Puck

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Puck may refer to:

Objects

• Hockey puck
• Puck, a graphics tablet accessory
• Puck, the coffee grounds inside an espresso machine portafilter

Fictional characters

• Puck (mythology), a folklore character
• Puck (A Midsummer Night's Dream), a character from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Puck, from the Faeries CBS TV special
  • Puck, from Gargoyles animated series
  • Puck, the eponymous character from Rudyard Kipling's book Puck of Pook's Hill and its sequel
  • Puck, from The Sandman series of comic books
  • Puck, from The Sisters Grimm series of novels
• Puck (Marvel Comics), the codename of two Marvel characters
• Puck (Glee), from the musical comedy-drama Glee
• Puck (Love Birds), youngest penguin from the musical Love Birds
• Peter Puck, a hockey-puck-shaped cartoon character
• Puck, a character from the Berserk manga and anime series
• Baron Puck, in the 1867 opéra bouffe La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein

Literature

• Puck (magazine), an 1871–1918 humor publication
• Puck (literary magazine), a 1990s publication
• Puck, a novel by Ouida

Places

• Puck County, Poland
  • Puck, Poland, a town and the county seat
  • Gmina Puck, a gmina or administrative division
• Puck (moon), a moon of Uranus
• Bay of Puck, in the Baltic Sea

Nickname and surname

• Bertha Brouwer (1930-2006), Dutch sprinter
• Puck van Heel (1904-1984), Dutch footballer
• Puck Oversloot (1914–2009), Dutch swimmer
• David Rainey, reality TV personality
• Eva Puck (1892–1979), American vaudeville star and Broadway and film actress
• Theodore Puck (1916–2005), American geneticist
• Wolfgang Puck (born 1949), Austrian celebrity chef and restaurateur

Other uses

• Puck (opera), an opéra-féerique which premiered in 1949
• Puck Building, a Manhattan landmark
• Puck Fair, an Irish festival

See also

• Puck pinnata, a genus of dreamer deep-water fish