Bohun (surname)

Bohun is a surname of multiple origins. In [particular, the surname may be associated with the Bohun family of England during the 13th and 14th centuries. It can also be a Ukrainian surname Богун. Notable people with the surname include:

English

• Damien De Bohun
• Edmund Bohun (1645–1699), English writer on history and politics
• Eleanor de Bohun (c.1366–1399), elder sister and co-heiress of Mary de Bohun
• George Bohun Martin
• Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (1176–1220), Norman-English nobleman
• Henry de Bohun (d. 1314), English knight killed at Bannockburn
• Hugh Bohun, a pen name of Bernard Cronin (1884–1968), author and journalist
• Humphrey de Bohun (disambiguation), multiple people
• Isabel de Bohun Lockyer (1895–1980), British painter
• John Bohun, Abbot of Bury St Edmunds, 1453–1469
• Lawrence Bohun (d. 1621), English physician and member of the Virginia Governor's Council
• Margaret de Bohun, multiple persons
• Mary de Bohun (c. 1368–1394), the first wife of King Henry IV of England and mother of King Henry V
• William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton (ca. 1312 – 1360), English nobleman and military commander who won the Battle of Crécy

Ukrainian

• Ivan Bohun (died 1664), a Ukrainian Cossack military leader
• Leon Bogun Mazeppa von Razumovsky, or Jacob Makohin, Ukrainan American military and public figure, philanthropist, pretender nobleman

Fictional characters

• Yuri Bohun, a fictional Cossack character in the novel With Fire and Sword (1884) by Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz
• Protagonist in Bohun, a novel by Jacek Komuda.

Other

• Chae Bohun, spelling variant of Chae Bo-hun (born 1992), South Korean singer-songwriter
• Peter Michal Bohúň (1822–1879), Slovak painter

See also

• All pages with titles containing Bohun
• Bogunović
• Bohunov (disambiguation)