Sachs
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Sachs is a German surname meaning "man from Saxony
Saxony
The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states....

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Real people
  • Albie Sachs
    Albie Sachs
    Albie Sachs was a judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He was appointed to the court by Nelson Mandela in 1994 and retired in October 2009...

     (born 1935), a South African Constitutional Court Justice
  • Andrew Sachs
    Andrew Sachs
    Andrew Sachs is a German-born British actor. He made his name on British television and is best known for his portrayals of Manuel in Fawlty Towers, a role for which he was BAFTA-nominated, and Ramsay Clegg in Coronation Street.-Early life:Sachs was born in Berlin, Germany, the son of Katharina , a...

     (born 1930), a German-British actor
  • Bernard Sachs
    Bernard Sachs
    Bernard Sachs was a Jewish-American neurologist. After graduating with a B.A. from Harvard in 1878, Sachs travelled to Europe and studied under some of the most prominent physicians of the time, such as Adolf Kussmaul , Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen , Friedrich Goltz , Rudolf Virchow...

     (1858–1944), an American neurologist
  • Curt Sachs
    Curt Sachs
    Curt Sachs was a German-born but American-domiciled musicologist. He was one of the founders of modern organology , and is probably best remembered today for co-authoring the Sachs-Hornbostel scheme of musical instrument classification with his fellow scholar Erich von Hornbostel.Born in Berlin,...

     (also Kurth Sachs, 1881–1959), a music historian
  • Eddie Sachs
    Eddie Sachs
    Edward Julius Sachs, Jr, born May 28, 1927 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, died May 30, 1964 in Speedway, Indiana was a United States Auto Club driver who was known as the "Clown Prince of Auto Racing." He coined the phrase "If you can't win, be spectacular."...

     (1927–1964), an American racecar driver
  • Gunter Sachs
    Gunter Sachs
    Fritz Gunter Sachs was a German photographer, author, industrialist, and latterly head of an institute that researched claims of astrology. As a young man he became a sportsman, then gained international fame as a documentary film-maker and documentary photographer...

     (1932–2011), better known as Gunter Sachs, a German photographer, researcher (mathematics and astrology) and playboy
  • George Sachs
    George Sachs
    George Sachs was a Russian-born German and American metallurgist.Born in Moscow, he taught at Frankfurt University , and the Case Institute of Technology He was of Jewish birth, and left Germany with his family in 1937 to escape Nazi persecution, and settled in the United...

     (1896–1961), a Russia-born German and US metallurgist
  • Hans Sachs (disambiguation)
    Hans Sachs (disambiguation)
    Hans Sachs was a German poet, the inspiration for the character in Lortzing's opera and in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.Hans Sachs may also refer to:*Hans Sachs , German serologist-See also:...

    • Hans Sachs
      Hans Sachs
      Hans Sachs was a German meistersinger , poet, playwright and shoemaker.-Biography:Hans Sachs was born in Nuremberg . His father was a tailor. He attended Latin school in Nuremberg...

       (1494–1576), a German poet
    • Hans Sachs (serologist)
      Hans Sachs (serologist)
      Hans Sachs , was a German serologist.-Education:Sachs studied at the universities of Freiburg, Wrocław and Berlin. In 1900, he received his doctorate from the University of Leipzig. From 1905, he taught and conducted research at the University of Frankfurt...

       (1877–1945), a German serologist
  • Harvey Sachs
    Harvey Sachs
    Harvey Sachs, is an American-Canadian-Swiss writer who has written many books on musical subjects.His books include the standard biography of and a book of essays on the Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini, plus an edited collection of Toscanini's letters.* Toscanini, Philadelphia & New York: J. B...

     (born 1946), an American-Canadian conductor and writer
  • Horst Sachs
    Horst Sachs
    Horst Sachs is a German mathematician, an expert in graph theory, a recipient of the Euler Medal .He earned the degree of Doctor of Science from the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in 1958...

    , a German mathematician, an expert in graph theory
  • Ignacy Sachs
    Ignacy Sachs
    Ignacy Sachs is a Polish, naturalized French economist. He is also said to be an ecosocioeconomist, due to his ideas about development as a combination of economic growth, equalitarian increase in social well-being and environmental preservation...

     (born 1927), a Polish, naturalized French economist and ecosocioeconomist
  • James D. Sachs
    James D. Sachs
    James D. Sachs is a retired United States Air Force veteran, game artist and game programmer.Sachs was the lead artist on the groundbreaking Amiga computer game Defender of the Crown from Cinemaware . He is also the author of the Commodore 64 game Saucer Attack, which was heavily pirated...

     a retired United States Air Force veteran, game artist and game programmer
  • Jeffrey Sachs
    Jeffrey Sachs
    Jeffrey David Sachs is an American economist and Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University. One of the youngest economics professors in the history of Harvard University, Sachs became known for his role as an adviser to Eastern European and developing country governments in the...

     (born 1954), an American economist
  • Johann Sachs
    Johann Sachs
    Johann Melchior Ernst Sachs was a German romantic composer, who also held teaching and performing posts.He studied first at Altdorf Seminary; taught in elementary schools from 1861 to 1863, then entered the Munich College of Music and remained there from 1863 to 1865, before becoming a pupil there...

