Koch (surname)

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Koch ( [kɔx]) is a German surname that means "cook".

In English-speaking countries it may also be pronounced "caulk", "cook", "coke", "kosh" or "kotch".

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Adam Koch (born 1988), American professional basketball player

Adolf Koch (1896–1970), German school teacher and leader of the Freikörperkultur

Alan Koch (baseball) (born 1938), retired American professional baseball player

Alan Koch (soccer) (born 1975), South African and Canadian football/soccer coach

Alexander Koch (disambiguation), several people

Alfred Koch (born 1961), Russian writer, mathematician-economist, and businessman of ethnic German origin

Amy Koch (born 1971), member of the Minnesota Senate

Andreas Koch (born 1966), Austrian former footballer

Aubrey Koch (1904–1975), pioneering Australian aviator

Beat Koch (born 1972), Swiss cross country skier

Beate Koch (born 1967), former German athlete

Bernward Koch (born 1957), German composer, pianist and keyboardist

Berthold Koch (1899–1988), German chess master

Bill Koch (businessman) (born 1940), William I. "Bill" Koch, America's Cup yachtsman, businessman, son of Fred C. Koch

Bill Koch (skier) (born 1955), cross-country skier

Billy Koch (born 1974), Major league baseball relief pitcher

Blake Koch (born 1985), American race car driver

Bobby Koch (born 1960), CEO of the Wine Institute

Carl Koch (director) (1892–1963), German film director and writer

Carl Koch (architect) (1912–1998), American architect

Carl Ludwig Koch (1778–1857), German entomologist and arachnologist, father of Ludwig Carl Christian Koch

Carin Koch (born 1971), Swedish professional golfer

Cary Koch (born 1986), American professional football wide receiver playing for the Saskatchewan Roughriders

Cees Koch (athlete) (born 1936), Dutch discus thrower

Charles Koch (born 1935), heir and CEO of Koch Industries and co-founder of the free-market Cato Institute

Chris Koch, American film director

Christof Koch (born 1956), American neuroscientist

Christopher Koch (1932–2013), Australian novelist

Ciril Metod Koch (1867–1925), Slovene architect

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Dagfinn Koch, Norwegian musician

Dan Koch, lead guitarist and principal songwriter for the indie rock band Sherwood

Daniel Koch (1816–1903), Pennsylvania politician

David Koch (Australian politician) (born 1949), member of the Victorian Legislative Council

David Koch (television presenter), Australian financial analyst and TV presenter

David Koch, businessman, 1980 Libertarian Party vice-presidential candidate, heir to Koch Industries, son of Fred C. Koch

Des Koch (1932–1991), American athlete

Dieter-Lebrecht Koch (born 1953), German politician

Dietrich Koch (1916–2002), Oberleutnant der Reserve in the Wehrmacht during World War II

Dora Koch-Stetter (1881–1968), (aka Dora Stetter), German landscape artist, portrait painter and etcher

Dorothy Bush Koch (born 1959), daughter of the 41st president of the US, George Herbert Walker Bush

Ed Koch (1924–2013), 105th mayor of New York City 1978–1989

Edeltraud Koch, retired German swimmer

Ehrhardt Koch (1886–1954), German American businessman

Eric Koch, German-born Canadian author, broadcaster and professor.

Erich Koch (1896–1986), Gauleiter of East Prussia

Erik Koch (born 1988), American martial artist

Erland Koch (1867–1945), German sports shooter

Fabian Koch (born 1989), Austrian footballer

Florian Koch (born 1992), German basketball player

Franz Koch (disambiguation), several people, including:

Franz Koch (cinematographer) (1898–1959), German cinematographer

Franziska Romana Koch (1748–1796), German operatic soprano

Fred C. Koch (1900–1967), American chemical engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Koch Industries, father of William I. (Bill), Charles G., David H. and Frederick R. Koch

Freddy Koch (1916–1980), Danish film actor

Frederick R. Koch (born 1933), American collector and philanthropist, son of Fred C. Koch

Friedrich Koch (1862–1927), German composer

Friedrich Koch (general) (1879–1961), German general

Gabriele Koch, German studio potter

Gaetano Koch (1849–1910), Italian architect

Gareth Koch (born 1962), Australian classical guitarist

Gary Koch (born 1952), American professional golfer

George Koch (1919–1966), American football player

George W. Koch (1871–1908), American politician

Georg Koch (born 1972), German football goalkeeper

Gini Koch, American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer

Greg Koch (born 1955), former American football tackle

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Hans Koch (1893–1945), German lawyer

Hans Koch (SS man) (1912–1955), SS-Unterscharführer and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp

Harry Koch (born 1969), German football central defender

Hawk Koch (born 1945), American film producer

Helge von Koch (1870–1924), Swedish mathematician, originator of the eponymous "Koch snowflake"

