Merck refers primarily to the German Merck family and three companies founded by the family, including: the Merck Group, a German chemical, pharmaceutical and life sciences company founded in 1668 Merck Serono (known as EMD Serono in the United States and Canada), a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, and a brand and division of Merck focused on biopharmaceuticals Merck & Co., Inc. (known as MSD (Merck Sharp & Dohme) outside North America), an American pharmaceutical company and a former subsidiary of the German Merck company, as founded in 1891/1917 H. J. Merck & Co., a German bank founded in 1799 Merck may also refer to: People Carl Merck (1809–1880), Syndicus (foreign affairs head) of the Free City of Hamburg Ernst Merck (1811–1863), German businessman and politician George W. Merck (1894–1957), American president of Merck & Co. Heinrich Emanuel Merck (1794–1855), German apothecary whose descendants were the founders of Merck chemical companies Johann Heinrich Merck (1741–1791), German author and critic William Merck (1852–1925), British commissioner in India Publications Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, a 1899 medical textbook published by Merck & Co. Merck Index, a 1968 encyclopedia of chemistry, formerly published by Merck & Co. and now by the Royal Society of Chemistry Merck Veterinary Manual, a reference manual of animal health care published by Merck & Co. and Merial Limited Other Merck Finck & Co., a German private bank Johann-Heinrich-Merck-Preis, a literary prize of Hesse, Germany Merck Records, an IDM and experimental hip hop record label based in Miami, Florida, USA Merck-Saint-Liévin, a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department, France See also mIRC Merc (disambiguation) Merk (disambiguation)