Milk (family name)
Milk is a family name of various origins. As a German name, on the one hand , it may have referred to people who originally worked in the dairy industry , on the other hand, a word mil , which means mill , which goes back to the time before the 7th century, is given as origin . As a name of Czech origin, it can be derived from mily , which stands for a loved one. Another possible origin is the Slavic mil , which means something like merciful .
Name bearer
- Benno Milch (1830–1907), German entrepreneur
- David Milch (* 1945), American screenwriter and producer
- Dionys Milch , Austrian architect
- Ella Milch-Sheriff (* 1954), Israeli composer
- Erhard Milch (1892–1972), German field marshal
- Hans Milch (1924–1987), German Roman Catholic pastor
- Hugo Milch (1836–1909), German bank manager and politician
- Klara Milch (1891–1970), Austrian swimmer
- Ludwig Milch (1867–1928), German geologist
- Werner Milch (Germanist) (1903–1950), German Germanist and literary historian
- Werner Milch (lawyer) (1903–1984), German lawyer and officer