Fuchs
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Industry
- Fuchs PetrolubFuchs PetrolubFuchs Petrolub AG is the world's largest independent manufacturer of lubricants, and related speciality products. The company's headquarters are at Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, where the company was founded in 1931.-Fuchs products:...
, the world's largest independent manufacturer of lubricants, and related speciality products. - Fuchs GroupFuchs Group"Small amount, big impact." - Fuchs Group tag-line.The Fuchs Group is the largest privately owned spice company in the world...
, spice company based in Germany - Fuchs Systems Inc., a German manufacturer of equipment for making steel
People
- Arved FuchsArved FuchsArved Fuchs is a German explorer. On December 30, 1989, he and the famous mountain climber Reinhold Messner were the first to reach the South Pole without animal or motorised help, on skis and with wind-assistance...
(born 1953), writer and adventurer - Bernard Fuchs (born 1916), French pilot and hero of the Second World War
- Charlie FuchsCharlie FuchsCharles Thomas Fuchs was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers , Philadelphia Phillies , St. Louis Browns , and Brooklyn Dodgers . The 5'8", 168 lb. left-hander was a native of Union Hill, New Jersey.Fuchs is one of many ballplayers who only appeared in the major leagues...
(1912–1969), American baseball player - Daniel FuchsDaniel FuchsDaniel Fuchs was an American screenwriter, fiction writer, and essayist.-Biography:Daniel Fuchs was born in the Lower East Side, Manhattan, but his family migrated to Williamsburg, Brooklyn while Fuchs was an infant...
(1909–1993), writer and screenwriter - Eduard FuchsEduard FuchsEduard Fuchs was a German Marxist scholar of culture and history, writer, art collector, and political activist....
(1870–1940), Marxist cultural scientist - Emil FuchsEmil FuchsEmil Fuchs was a German theologian.A religious socialist, Fuchs was one of the first Lutheran pastors to join the Social Democratic Party of Germany. As a devoted pacifist, he later joined the Religious Society of Friends...
(1874–1971), German theologian - Emil Fuchs (baseball)Emil Fuchs (baseball)Emil Edwin Fuchs was a German-born American baseball owner and executive....
(1878–1961), owner of the Boston Braves 1923–1935 - Erich Fuchs (1902–1980), Nazi SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator
- Erika FuchsErika FuchsErika Fuchs, née Petri , was a German translator.Born into a well to do large family, Fuchs spent most of her childhood and youth in Belgard in Pomerania, where in 1921 she was the first girl to be admitted to the boys' Gymnasium - she passed her Abitur exam there in 1926...
(1906–2005), German translator of Disney comics - Ernst Fuchs (disambiguation)
- Franz FuchsFranz FuchsFranz Fuchs was a xenophobic Austrian terrorist. Between 1993 and 1997 he killed four people and injured 15, some of them seriously, using three improvised explosive devices and five waves of 25 mailbombs in total.Fuchs' mailbomb campaigns and his personality features are according to criminal...
(1949–2000), Austrian terrorist - Gottfried FuchsGottfried FuchsGottfried Fuchs was a German footballer. A German Jew, he fled Germany because of The Holocaust and emigrated to Canada...
(1889–1972), soccer player - Harald FuchsHarald FuchsHarald Fuchs is a Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Münster, Germany, Scientific Director of the Center of Nanotechnology in Münster, and co-director of the Institute of Nanotechnology in Karlsruhe...
(born 1951), professor of physics - Ira FuchsIra FuchsIra H. Fuchs is an internationally known authority on innovative technology solutions for higher education and is a co-founder of BITNET, an important precursor of the Internet.Since 2010 he has been Executive Director of Next Generation Learning Challenges...
, co-founder of BITNET - Jim FuchsJim FuchsJames "Jim" Emanuel Fuchs was an American athlete who competed in both the discus and shot put. He developed a new shot-putting technique in order to compensate for a leg injury, and then used what he called "the sideways glide" to set world records and dominate the sport over a two-year span in...
