Strauch, a German word meaning ''bush'' or ''

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'', is a surname. Notable people with it include: *

Adolfo Strauch Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was the chartered flight of a Fairchild FH-227D from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile, that crashed in the Andes mountains in Argentina on 13 October 1972. The accident and subsequent survival became known ...

, (b. 1948), survivor of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash *

Adolph Strauch Adolph Strauch (b. August 30, 1822 – 1883) was a renowned landscape architect born in Silesia, Prussia, known particularly for his layout designs of cemeteries like Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio, Forest Lawn in Buffalo, NY and ...

(1822–1883), landscape architect * Aegidius Strauch II (1632–1682), German mathematician and theologian *

Alexander Strauch Alexander Strauch (1 March 1832, in Saint Petersburg – 14 August 1893, in Wiesbaden, Germany) was a Russian naturalist, most notably a herpetologist. In 1861 he started working as a curator of the zoological museum at the Imperial Academy of S ...

(1832–1893), Russian naturalist *

Eduard Strauch Eduard Strauch (17 August 1906 – 15 September 1955) was a German lawyer, SS-'' Obersturmbannführer'' and convicted war criminal. During the Second World War, he served as the commander of ''Einsatzkommando'' 2 during the invasion of the Sov ...

(1906–1955), German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer and Holocaust perpetrator * Eduardo Strauch,(b. 1947), survivor of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash *

James Strauch James Strauch (September 30, 1921 – November 30, 1998) was an American Olympic fencer. Early and personal life Strauch was born in New York, New York, and was Jewish.Martin Harry Greenberg''The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actor ...

(1921–1998), American Olympic fencer * Marten Strauch (born 1986), German international rugby union player * Philipp Strauch (1862–1924), Russian sailor of German origin, who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics * Pierre Strauch (born 1958), French cellist, composer and conductor

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