Bukowski, Bukovski, or Bukovsky is a surname

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 found in several Slavic languages

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: Polish

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, Bulgarian

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, Czech

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, Belarusian

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, Russian

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, Slovak

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 and Ukrainian

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. It is composed of the common Slavic word buk- (common Slavic for "beech

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 tree") and the Slavic suffixes -ov and -ski.

The feminine forms are Bukowska (Polish), Bukovskaya (Russian, Ukrainian), Bukouskaya (Belarusian), Bukovská (Czech, Slovak), Bukovska (Bulgarian).

In some cases the name may originate from a toponym, i.e. the name would have been given to or adopted by a person or family from a place named Buków, for example .

People

• Charles Bukowski
  Charles Bukowski
  Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles...
  
  , German American poet, novelist, and short story writer.
• Vladimir Bukovsky
  Vladimir Bukovsky
  Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky is a leading member of the dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s, writer, neurophysiologist, and political activist....
  
  , notable former Soviet political dissident, author and political activist
• Barbora Bukovská
  Barbora Bukovská
  Barbora Bukovská is a Czech-Slovak human rights attorney, known for her work on racial discrimination of Roma people in Czech Republic and Slovakia. She is a founder of the Center for Civil and Human Rights, Košice, Slovakia...
  
  , Czech-Slovak human rights attorney
• Yoana Bukovska, Bulgarian actress

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• Buková
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• Bukov (Bulgarian surname)
• Buków (disambiguation) (place name)
• Bukovina
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• Bukowsko
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