Bolling
The origins of the surname Bolling: English: from a nickname for someone with close-cropped hair or a large head, Middle English bolling "pollard", or for a heavy drinker, from Middle English bolling "excessive drinking". German (Bölling): from a pet form of a personal name formed with Germanic bald "bold", "brave" (see Baldwin). Swedish: either an ornamental name composed of Boll + the suffix -ing "belonging to", or possibly a habitational name from a place named Bolling(e).
Bolling may refer to:
- Bolling, Alabama
- Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, D.C.
People with the surname
- Bill Bolling, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
- Claude Bolling (born 1930), French jazz pianist
- Edith Bolling Galt Wilson (1872–1961), second wife of Woodrow Wilson
- Eric Bolling (born 1963), financial news and political television personality
- Frank Bolling, American baseball second baseman
- John Bolling, (1676–1729), early American colonist, farmer, and politician
- Leslie Garland Bolling (1898-1955), an African-American sculptor from Virginia
- Milt Bolling, American baseball infielder and brother of Frank Bolling
- Phillip S. Bolling (1849 - 1892), African-American politician and former slave
- Raynal Bolling (1877–1918), U.S. Army officer
- Robert Bolling (1646–1709), early American colonist and Jane Rolfe's husband
- Ruben Bolling, American cartoonist
- Samuel P. Bolling (1819-1900), African-American politician and former slave
See also
- Bølling (disambiguation)
- Boll, a German surname
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