Gluck (surname)

Gluck is a surname of German or Yiddish origin. the root word means luck in either language. It is a last name found among Ashkenazi Jews and those of German ancestry. However, there is evidence that the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck's surname derives from the Czech word kluk (boy).[1]

Notable people with the surname include:

• Abbe Gluck, American legal academic
• Alma Gluck (Reba Feinsohn) (1884–1938), Romanian-American soprano
• Barbara Gluck (born 1938), American photographer
• Benjamin Gluck, American screenwriter, animator and director
• Carol Gluck (born 1941), American historian of modern Japan
• Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787), one of the most important opera composers of the Classical music era
• Earle J. Gluck (1900–1972), American radio pioneer
• Edgar Gluck (born 1936), rabbi in Galicia
• Frederick Gluck (born 1935), American management consultant
• Henry Gluck (born 1929), American business executive and philanthropist from Los Angeles, California.
• Herschel Gluck, British rabbi
• Jay Gluck (1927–2000), American archaeologist and art historian
• Louis Gluck (1924–1997), American neonatologist
• Malcolm Gluck, British wine writer
• Mark A. Gluck, American professor of neuroscience
• Maxwell Henry Gluck (1899–1984), American businessman, diplomat, thoroughbred horse breeder and philanthropist
• Michael Gluck (born 1983), American pianist
• Peter L. Gluck (born 1939), American architect
• Rita Buglass Gluck, American writer
• Robert Gluck (born 1955), American pianist and composer
• Salomon Gluck (1914–1944), French physician and member of the French Resistance
• Themistocles Gluck (1853–1942), German physician
• Will Gluck (born 1978), American film director, screenwriter, and producer