(1927-2010), American athlete - Johann Nepomuk von FuchsJohann Nepomuk von FuchsJohann Nepomuk von Fuchs was a German chemist and mineralogist.He was born at Mattenzell, near Dennberg in the Bavarian Forest...
(1774–1856), German chemist - Joseph FuchsJoseph FuchsJoseph Fuchs was one of the most important American violinists and teachers of the 20th century, and the brother of Lillian Fuchs....
(1899–1997), American violinist - Josef FuchsJosef FuchsJosef Fuchs, S.J. was one of the most important Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century. A German Jesuit priest, he taught at the Gregorian University in Rome for almost thirty years...
(born 1912), German theologian - Jürgen Fuchs (motorcyclist), German motorcyclist
- Jürgen Fuchs (writer) (1950-1999), East German writer and dissident
- Karl Fuchs (museum founder) (1776–1846), Russian doctor and rector of the Kazan State University
- Kenneth FuchsKenneth FuchsKenneth Fuchs is an American composer, conductor, and educator. He currently serves as Professor of Music Composition at the University of Connecticut ....
(born 1956), American composer of classical music - Klaus FuchsKlaus FuchsKlaus Emil Julius Fuchs was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who in 1950 was convicted of supplying information from the American, British and Canadian atomic bomb research to the USSR during and shortly after World War II...
(1911–1988), German-born British physicist and Soviet spy, later resident of the GDR - Lazarus FuchsLazarus FuchsLazarus Immanuel Fuchs was a German mathematician who contributed important research in the field of linear differential equations...
(1833–1902), German mathematician - Leonhart FuchsLeonhart FuchsLeonhart Fuchs , sometimes spelled Leonhard Fuchs, was a German physician and one of the three founding fathers of botany, along with Otto Brunfels and Hieronymus Bock .-Biography:...
(sometimes Leonhard) (1501–1566), German physician and botanist - Lillian FuchsLillian FuchsLillian Fuchs , an American violist, teacher and composer, is considered to be among the finest instrumentalists of her time. She hailed from a musically talented family: her brothers, Joseph Fuchs, a violinist, and Harry Fuchs, a cellist, performed with her on numerous commercial recordings...
(1901-1995), American violist - Marta FuchsMarta FuchsMarta Fuchs was a German operatic soprano.She was born in Stuttgart. In 1923 she had her first concert, and from 1928 she made her operatic debut in Aachen. In 1930 she switched to the Staatsoper in Dresden...
(1898–1974), German opera singer - Michael Fuchs (disambiguation)
- Peter Paul FuchsPeter Paul FuchsPeter Paul Fuchs was an Austrian-born conductor and composer, best known for his conducting appointments with American orchestras and for his teaching. He was also a prolific composer although little of his music survives in performance...
(1916–2007), Austrian born conductor and composer - Richard FuchsRichard FuchsRichard Fuchs, composer and architect, was born in Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany, on 26 April 1887 and died in Wellington, New Zealand, on 22 September 1947. The football player Gottfried Fuchs was his younger brother....
(1887–1947), architect and composer - Robert FuchsRobert FuchsRobert Fuchs was an Austrian composer and music teacher.As Professor of music theory at the Vienna Conservatory, Fuchs taught many notable composers, while he was himself a highly regarded composer in his lifetime....
(1847–1927), Austrian composer - Ruth FuchsRuth FuchsRuth Fuchs, née Gamm is a German politician and former athlete. Fuchs, representing East Germany, was the winner of the women's javelin at the 1972 and 1976 Olympic Games...
(born 1946), German athlete - Thomas Fuchs (born 1978), computer scientist
- Vivian FuchsVivian FuchsSir Vivian Ernest Fuchs FRS was an English explorer whose expeditionary team completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica in 1958.- Biography :...
(1908–1999), British geologist and polar explorer - Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes FuchsWolfgang Heinrich Johannes FuchsWolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs was a mathematician specializing in complex analysis. His main area of research was Nevanlinna theory....
(1915–1997), mathematician