Blount (surname)
Blount is a common surname of English derivation, meaning "blonde, fair", or dull
- Anna Blount, physician, suffragist and birth control activist in the United States
- Bessie Blount, mistress of Henry VIII of England and mother of his only illegitimate son, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset
- Bessie Blount, an African American inventor
- Charles Blount,, author and son of Sir Henry Blount
- Charles Hubert Boulby Blount, English airman and cricketer
- Sir Christopher Blount, companion of Sir Walter Raleigh and cousin of Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire
- Edward Blount, publishing partner for the First Folio of the works of Shakespeare
- Elizabeth Blount, mistress of Henry VIII and the mother of his illegitimate son, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset
- Sir James Blount, English commander of the fortress of Hammes and a minor character in Shakespeare's play Richard III
- F. Nelson Blount,, President and founder of Blount Seafood Corporation, millionaire and collector of vintage steam locomotives and rail cars.
- Henry Blount, author of Voyage into the Levant
- Herman Blount,, birth name of jazz musician Sun Ra
- James Henderson Blount, U.S. congressman from Georgia, Minister to Hawaii
- James Blunt born James Hillier Blount, British musician, singer/songwriter
- Keith Blount, British admiral and Fleet Air Arm officer
- LeGarrette Blount, National Football League player
- Mark Blount, American basketball player
- Mel Blount, American professional football player
- Ralph Blount, merchant tailor of London, father of Edward Blount
- Richard Blount, S.J., English Priest and Jesuit Provincial
- Roy Blount, Jr., American humorist
- Sir Thomas Blount, courtier, executed for his part in the Epiphany Rising
- Thomas Blount, English civil war soldier, MP and inventor.
- Thomas Blount, English antiquarian and lexicographer
- Thomas Blount, American Revolutionary War veteran and congressman from North Carolina
- William Blount, American statesman and senator from Tennessee
- W. Frank Blount, American businessman
- William Grainger Blount, American statesman from Tennessee, son of William Blount
- Willie Blount, American Governor of Tennessee, half-brother of William Blount
- Winton M. Blount, American industrialist and US Postmaster-General
- Cecil Blount DeMille, American film producer and businessman
- Michael Blount, Sheriff of Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire
- Blount baronets, English baronets of Sodington and Tittenhanger
English nobility, Barons Mountjoy and Earls of Newport in the English Peerage:
- Walter Blount, 1st Baron Mountjoy
- Edward Blount, 2nd Baron Mountjoy
- John Blount, 3rd Baron Mountjoy
- William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy scholar and chamberlain to Catherine of Aragon
- Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy
- James Blount, 6th Baron Mountjoy
- William Blount, 7th Baron Mountjoy
- Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon and 8th Baron Mountjoy, English courtier, soldier, and colonial administrator
- Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport
- Mountjoy Blount, 2nd Earl of Newport
- Thomas Blount, 3rd Earl of Newport
- Henry Blount, 4th Earl of Newport