     (born 1843), a German composer
  • Jonathan Sachs
    Jonathan Sachs
    Jonathan Sachs was the programmer who co-founded Lotus Development Corporation with Mitch Kapor in 1982 and created the first version of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet program...

     (born 1947), an American computer programmer
  • Julius von Sachs
    Julius von Sachs
    Julius von Sachs was a German botanist from Breslau, Prussian Silesia.At an early age he showed a taste for natural history, becoming acquainted with the Breslau physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkyně. In 1851 he began studying at Charles University in Prague...

     (1832–1897), a German botanist
  • Lenny Sachs
    Lenny Sachs
    Leonard David Sachs was an American basketball and football coach and player. In 1961, he was posthumously enshrined as a coach in the Basketball Hall of Fame....

     (1897–1942), an American football player and basketball coach
  • Leonard Sachs
    Leonard Sachs
    Leonard Sachs was a British actor.-Early life and career:Sachs was born in South Africa in the town of Roodepoort, Transvaal...

     (1909–1990), a British actor
  • Maria Sachs
    Maria Sachs
    Maria Lorts Sachs is a Delray Beach, Florida attorney and Democratic member of the Florida State Senate, serving the 30th District since 2010. Previously, she served as a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 2007 to 2010....

    , an American politician
  • Maurice Sachs
    Maurice Sachs
    Maurice Sachs was a French writer. He was the son of a Jewish family of jewelers.- Biography :...

     (1906–1945), a French author
  • Mendel Sachs
    Mendel Sachs
    Mendel Sachs is a US theoretical physicist who was Professor of Physics at the State University of New York Buffalo .- Education and career :...

     (born 1927), an American physicist
  • Michael Sachs
    Michael Sachs
    Michael Sachs was a German rabbi from Glogau , Silesia.He was one of the first Jewish graduates from the modern universities, earning a Ph.D. degree in 1836. He was appointed Rabbi in Prague in 1836, and in Berlin in 1844...

     (born 1808), a German rabbi
  • Nelly Sachs
    Nelly Sachs
    Nelly Sachs was a Jewish German poet and playwright whose experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe transformed her into a poignant spokeswoman for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews...

     (1891–1970), a German poet
  • Rainer Sachs (born 1932), German-born American scientist known for his work in astrophysics and biophysics
  • Robin Sachs
    Robin Sachs
    Robin David Sachs is an English actor.Sachs was born in London, the son of actors Leonard Sachs and Eleanor Summerfield...

     (born 1951), a British actor
  • Stephen Sachs
    Stephen Sachs
    Stephen Sachs is an award-winning stage director and playwright. He is currently the Co-Artistic Director of The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles, which he co-founded in 1990.- Biography :...

     (born 1959), an American stage director and playwright
  • Stephen H. Sachs
    Stephen H. Sachs
    Stephen H. Sachs is a former Maryland politician and former Attorney General of Maryland.- Background :Sachs was born in Baltimore City, the son of Shirley and Leon Sachs. He is Jewish. Sachs was educated at Haverford College and Yale Law School...

     (born 1934), an American politician and Attorney General of Maryland
  • Wolfgang Sachs
    Wolfgang Sachs
    -Wolfgang Sachs:Wolfgang Sachs is a researcher, writer and university teacher in the field of environment, development, and globalization.He studied sociology and Catholic theology in Munich, Tübingen and Berkeley...

    , Ph.D., a German researcher and author of books


Fictional characters
  • Andrea Sachs, created by Lauren Weisberger
  • Daniel Sachs, from an online graphic novel Demonology 101
  • Amelia Sachs, an NYPD police officer in the Lincoln Rhyme series of crime/mystery novels by Jeffery Deaver.
  • Benjamin Sachs, protagonist in novel, Leviathan (Auster novel) by Paul Auster


Companies
  • Goldman Sachs
    Goldman Sachs
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients...

    , a bank
  • ZF Sachs
    ZF Sachs
    ZF Sachs AG is a German manufacturer of automotive parts, producing powertrain and suspension components. It was formerly known as Fichtel & Sachs, Mannesmann Sachs and Sachs...

     AG, a company
  • Sachs Electric
    Sachs Electric
    Sachs Electric Company is the largest electrical contractor in Missouri. In addition, Sachs has four specialized divisions: Sachs Automation, for pneumatic and computer-based process control systems; Sachs Systems for communications and security systems; McGraw Electric for automotive industry and...

    , a Missouri electrical contractor
  • Sachs Motorcycles
    Sachs Motorcycles
    Sachs Motorcycles is a German based motorcycle manufacturer, founded in 1886 in Schweinfurt as Schweinfurter Präzisions-Kugellagerwerke Fichtel & Sachs, formerly known as Fichtel & Sachs, Mannesmann Sachs and later just Sachs....



Locations
  • Sachs Patera
    Sachs Patera
    Sachs Patera is a feature on Venus. Defined as a sag-caldera, Sachs is an elliptical depression 130 meters in depth, spanning in width along its longest axis. The morphology implies that a chamber of molten material drained and collapsed, forming a depression surrounded by concentric scarps...


See also

  • Saks (disambiguation)
  • Sax (disambiguation)
  • Saxe (disambiguation)
  • Sacks (disambiguation)
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