Buck
Buck stands for:
- Short form for hump as the name of a mountain (e.g. Seebuck or Weinbergsbuck )
- the plant mugwort (buck, humpback, etc.); see mugwort # common names
- In Switzerland a dent in a sheet metal (especially on a car)
- Buck converter, a DC / DC converter, see step-down converter
- Buk (Greater Poland) , older also Buck , city in Poland
- Buck (film) , film by Cindy Meehl
Buck is the surname of the following people:
- Adolf Buck (1896–1952), German photographer
- Adriaan de Buck (1892–1959), Dutch Egyptologist and theologian
- Albert Buck (1895–1942), German general
- Alfred Eliab Buck (1832–1902), American politician
- Andreas Buck (* 1967), German soccer player
- Angelika Buck (* 1950), German figure skater
- Anne Fischer-Buck (1920–2013), German social worker and psychologist
- Annemarie Moddrow-Buck (1916–2012), German painter
- Anthony Buck (born 1936), British wrestler
- Antony Buck (1928–2003), British politician
- August Buck (1911–1998), German Romance studies and university professor
- Badu Buck (* 1999), German basketball player
- Brandon Buck (* 1988), Canadian ice hockey player
- Bruce Buck , American entrepreneur
- C. Douglass Buck (1890–1965), American politician
- Carl Darling Buck (1866–1955), American linguist
- Charles F. Buck (1841–1918), American politician
- Chris Buck (* 1958), American director, screenwriter and animator
- Craig Buck (* 1958), American volleyball player
- Dan Buck, American magician, see Dan & Dave Buck
- Daniel Buck (1753–1816), American politician
- Daniel Azro Ashley Buck (1789–1841), American politician
- Dave Buck, American magician, see Dan & Dave Buck
- Detlev Buck (* 1962), German filmmaker
- Dieter Buck (* 1953), German author, journalist and photographer
- Dieter Buck-Gramcko (1927–2012), German surgeon
- Donald Buck (1916–2002), American hockey player
- Doris Pitkin Buck (1898–1980), American science fiction writer
- Dorothea Buck (also JE Deranders or Sophie Zerchin; 1917–2019), German author and sculptor
- Dudley Buck (1839–1909), American composer and organist
- Elisabeth Buck (* 1958), German music and religious educator
- Ellsworth B. Buck (1892–1970), American politician
- Elmar Buck (* 1945), German Germanist and theater scholar
- Erich Buck (* 1949), German figure skater
- Felix Buck (* 1912), German politician (NPD)
- Fidelis Buck (1916–1979), German-Canadian Jesuit and university professor
- Frank H. Buck (1887–1942), American politician
- Friedrich Johann Buck (1722–1786), German philosopher and mathematician
- Gene Buck (1885–1957), American illustrator, songwriter, and music producer
- George Buck (1929–2013), American impresario and music producer
- George S. Buck ( George Sturgess Buck; 1875–1931), American politician
- Gerhard Buck († 1489), German friar of the Brothers of Life Together
- Gilles Buck (* 1935), French sailor
- Günther Buck (1925–1983), German philosopher and educator
- Harald Buck (1926–2005), German biologist
- Heinrich Buck (shipowner) † 1450, Gdansk shipowner and councilor
- Heinrich Buck (instrument maker) (1833–1883), German musical instrument maker
- Heinrich Buck (numismatist) (1866–1939), German librarian and numismatist
- Heinrich Buck (pastor) (1872–1954), German clergyman
- Heinrich Buck (soccer player) (* 1911), German soccer player
- Horst Buck-Gramcko (* 1929), Hamburg orthopedist
- Hoyt Buck (1889– ??), American entrepreneur ( Buck Knives )
- Ilse Buck (1923–2012), Austrian radio presenter
- Inge Buck (* 1936), German university professor and writer
- Ingrid Buck (1913–1996), German folklorist
- Ingrid Buck-Setter , German actress and presenter
- Jan Buck (1922–2019), Sorbian painter
- John R. Buck (1835–1917), American politician
- Joseph Buck (1820–1897), German painter and local history researcher
- Joseph Buck (basketball player) (* 1981), German basketball player
- Karen Buck (* 1958), British politician
- Karl Buck (1894–1977), German SS-Hauptsturmführer and concentration camp commandant
- Ken Buck (* 1959), American politician
- Lambrecht Buck († around 1462), German lay judge
- Lanphear Buck (1901–1974), American hockey player
- Leffert L. Buck (1837–1909), American bridge construction engineer
- Leon Buck (1915–1972), Luxembourg fencer
- Linda B. Buck (* 1947), American neurophysiologist
- Luzie Buck (* 1983), German actress
- Margaret Buck (* 1940), Australian canoeist
- Markus Buck (* 1979), German pool player
- Matthias Buck (* 1961), German playwright and curator
- Michel Buck (1832–1888), German physician, cultural historian and Swabian dialect poet
- OA Buck ( Otto Alfred Buck; 1914–?), German actor
- Paul Buck (1911–2006), German piano teacher
- Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973), American writer
- Percy Buck (1871-1947), English composer
- Peter Buck (entrepreneur) , American entrepreneur, co-founder of the Subway chain (fast food restaurant)
- Peter Buck (chemist) (* 1939), German chemist, didactic and university professor
- Peter Buck (cellist) (* 1937), German cellist, member of the Melos Quartet .
