Chalk (surname)
Chalk is a surname. It is a toponymic surname from many places in southern England, most notably Chalk, Kent,[1][2] but also potentially other places with similar names, or any residence near or on chalky soil or a chalk down.[3][4][5]
Notable people with this surname include:
- Alex Chalk (born 1976), British politician
- Alfred Chalk (1874–1954), British railway clerk and soccer player
- Charles Chalk (1876–1945), British soccer player
- Chris Chalk (born 1977), American actor
- Christina Chalk, Scottish beauty pageant titleholder
- Cynthia Chalk (1913–2018), Canadian photographer
- Dave Chalk (born 1959), Canadian entrepreneur and media personality
- Dave Chalk (born 1950), American baseball player
- David Graham Forbes Chalk (born 1959), British civil servant
- Garry Chalk (born 1952), English-born Canadian actor
- Gary Chalk (born 1952), English illustrator and model-maker
- Gerry Chalk (1910–1943), English cricket player and military aviator
- Gordon Chalk (1913–1991), Australian politician
- John Chalk (1916–2001), Australian military officer
- Marshall Chalk (born 1981), Australian rugby player
- Martyn Chalk (born 1969), English soccer player
- Mary Laura Chalk Rowles (1904–1996), Canadian physicist
- Norman Chalk (1916–2005), English soccer player
- O. Roy Chalk (1907–1995), British-born American businessman
- Robin Chalk, English actor
- Roger Chalk, Australian politician
- Warren Chalk (1927–1988), English architect
See also
- Chalke (surname)
- Chalk Beeson (1848–1912), American businessman
- Chawke, a surname
References
- ↑ Barber, Henry (1894). British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning with Lists of Scandinavian, Frisian, Anglo-Saxon, and Norman Names. London: Elliot Stock. p. 104.
- ↑ Lower, Mark Antony (1860). Patronymica Britannica. A dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russell Smith. p. 56.
- ↑ Reaney, P. H.; Wilson, R. M. (1991). A Dictionary of English Surnames (Third with corrections and additions ed.). London: Routledge. p. 611. ISBN 0203993551.
- ↑ Ayto, John (2007). Encyclopedia of Surnames. London: A & C Black. p. 63. ISBN 9780713681444.
- ↑ Dictionary of American family names (Second ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. ISBN 9780190245122.
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