Blank is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Amanda Blank Amanda Blank (born Amanda Mallory McGrath; March 21, 1983) is an American singer, rapper and member of the performance art band Sweatheart based in Philadelphia. Early life Amanda Blank was born in Germantown, Philadelphia, Germantown, a neighb ...

(born 1983), American rapper and singer *

Arthur Blank Arthur M. Blank (born September 27, 1942) is an American businessman and a co-founder of the home improvement retailer The Home Depot. He also currently owns two professional sports teams based in Atlanta, Georgia - the Atlanta Falcons of the Na ...

(born 1942), American businessman and a co-founder of Home Depot * Barbie Blank (born 1987), American model and professional wrestler better known as Kelly Kelly *

Boris Blank (musician) Boris Blank (born 15 January 1952) is a Swiss artist and musician. He is known for his work in the musical duo Yello with Dieter Meier.''Entertainment Weekly'', "Essential Yello" Reviewed by Marisa Fox. 30 April 1993. Career Blank was born on 1 ...

(born 1952), Swiss musician *

Carla Blank Carla Blank is an American writer, editor, educator, choreographer, and dramaturge. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, for more than four decades she has been a performer, director, and teacher of dance and theater, particularly involved with y ...

, American choreographer, writer, and editor *

Hanne Blank Hanne Blank, also known as Hanne Blank Boyd, is an American historian, writer, and editor. Her written works include ''Virgin: The Untouched History'', ''Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality'', and ''The Unapologetic Fat G ...

(born 1969), American historian *

Harrod Blank Harrod Blank (born 1963, in Westminster, California, United States) is an American documentary filmmaker and art car artist living at Berkeley in California. He is the son of Gail, a ceramic artist, and filmmaker Les Blank. His works include th ...

(born 1963), American documentary filmmaker *Isaac Blank (1913–2006), better known as

Ted Grant Edward Grant (born Isaac Blank; 9 July 1913 – 20 July 2006) was a South African Trotskyist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He was a founding member of the group Militant and later Socialist Appeal. Early life Grant's father had s ...

, South African-British Marxist, co-founder of the

Militant Tendency The Militant tendency, or Militant, was a Trotskyism, Trotskyist group in the British Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, organised around the ''Militant'' newspaper, which launched in 1964. According to Michael Crick, its politics were based on the t ...

* Israel Blank, grandfather of Vladimir Lenin from mother's side *

Jessica Blank Jessica Blank (born in New Haven, Connecticut), is an American actress, writer, and director who works in film, television, and theater. She is also a consultant and public speaker on story and social change. Early life and education Blank grew u ...

, American actor, playwright, and novelist *

Joani Blank Joani Blank (July 4, 1937 – August 6, 2016) was an American sex educator, entrepreneur, author, videographer, cohousing enthusiast, philanthropist, and inventor in the field of sexuality. She used publishing, her sex store, and other endeavo ...

(1937–2016), writer and videographer *

Johann Blank Johann Blank (April 17, 1904 – March 15, 1983) was a German water polo player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. He was part of the German team which won the gold medal. He played one match as goalkeeper. See also * Germany men's O ...

(1904–1983), German water polo player * Jonah Blank, American author *

Joost de Blank Joost () was an Internet TV service, created by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (founders of Skype and Kazaa). During 2007–2008 Joost used peer-to-peer TV (P2PTV) technology to distribute content to their Mozilla-based desktop player; in la ...

(1908-1968), Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa *

Julius Blank Julius Blank (June 2, 1925 – September 17, 2011) was a semiconductor pioneer. A member of the so-called traitorous eight, he left Nobel Prize, Nobel-winning physicist William Shockley's company to form Fairchild Semiconductor. Early life and ...

(1925–2011), semiconductor pioneer *

Karl Blank Karl Blank (russian: Карл Иванович Бланк) (1728–1793) was a Russian architect, notable as one of the last practitioners of Baroque architecture and the first Moscow architect to build early neoclassical buildings. His surviving, ...

(1728–1793), Russian architect *

Kenny Blank Kenny Blank (born September 15, 1977), also known as Kenn Michael, is an American actor, musician and director. Blank is best known for his role as Michael Peterson in the television series ''The Parent 'Hood'' from 1995 to 1997 for which he al ...

(born 1977), American actor *

Les Blank Les Blank (November 27, 1935 – April 7, 2013) was an American documentary filmmaker best known for his portraits of American traditional musicians. Life and career Leslie Harrod Blank Jr. was born November 27, 1935 in Tampa, Florida. He atten ...

(1935–2013), American documentary filmmaker *

Marc Blank Marc Blank is an American game developer and software engineer. He is best known as part of the team that created one of the first commercially successful text adventure computer games, ''Zork''. Career Blank first encountered Don Woods and Will ...

, American computer game designer *

Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova (russian: Мария Александровна Ульянова; née Blank; – ) was the mother of Vladimir Lenin, the Bolshevik revolutionary leader and founder of the Soviet Union. She was born in Saint Petersb ...

(née Blank) (1835–1916),Vladimir Lenin's mother *

Marion Blank Dr. Marion Blank is the creator of several reading programs and the creator and former director of the A Light on Literacy program at Columbia University in New York. She is a developmental psychologist with a specialization in language and learni ...

, developmental psychologist * Martin Blank (disambiguation) *

Peter Blank Peter Blank (born 10 April 1962) is a German track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. Early on in his career, he was a decathlete. In 1992, he set the world record for longest javelin throw in a decathlon with a distance of 79. ...

(born 1962), German javelin thrower *

Rebecca Blank Rebecca Margaret Blank (born September 19, 1955) is an American economist and academic administrator. The Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 2013 to 2022, Blank has also served in various roles in the United States Departmen ...

(1955-2023), American educator * Renate Blank (1941–2021), German politician * Stefan Blank (born 1977), German footballer *

Steve Blank Steve Blank (born 1953) is an American entrepreneur, educator, author and speaker based in Pescadero, California. Blank created the customer development method that launched the lean startup movement, a methodology that recognized that startups ...

(born 1953), entrepreneur *

Theodor Blank Theodor Anton Blank (19 September 1905 – 14 May 1972) was a German politician of the CDU. He was one of the founders of the CDU in 1945. Blank was born in Elz an der Lahn. He was the third of ten children of a carpenter. His family was R ...

(1905–1972), German politician *

Trent Blank Trent Robert Blank (born August 31, 1989) is an American professional baseball coach for the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball. Blank attended Columbia High School in Columbia, Illinois, and Baylor University, where he played college ba ...

(born 1989), American baseball coach *

Victor Blank The name Victor or Viktor may refer to: * Victor (name), including a list of people with the given name, mononym, or surname Arts and entertainment Film * ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film * ''Victor'' (1993 film), a French shor ...

(born 1942), British businessman