# Fuchs (surname)

Fuchs (German and Yiddish for "fox") is a surname; it has as variants Fux, Fuhs, and Fuchß. Notable persons bearing it include the following:

## Notable people
### Fuchs, A–D

* Alain Fuchs (1953–2024), French chemist
* Argel Fuchs (born Argélico Fucks 1974, Santa Rosa), Brazilian footballer
* Arved Fuchs (born 1953), German writer and adventurer
* Benjamin Fuchs (born 1983), German-Austrian footballer
* Bernard Fuchs (1916–2005), French pilot and hero of the Second World War
* Bernie Fuchs (1932–2009), American illustrator
* Bruce Fuchs, American immunologist and health science administrator
* Charlie Fuchs (1912–1969), American baseball player
* Christian Fuchs (born 1986), Austrian footballer
* Christine Schwarz-Fuchs (born 1974), Austrian entrepreneur and politician
* Christoph Fuchs von Fuchsberg (1482–1542), bishop of Brixen
* Daniel Fuchs (1909–1993), American writer and screenwriter
* Dmitry Fuchs (born 1939), Russian-American mathematician
* Doris Fuchs (scientist) (born 1966), German political scientist
* Doris Gudrun Fuchs (born 1938), American gymnast

### Fuchs, E–F

* Eduard Fuchs (1870–1940), Marxist cultural scientist
* Elaine Fuchs (born 1950), American cell biologist
* Elissa Minet Fuchs (1919–2023), American ballerina
* Elizabeth Fuchs, American politician
* Emil Fuchs (artist) (1866–1929), Austrian-American sculptor
* Emil Fuchs (theologian) (1874–1971), German theologian
* Emil Fuchs (baseball) (1878–1961), owner of the Boston Braves 1923–1935
* Engelbert Fuchs, Austrian luger
* Erich Fuchs (1902–1980), German Nazi SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator
* Erika Fuchs (1906–2005), German translator of Disney comics
* Ernst Fuchs (artist) (1930–2015), Austrian artist
* Ernst Fuchs (cyclist) (1936–1994), Swiss cyclist
* Ernst Fuchs (doctor) (1851–1930), Austrian ophthalmologist
* Ernst Fuchs (theologian) (1903–1983) German New Testament scholar and student of Rudolf Bultmann
* Ernest Fooks (1906–1985) Australian architect
* Franz Fuchs (1949–2000), Austrian terrorist
* Fred Fuchs (DOB unknown), American television producer

### Fuchs, G–I

* Gottfried Fuchs (1889–1972), German-Canadian soccer player
* Harald Fuchs (born 1951), professor of physics
* Henry Fuchs (baseball) (1879–1947), also known as Jacob Fox, American baseball player
* Henry Fuchs, born Henryk Tauber (1917–2000), Holocaust survivor
* Henry Fuchs (born 1948), American academic
* Herbert Fuchs (1905–1988), American lawyer
* Ignaz Fuchs, (1819–1854), born Vatroslav Lisinski, Croatian composer
* Ira Fuchs, co-founder of BITNET

### Fuchs, J–K

* Jakob Fuchs (1920–2005), German soldier
* Jason Fuchs (born 1986), American actor
* Jenő Fuchs (1882–1955), Hungarian Olympic champion fencer
* Jim Fuchs (1927–2010), American athlete
* Joël Fuchs (born 1989), Swiss basketball player
* Johann Nepomuk Fuchs (architect) (1727–1804), architect from Styria, Austria-Hungary
* Johann Nepomuk Fuchs (composer) (1842–1899), Austrian composer and conductor
* Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs (1774–1856), German chemist who gave his name to fuchsite
* Joseph Fuchs (1899–1997), American violinist
* Josef Fuchs (theologian) (1912–2005), 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 Fuchs (born 1956), American composer of classical music
* Klaus Fuchs (1911–1988), German-born British physicist and Soviet spy, later resident of the GDR

### Fuchs, L–M

* Lars Fuchs (born 1982), German footballer
* László Fuchs (born 1924), Hungarian-American mathematician
* Lawrence Fuchs (1927–2013), American university professor and author
* Lazarus Fuchs (1833–1902), German mathematician
* Leonhart Fuchs (sometimes Leonhard) (1501–1566), German physician and botanist
* Lillian Fuchs (1901–1995), American violist
* Lukas Fuchs (1922–2009), better known as Lukas Foss, German-American composer
* Marta Fuchs (1898–1974), German opera singer
* Michael J. Fuchs (born 1946), American television executive, former head of HBO
* Michael Fuchs (football) (1972–2011), Austrian football manager and retired footballer
* Michael Fuchs (badminton) (born 1982), German badminton player
* Michael Fuchs (politician) (1949–2022), German parliamentarian and Bundestag member
* Michael Fuchs (sculptor), sculpted the Medal of Suleiman in 1554
* Michael Fuchs (figure skater), German ice dancer, 1974 German gold medalist

### Fuchs, N–Z

* Nicolás Fuchs (born 1982), Peruvian rally driver
* Peter Paul Fuchs (1916–2007), Austrian-born conductor and composer
* Radovan Fuchs (born 1953), Croatian scientist and former government minister
* Richard Fuchs (1887–1947), architect and composer
* Robert Fuchs (disambiguation)
* Ronald Fuchs (1932–2012) American physicist
* Ruth Fuchs (1946–2023), German athlete
* Thomas Fuchs (born 1969), German-born illustrator
* Vivian Fuchs (1908–1999), British geologist and polar explorer
* Walter Robert Fuchs (1937–1976), American-German science communicator and science popularizer
* Wilhelm Fuchs (1898–1947), German Nazi SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator executed for war crimes
* Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs (1915–1997), mathematician

### Fucks

* Argélico Fucks, birth name of Argel Fuchs (born 1974, Santa Rosa), Brazilian footballer (also listed above with different spelling)
see also:
* Ralf Fücks (born 1951), German politician

### Fuks

* Alexander Fuks (1917–1978), German-born Israeli historian, archaeologist and papyrologist
* Johannes Fuks, Estonian politician
* Julián Fuks, Brazilian writer
* Ladislav Fuks (1923–1994), Czech novelist
* Marian Fuks (historian) (1914–2022), Polish historian
* Marian Fuks (photographer) (1884–1935), Polish filmmaker and pioneer of photography
* Pavel Fuks (born 1971), Ukrainian-Russian millionaire businessman and investor
* Suzon Fuks (born 1959), artist, choreographer and director

### Fux

* Herbert Fux (1927–2007), Austrian actor
* Johann Joseph Fux (1660–1741), Austrian composer, music theorist and pedagogue
* Luiz Fux (born 1953), Brazilian judge
* María Fux, Argentine dancer, choreographer, and dance therapist
* Robert Fux, Swedish actor, performance artist, playwright and drag queen
* Vinzenz Fux (c. 1606–1659), Austrian composer