Schwenck (name)

Schwenck is a surname.

Notable people with the name include:

  • Cléber Schwenck Tiene (born 1979, known as Schwenck), Brazilian footballer
  • Rudy Schwenck (1884-1941), American baseball player
  • Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911), English dramatist and librettist of Gilbert and Sullivan operas
  • Mary Schwenck (born 1778), aunt of William Gilbert, the librettists's father, and godmother to the librettist[1]

See also
  • Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, German composer, source of the Schwencke measure
  • Schwenk
  • Schwenke (disambiguation)

References
  1. "Gilbert, William (1804–1890)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10707. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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