Henny Koch (1854–1925), German children's author and translator

Henri Koch (disambiguation), several people, including:

Henri Koch (bobsledder) (born 1904), Luxembourgish bobsledder

Henriette Koch, Danish sports sailor

Henry C. Koch (1841–1910), German-American architect

Herbert Koch (born 1962), German mathematician

Herman Koch (born 1953), Dutch writer and actor

Howard E. Koch (1901–1995), American screenwriter

Howard W. Koch (1916–2001), American film director/producer

Hugo Koch (1870–1928), Dutch inventor

Ilse Koch (1906–1967), "The Bitch of Buchenwald", wife of Karl Otto Koch

Jan Koch, German footballer

Jerry Koch, American basketball player

Jesper Koch, Danish composer

Jim Koch, American brewer, founder of Boston Beer Company

John Koch, American painter

Johan Peter Koch, Danish captain and explorer

Jonathan Koch (disambiguation), several people

Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter

Jørgen Hansen Koch, Danish architect

Julian Koch, German football player

Julius Ludwig August Koch, German psychiatrist

Julius Koch (1872–1902), exceptionally tall man

Jurij Koch, Sorbian writer

Jürgen Koch, Austrian badminton player

Karen Koch, American ice hockey goaltender

Karl Koch (disambiguation), several people, including:

Karl Koch (botanist), German botanist

Karl-Otto Koch, German first commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp

Karl-Rudolf Koch, German geodesist and professor

Kenneth Koch, American poet

Klaus Koch, German Old Testament Scholar

Konrad Koch, German teacher and football pioneer

Kurt Koch, Swiss Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church

Kurt E. Koch, Protestant theologian and writer (best known for books on the occult and on the work of the Holy Spirit)

Kyle Koch, Canadian football offensive lineman

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Lauge Koch, Danish expedition leader in Greenland

Lothar Koch (oboist), German oboist

Ludwig Koch (disambiguation), several people, including:

Ludwig Carl Christian Koch (1825–1908), German entomologist and arachnologist, son of Carl Ludwig Koch

Ludwig Koch (painter) (1866–1934), Austrian equestrian painter

Marco Koch, German swimmer

Marianne Koch (born 1931), German actress and physician

Marita Koch (born 1957), German sprint athlete

Mariza Koch, Greek folk singer

Markus Koch, American football defensive lineman

Martin Koch (novelist), Swedish novelist

Martin Koch (ski jumper), Austrian ski jumper

Matthias Koch (born 1988), Austrian football midfielder

Max Koch (disambiguation), several people, including:

Max Koch, Australian botanist

Max Koch (academic) (1855–1931), German historian and literary critic

Max Friedrich Koch, German history painter (de)

Meinolf Koch, retired German football player

Michael Koch (disambiguation), several people

Michel Koch, German track and road racing cyclist

Mogens Koch, Danish architect

Noppie Koch, Dutch cyclist and pacer

Norma Koch (1898–1979), Academy Award winning costume designer

Paulie Koch, world champion wakeboarder

Pauline Koch, Albert Einstein's mother

Philippe Koch, Swiss football defender

Pete Koch (born 1962), American football player and actor

Pietro Koch, Italian police leader

Polly Koch (1895–1976), American football player

Pyke Koch (1901–1991), Dutch artist

Raphael Koch, Swiss footballer

Richard Koch (born 1950), management consultant, entrepreneur, and writer

Richard H. Koch (born 1852), American judge and railroad owner

Robert Koch, German physician, discoverer of the tubercle and cholera bacilli, Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate in 1905

Robert Koch Woolf, American interior decorator

Roland Koch, German politician

Roscoe R. Koch, American politician

Rudolf Koch, German calligrapher, typographic artist and teacher

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Sam Koch, American football punter for the Baltimore Ravens of the NFL

Sebastian Koch, German actor

Silvana Koch-Mehrin, German politician

Simona Koch (born 1968), German diver

Simone Koch, German figure skater

Shari Koch, German ice dancer

Stefanie Koch (born 1981), German ski mountaineer

Stephan W. Koch (born 1953), German theoretical physicist

Theodor Koch, German engineer

Thomas Koch (disambiguation), several people

Thomaz Koch, Brazilian tennis player

Tobias Koch, German pianist

Tom Koch, writer for Mad Magazine

Ursula Koch (born 1941), Swiss politician

Valdemar Koch (1852–1902), Danish architect and politician

Waldemar Koch, former German politician

Walter Koch (disambiguation), several people, including:

Walter Koch (Fallschirmjäger) (1910–1943), commander of the Fallschirmjäger during World War II

Walter Karl Koch, German surgeon

Werner Koch (born 1961), German software author

Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch (1771–1849), German physician and botanist

Wilhelmina Koch (1845–1924), German composer

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