Kruk (surname)

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Kruk is a surname. The word means "raven" in Polish, Belarusian, and Ukrainian languages. Polisg archaic feminine forms: Krukówna (after father), Krukowa (after husband).[https://nazwiska.ijp.pan.pl/haslo/show/name/Kruk KRUK]

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Notable people with the surname include:

• Elżbieta Kruk (born 1959), Polish politician
• Frances Kruk, Polish-Canadian poet
• Herman Kruk (1897–1944), Polish-Jewish activist during World War II
• Isaiah Kruk, birth surname of Isaiah Shavitt, Israeli-American theoretical chemist
• Janusz Kruk, (1946–1992), Polish singer, guitarist and composer
• John Kruk (born 1961), American baseball player
• Jonathan Kruk, master storyteller who regularly performs at Historic Hudson Valley events
• Joseph Kruk (1885−1972), Polish-Jewish politician
• Mariusz Kruk, Polish sprint canoer
• Pavel Kruk (born 1992), Belarusian association football player
• Petro Kruk (born 1985), Ukrainian sprint canoer
• Svetlana Kruk (born 1979), Belarusian beauty queen