Wallach

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Wallach is a word of Germanic origin, referring especially to Latin people, particularly Romanians and Italians. See the history of the term Vlach.

[edit] Family name

• Eli Wallach (born 1915), American actor
• Evan Wallach, American judge, expert on war crimes
• Ira Wallach (writer) (1913–1995), American screenwriter and novelist
• Ira D. Wallach (1909–2007), American businessman and philanthropist
• Joel D. Wallach (born 1940), American veterinarian and naturopath
• John Wallach (1943–2002), American journalist, author and editor
• Lori Wallach, director and founder of Global Trade Watch
• Otto Wallach (1847–1931), German chemist, Nobel Prize winner
• Richard Wallach (1816–1881), American politician
• Steve Wallach (born 1945), American computer architecture engineer and company founder
• Tim Wallach (born 1957), former American baseball player
• Tommy Wallach (born 1982), American writer and musician
• William Douglas Wallach (1812–1871), American surveyor and newspaper entrepreneur
• Yochanan Vollach (German: Jochanan Wallach, born 1945), former Israeli footballer
• Yona Wallach (1944–1985), Israeli poet
• Maxim Litvinov (born: Max Wallach, 1876–1951), Russian revolutionary and Soviet diplomat

[edit] Others

• 6670 Wallach, Main-belt Asteroid discovered in 1994
• Wallach (crater), small lunar impact crater
• Wallach Hall, the second oldest dormitory on the campus of Columbia University
• Wallach IX, fictional planet in Frank Herbert's science fiction universe of Dune
• Wallach rearrangement, an organic reaction converting an azoxy compound to an azo compound
• Wallach reform, 16th century land reform in Lithuanian lands

[edit] See also

• Volokh, an alternate spelling
• Wallachia, a region in today's Romania
• Wallich, an unrelated, but phonetically similar name

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