Gluck (surname)
Appearance
Gluck is a surname of German or Yiddish origin. the root word means luck in either language. It is a last name found among Ashkenazi Jews and those of German ancestry. However, there is evidence that the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck's surname derives from the Czech word kluk (boy).[1]
Notable people with the surname include:
- Abbe Gluck, American legal academic
- Alma Gluck (Reba Feinsohn) (1884–1938), Romanian-American soprano
- Arie Gluck (1930–2016), Israeli runner and coach
- Barbara Gluck (born 1938), American photographer
- Benjamin Gluck (born 1979), American screenwriter, animator and director
- Carol Gluck (born 1941), American historian of modern Japan
- Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787), one of the most important opera composers of the Classical music era
- Earle J. Gluck (1900–1972), American radio pioneer
- Edgar Gluck (born 1936), rabbi in Galicia
- Frederick Gluck (born 1935), American management consultant
- Gemma La Guardia Gluck (1881–1962), American writer and Holocaust survivor
- Griffin Gluck (born 2000), American actor
- Hazel Gluck (born 1934), American politician and lobbyist
- Heidi Gluck, Canadian-American musician and singer-songwriter
- Henry Gluck (born 1929), American business executive and philanthropist
- Herschel Gluck (born 1959), British rabbi
- Jay Gluck (1927–2000), American archaeologist and art historian
- Jeff Gluck, American motorsports journalist
- John Duval Gluck (1878–1951), American philanthropist and con artist
- Laurence Gluck (1953–2024), American real estate businessman
- Louis Gluck (1924–1997), American neonatologist
- Malcolm Gluck, British wine writer
- Mark A. Gluck, American professor of neuroscience
- Maxwell Henry Gluck (1899–1984), American businessman, diplomat, thoroughbred horse breeder and philanthropist
- Michael Gluck (born 1983), American pianist
- Pearl Gluck, American filmmaker and professor
- Peter L. Gluck (born 1939), American architect
- Rita Buglass Gluck, American writer
- Robert Gluck (born 1955), American pianist and composer
- Salomon Gluck (1914–1944), French physician and member of the French Resistance
- Themistocles Gluck (1853–1942), German physician
- Viktor Gluck (1897–1957), German cinematographer
- Will Gluck (born 1978), American film director, screenwriter, and producer
See also
[edit]- Richard Glücks (1889–1945), German Nazi official and Holocaust perpetrator
- Andrej Glucks (born 1976), Croatian slalom canoer
- Glack, Glock
- Gluek (disambiguation)
- Glück (surname)
- Glick
References
[edit]- ^ Brown & Rushton 2001, "Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von. 1. Ancestry, early life and training." at Grove Music Online.