Gluck is a surname of German or Yiddish origin. the root word means luck in either language. It is a last name found among Ashkenazi Jews and those of German ancestry. However, there is evidence that the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck's surname derives from the Czech word kluk (boy).
Notable people with the surname include:
Abbe Gluck, American legal academic
Alma Gluck (Reba Feinsohn) (1884–1938), Romanian-American soprano
Barbara Gluck (born 1938), American photographer
Benjamin Gluck, American screenwriter, animator and director
Carol Gluck (born 1941), American historian of modern Japan
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787), one of the most important opera composers of the Classical music era Earle J. Gluck (1900–1972), American radio pioneer Edgar Gluck (born 1936), rabbi in Galicia Frederick Gluck (born 1935), American management consultant Henry Gluck (born 1929), American business executive and philanthropist from Los Angeles, California. Herschel Gluck, British rabbi Jay Gluck (1927–2000), American archaeologist and art historian Louis Gluck (1924–1997), American neonatologist Malcolm Gluck, British wine writer Mark A. Gluck, American professor of neuroscience Maxwell Henry Gluck (1899–1984), American businessman, diplomat, thoroughbred horse breeder and philanthropist Michael Gluck (born 1983), American pianist Peter L. Gluck (born 1939), American architect Rita Buglass Gluck, American writer Robert Gluck (born 1955), American pianist and composer Salomon Gluck (1914–1944), French physician and member of the French Resistance Themistocles Gluck (1853–1942), German physician Will Gluck (born 1978), American film director, screenwriter, and producer
See also
Richard Glücks (1889–1945), German Nazi official and Holocaust perpetrator
Andrej Glucks (born 1976), Croatian slalom canoer
Glack, Glock
Gluek (disambiguation) Glück (surname) Glick