Boot (surname)

Boot is both a Dutch and English metonymic occupational surname. In Dutch, boot (/ˈboːt/) sounds like and means boat and the name refers to a "boatman". In English the name refers to the maker or seller of boots.

Boot:

• Arnold Boot later Boate (1606-1653), Dutch physician, writer and Hebraist in Ireland
• Charles Boot (1874-1945), English businessman
• Cornelis Hendrik Boudewijn Boot (1813–1892), Dutch politician
• Eddie Boot (1915-1999), English footballer
• Elise Boot (born 1932), Dutch jurist and former politician
• Fred Boot (born 1965), Dutch theatre producer
• Geoffrey Boot, Manx air racer
• Gerard Boot later Boate (1604-1650), Dutch writer and physician in Ireland
• Harry Boot (1917-1983), English physicist
• Henri Frédéric Boot (1877–1963), Dutch painter and printmaker
• Henry Boot (1851–1931), English businessman and founder of Henry Boot PLC, father of Charles Boot
• Jaap Boot (1903-1986), Dutch track and field athlete
• Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent (1850–1931), English businessman
• Joe Boot (probably an alias), one of the last stagecoach robbers in the United States - see Pearl Hart
• John Boot, 2nd Baron Trent (1889-1956), English businessman and philanthropist, son of Jesse Boot
• Leonard Boot (1899-1937), English footballer
• Max Boot (born 1969), American author, consultant, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian
• Micky Boot (born c.1945), English footballer
• Oliver Boot, English stage and television actor
• Pat Boot (1914-1947), New Zealand athlete
• Ton Boot (born 1940), Dutch basketball coach and player
• Vitali Boot, German amateur boxer
• William Henry James Boot (1848–1918), English oil and watercolour artist, illustrator and author

Boots:

• Dave Boots (born 1955), American college basketball coach
• George Boots (1874–1928), Welsh international rugby union forward
• Phil Boots, American politician