Blücher
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People surnamed Blücher include:
- Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742-1819), a Napoleonic era Prussian general
- Franz Blücher (1896-1959), politician
- Heinrich Blücher (1899-1970), philosopher
- Vasily Blyukher (1899-1938), Marshal of the Soviet Union (named after the Prussian general)
- Erik Blücher (born 1953), expatriate Norwegian far-right activist
Ships named Blücher (after Gebhard von Blücher) include:
- SMS Blücher (corvette), a training corvette of the Imperial German navy
- Blücher (steamship), a 1901 steamship of the Hamburg America Line
- SMS Blücher, an armoured cruiser of World War I
- German cruiser Blücher, a heavy cruiser of World War II
Other things named Blücher include:
- Blücher Order, an East German decoration named after Gebhard von Blücher
- Blücher (locomotive), an early railway locomotive built by George Stephenson
- Blücher is the name of a song by power metal band Kamelot from their 2007 album Ghost Opera.
- Wolf pack Blücher, a German wolf pack of World War II
- Frau Blücher, a character in the 1974 film Young Frankenstein
- Blücher, a hand in the British card game Napoleon
- A type of shoe whose laces tie over the tongue on two flaps, sometimes used in yachting
- Blucher, Newcastle, a small district of Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
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