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.
Language | Masculine | Feminine | Plural |
---|---|---|---|
Polish | Bukowski [buˈkɔfskʲi] |
Bukowska [buˈkɔfska] |
Bukowscy [buˈkɔfst͡sɨ] |
Belarusian (Romanization) |
Букоўскі (Bukoŭski) |
Букоўская (Bukoŭskaja, Bukouskaya) | |
Bulgarian (Romanization) |
Буковски (Bukovski) |
Буковска (Bukovska) | |
Czech, Slovak | Bukovský | Bukovská | |
Lithuanian | Bukauskas | Bukauskienė (married) Bukauskaitė (unmarried) | |
Russian (Romanization) |
Буковский (Bukovsky, Bukovskiy, Bukovskij) |
Буковская (Bukovskaya, Bukovskaia, Bukovskaja) | |
Ukrainian (Romanization) |
Буковський (Bukovskyi, Bukovskyy, Bukovskyj) |
Буковська (Bukovska) |
People
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- Bukač (disambiguation) (surname)
- Buková (disambiguation) (place name)
- Bukov (disambiguation)
- Buków (disambiguation) (place name)
- Bukovina (place name)
- Bukowsko (place name)