Kurt Karl Alexander Oscar Boeck (10 June 1855 – 4 October 1933) was a German actor and mountaineer who travelled across South Asia in the 1890s, photographed, and wrote on his experiences.

He then trained in acting under Karl Gustav Berndal and Heinrich Oberländer at the Dresden court theater.

He grew in stature after the retirement of Carl Ferdinand Koberstein and became a teacher in the performing arts at the Royal Conservatory in Dresden in 1884.

He took photographs and collected artefacts and specimens of natural history for various German museums.

He made several trip to India in 1893, 1895, and 1898–99 and began to give lectures on his travels and write books.