Koch
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Koch (German: "cook") may refer to any of the following people:
- Bill Koch - cross-country skier
- Billy Koch - Major league baseball relief pitcher
- Carl Ludwig Koch and his son Ludwig Carl Christian Koch - German entomologists specializing in arachnology
- Carl Wilhelm Otto Koch, (1810 - 1876), mayor of Leipzig
- Charles G. Koch - Billionaire, heir and CEO of Koch Industries and co-founder of the free-market Cato Institute.
- Christof Koch
- David Koch (analyst) - Australian financial analyst and TV presenter
- David H. Koch - Billionaire, 1980 Libertarian Party Vice-Presidential candidate, heir to Koch Industries.
- Dorothy Bush Koch
- Edward I. Koch - former Mayor of New York City
- Erich Koch - Gauleiter of East Prussia
- Fred C. Koch - Founder of Koch Industries, and supporter of the John Birch Society.
- Hagbard Karl Koch, a German hacker in the 1980s
- Heinrich Christoph Koch German musicologist, author of Versuch einer Anleitung zur Composition
- Helge von Koch - Swedish mathematician, originator of the eponymous Koch snowflake
- Hawk Koch, American film producer
- Howard Koch, American screenwriter
- Howard W. Koch, American film director/producer
- Ilse Koch - wife of Karl, "The Bitch of Buchenwald"
- Joseph Anton Koch (1768 - 1839), Austrian painter
- Karl Koch - German botanist
- Karl Koch - German film director and writer
- Karl Otto Koch - the first commandant of Buchenwald
- Kenneth Koch - an American poet
- Ludwig Carl Christian Koch (1825 - 1908) - German entomologist and arachnologist
- Marianne Koch - German actress and physician (born 1931)
- Marita Koch - sprint athlete, born 1957
- Martin Koch - Swedish novelist
- Richard Koch
- Robert Koch - German physician, discoverer of the tubercle and cholera bacilli, Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate in 1905
- Koch's postulates, formulated by Robert Koch
- Roland Koch - German politician
- Walter Karl Koch - a German surgeon
- Werner Koch
- William I. "Bill" Koch - America's Cup yachtsman, businessman, and son of Fred Koch
Koch may also refer to:
- Koch - A type of arctic boat
- Koch - A language spoken in India and Bangladesh
- Koch - a town in Texas
- Koch's postulates
- Koch Entertainment, owner of Koch Records
- Heckler & Koch, maker of firearms
- Koch Industries - a chemical company