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.

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

• 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 character

• Bukowski family from Poland (novel) by James Michener
• Charlie Bukowski from Cannibal Apocalypse
• Claude 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)

See also

• Bukowski (disambiguation)