Pollak is an Austrian surname, and is a variant of Polak usually of Jewish Ashkenazic origin, it originates as an ethnic surname for Jews between Austria, Poland and Germany. Notable people with the surname include:
Athletes
Burglinde Pollak (1951–), German athlete
Egon Pollak (1898–1994), Austrian football player
James Howard Pollak Jr. (1963–), American cyclist
Jaroslav Pollák (1947–), Slovak football player
Josef Pollák, Czech orienteering competitor
Mike Pollak (1985–), American football player
Zoltán Pollák (1984–), Hungarian football player
Other people
Cheryl Pollak (1967–), American actress
Felix Pollak (1909–1987), American poet
Henry O. Pollak (1927–), Austrian-American mathematician
Jacob Pollak (c. 1460–1541), Polish rabbi, founder of the Pilpul method of halakic study Joachim Pollak (1798–1879), Austrian rabbi Joel Pollak (1977–), American politician and author Jonathan Pollak (1982–), Israeli anarchist Kaim Pollák (1835–1905), Hungarian writer Katherine Pollak Ellickson (1905-1996), American labor economist Kay Pollak (1938–), Swedish film director Kevin Pollak (1957–), American comedian and actor Leo Wenzel Pollak (1888–1964), Czechoslovakian meteorologist Linsey Pollak, Australian musician and composer Louis H. Pollak (1922–2012), American district court judge and dean of Yale Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School Mimi Pollak (1903–1999), Swedish actress Oskar Pollak, Czech art historian Otto Pollak (1908–1998), American sociologist (1880–1962), Austrian violinist and violin teacher Seth Pollak, American psychologist Stuart R. Pollak (1937–), American judge
See also
Pollack (disambiguation) Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia v. Pollak Shass Pollak (Jewish mnemonist group)