Fuchs (surname)
Appearance
Fuchs (German and Yiddish for "fox") is a surname; it has as variants Fux, Fuhs and Fuchß. Notable persons bearing it include the following:
Notable people
[edit]Fuchs, A–D
[edit]- Argel Fuchs (born Argélico Fucks 1974, Santa Rosa), Brazilian footballer
- Arved Fuchs (born 1953), German writer and adventurer
- Benjamin Fuchs (born 1983), German-Austrian footballer
- Bernard Fuchs (1916–2005), French pilot and hero of the Second World War
- Bernie Fuchs (1932–2009), American illustrator
- Bruce Fuchs, American immunologist and health science administrator
- Charlie Fuchs (1912–1969), American baseball player
- Christian Fuchs (born 1986), Austrian footballer
- Christine Schwarz-Fuchs (born 1974), Austrian entrepreneur and politician
- Christoph Fuchs von Fuchsberg (1482–1542), bishop of Brixen
- Daniel Fuchs (1909–1993), American writer and screenwriter
- Dmitry Fuchs (born 1939), Russian-American mathematician
- Doris Fuchs (scientist) (born 1966), German political scientist
- Doris Gudrun Fuchs (born 1938), American gymnast
Fuchs, E–F
[edit]- Eduard Fuchs (1870–1940), Marxist cultural scientist
- Elaine Fuchs (born 1950), American cell biologist
- Elissa Minet Fuchs (1919–2023), American ballerina
- Emil Fuchs (artist) (1866–1929), Austrian-American sculptor
- Emil Fuchs (theologian) (1874–1971), German theologian
- Emil Fuchs (baseball) (1878–1961), owner of the Boston Braves 1923–1935
- Engelbert Fuchs, Austrian luger
- Erich Fuchs (1902–1980), German Nazi SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator
- Erika Fuchs (1906–2005), German translator of Disney comics
- Ernst Fuchs (artist) (1930–2015), Austrian artist
- Ernst Fuchs (cyclist) (1936–1994), Swiss cyclist
- Ernst Fuchs (doctor) (1851–1930), Austrian ophthalmologist
- Ernst Fuchs (theologian) (1903–1983) German New Testament scholar and student of Rudolf Bultmann
- Franz Fuchs (1949–2000), Austrian terrorist
- Fred Fuchs (DOB unknown), American television producer
Fuchs, G–I
[edit]- Gottfried Fuchs (1889–1972), German-Canadian soccer player
- Harald Fuchs (born 1951), professor of physics
- Henry Fuchs (baseball) (1879–1947), also known as Jacob Fox, American baseball player
- Henry Fuchs, born Henryk Tauber (1917–2000), Holocaust survivor
- Henry Fuchs (born 1948), American academic
- Herbert Fuchs (1905–1988), American lawyer
- Ignaz Fuchs, (1819–1854), born Vatroslav Lisinski, Croatian composer
- Ira Fuchs, co-founder of BITNET
Fuchs, J–K
[edit]- Jakob Fuchs (1920–2005), German soldier
- Jenő Fuchs (1882–1955), Hungarian Olympic champion fencer
- Jim Fuchs (1927–2010), American athlete
- Joël Fuchs (born 1989), Swiss basketball player
- Johann Nepomuk Fuchs (architect) (1727–1804), architect from Styria, Austria-Hungary
- Johann Nepomuk Fuchs (composer) (1842–1899), Austrian composer and conductor
- Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs (1774–1856), German chemist who gave his name to fuchsite
- Joseph Fuchs (1899–1997), American violinist
- Josef Fuchs (theologian) (1912–2005), German theologian
- Jürgen Fuchs (motorcyclist), German motorcyclist
- Jürgen Fuchs (writer) (1950–1999), East German writer and dissident
- Karl Fuchs (museum founder) (1776–1846), Russian doctor and rector of the Kazan State University
- Kenneth Fuchs (born 1956), American composer of classical music
- Klaus Fuchs (1911–1988), German-born British physicist and Soviet spy, later resident of the GDR
Fuchs, L–M
[edit]- Lars Fuchs (born 1982), German footballer
- László Fuchs (born 1924), Hungarian-American mathematician
- Lawrence Fuchs (1927–2013), American university professor and author
- Lazarus Fuchs (1833–1902), German mathematician
- Leonhart Fuchs (sometimes Leonhard) (1501–1566), German physician and botanist
- Lillian Fuchs (1901–1995), American violist
- Lukas Fuchs (1922–2009), better known as Lukas Foss, German-American composer
- Marta Fuchs (1898–1974), German opera singer
- Michael J. Fuchs (born 1946), American television executive, former head of HBO
- Michael Fuchs (football) (1972–2011), Austrian football manager and retired footballer
- Michael Fuchs (badminton) (born 1982), German badminton player
- Michael Fuchs (politician) (1949–2022), German parliamentarian and Bundestag member
- Michael Fuchs (sculptor), sculpted the Medal of Suleiman in 1554
- Michael Fuchs (figure skater), German ice dancer, 1974 German gold medalist
Fuchs, N–Z
[edit]- Nicolás Fuchs (born 1982), Peruvian rally driver
- Peter Paul Fuchs (1916–2007), Austrian-born conductor and composer
- Radovan Fuchs (born 1953), Croatian scientist and former government minister
- Richard Fuchs (1887–1947), architect and composer
- Robert Fuchs (disambiguation)
- Ronald Fuchs (1932–2012) American physicist
- Ruth Fuchs (1946–2023), German athlete
- Thomas Fuchs (born 1969), German-born illustrator
- Vivian Fuchs (1908–1999), British geologist and polar explorer
- Walter Robert Fuchs (1937–1976), American-German science communicator and science popularizer
- Wilhelm Fuchs (1898–1947), German Nazi SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator executed for war crimes
- Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs (1915–1997), mathematician
Fucks
[edit]- Argélico Fucks, birth name of Argel Fuchs (born 1974, Santa Rosa), Brazilian footballer (also listed above with different spelling)
see also:
- Ralf Fücks (born 1951), German politician
Fuks
[edit]- Alexander Fuks (1917–1978), German-born Israeli historian, archaeologist and papyrologist
- Johannes Fuks, Estonian politician
- Julián Fuks, Brazilian writer
- Ladislav Fuks (1923–1994), Czech novelist
- Marian Fuks (historian) (1914–2022), Polish historian
- Marian Fuks (photographer) (1884–1935), Polish filmmaker and pioneer of photography
- Pavel Fuks (born 1971), Ukrainian-Russian millionaire businessman and investor
- Suzon Fuks (born 1959), artist, choreographer and director
Fux
[edit]- Herbert Fux (1927–2007), Austrian actor
- Johann Joseph Fux (1660–1741), Austrian composer, music theorist and pedagogue
- Luiz Fux (born 1953), Brazilian judge
- María Fux, Argentine dancer, choreographer, and dance therapist
- Robert Fux, Swedish actor, performance artist, playwright and drag queen
- Vinzenz Fux (c. 1606–1659), Austrian composer