Fuchs
Fuchs is German for fox.
It is also commonly used as a family name and as a designation for a German tank.
As a surname, in English, the name is often pronounced /fuːks/ (rendered in IPA; the /uː/ phoneme is an English "long u"), /fʊks/ (rhyming with "books"), closer to the German pronunciation, or even /fɒks/ (like "fox"), as a reference to the name's meaning. The pronunciation /fʌks/ (like "fucks") is typically avoided.
Industry
- FUCHS KG, a German Finished Metal Products Manufacturer established in 1910 and based in Meinerzhagen, Germany. A supplier to European automobile manufacturers including Porsche AG. Forged magnesium alloy Fuchs wheels were used in the Porsche 911 in the 1960s through the late 1980s.[1]
- Fuchs Petrolub, the world's largest independent manufacturer of lubricants, and related speciality products.
Medicine
- Fuchs' dystrophy
Military
- Transportpanzer Fuchs, a German armoured personnel carrier
Notable persons whose family name is or was Fuchs include
- Andy Fuchs (Born 1957), Owner/Operator Fuchs Audio Technology
- Anke Fuchs, German politician (SPD) (Youth, family, and health)
- Arved Fuchs (born 1953), writer and adventurer
- Bernard Fuchs (born 1916), French pilot and hero of the Second World War, Compagnon de la Libération
- Cassy Fuchs (born 1992) Canadian singer and actress
- Carol Fuchs screen writer
- Charlie Fuchs, American baseball player
- Daniel Fuchs (June 25, 1909 - July 26, 1993), born in Brooklyn, was a successful writer and screenwriter.
- Eduard Fuchs, Marxist cultural scientist
- Elinor Fuchs, Theorician of Theatre and the Postmodern.
- Emil Fuchs (1874 - 1971), German theologian.
- Emil Fuchs (1878 - 1961), owner of the Boston Braves from 1923 to 1935.
- Erika Fuchs, German translator of Disney comics
- Ernst Fuchs
- Ernst Fuchs (1831 - 1930), Austrian doctor and professor
- Ernst Fuchs (born 1930), Austrian painter and graphic artist
- Ernst Fuchs, theologian
- Franz Fuchs, Austrian terrorist
- Georg Friedrich Fuchs, German musician and composer.
- Gerd Fuchs (born 1932), German writer
- Gerhard Fuchs (born 1944), co-founder of practical informatics
- Gottfried Fuchs, soccer player
- Günther Bruno Fuchs, German writer
- Gustavo Fuchs (Born 1980), Brazilian/German Technologist
- Harald Fuchs (born 1951), professor of physics
- Horst Fuchs (born 1946), homeshopping presenter
- Immanuel Lazarus Fuchs, German mathematician
- Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs, German chemist
- Joseph Fuchs, American Violinst
- Josef Fuchs (born 1912), German theologian
- Jürgen Fuchs, writer and activist GDR
- Kenneth Fuchs (born 1956), American composer of classical music
- Klaus Fuchs, German-born British physicist and Soviet spy, later resident in the GDR
- Leonhart Fuchs (sometimes Leonhard), German physician and botanist
- Marta Fuchs, opera singer
- Matthias Ägidius Fuchs, war minister under Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria
- Michael Fuchs
- Norbert Klaus Fuchs (born 1941), engineer and author
- Otto Fuchs, author
- Paul Freiherr von Fuchs ), Brandenburg minister
- Richard Fuchs, (1887 - 1947) Architect and Composer
- Robert Fuchs (1847 - 1927), Austrian composer
- Rupert Fuchs, Bohemian-German landscape photographer
- Ruth Fuchs (born 1946), German athlete
- Ryan Fuchs (born 1989), New York actor
- Skye Fuchs (born 1988), Astronaut
- Thomas Fuchs
- Thomas Fuchs (born 1964), German journalist and author
- Thomas Fuchs, Swiss politician
- Thomas Fuchs, computer scientist, pioneer of Ajax
- Sir Vivian Fuchs, British geologist and polar explorer
- Werner Fuchs, German painter
- Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs, mathematician
References
- P. 31 Paternie, P (2000). Porsche 911 Red Book 1965-1999 Motorbooks International. ISBN. 0-7603-0723-7
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Fuchs". Image Credit.