Blake
Blake can be many things, masculine or feminine names, even the ecclesiastical wardenship of County Galway.
Meaning: Blake is also a given name in some countries. It means either black or pale. It originated from Old English. Originally it was a nickname for someone who had dark or pale skin.
A
- Andrew Blake (scientist)
B
- Blind Blake, American blues and ragtime musician
- Bud Blake, American cartoonist
- Blake Carrington, fictional oil tycoon from the TV series Dynasty
- Blake Lewis, American singer and American Idol contestant
- Blake Lively, American actress
- Blake Edwards, American film director, screenwriter, and producer
- Blake Herzog, Australian icon for young Australians of the South Coast
- Blake River Megacaldera Complex, a large cluster of volcanoes in Ontario and Quebec, Canada
C
- Casey Blake, American baseball player
- Charles E. Blake, Pentecostal Bishop
- Clive Blake, bass guitarist
D
- Daphne Blake, fictional character from Scooby-Doo
- Darcy Blake, Welsh footballer
- Dave Blake, Canadian politician
- David Valentine Jardine Blake, Australian general
- Derek Blake, British biomedical researcher
- Donovan Blake, Jamaican-American cricketer
E
- Edward Blake, Canadian politician
- Eubie Blake, American jazz pianist and composer
- Eugene Carson Blake, American Protestant leader
G
- George Blake (born 1922), a British spy, and double agent for the Soviet Union
- Gerald Blake, British television director
- Gillian Blake, British actress
- Gordon A. Blake, USAF general
- Greene W. Blake, Writer
H
- Hamish Blake, Australian comedian
- Harris Blake, American politician
- Henry Blake, fictional character
- Henry Arthur Blake, British colonial administrator
- Howard Blake, British composer
J
- James Blake :
- James Hubert "Eubie" Blake (1887–1983), American musician
- James F. Blake (1912–2002), bus driver
- James Blake (born 1979), American professional tennis player
- James "Spanish" Blake, Nine Years War figure
- Ronald James Blake, civil engineer
- Jason Blake (ice hockey) (born 1973)
- Jeff Blake (born 1970), retired American football quarterback
- Jenna Blake, model
- Jeremy Blake (1971–2007), American video artist and painter
- Jerome Blake (born 1956), English actor
- Joaquín Blake y Joyes (1759–1827), Spanish general
- John Blake, Jr. (born 1947), American jazz violinist
- Jon Blake (born 1958), actor of the 1980s
- Joseph Blake, governor of South Carolina
- Joseph Henry Blake (1797–1849), Irish nobleman and socialist
- Julia Blake (born 1936), Australia-based British-born actress
K
- Katharine Blake
L
- Lillie Devereaux Blake
- Lively, Blake
M
- Madge Blake
- Mervyn Blake
N
- Nathan Blake
- Noah Blake
- Noel Blake
- Norman Blake, American folk/bluegrass instrumentalist and vocalist
- Norman Blake, Scottish rock musician who is a member of Teenage Fanclub
- Nzinga Blake
P
- Peter Blake
- Peter Blake (actor)
- Peter Blake (yachtsman) (1948–2001)
- Peter Blake (editor)
- Sir Peter Blake (artist) (born 1932), British artist
Q
- Quentin Blake
R
- Ran Blake
- Rob Blake, (born 1969), Canadian ice hockey player
- Robbie Blake
- Admiral Robert Blake (1599–1657), English Admiral
- Dr. Robert R. Blake (1918–2004), American management theoretician
- Robert Blake (actor), an actor, from TV's Baretta
- Robert Blake, Baron Blake
- Robert Harrison Blake, fictional character
- Robert O. Blake, American diplomat
- Robert O. Blake, Jr., American diplomat, the son of the above
- Robert Blake (dentist)
- Rodney Blake
- Roj Blake, fictional character from the television serial Blake's 7
- Ronald James Blake
S
- Sexton Blake, fictional detective for multiple authors
- Sophia Jex-Blake, British physician and feminist
- Sophie Blake, British television presenter
- Stanley Thatcher Blake, Australian botanist
- Stephanie Blake, American actress
- Steve Blake, American basketball player
- Susie Blake, British actress
- Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, English footballer
T
- Tchad Blake, record producer
- Thomas Blake, American tennis player
- Thomas Blake Glover, Scottish merchant
- Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
W
- Walter Blake
- Whitney Blake
- Wilfred Theodore Blake
- William Blake (1757–1827), British poet, painter, and printmaker
- William Burdine Blake, Sr.
- William Phipps Blake
- William Blake (fiction), a fictional character in the film Dead Man
- William Blake Herron, film screenwriter, director and actor
- William Blake Richmond (1842-1921), English painter and decorator
- William Hume Blake (1809–1870), Canadian jurist and politician
See also
- The Blake School, a college preparatory school located in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area
- Blake Lewis, the runner-up on the sixth season of American Idol
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Blake". Image Credit.
