Glück (transliterated Glueck) (german: "

luck Luck is the phenomenon and belief that defines the experience of improbable events, especially improbably positive or negative ones. The naturalistic interpretation is that positive and negative events may happen at any time, both due to rand ...

") is the surname of: * Arie Gill-Gluck (1930–2016), Israeli Olympic runner * Alois Glück (born 1940), German politician * Bernard Glueck (disambiguation), several people with this name *

Christian Friedrich von Glück Christian Friedrich von Glück (1 July 1755 – 20 January 1831) was a German jurist. Born at Halle in the Duchy of Magdeburg on 1 July 1755, he studied from 1770 to 1776 at the University of Halle and on the 16 April 1777 he received a Doctor ...

(1755–1831), German jurist * Eleanor Glueck (1898–1972), American criminologist and wife of Sheldon Glueck *

George Glueck George Glueck (born June 28, 1950) is a music producer and artist manager. Glueck was born in Oradea, Romania, and grew up in New York City. In 1975, he went to Berlin, working with music publisher Peter Meisel, who in 1964 founded the first Germ ...

(born 1950), German music producer and artist manager *

Grace Glueck Grace Glueck (July 24, 1926 – October 8, 2022) was an American arts journalist. She worked for ''The New York Times'' from 1951 until the early 2010s. Early life Glueck was born in New York City on July 24, 1926. Her father, Ernest, worked ...

(1926–2022), American art journalist *

Gustav Glück Gustav Glück (6 April 1871, Vienna – 18 November 1952, Santa Monica, Cal.) was an Austrian art historian, the author of several major books on Dutch art. Glück became an Assistant at the Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum in 1900, Curator an ...

(1871–1952), Austrian art historian * Helen Iglauer Glueck (1907–1995), American physician *

Johann Ernst Glück Johann Ernst Glück ( lv, Johans Ernsts Gliks; 10 November 1652 – 5 May 1705) was a German translator and Lutheran theologian active in Livonia, which is now in Latvia. Glück was born in Wettin as the son of a pastor. After attending the Lati ...

(1652–1705), German translator and Lutheran theologian * Larry Glueck (born 1941), American football (NFL) defensive back *

Louise Glück Louise Elisabeth Glück ( ; born April 22, 1943) is an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal". He ...

(born 1943), American poet *

Nelson Glueck Nelson Glueck (June 4, 1900 – February 12, 1971) was an American rabbi, academic and archaeologist. He served as president of Hebrew Union College from 1947 until his death, and his pioneering work in biblical archaeology resulted in the disco ...

(1900–1971), American rabbi, academic and archaeologist *

Sheldon Glueck Sheldon Glueck (August 15, 1896 – March 10, 1980) was a Polish-American criminologist.Staff report (March 13, 1980)Sheldon Glueck of Harvard Dies; Studied the Roots of Delinquency.''New York Times'' He and his wife Eleanor Glueck collaborated e ...

(1896–1980), Polish American criminologist *

Wolfgang Glück Wolfgang Glück (born 29 September 1929, Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. His film '' '38 – Vienna Before the Fall'' (1987) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 59th Academy ...

(born 1929), Austrian film director and screenwriter Gluck is the surname of: *

Alma Gluck Alma Gluck (May 11, 1884October 27, 1938) was a Romanian-born American soprano. Biography Gluck was born as Reba Feinsohn to a Jewish family in Iași, Romania, the daughter of Zara and Leon Feinsohn. Gluck moved to the United States at a you ...

(Reba Feinsohn) (1884–1938), a Romanian-American soprano *

Barbara Gluck Barbara Gluck (born 1938) is an American photojournalist, art photographer, speaker, writer, and healing facilitator. After an early career in advertising she spent almost four years in Vietnam, during the war, and produced award-winning photoj ...

(born 1938), American photographer *

Carol Gluck Carol Gluck (born November 12, 1941) is an American academic and Japanologist. She is the George Sansom Professor Emerita of History at Columbia University and served as the president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1996. Career Gluck w ...

