Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) was a German composer of the Baroque period.

Bach may also refer to:

People

  • Bach (surname)
  • Bach family, a noted family in music
  • Bach (actor), stage name of French actor, singer and music hall performer Charles-Joseph Pasquier (1882–1953)
  • Bach Buquen (born 2005 or 2006), French social media influencer
  • King Bach, American actor, comedian, and Internet personality
  • Bill Bachrach (1879–1959), American swim coach known as "Bach"
  • Joel Sirkis (1561–1640), Polish posek and halakhist, known as "the Bach"
  • P. D. Q. Bach (1807–1742), a fictitious composer invented by musical satirist Peter Schickele
  • Nigel Bach, the pen name of Tom Fanslau, the creator of the Bad Ben series

Places

  • Bach, Austria, a municipality in Reutte
  • Bach, Lot, a commune in France
  • Bach an der Donau, a town in Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany
  • Bäch, a settlement of the Freienbach municipality in Schwyz, Switzerland
  • Bäch railway station, in Freienbach, Switzerland
  • Bach, Michigan, US, an unincorporated community
  • Bach Ice Shelf, on Alexander Island, Antarctica
  • Bach quadrangle, on the planet Mercury
  • Bach (crater), on the planet Mercury
  • 1814 Bach, an asteroid

Radio stations

  • WBQK, a radio station licensed to West Point, Virginia, US, known as Bach FM
  • WLTT, a defunct radio station formerly licensed to Carolina Beach, North Carolina, US, known as Bach FM from 2011 to 2013

Other uses

  • Bach Gesellschaft, an 1850 society for publishing J.S. Bach's complete works
  • Bach (journal), an academic journal of Baroque music
  • BACH motif, a sequence of notes
  • Bach (New Zealand), a modest holiday home or beach house
  • Brown Association for Cooperative Housing, in Providence, Rhode Island, United States
  • Bach Aircraft, an aircraft manufacturer from 1927 to 1931
  • Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (abbreviated BWV), a catalogue of compositions by J.S. Bach
  • Quarry Bach, a slate quarry near Cilgerran, Wales

See also

  • Bache (disambiguation)
  • Bach House (disambiguation)
  • Batch (disambiguation)
  • Bạch, a Vietnamese surname
  • Bachs, a municipality in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland