Fuchs (German and Yiddish for "fox") is a surname; it has as variants Fux, Fuhs and Fuchß. Notable persons bearing it include the following:

• Alain Fuchs (1953–2024), French chemist
• Argel Fuchs (born Argélico Fucks 1974, Santa Rosa), Brazilian footballer
• Arved Fuchs (born 1953), German writer and adventurer
• Benjamin Fuchs (born 1983), German-Austrian footballer
• Bernard Fuchs (1916–2005), French pilot and hero of the Second World War
• Bernie Fuchs (1932–2009), American illustrator
• Bruce Fuchs, American immunologist and health science administrator
• Charlie Fuchs (1912–1969), American baseball player
• Christian Fuchs (born 1986), Austrian footballer
• Christine Schwarz-Fuchs (born 1974), Austrian entrepreneur and politician
• Christoph Fuchs von Fuchsberg (1482–1542), bishop of Brixen
• Daniel Fuchs (1909–1993), American writer and screenwriter
• Dmitry Fuchs (born 1939), Russian-American mathematician
• Doris Fuchs (scientist) (born 1966), German political scientist
• Doris Gudrun Fuchs (born 1938), American gymnast

• Eduard Fuchs (1870–1940), Marxist cultural scientist
• Elaine Fuchs (born 1950), American cell biologist
• Elissa Minet Fuchs (1919–2023), American ballerina
• Emil Fuchs (artist) (1866–1929), Austrian-American sculptor
• Emil Fuchs (theologian) (1874–1971), German theologian
• Emil Fuchs (baseball) (1878–1961), owner of the Boston Braves 1923–1935
• Engelbert Fuchs, Austrian luger
• Erich Fuchs (1902–1980), German Nazi SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator
• Erika Fuchs (1906–2005), German translator of Disney comics

• Ernst Fuchs (artist) (1930–2015), Austrian artist
• Ernst Fuchs (cyclist) (1936–1994), Swiss cyclist
• Ernst Fuchs (doctor) (1851–1930), Austrian ophthalmologist
• Ernst Fuchs (theologian) (1903–1983) German New Testament scholar and student of Rudolf Bultmann
• Ernest Fooks (1906–1985) Australian architect

• Franz Fuchs (1949–2000), Austrian terrorist
• Fred Fuchs (DOB unknown), American television producer

• Gottfried Fuchs (1889–1972), German-Canadian soccer player
• Harald Fuchs (born 1951), professor of physics
• Henry Fuchs (baseball) (1879–1947), also known as Jacob Fox, American baseball player
• Henry Fuchs, born Henryk Tauber (1917–2000), Holocaust survivor
• Henry Fuchs (born 1948), American academic
• Herbert Fuchs (1905–1988), American lawyer
• Ignaz Fuchs, (1819–1854), born Vatroslav Lisinski, Croatian composer
• Ira Fuchs, co-founder of BITNET

• Jakob Fuchs (1920–2005), German soldier
• Jenő Fuchs (1882–1955), Hungarian Olympic champion fencer
• Jim Fuchs (1927–2010), American athlete
• Joël Fuchs (born 1989), Swiss basketball player
• Johann Nepomuk Fuchs (architect) (1727–1804), architect from Styria, Austria-Hungary
• Johann Nepomuk Fuchs (composer) (1842–1899), Austrian composer and conductor
• Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs (1774–1856), German chemist who gave his name to fuchsite
• Joseph Fuchs (1899–1997), American violinist
• Josef Fuchs (theologian) (1912–2005), German theologian
• Jürgen Fuchs (motorcyclist), German motorcyclist
• Jürgen Fuchs (writer) (1950–1999), East German writer and dissident
• Karl Fuchs (museum founder) (1776–1846), Russian doctor and rector of the Kazan State University
• Kenneth Fuchs (born 1956), American composer of classical music
• Klaus Fuchs (1911–1988), German-born British physicist and Soviet spy, later resident of the GDR

• Lars Fuchs (born 1982), German footballer
• László Fuchs (born 1924), Hungarian-American mathematician
• Lawrence Fuchs (1927–2013), American university professor and author
• Lazarus Fuchs (1833–1902), German mathematician
• Leonhart Fuchs (sometimes Leonhard) (1501–1566), German physician and botanist
• Lillian Fuchs (1901–1995), American violist
• Lukas Fuchs (1922–2009), better known as Lukas Foss, German-American composer
• Marta Fuchs (1898–1974), German opera singer

• Michael J. Fuchs (born 1946), American television executive, former head of HBO
• Michael Fuchs (football) (1972–2011), Austrian football manager and retired footballer
• Michael Fuchs (badminton) (born 1982), German badminton player
• Michael Fuchs (politician) (1949–2022), German parliamentarian and Bundestag member
• Michael Fuchs (sculptor), sculpted the Medal of Suleiman in 1554
• Michael Fuchs (figure skater), German ice dancer, 1974 German gold medalist

• Nicolás Fuchs (born 1982), Peruvian rally driver
• Peter Paul Fuchs (1916–2007), Austrian-born conductor and composer
• Radovan Fuchs (born 1953), Croatian scientist and former government minister
• Richard Fuchs (1887–1947), architect and composer
• Robert Fuchs (disambiguation)
• Ronald Fuchs (1932–2012) American physicist
• Ruth Fuchs (1946–2023), German athlete
• Thomas Fuchs (born 1969), German-born illustrator
• Vivian Fuchs (1908–1999), British geologist and polar explorer
• Walter Robert Fuchs (1937–1976), American-German science communicator and science popularizer
• Wilhelm Fuchs (1898–1947), German Nazi SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator executed for war crimes
• Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs (1915–1997), mathematician

• Argélico Fucks, birth name of Argel Fuchs (born 1974, Santa Rosa), Brazilian footballer (also listed above with different spelling)

see also:

• Ralf Fücks (born 1951), German politician

• Alexander Fuks (1917–1978), German-born Israeli historian, archaeologist and papyrologist
• Johannes Fuks, Estonian politician
• Julián Fuks, Brazilian writer
• Ladislav Fuks (1923–1994), Czech novelist
• Marian Fuks (historian) (1914–2022), Polish historian
• Marian Fuks (photographer) (1884–1935), Polish filmmaker and pioneer of photography
• Pavel Fuks (born 1971), Ukrainian-Russian millionaire businessman and investor
• Suzon Fuks (born 1959), artist, choreographer and director

• Herbert Fux (1927–2007), Austrian actor
• Johann Joseph Fux (1660–1741), Austrian composer, music theorist and pedagogue
• Luiz Fux (born 1953), Brazilian judge
• María Fux, Argentine dancer, choreographer, and dance therapist
• Robert Fux, Swedish actor, performance artist, playwright and drag queen
• Vinzenz Fux (c. 1606–1659), Austrian composer

• Fox (surname)
• Vos (surname)