Bloch is a surname of German origin. Notable people with this surname include: A–F (1859-1914), French rabbi Adele Bloch-Bauer (1881-1925), Austrian entrepreneur Albert Bloch (1882–1961), American painter (born 1972), German motor journalist and presenter (1878–?), Russian lawyer, journalist, lawyer, and revolutionary Alexandre Bloch (1857–1919), French painter Alfred Bloch (born 1877), French footballer (1915–1983), Swiss linguist (1904–1979), German-British engineer Aliza Bloch (born 1957), First female mayor of Bet Shemesh, Israel (1768–1838), Swiss Benedictine monk André Bloch (composer) (1873–1960), French composer and music educator André Bloch (mathematician) (1893–1948), French mathematician (1914–1942), French agent of the Special Operations Executive Andreas Bloch (1860–1917), Norwegian painter, illustrator and costume designer Andy Bloch (born 1969), American poker player Anna Bloch (1868–1953), Danish actress Armand Bloch (1866–1932), French sculptor (1865–1952), French-German rabbi and author. Arthur Bloch (born 1948), American writer, author of Murphy's Law (1882–1942), victim of a massacre of Jews in Switzerland (born 1992), Polish e-sportsman (1876–1949), German landscape painter (Abraham) (1780 or 1781–1866), German merchant and president of the Prussian Seehandlung Augustyn Bloch (1929–2006), Polish composer and organist Avraham Yitzchak Bloch (1891–1941), Lithuanian rabbi Bernard Bloch (linguist) (1907–1965), American linguist Bernard Bloch (actor), (born 1949) French actor Bianca Bloch (1848–1901), German author (born 1951), Russian-Ukrainian pianist and conductor (1878–1933), Swiss dermatologist and university professor (1891–1970), Swiss chocolate producer Carl Heinrich Bloch, (1834–1890), Danish painter Chaim Yitzchak Bloch Hacohen (1867–1948), Lithuanian-American rabbi (1881–1973), Ukrainian-Romanian writer (1921–1987), French historian Charles E. Bloch (1861–1940), American publisher (1908–1988), German Resistance member Claude Bloch (1923–1971), French theoretical nuclear physicist (born 1928), survivor of the Jewish genocide Claude C. Bloch (1878–1967), American naval admiral (born 1959), Israeli-Swiss actress, director, theater pedagogue, and respiratory therapist Darius Paul Bloch, birthname of Darius Paul Dassault (1882–1969), French Army general of Jewish origin, who adopted "Dassault" as nom de guerre during French Resistance service (born 1938), French engineer and physicist David Bloch-Blumenfeld (1880–1947), Israeli politician (1910–2002), German painter Débora Bloch (born 1963), Brazilian actress Denise Bloch (1916-1945), French Resistance member Dora Bloch, Israeli-British citizen murdered in 1976 Dorete Bloch (1943–2015), Danish zoologist Eduard Bloch (1872–1945), Austrian physician and family doctor of Adolf Hitler from 1903 to 1907 (1831–1895), German theater book dealer and author (1881–1943), Ukrainian and Soviet sculptor, artist, and teacher (1909–1943), French rabbi and Resistance member Elisa Bloch (1848-1905), Silesian-French sculptor Emanuel Hirsch Bloch (1902–1954), American lawyer (1897–1994), German writer Ernest Bloch (1880–1959), Swiss-born American composer Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), German philosopher Erich Bloch