Wachs

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Wachs means wax in German.

Wachs as a surname may refer to:

• Caitlin (Elizabeth) Wachs (born 1989, Eugene, Oregon), American actress
• Daliah Wachs, an American radio personality
• Daniel Alfred Wachs (born 1976), American musician
• Friedhelm Wachs (es) (born 1963, Berlin), German periodist and editor
• Hans Heinrich (Wilhelm Ernst August) Wachs (1822, Breitenbach am Herzberg – 1895, Hanerau-Hademarschen), German physician, landowner and politician^[1]
• Joel Wachs (born 1939, Scranton, Pennsylvania), American politician, president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
• Judith Wachs (c. 1938, New York City – 2008), Jewish American singer and songwriter
• Larry Wachs, American radio host
• Murray Wachs, pseudonym: Bingo Gazingo (1924–2010), an elderly poet and postal worker from New York
• (Étienne Victor) Paul Wachs (1851, Paris – 1915), Saint-Mandé), French organist, pianist^[2]
• Ruby Wachs, now Ruby Wax (born 1953, Evanston), American comedian of Jewish Austrian descent
• Sabine Wachs (de) (born 1960, Wermsdorf), German female porcelain designer

Waks

• Michał Waszyński, born: Mosze Waks (1904, Kovel – 1965), a Polish film director of Jewish descent

Vaks

• Ehud (Udi) Vaks (born 1979), an Israeli judo athlete
• Iosif (Aleksandrovich) Vaks (Russian: Иосиф Александрович Вакс; 1899, Sankt Peterburg – 1986, Sankt Peterburg), a Russian/Soviet architect, designer and teacher^[3]

See also

Look up Wachs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Wachs may also refer to:

• the Wachs Arena, multi-purpose arena in Aberdeen, South Dakota, United States, built in 1987
• Newman Wachs Racing (also referred to as: NWR), an auto racing team owned by Eddie Wachs and Paul Newman

• Wachsmann (Wachsman, Waxmann, Waxman, Waksman, Vaksman)

• Vax
• Waks (disambiguation)

References

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