Fink (surname)

FinkPronunciation| German: [fɪŋk]

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Language(s)| German, Yiddish, English
Origin
Language(s)| German
Meaning| 'finch'

Fink is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

## People

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* Aaron Fink (musician), guitarist of Breaking Benjamin
* Aaron Fink (artist) (born 1955), American artist
* Aiden Fink (born 2004), Canadian ice hockey player
* Albert Fink (1827–1897), German-born civil engineer noted for the "Fink truss," developer of cost accounting, said to be America’s leading railroad engineer, President of the American Society of Engineers, effectively America’s first Secretary of Commerce.
* Ashley Fink (born 1986), American actress
* Bernarda Fink (born 1955), Argentine mezzo-soprano
* Brigitte Fink (1940–2024), Italian luger
* Bruce Fink (1861–1927), American lichenologist
* Bruce Fink, American Lacanian psychoanalyst
* Cristina Fink (born 1964), Mexican high jumper
* Conrad Fink (1900–1981), German politician
* Denman Fink (1880–1956), American artist and magazine illustrator.
* Eugen Fink (1905–1975), German philosopher
* Gottfried Wilhelm Fink (1783–1846), German composer, music theorist, poet and Protestant clergyman
* Heinrich Fink (1935–2020), German politician)
* Jens Fink-Jensen (born 1956), Danish artist and poet
* Jesse Fink (born 1973), British-Australian author
* John Fink (born 1940), American actor
* Kathryn Ferguson Fink (1917–1989), American biochemist
* Larry Fink (born 1952) American businessman
* Larry Fink (photographer), (1941–2023), American photographer
* Laurence D. Fink (born 1952), American businessman
* Leon Fink (historian) (born 1948), American historian
* Marcos Fink (born 1950), Argentine bass-baritone
* Doctor Fink, stage name of Matthew Fink, American musician associated with Prince
* Michael Fink (footballer) (born 1982), German footballer
* Nadia Fink (born 1977), Argentine author
* Olaf Fink (1914–1973), American educator and state senator
* Orenda Fink (born 1975), American musician
* Patricia Fink (born 1960), singer in Japan
* Paulette Fink (1911–2005), French Jewish nurse and resistance worker
* Peter Thomas Fink (known as Tom), former Australian Chief Defence Scientist 1978–1986
* Robert O. Fink (1905–1988), American papyrologist
* Shaney Fink, American volleyball player and Athletic Director at Seattle University
* Stanley Fink (1936–1997), American lawyer and politician
* Stanley Fink (finance) (born 1957), British hedge fund executive
* Theodore Fink (1855–1942), Australian politician, newspaper proprietor and educationist
* Thomas Fink (born 1972), Anglo-American statistical physicist
* Thomas Fink (poet) (born 1954), American poet and literary critic
* Thorsten Fink (born 1967), German coach and former footballer
* Tom Fink (1928–2021), mayor of Anchorage, Alaska
* Uri Fink (born 1963), Israeli comic book artist
* Walter Fink (1930–2018), German patron of music

## Fictional people

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* Barton Fink, the title character of a movie by the Coen Brothers
* Gussie Fink-Nottle, a recurring character in P.G. Wodehouse's novels
* Mike Fink (1770–1823), a figure of American folklore
* Wilhelm Fink, alias of Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong

## See also

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* Senator Fink (disambiguation)
* Finkel
* Finkl

Surname list

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Family names derived from the word "finch"

Germanic|

* De Vink, Finch, Finke, Finck, Fincke, Fink, Vincke, Vink, Vinke

Romance|

* Pinzón

Slavic|

* Pěnkava, Zeba, Zięba, Ziemba

Other|

* Estonian: Vint
* Finnish: Peippo

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