(born 1941), American historian of modern Japan *

Christoph Willibald Gluck Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (; 2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of the Holy Roman Empire, he g ...

(1714–1787), one of the most important opera composers of the Classical music era * Earle J. Gluck (1900–1972), American radio pioneer *

Edgar Gluck Edgar Chaim Baruch Gluck (Glück) (born 14 June 1936, Hamburg, Germany) is currently the Chief Rabbi#Galicia, Chief Rabbi of Galicia (Eastern Europe), Galicia. Subsumed into countries now part of Central and Eastern Europe, Galicia (Eastern Europ ...

(born 1936), rabbi in Galicia *

Frederick Gluck Frederick W. Gluck (born 1935) was a longtime top senior partner and director at management consultancy McKinsey & Company, serving as managing director (chief executive) from 1988 to 1994. At McKinsey he introduced the concept of fifteen “cen ...

(born 1935), American management consultant *

Henry Gluck Henry Gluck (born 1929) is an American business executive and philanthropist from Los Angeles, California. He was the president of Monogram Industries from 1969 to 1972. He served as the chairman and chief executive officer of Caesars World from 19 ...

(born 1929), American business executive and philanthropist from Los Angeles, California. *

Herschel Gluck Herschel Gluck OBE is a British rabbi, president of the Shomrim in Stamford Hill, chairman of the Arab-Jewish Forum and chairman and founder of the Muslim-Jewish Forum. Established in 2000, the Muslim-Jewish Forum deals with issues of concern t ...

, British rabbi *

Jay Gluck Jay Fred Gluck (January 11, 1927 – December 19, 2000) was an American archaeologist and historian of Persian art and a Japanophile. Life and career Gluck was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Lillian Mary Veronica Friar (Campbell-Phil ...

(1927–2000), American archaeologist and art historian *

Louis Gluck Louis Gluck (1924–1997) was an American neonatologist who made many important contributions to the care of newborns, and who is considered "the father of neonatology." Career overview Gluck designed the modern neonatal intensive care unit (N ...

(1924–1997), American neonatologist *

Malcolm Gluck Malcolm Gluck is a British author, broadcaster and wine columnist. Career Initially an advertising copywriter for Collett Dickenson Pearce, Doyle Dane Bernbach, a founder employee of Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO and later creative director for Lin ...

, British wine writer * Mark A. Gluck, American professor of neuroscience *

Maxwell Henry Gluck Maxwell Henry Gluck (November 4, 1899 – November 23, 1984) was an American businessman, diplomat, thoroughbred horse breeder and philanthropist. He served as the United States Ambassador to Ceylon from September 19, 1957, to October 2, 1958. B ...

(1899–1984), American businessman, diplomat, thoroughbred horse breeder and philanthropist *

Michael Gluck Michael Gluck (born March 8, 1983) is the founder of VGM, a market research firm and the largest provider of custom research to the video game industry. VGM In 2007, at the age of 24, Michael started VGM with $5,000 in savings and grew the comp ...

(born 1983), American pianist * Peter L. Gluck, American architect * Rita Buglass Gluck, American writer * Robert Gluck (born 1955), American pianist and composer *

Salomon Gluck Abraham Salomon Glück (5 November 1914 – c. 20 May 1944) was a French physician and a member of the French Resistance. Biography His ancestors His father was a direct descendant of Hasidic Masters, going back to the Magid Dov Ber of M ...

(1914–1944), French physician and member of the French Resistance *

Themistocles Gluck Themistocles Gluck (30 November 1853 in Iaşi, Moldavia – 25 April 1942 in Berlin) was a German physician and surgeon. He first invented endoprostheses from ivory in 1890 at Berlin, when he performed the first documented total wrist Arthroplas ...

(1853–1942), German physician *

Will Gluck Will Gluck (born November 7, 1978) is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter, songwriter, and composer. Life and career Gluck is the son of American academic and Japanologist Carol Gluck and architect Peter L. Gluck. He began ...

, American film director, screenwriter, and producer

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