Kruk is a surname. The word means "

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" in Polish, Belarusian, and Ukrainian languages. It means crutch, handle, stool in Dutch. The surname may refer to: * Elżbieta Kruk (born 1959), Polish politician *

Frances Kruk Frances Kruk is a contemporary Polish-Canadian poet living in London, UK. She completed her PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London, under the supervision of Redell Olsen. Her writings have been published in journals including ''Damn the Caesa ...

, Polish-Canadian poet *

Herman Kruk Herman Kruk ( yi, הערשל קרוק) (19 May 1897-18 September 1944) was a Polish-Jewish librarian and Bundism, Bundist activist who kept a diary recording his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto during World War II. Life Kruk fled Warsaw and relo ...

(1897–1944), Polish-Jewish activist during World War II *Isaiah Kruk, birth surname of

Isaiah Shavitt Isaiah Shavitt was a Polish-born Israeli and American theoretical chemist. He was born Isaiah Kruk on July 29, 1925 in Kutno, Poland but his family moved to what would become Israel in 1929. After undergraduate degrees in chemistry (1950) and chemi ...

, , Israeli-American theoretical chemist *

Janusz Kruk Janusz Kruk (7 August 1946 – 18 June 1992) was a Polish singer, guitarist and composer, the leader of the popular band 2 Plus 1. Career Kruk went to a musical school in Warsaw, where he learned to play double bass. At the end of the 1960s, he f ...

, (1946–1992), Polish singer, guitarist and composer *

John Kruk John Martin Kruk (born February 9, 1961) is an American former professional baseball first baseman and outfielder. Kruk played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres, Philadelphia Phillies, and Chicago White Sox from through . D ...

(born 1961), American baseball player *Jonathan Kruk, master storyteller who regularly performs at

Historic Hudson Valley Historic Hudson Valley is a not-for-profit educational and historic preservation organization headquartered in Tarrytown, New York. The organization runs tours and events at five historic properties in Westchester County, in the lower Hudson River ...

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Joseph Kruk Joseph Kruk ( he, יוסף קרוק, December 5, 1885 in Częstochowa – July 6, 1972 in Jerusalem) was an Israeli journalist and a politician in pre-war Poland. Kruk took part in founding the first labour Zionist grouping in his hometown Częs ...

(1885−1972), Polish-Jewish politician * Mariusz Kruk, Polish sprint canoer * Pavel Kruk (born 1992), Belarusian association football player *

Petro Kruk Petro Mykhaylovych Kruk ( uk, Петро Михайлович Крук) (born 20 March 1985, in Dubno) is a Ukrainian sprint canoeist who competed in the late 2000s. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively ...

(born 1985), Ukrainian sprint canoer *

Pieter van der Kruk Pieter "Piet" van der Kruk (13 August 1941 – 4 June 2020) was a Dutch heavyweight weightlifter and shot putter. He won five national weightlifting titles (1964, 1965, 1967–1969) and four shot put titles (1964, 1965, 1967 and 1969), and held ...

(1941–2020), Dutch weightlifter and shot putter * Pieter van der Kruk Jr. (born 1972), Dutch discus thrower and shot putter * Svetlana Kruk (born 1979), Belarusian beauty queen

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*Frank Kruk, protagonist of the eponymous novel by

Petras Cvirka Petras Cvirka (March 12, 1909, Jurbarkas District Municipality, Klangai, Kovno Governorate – May 2, 1947, Vilnius) was a Lithuanian writer of several novels, children's books, and short story collections. He wrote under a variety of pen names: A. ...

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