Becker

Becker is one of the German-language surnames, along with Bäcker and Baecker, that derive from the [baːk]~[bɛk] root, which refers to baking. The surname began as a name for a baker (and thus his family).

Becker may refer to:

People

• Albrecht Becker (1906–2002), German production designer, photographer, actor, imprisoned by Nazis for homosexuality
• Annika Becker (born 1981), retired German pole vaulter
• Armando Becker (born 1966), Venezuelan basketball player
• August Becker (1900–1967), German chemist
• August Becker (painter) (1821–1887), German painter
• August Becker (author) (1828–1891), German author
• Barbara Becker (born 1966), ex wife of Boris Becker
• Ben Becker (born 1964), German film and theatre actor
• Benjamin Becker (born 1981), German tennis player
• Bill Becker (died 2010), American journalist
• Boris Becker (born 1967), German tennis player
• Britta Becker (born 1973), German field hockey player
• Carl Becker (disambiguation)
• Chad Becker (born 1987), American soccer player
• Charles Becker (1870–1915), first U.S. police officer executed for murder
• Charlotte Becker (born 1983), German professional racing cyclist
• Christiane Luise Amalie Becker (1778–1797), German actress
• Christine Becker, member of U.S. women's saber team
• Cornelius Becker, German theologian (see Becker Psalter)
• Cory Becker, guitar player in St. Louis rock band Living Things
• Craig Becker (born 1956), U.S. labor lawyer
• Cristiane Luise Amalie Becker (1778–1797), German actress
• Dietrich Becker (c. 1620 – c. 1670), German Baroque violinist and composer
• Dirk Becker (born 1966), German politician
• Donald Becker, programmer
• Douglas Becker, American/Belgian choreographer, teacher
• Edmund Becker (born 1957), German footballer
• Edward Roy Becker (1933–2006), U.S. appeals court judge
• Elisabeth Becker (1923–1946), German concentration camp guard during World War II
• Elizabeth Becker, U.S. journalist and author
• Ernest Becker (1924–1974), cultural anthropologist
• Franz Becker (born 1918), German footballer
• Gary Becker (born 1930), Nobel Prize-winning economist
• Gavin de Becker (born 1954), U.S. specialist in security issues
• George Ferdinand Becker (1847–1919), U.S. geologist
• Germán Becker (born 1980), Argentinian tango musician
• Hans-Josef Becker (born 1948), Catholic archbishop
• Heidi Becker (born 1940), Austrian-born model
• Heinrich Becker (1770–1822), German actor
• Heinz Becker (1915–1991), German baseball player
• Hellmuth Becker (1902–1953), German Waffen-SS general
• Helmut Becker (1927–1990), German viticulturist
• Herbert L. Becker (born 1956), magician and founder of IPTV.
• Howard P. Becker (1899–1960), U.S. sociologist
• Howard S. Becker (born 1928), U.S. sociologist and musician
• Ingrid Becker (born 1942), German athlete
• Jacques Becker (1906–1960), French screenwriter and film director
• Jakob Becker (1810–1872), German genre painter
• Jason Becker (born 1970), Neo-classical metal guitarist
• Jason Becker (ice hockey) (born 1974), Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• Jean Becker (director) (born 1938), French director, screenwriter, and actor
• Jean Becker (violinist) (1833–1884), German violinist and composer
• Jens Becker (born 1965), metal bass guitarist
• Jurek Becker (1937–1997), German writer
• Jürgen Becker (born 1959), German kabarett artist
• Karl Becker—see Carl Becker (disambiguation)
• Konrad Becker, hypermedia researcher and interdisciplinary content developer
• Kuno Becker (born 1978), Mexican actor
• Kurt Becker (born 1958), former professional American football player
• Lawrence C. Becker (born 1939), U.S. academic, philosopher
• Lydia Becker (1827–1890), British suffragist and amateur scientist
• Marc Becker, U.S. professor of Latin American studies
• Marcus Becker (born 1981), German slalom canoer
• Margaret Becker (born 1959), award-winning composer, singer, speaker and writer
• Martin Becker (1916–2006), German Luftwaffe night fighter ace
• May Lamberton Becker (1873–1958), U.S. journalist and literary critic
• Meret Becker (born 1969), German actress and singer
• Muriel Gustavo Becker (born 1987), Brazilian goalkeeper
• Murilo Becker (born 1983), Brazilian basketball player
• Nikolaus Becker (1809–1845), writer of the German “Rheinlied”
• Oskar Becker (assailant) (1839–1868), Prussian student and attempted assassin of King Wilhelm I of Prussia
• Oskar Becker (1889–1964), German philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian of mathematics
• Otto Heinrich Enoch Becker (1828–1890), German ophthalmologist
• Paul Becker (born 1984), choreographer
• Philip Becker (1830–1898), first German-born mayor of Buffalo, New York
• Philip Johann Becker (1809–1886), German radical (see  "Becker, Philip Johann". New International Encyclopedia. 1905. )
• Ralph Elihu Becker (1907–1994), American ambassador to Honduras from 1976–1977
• Ralph Becker (mayor) (born 1952), American politician and attorney
• Rich Becker (born 1972), U.S. baseball player
• Robert O. Becker (1923–2008), U.S. orthopedic surgeon and researcher in electrophysiology/electromedicine
• Roger Becker (born 1934), British tennis player

