Koch (surname)
Koch is a German surname that means "cook" or "chef". Notable people with the surname include:
A–C
- Adam Koch, American professional basketball player
- Adolf Koch, German school teacher and leader of the Freikörperkultur
- Alan Koch (baseball), American professional baseball player
- Alan Koch (soccer), South African and Canadian football/soccer coach
- Alexander Koch (disambiguation), several people
- Alfred Koch, Russian writer, mathematician-economist, and businessman of ethnic German origin
- Alfred Michael Koch, Swiss-born Canadian flying ace
- Amy Koch, member of the Minnesota Senate
- Andreas Koch, Austrian former footballer
- Anton Koch (disambiguation), several people
- Aubrey Koch, pioneering Australian aviator
- Beat Koch, Swiss cross country skier
- Beate Koch, German athlete
- Bernward Koch, German composer, pianist and keyboardist
- Berthold Koch, German chess master
- Bill Koch (businessman), William I. "Bill" Koch, America's Cup yachtsman, businessman, son of Fred C. Koch
- Bill Koch (skier), cross-country skier
- Billy Koch, Major league baseball relief pitcher
- Blake Koch, American race car driver
- Bobby Koch, CEO of the Wine Institute
- Carl Koch (director), German film director and writer
- Carl Koch (architect), American architect
- Carl Ludwig Koch, German entomologist and arachnologist, father of Ludwig Carl Christian Koch
- Carin Koch, Swedish professional golfer
- Cary Koch, American professional football wide receiver playing for the Saskatchewan Roughriders
- Cees Koch (athlete), Dutch discus thrower
- Charles Koch, heir and CEO of Koch Industries and co-founder of the free-market Cato Institute
- Chris Koch (director), American film director
- Christiane Koch, German physicist
- Christina Koch, American astronaut
- Christof Koch, American neuroscientist
- Christopher Koch, Australian novelist
- Ciril Metod Koch, Slovene architect
- Cooper Koch, American actor
D–G
- Dagfinn Koch, Norwegian musician
- Dan Koch, American musician, lead guitarist and principal songwriter for the indie rock band Sherwood
- Daniel Koch (Swiss physician), Swiss physician
- Daniel Koch (American politician), Pennsylvania politician
- David Koch (Australian politician), member of the Victorian Legislative Council
- David Koch (television presenter), Australian financial analyst and TV presenter
- David Koch, businessman, 1980 Libertarian Party vice-presidential candidate, heir to Koch Industries, son of Fred C. Koch
- Des Koch, American athlete
- Dieter-Lebrecht Koch, German politician
- Dietrich Koch, Oberleutnant der Reserve in the Wehrmacht during World War II
- Dora Koch-Stetter, German landscape artist, portrait painter and etcher
- Dorothy Bush Koch, daughter of the 41st president of the US, George Herbert Walker Bush
- Ed Koch, 105th mayor of New York City 1978–1989
- Edeltraud Koch, German swimmer
- Ehrhardt Koch, German American businessman
- Eleonore Koch, German-born Brazilian artist
- Eric Koch, German-born Canadian author, broadcaster, and professor
- Erich Koch, Gauleiter of East Prussia
- Erik Koch, American martial artist
- Erland Koch, German sports shooter
- Fabian Koch, Austrian footballer
- Florian Koch, German basketball player
- Franz Koch (disambiguation), several people
- Franziska Romana Koch, German operatic soprano
- Fred C. Koch, American chemical engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Koch Industries
- Fred Conrad Koch, American biochemist
- Freddy Koch, Danish film actor
- Frederick R. Koch, American collector and philanthropist, son of Fred C. Koch
- Friedrich Koch, German composer
- Friedrich Koch (general), German general
- Gabriele Koch, German studio potter
- Gaetano Koch, Italian architect
- Gareth Koch, Australian classical guitarist
- Gary Koch, American professional golfer
- George Koch, American football player
- George W. Koch, American politician
- Georg Koch, German football goalkeeper
- Gertrud Koch, German resistance fighter
- Gini Koch, American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer
- Greg Koch, American football tackle
- Greg Koch (musician), American guitarist
H–K
- Hans Koch (disambiguation), several people
- Hans-Reinhard Koch, German Roman Catholic prelate
- Harald Koch, Austrian badminton player
- Harry Koch (German footballer), German footballer and coach
- Harry Koch (businessman), Dutch-born American businessman
- Hawk Koch, American film producer
- Heinrich Koch, German politician
- Heinrich Christoph Koch, German music theorist, musical lexicographer, and composer
- Helge von Koch, Swedish mathematician, originator of the eponymous "Koch snowflake"
- Helmut Koch (conductor), German conductor, choir leader, broadcasting manager, composer and academic teacher
- Henny Koch, German children's author and translator
