Munch (surname)
Munch is a Norwegian surname, meaning "monk". It may also sometimes be a variant of the German surname Münch, meaning the same. Notable people with this surname include the following:
- Adolph Munch, American businessman and politician
- Charles Munch (conductor) (1891–1968), Alsatian symphonic conductor and violinist
- Charles Munch (painter) (born 1945), American artist
- Edvard Munch (1863–1944), Norwegian Symbolist painter and printmaker; an important forerunner of Expressionist art
- Peter A. Munch (1908–1984), Norwegian-American sociologist, educator and author
- Peter Andreas Munch (1810–1863), Norwegian medieval historian
- Peter Rochegune Munch (1870–1948), Danish historian and politician
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