footballer
• Oliver Boot, English 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 artist, illustrator and author

Boots

• Cornelius Boots, American composer and multi-instrumentalist
• Dave Boots (born 1955), American college basketball coach
• George Boots (1874–1928), Welsh international rugby union forward
• Mathieu Boots (born 1975), Dutch retired football player
• Phil Boots, American politician

See also

• Boots (nickname)