Koch (surname)
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Koch (pronounced kɔx in German, although it is often pronounced differently in other countries) is a German surname meaning cook and may refer to:
- Bill Koch (skier), 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
- Charles G. Koch, Billionaire, heir and CEO of Koch Industries and co-founder of the free-market Cato Institute
- Christof Koch (born 1956), American neuroscientist
- David Koch (television presenter), Australian financial analyst and TV presenter
- David H. Koch, Billionaire, 1980 Libertarian Party Vice-Presidential candidate, heir to Koch Industries
- Dorothy Bush Koch (born 1959), daughter of the 41st president of the US, George Herbert Walker Bush
- Edward I. Koch, American 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
- Gaetano Koch, Italian architect
- Georg Koch, German football goalkeeper, playing for Dinamo Zagreb
- Helge von Koch, Swedish mathematician, originator of the eponymous "Koch snowflake"
- Hawk Koch, American film producer
- Howard Koch (screenwriter), American screenwriter
- Howard W. Koch, American film director/producer
- Ilse Koch, wife of Karl Otto Koch, "The Bitch of Buchenwald"
- Julius Koch (1872–1902), exceptionally tall man
- Karl Koch (botanist), German botanist
- Karl Koch (director), German film director and writer
- Karl Otto Koch, German first commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp
- Kees Koch (born 1936), Dutch discus thrower
- Kenneth Koch, an American poet
- Lauge Koch, Danish expedition leader in Greenland
- Lothar Koch (oboist), German oboist
- Lothar Koch (born 1939), German politician
- Ludwig Carl Christian Koch (1825-1908), German entomologist and arachnologist
- Marianne Koch (born 1931), German actress and physician
- Marita Koch (born 1957), German sprint athlete
- Martin Koch, Swedish novelist
- Peter Koch, American photographer
- Richard Koch (born 1950), management consultant, entrepreneur, and writer
- 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, German surgeon
- Werner Koch (born 1961), German software author
- Bill Koch (businessman) William I. "Bill" Koch, America's Cup yachtsman, businessman, and son of Fred C. Koch
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