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.
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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 (attorney), 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
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
Bukač (disambiguation) (surname)
Buková (disambiguation) (place name)
Bukov (disambiguation)
Buków (disambiguation) (place name)
Bukovina (place name)
Bukowsko (place name)