Holub (Czech and Slovak feminine: Holubová) is a Czech, Slovak and Ukrainian surname. Hołub is a Polish surname. The surname means pigeon or dove. It may have originated as a designation for a breeder or lover of pigeons, or based on the nature of the bearer (according to the saying "to brag like a pigeon" or according to the designation of a peaceful person "of a pigeon nature"). Notable people with the surname include:

Sport

• Beata Hołub (born 1967), Polish high jumper

• Dick Holub (1921–2009), American basketball player and coach

• E. J. Holub (1938–2019), American football player

• Jan Hołub (born 1996), Polish swimmer

• Jan Holub (ice hockey) (born 1983), Czech ice hockey player

• Jan Holub I (1942–2018), Czech speedway rider

• Jan Holub II (born 1968), Czech speedway rider

• Jan Holub III (born 1991), Czech speedway rider

• Miloslava Holubová (born 1949), Czech tennis player

• Petra Holubová (born 1968), Czech tennis player

• Radim Holub (born 1975), Czech footballer

• Yury Holub (born 1996), Belarusian Paralympic cross-country skier and biathlete

Other

• Achim Holub (born 1966), Austrian conductor

• Emil Holub (1847–1902), Czech medical doctor, explorer, cartographer and ethnographer

• Eva Holubová (born 1959), Czech actress

• Joan Holub (born 1956), American writer and illustrator

• Josef Ludwig Holub (1930–1999), Czech botanist

• Leo Holub (1916–2010), American photographer

• Miloslav Holub (1915–1999), Czech actor

• Miroslav Holub (1923–1998), Czech poet and immunologist

• Renate Holub (born 1946), German political philosopher and social theorist

• Robert C. Holub (1949–2023), American Germanist and university professor

See also

• Vicki Hollub (born 1959), American businesswoman

• Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik (born 1992), Polish sprinter

References

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