Bukowski (surname)

Bukowski (feminine Bukowska) is a Polish surname. It is composed of buk (Common Slavic for "beech tree") and the suffixes -ow and -ski. In some cases, the name may originate from a toponym, i.e. the name would have been given to or adopted by a person or family from a place named Buków, for example.

People

 * Adrian Bukowski, Polish footballer
 * Aleksandra Bukowska-McCabe (born 1977), Polish diplomat
 * Annamaria Orla-Bukowska, Polish social anthropologist
 * Barbara Hesse-Bukowska (1930-2013), Polish pianist
 * Barbora Bukovská, Czech-Slovak human rights attorney
 * Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), American poet, novelist, and short story writer
 * Dorota Bukowska (born 1972), Polish basketball player
 * John Bukovsky (1924–2010), Slovakia-born American prelate of the Catholic Church
 * John Bukowski (1939–2001), Australian boxer
 * Gary Bukowski, List of Western Suburbs Magpies players
 * Helena Bukowska-Szlekys (1899-1954), Polish sculptor
 * Henryk Bukowski (1839-1900), Polish nobleman, Bukowskis auction house
 * Miroslav Bukovsky, Czech-Australian trumpeter and flugelhorn player, arranger and composer and bandleader of Wanderlust (jazz band).
 * Piotr Bukowski (born 1963), German water polo player
 * Ronald Bukowski, American oncologist, urologist, and a professor of medicine
 * Stanisław Bukowski (1923-2002), Polish cross-country skier
 * Vladimir Bukovsky (1942-2019), former Soviet political dissident, author and political activist

Fictional characters

 * Bukowski family from Poland (novel) by James Michener
 * Charlie Bukowski from Cannibal Apocalypse
 * Claude Hooper Bukowski from Hair (film)
 * Fante Bukowski, character by Noah Van Sciver
 * Stanley Bukowski, List of Oz (TV series) characters
 * Ted Bukovsky from Kuffs
 * Victor Bukowski from The Man with Rain in His Shoes

Related forms

 * Bukač (disambiguation) (surname)
 * Buková (disambiguation) (place name)
 * Bukov (disambiguation)
 * Buków (disambiguation) (place name)
 * Bukovina (place name)
 * Bukowsko (place name)