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

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Adolfo Strauch The Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was a chartered flight from Montevideo, Uruguay, bound for Santiago, Chile, that crashed in the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972. The accident and subsequent survival became known as the Andes flight disaste ...

, (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 O ...

(1822–1883), landscape architect *

Aegidius Strauch II Aegidius Strauch (21 February 1632 – 13 December 1682) was a German mathematician and theologian. Life Aegidius Strauch was born in Wittenberg, the son of the Electoral Councillor Johann Strauch. As early as 1646 he attended lectures a ...

(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 Sci ...

, Russian naturalist *

Eduard Strauch Eduard Strauch (17 August 1906 – 15 September 1955) was a German Nazi SS functionary, commander of Einsatzkommando 2, commander of two Nazi organizations, the Security Police (German: Sicherheitspolizei), or Sipo, and the Security Service (Ge ...

(1906–1955), German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer and Holocaust perpetrator *

Eduardo Strauch The Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was a chartered flight from Montevideo, Uruguay, bound for Santiago, Chile, that crashed in the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972. The accident and subsequent survival became known as the Andes flight disaste ...

,(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 Marten Strauch (born 25 September 1986 in Heidelberg)Marten Strauch profile at scru ...

(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 Pierre Strauch (born 1958) is a French cellist, composer and conductor. Strauch studied cello with Jean Deplace. Strauch won fourth prize at the Rostropovitch Cello Competition in 1977. In 1978 Strauch joined the ensemble intercontemporain, a ...

(born 1958), French cellist, composer and conductor

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