- Henri Koch (disambiguation), several people
- Henriette Koch, Danish sports sailor
- Henry C. Koch, German-American architect
- Herbert Koch, German mathematician
- Herman Koch, Dutch writer and actor
- Howard E. Koch, American screenwriter
- Howard W. Koch, American film director/producer
- Hugo Koch, Dutch inventor
- Ilse Koch, German personality, "The Bitch of Buchenwald", wife of Karl Otto Koch
- Jan Koch, German footballer
- Jerry Koch, American basketball player
- Jesper Koch, Danish composer
- Jim Koch, American brewer, founder of Boston Beer Company
- John Koch, American painter
- Johan Peter Koch, Danish captain and explorer
- Jonathan Koch (disambiguation), several people
- Joseph Koch, American lawyer, politician, and judge
- Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter
- Jørgen Hansen Koch, Danish architect
- Julian Koch, German football player
- Julius August Koch, German astronomer
- Julius Ludwig August Koch, German psychiatrist
- Julius Koch, German, exceptionally tall man
- Jurij Koch, Sorbian writer
- Jürgen Koch, Austrian badminton player
- Karen Koch, American ice hockey goaltender
- Karl Koch (disambiguation), several people
- Karl-Rudolf Koch, German geodesist and professor
- Kenneth Koch, American poet
- Klaus Koch, German Old Testament Scholar
- Konrad Koch, German teacher and football pioneer
- Kurt Koch, Swiss Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- Kurt E. Koch, Protestant theologian and writer
- Kyle Koch, Canadian football offensive lineman
L–R
- Lauge Koch, Danish expedition leader in Greenland
- Lothar Koch (musician), German oboist
- Ludwig Koch (disambiguation), several people
- Lydia Lunch, American musician, singer, poet, spoken word performer, born Lydia Konch
- Marco Koch, German swimmer
- Marianne Koch, German actress and physician
- Marita Koch, German sprint athlete
- Mariza Koch, Greek folk singer
- Markus Koch, American football defensive lineman
- Martin Koch (novelist), Swedish novelist
- Martin Koch (ski jumper), Austrian ski jumper
- Máté Tamás Koch, Hungarian épée fencer
- Matt Koch, American baseball player
- Matthias Koch, Austrian football midfielder
- Max Koch (disambiguation), several people
- Meinolf Koch, German football player
- Michael Koch (disambiguation), several people
- Mogens Koch, Danish architect
- Noppie Koch, Dutch cyclist and pacer
- Norma Koch, Academy Award winning costume designer
- Nynne Koch, Danish novelist and women's studies researcher
- Olga Koch, Russian-British comedian
- Patrik Koch, Slovak ice hockey player
- Paulie Koch, world champion wakeboarder
- Pauline Koch, Albert Einstein's mother
- Payton Koch, American film editor
- Philippe Koch, Swiss football defender
- Pete Koch, American football player and actor
- Peter Koch (wood scientist), American wood scientist and industrial engineer
- Peter Rutledge Koch, American artist book publisher, designer
- Pierre Koch, French engineer
- Pietro Koch, Italian police leader
- Polly Koch, American football player
- Pyke Koch, Dutch artist
- Raphael Koch, Swiss footballer
- Richard Koch, management consultant, entrepreneur, and writer
- Richard H. Koch, American judge and railroad owner
- Rickard Koch, Swedish bandy player
- Robert Koch, German physician, discoverer of the tubercle and cholera bacilli, Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate in 1905
- Robert Koch (footballer), German footballer
- Robert Koch Woolf, American interior decorator
- Robin Koch, German footballer
- Roland Koch, German politician
- Roland Koch (footballer), German football manager
- Roscoe R. Koch, American politician
- Rosslyn Koch, Ceylonese politician
- Rudolf Koch, German calligrapher, typographic artist and teacher
S–Z
- Sam Koch, American former football punter for the Baltimore Ravens of the NFL
- Sarah Koch, American mathematician
- Sebastian Koch, German actor
- Silvana Koch-Mehrin, German politician
- Simona Koch, German diver
- Simone Koch, German figure skater
- Shari Koch, German ice dancer
- Sophie Koch, French mezzo-soprano
- Stefan Koch, German basketball coach
- Stefanie Koch, German ski mountaineer
- Stephan W. Koch, German theoretical physicist
- Tanit Koch, German journalist
- Theodor Koch, German engineer
- Thomas Koch (disambiguation), several people
- Thomaz Koch, Brazilian tennis player
- Tobias Koch (pianist), German pianist
- Tom Koch, writer for Mad Magazine
- Ursula Koch, Swiss politician
- Valdemar Koch, Danish architect and politician
- Vincent Koch, South African professional rugby player
- Waldemar Koch, German politician
- Walter Koch (disambiguation), several people
- Werner Koch, German software author
- Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch, German physician and botanist
- Wilhelmina Koch, German composer