Buck (surname)
Buck is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Arts and entertainment
- Adolf Buck, German-Liechtensteiner photographer
- David Buck, British actor
- Detlev Buck, German film director
- Dudley Buck, American composer
- Frederick Buck, Irish portrait miniature painter
- John E. Buck, American sculptor and printmaker
- Julie Buck, American artist and photographer
- Margaret Warriner Buck, American botanical artist
- Mary K. Buck, Bohemian-born American author
- Nathaniel Buck, English engraver and printmaker, brother of Samuel Buck
- Pearl S. Buck, American novelist
- Percy Buck, English musician
- Peter Buck, American musician
- Rinker Buck, American author
- Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter
- Samantha Buck, American actress
- Samuel Buck, English engraver and printmaker, brother of Nathaniel Buck
- Tara Buck, American actress
- Zechariah Buck, English organist and choirmaster
Politics, law, and government
- Antony Buck, British politician
- Arthur Buck, Canadian politician
- Clarence F. Buck, American politician and businessman
- C. Douglass Buck, American engineer and politician, Governor and Senator of Delaware
- Daniel Buck, United States Representative from Vermont
- Daniel Buck (judge), American jurist and politician
- E. C. Buck, American politician from Virginia
- Ed Buck, American Democrat political activist and fundraiser
- Edward Charles Buck, British civil servant
- Frank Buck (Tennessee politician), American politician
- Fred C. Buck, American politician from Virginia
- George L. Buck, American politician
- John R. Buck, United States congressman
- Kathleen A. Buck, American politician and attorney
- Ken Buck, American politician
- Leonard W. Buck, American businessman, rancher and politician
- Peter Buck (mayor), English mayor and naval official
- Peter Henry Buck or Te Rangi Hīroa, New Zealand doctor, military leader, health administrator, politician, anthropologist and museum director
- Tim Buck, long-time leader of the Communist Party of Canada
- Tom Buck, American lawyer and politician
- Walt Buck, Canadian politician
- Wilhelm Buck, German politician
Science, mathematics, and medicine
- Dudley Allen Buck, American scientist, engineer, educator, and inventor
- Gurdon Buck, American surgeon, performed first clinical photograph, contributed to numerous fields of surgery
- Peter Henry Buck or Te Rangi Hīroa, New Zealand doctor, military leader, health administrator, politician, anthropologist and museum director
- Robert Creighton Buck, American mathematician
Sports
- Bill Buck (cricketer), English cricketer
- Bill Buck (footballer), Australian footballer
- Bob Buck (sportscaster), American sportscaster
- Craig Buck, American former volleyball player
- David Buck (footballer), English footballer
- Fred Buck, British football player
- Gilles Buck, French sailor who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Harold Buck, British rugby league footballer
- Harry Buck, American coach and physical education instructor
- Jack Buck, American sportscaster
- Joe Buck, American sportscaster
- John Buck (baseball player), American baseball player
- Richard Buck, English sprinter
- Travis Buck, American baseball player
- Mike Buck (American football), American football player
- William Buck (baseball), American baseball player and umpire
Other fields
- Bill Buck (environmentalist), American environmentalist and producer
- Carl Darling Buck, American linguist
- Carrie Buck, unsuccessful plaintiff in Buck v. Bell, which upheld compulsory sterilization
- David J. Buck, United States Air Force general
- Florence Buck, American Unitarian minister, educator, suffragist
- Frank Buck (animal collector), American hunter, animal collector, and film director
- George Buck, English antiquarian
- Jim Buck (dog walker), American dog walker
- Paul Herman Buck, American historian
- Peter Buck (restaurateur), American restaurateur and philanthropist
- Robbie Buck, Australian radio announcer
- Robert N. Buck, American aviator
- Solon J. Buck, Archivist of the United States
- William Buck (translator), American writer who produced English versions of the Mahabharata and ''Ramayana''