Koch (surname)

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Koch (/kk, kɒ, kɒx, kɔːk/;[1] German pronunciation: [kɔχ]) is a German surname that means "cook" or "chef".

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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
  • Anton Koch (1859-1915), German theologian
  • 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
  • Christiane Koch, German physicist
  • Christina Koch (born 1979), American astronaut
  • Christof Koch (born 1956), American neuroscientist
  • Christopher Koch (1932–2013), Australian novelist
  • Ciril Metod Koch (1867–1925), Slovene architect

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References[]

  1. ^ Wells, John C. (2008). Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (3rd ed.). Longman. ISBN 978-1-4058-8118-0.
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