Bruckner (surname)

Bruckner, Brueckner or Brückner (German: from Middle Low German brugge or Middle High German brugge brücke brügge "bridge" + the agent suffix -ner hence a topographic name for someone living by a bridge an occupational name for a bridge toll collector or in the southeast (Silesia for example) a bridge keeper or repairer) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Agnes Bruckner (born 1985), American actress
 * Aleksander Brückner (1856–1939), Polish philologist
 * Amy Bruckner (born 1991), American actress
 * Anton Bruckner (1824–1896), Austrian composer, music theorist and classical organist
 * David Bruckner (c. 1977), American film director
 * D. J. R. Bruckner (1933–2013), American journalist
 * Eduard Brückner (1862–1927), German scientist
 * Ferdinand Bruckner (1891–1958), Austrian-German writer and theater manager
 * Henry Bruckner (1871–1942), American politician
 * Karl Bruckner (1906–1986), Austrian writer
 * Karel Brückner (born 1939), Czech football coach
 * Pascal Bruckner (born 1948), French writer
 * Ronny Bruckner (1957–2013), Belgian businessman
 * Wilhelm Brückner (1884–1954)
 * Wilhelm Brückner (murderer) (c.1894–1925)
 * Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg (1906–1985)