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Fuchs is German for Fox and may refer to:

Geography

• Fuchs, California

Industry

• Fuchs Petrolub, the world's largest independent manufacturer of lubricants, and related speciality products.
• Fuchs Group, spice company based in Germany
• Otto Fuchs KG , manufacturer of forged and extruded automotive parts – including their Fuchs light alloy wheels used by Porsche for their Porsche 911 automobile.

Medicine

• Fuchs' dystrophy, a slowly progressing corneal disease

Military

• Transportpanzer Fuchs, a German armoured personnel carrier

People

• Arved Fuchs (born 1953), writer and adventurer
• Bernard Fuchs (born 1916), French pilot and hero of the Second World War
• Charlie Fuchs (1912–1969), American baseball player
• Daniel Fuchs (1909–1993), writer and screenwriter
• Eduard Fuchs (1870–1940), Marxist cultural scientist
• Emil Fuchs (1874–1971), German theologian
• Emil Fuchs (baseball) (1878–1961), owner of the Boston Braves 1923–1935
• Erika Fuchs (1906–2005), German translator of Disney comics
• Ernst Fuchs (disambiguation)
• Franz Fuchs (1949–2000), Austrian terrorist
• Gottfried Fuchs (1889–1972), soccer player
• Harald Fuchs (born 1951), professor of physics
• Ira Fuchs, co-founder of BITNET
• Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs (1774–1856), German chemist
• Joseph Fuchs (1899–1997), American violinst
• Josef Fuchs (born 1912), German theologian
• Jürgen Fuchs (1950-1999), East German dissident
• Karl Fuchs (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
• Lazarus Fuchs (1833–1902), German mathematician
• Leonhart Fuchs (sometimes Leonhard) (1501–1566), German physician and botanist
• Marta Fuchs (1898–1974), German opera singer
• Michael Fuchs (disambiguation)
• Peter Paul Fuchs (1916–2007), Austrian born conductor and composer
• Richard Fuchs (1887–1947), architect and composer
• Robert Fuchs (1847–1927), Austrian composer
• Ruth Fuchs (born 1946), German athlete
• Thomas Fuchs (born 1978), computer scientist
• Vivian Fuchs (1908–1999), British geologist and polar explorer
• Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs (1915–1997), mathematician

Fuks

• Dmitry (Borisovich) Fuchs (Fuks) (de)
• Karl Fuchs (Fuks), a Tatarstani ethnic-German man, founder of a museum
• Ladislav Fuks (1923, Prague - 1994, Prague), a Jewish Czech novelist
• Marian Fuks, a Polish historian (pl)

Fucks

• Argélico Fucks (born 1974, Santa Rosa), a Brazilian footballer

See also

• Fux

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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

German

Etymology

Old High German fuhs, from common Germanic *fuhsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *puk-so-, from *peuk- "thick-haired". Near cognates include English fox.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fʊks/, SAMPA: /fUks/

Noun

Fuchs m. (genitive Fuchses, plural Füchse)

1. fox

Related terms

• Fuchsschwanz
• ausgefuchst
• fuchsig
• fussig
• fuchsrot
• fuchsteufelswild