- Peter Buck (musician) (* 1956), American musician
- Peter Henry Buck , maiden name of Te Rangi Hīroa (1877–1951), a New Zealand doctor and anthropologist
- Petra Buck-Heeb (* 1963), German lawyer and professor at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover
- Richard Buck (* 1986), British athlete
- Robert Creighton Buck (1920–1998), American mathematician
- Robert Nietzel Buck (1914–2007), American pilot
- Rudolf Buck (1866–1952), German composer
- Scott Buck , American screenwriter and television producer
- Sebbe De Buck (* 1995), Belgian snowboarder
- Stefan Buck (* 1980), German soccer player
- Susan Buck-Morss (* 1942) American political philosopher and university professor
- Sybil Buck (* 1972), American musician and model
- Terry Buck (1943-2005), Australian swimmer
- Theo Buck (1930–2019), German Germanist and literary scholar
- Thomas Buck (historian) ( Thomas Martin Buck ; * 1961), German historian
- Thomas Buck (physician) (* 1965), German cardiologist
- Tim Buck (1891–1973), Canadian politician (CP Canada)
- Tobias Buck-Gramcko (* 2001), German cyclist
- Tony Buck (born 1962), Australian drummer
- Travis Buck (born 1983), American baseball player
- Vera Buck (* 1986), German writer
- Walter De Buck (1934-2014), Belgian singer
- Werner Buck (1925-2010), Dutch politician
- Wilhelm Buck (1869–1945), German politician (SPD, ASPD), Prime Minister of Saxony
- William R. Buck (* 1950), American bryologist
- Wolfgang Buck (* 1958), German songwriter and cabaret artist
Buck is the name of the following places in the United States:
- Buck (North Carolina)
- Buck (Pennsylvania)
- Buck (Virginia)
- Buck (West Virginia)
- Buck Donic (Missouri)
- Buck Hall, South Carolina
- Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania
- Buck Lodge, Maryland
- Buck Meadows, California
- Buck Range, Arkansas
- Buck Run, Pennsylvania
- Buck Settlement (New York)
- Buck Stand (South Carolina)
- Buck Trails (Michigan)
- Buck Valley, Pennsylvania
- Objects listed in the NRHP :
- Buck Apartment Building , in Portland, Oregon, ID No. 90001594
- Buck Creek School , in Perry, Kansas, ID No. 88002830
- Buck Grove Bridge , in Buck Grove, Iowa, ID No. 98000797
- Buck Hill Farm Covered Bridge , in Lititz, Pennsylvania, ID No. 80003528
- Buck House , in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, ID No. 78003118
- Buck Memorial Library , in Bucksport, Maine, ID No. 87002193
- Buck Mountain Lookout Tower , in Buck Mountain, Arizona, ID No. 87002460
- Buck Oaks Farm , in Westworth, Texas, ID No. 87000995
- Buck Pond , in Versailles, Kentucky, ID No. 88003344
- Buck Spring Plantation , in Vaughan, North Carolina, ID No. 70000480
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