Bronk
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Bronk or Bronck may refer to:
- Jonas BronckJonas BronckJonas Bronck was a Danish immigrant to the Dutch colony of New Netherland after whom the Bronx River, Bronx county, and the New York City borough of The Bronx are named. He married his Dutch wife, Teuntje Joriaens, on July 6, 1638, in the Nieuwe Kerk , Amsterdam.-Bronck's Land:Jonas Bronck’s...
(1600–1643), Swedish immigrant who gave his name to The BronxThe BronxThe Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City. It is also known as Bronx County, the last of the 62 counties of New York State to be incorporated...
- Pieter Bronck, son or brother of Jonas Bronck
- Bronck HouseBronck HouseBronck House, also known as Pieter Bronck House, is a Dutch homestead house in Coxsackie in Greene County, New York that was constructed in 1663 and added to later...
, historic landmark home of Pieter Bronck
- Detlev Wulf Bronk (1897-1975), president of Johns Hopkins University
- Benjy Bronk, American producer and comedian
- Bronk (crater)Bronk (crater)Bronk is an eroded crater that lies on the far side of the Moon, out of sight from the Earth. It lies to the southeast of the larger crater Kovalevskaya. Less than one crater diameter to the east-northeast is the smaller crater Bobone....
, a crater on the far side of the Moon - Calgary Bronks, Canadian Football team now known as the Calgary Stampeders
- BronkBronk (TV series)Bronk was an American television series starring Jack Palance as Detective Lieutenant Alex Bronkov. The series was set in the fictional Ocean City, California....
, a 1975 TV series - Bronk, a comic series
- William BronkWilliam BronkWilliam Bronk was an American poet. He won the National Book Award in 1982.-Life and work:William Bronk was born in a house on Lower Main Street in Fort Edward, New York. He had an older brother Sherman who died young and two older sisters, Jane and Betty...
, American poet and National Book AwardNational Book AwardThe National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization which now oversees and manages the National Book...
winner for Life Supports