Bukowski (surname)
Bukowski, Bukovski, or Bukovsky (Belarusian: Букоўскі, Bukouski, Russian: Буковский, Ukrainian: Буковський) is a surname found in several Slavic languages: Polish, Bulgarian, Czech, Belarusian, Russian, Slovak and Ukrainian. It is composed of the common Slavic word buk- (common Slavic for "beech tree") and the Slavic suffixes -ov and -ski.
The feminine forms are Bukowska (Polish), Bukovskaya (Russian, Ukrainian), Bukouskaya (Belarusian), Bukovská (Czech, Slovak), Bukovska (Bulgarian).
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 .
People
- Barbara Hesse-Bukowska, Polish pianist
- Barbora Bukovská, Czech-Slovak human rights attorney
- Charles Bukowski, American poet, novelist, and short story writer
- Dorota Bukowska, Polish basketball player
- Jacek Andrzej Bukowski, Polish politician
- Vladimir Bukovsky, former Soviet political dissident, author and political activist
Related forms
- Bukac (surname)
- Buková (disambiguation) (place name)
- Bukov (disambiguation)
- Buków (disambiguation) (place name)
- Bukovina (place name)
- Bukowiecki (Polish surname)
- Bukowsko (place name)
See also
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