• Rudolf Becker (1923–1944), highly decorated Hauptmann
• Rudolph Zacharias Becker (1752–1822), German educator and author
• Ruth Becker (1899–1990), Kansas schoolteacher and Titanic survivor
• Sally Becker, volunteer in Bosnia and Kosovo
• Samuel William Becker, U.S. dermatologist who documented Becker's nevus
• Sandra Lynne Becker (born 1947), 1965 Miss California
• Sandy Becker (1922–1996), U.S. television announcer
• Sean Becker (born 1975), New Zealand curler
• Sherburn M. Becker (1876–1949), Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Theodor Becker (1840–1928), German civil engineer and entomologist
• Thorsten Becker (born 1980), German footballer
• Tom Becker, British children's author
• Valentin Eduard Becker (1814–1890), German composer
• Vaneta Becker, U.S. politician from Indiana
• Walt Becker (born 1968), U.S. director, writer, and actor
• Walter Becker (born 1950), musician
• Wayland Becker (1910–1984), American football player
• Wilhelm Adolf Becker (1796–1846), German archaeologist
• Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker (1753–1813), German archaeologist and author
• William D. Becker (1876–1943), mayor of St. Louis, Missouri
• Wolfgang Becker (born 1954), German filmmaker
• Alice Becker-Ho (born 1941), French poet
• Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836–1870), Spanish poet
• Simon Fisher-Becker (born 1961), British actor
• Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), German expressionist painter

Places

United States

• Becker, Minnesota
• Becker, Mississippi
• Becker County, Minnesota
• Becker Township, Minnesota (disambiguation)

Antarctica

• Mount Becker, a prominent mountain 1 mile northeast of Mount Boyer, in the Merrick Mountains, Ellsworth Land

Businesses

• A. G. Becker, former U.S. investment bank
• Becker Autosound, LLC, car radio and accessories maker
• Becker Entertainment, Australian entertainment company
• Becker's Milk, Canadian convenience store chain
• Château Marquis d'Alesme Becker, Bordeaux wine producer, archically named simply Becker
• Becker industries drilling equipment for oil and gas

Education

• Becker College, Worcester and Leicester, Massachusetts
• Carl Becker House, residential college at Cornell University, named after Carl L. Becker

Medicine

• Becker's muscular dystrophy, named after Peter Emil Becker
• Becker's nevus, skin disorder documented by Samuel William Becker

Fiction

• Becker (TV series), a CBS sitcom
  • Dr. John Becker, the main character in the above, played by Ted Danson
• Captain Becker, character in the ITV sci-fi drama Primeval

Other

• Becker Psalter (1602), German metrical psalter published by Cornelius Becker
• Nightfreak and the Sons of Becker (2004), rock album by The Coral
• Pettkus v. Becker (1980), Canadian family law decision