Speck (surname)

Speck

Language(s)	German
Origin
Meaning	Speck, ham, for butcher
Region of origin	Germany
Other names
Related names	Specketer (Low German); Speckmann, Specker, Speckner; Fleisch, Fleiss, Fleischl, Fleischle, Flesch, Fleischer, Flescher, Fleisser, Fleischner, Fleissner, Fleischmann, Fleischhack, Fleischhacker (Fleischhocker), Fleischhauer (Fleischauer), Schlachter (Schlächter, Schlechter), Metzger (Mezger), Metzler, Selcher, etc.

Speck is a surname, and may refer to:

• (1831 - 1905), German conservative politician, MdL (Royal Saxony)
• Christa Speck (born 1942, Danzig), a German model and actress
• (1937 - 2005), Swiss politician (SVP)
• Robert Clifford "Cliff" Speck (born 1956, Portland, Oregon), a pitcher in Major League Baseball

• Dan Speck
• Norman John "Dutch" Speck (1886 - 1952), an American professional football player
• (1884 - 1984), Austrian politician
• Frank Gouldsmith Speck (1881 - 1950), an American anthropologist
• Frederick "Fred" Edmondstone Speck (1947 - 2011), a Canadian professional ice hockey player
• (1822 - 1914), US cook and inventor of potato chips
• Hermann Ritter von Speck (1888 - 1940), a highly decorated General der Artillerie in the Wehrmacht
• Jefferson W. Speck (1916 - 1993), a planter and business man from Mississippi County (Arkansas), politician and prisoner of war
• (1862 - 1939 or 1942), Bavarian state minister, civil servant (Template:Lang-de) and member des German Reichstags
• (born 1960), German entertainer and actor
• Leslie Speck, the head coach of the Arkansas State college football program
• Mike Speck, a Gospel musician and ordained minister from Lebanon, Tennessee
• Oskar Speck (historian) (1855 - 1922), German scribe/clerk of city (Template:Lang-de) and historian
• Oskar Speck (1907 - 1955), German canoeist and adventurer
• (? - 1557), German stonemason, sculptor, work master (Template:Lang-de) and master builder
• Richard Franklin Speck (1941 - 1991), US mass murderer

• Chicago Massacre: Richard Speck, a 2007 horror film directed by Michael Feifer

• Robert Speck (1909 - ?), a Romanian field handball player of ethnic German origin
• Ross V. Speck, a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and family therapist
• Sam Speck, member of the Ohio Senate
• Tommy Speck, fictional character

• Wieland Speck (born 1951), German film director
• (1861 - 1925), German writer and prison pastor
• Will Speck, an American film director
• William Arthur "W. A." Speck (born 1938, Bradford), a British historian
• (born 1947), German policeman and trade unionist
• Zsa Zsa Speck (real name: Perry Pandrea), the keyboardist for Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids

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• (1776 - 1856), German merchant and entrepreneur
• Hermann Speck von Sternburg (1852, Leeds, England - 1908, Heidelberg), a Royal German diplomat and art collector

See also

• Speck (disambiguation)