Blum (surname)
Blum is a German surname and is related to 'flower'. Similar names like 'Blume', 'Bluhm' or 'Blumhoff' may have the same origin. Mostly to find in Southwest Germany and Switzerland. Notable people with the name include:
- Abraham Blum (1905 – 1943), Polish-Jewish activist
- Alex Blum (1889 – 1969), comic book artist
- Alice Blum (more commonly known by married name Alice Mavrogordato; 1916–2000) Austrian-born American artist, and translator.
- Brad Blum (born 1953), CEO of Burger King from 2002 until 2004
- Dorothy Blum (1924 – 1980), computer scientist and cryptographer
- Edward Blum (disambiguation), several people
- Geoff Blum (born 1973), baseball player
- George Blum (1870 – 1928), architect
- Hans Blum (disambiguation)
- H Steven Blum (born 1946), US lieutenant general (National Guard)
- Heather Munroe-Blum (born 1950), principal of McGill University, Montréal
- Heinrich Blum (1884 – 1942), Czechoslovakian architect
- Jake Blum (Born 1994), American Politician
- Jason Blum (born 1969), American film producer
- John Morton Blum (1921 – 2011), writer of political history
- Jonathan Blum (born 1967), American writer
- Jonathon Blum (born 1989), American ice hockey player
- Kevin Blum, neutralized train shooter in 1993_Long_Island_Rail_Road_shooting
- Lawrence Blum (born 1943), American philosopher and professor
- Lenore Blum (born 1942), American mathematician and computer scientist
- Léon Blum (1872 – 1950), socialist Prime Minister of France from 1936 to 1937
- Mark Blum (1950–2020), American actor
- Marty Blum, mayor of Santa Barbara, California (2001 to present)
- Manuel Blum (born 1938), computer scientist
- Paul Blum (1898 – 1981), American intelligence officer
- René Blum (ballet) (1878 – 1942), French founder of Ballet de l'Opera a Monte Carlo
- René Blum (politician) (1889 – 1967), Luxembourgian politician
- Richard C. Blum (1935–2022), investment banker, husband of US Senator Dianne Feinstein
- Robert Blum (1807–1848), Saxon/German member of parliament in 1848
- Robert Blum (fencer) (1928–2022), American Olympic fencer
- Robert Frederick Blum (1857 – 1903), American artist
- Rod Blum (born 1955), American politician
- Samuel E. Blum (1920–2013), American chemist and physicist
- Sammy Blum (1889 – 1945), American actor
- Shirley Neilsen Blum (born 1932), American art historian, gallerist, author and professor.
- Steven Blum (born 1960), American voice actor for anime and video games
- Suzanne Blum (born 1978), American chemist
- Suzanne Blum (lawyer) (1898-1994) French lawyer and writer
- William Blum (1933–2018), American author and foreign policy critic