Becker

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

Becker may refer to any of the following:

People

• Albrecht Becker (1906–2002), German production designer, photographer, actor, imprisoned by Nazis for homosexuality
• Barbara Becker (born 1966), ex wife of Boris Becker
• Benjamin Becker (born 1981), German tennis player (not related to Boris Becker, below)
• Boris Becker (born 1967), German tennis star
• Britta Becker (born 1973), German field hockey player
• Carl/Karl Becker (disambiguation)
• Charles Becker (1870–1915), first U.S. police officer executed for murder
• Christine Becker, member of U.S. women's saber team
• Cornelius Becker, German theologian (see Becker Psalter)
• Cristiane Luise Amalie Becker (1778–1797), German actress
• Dietrich Becker (1623?–1679?), German Baroque violinist and composer
• Dirk Becker (born 1966), German politician
• Donald Becker, programmer
• Douglas Becker, American/Belgian choreographer, teacher
• Edmund Becker, 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 (1925–1974), 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
• Heidi Becker (born 1940), Austrian-born model
• Heinrich Becker (1770–1822), German actor
• Heinz Becker (1915-1991), German baseball player
• Helmut Becker (1927–1989), German viticulturist
• Howard Becker (disambiguation)
• Ingrid Becker (born 1942), German athlete
• Jacques Becker (1906–1960), French screenwriter and film director
• Jason Becker (born 1969), Neo-classical metal guitarist
• Jean Becker (1833-1884), German violinist and composer
• Jean Becker (born 1938), French director, screenwriter, and actor
• Jurek Becker (1937–1997), German writer
• Kaethe Becker, German concentration camp guard during World War II
• Karl/Carl Becker (disambiguation)
• Konrad Becker, hypermedia researcher and interdisciplinary content developer
• Kuno Becker (born 1978), Mexican actor
• 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
• Margaret Becker, an award-winning composer, singer, speaker and writer
• May Lamberton Becker (1873–1958), U.S. journalist and literary critic
• Meret Becker (born 1969), German actress and singer
• Oskar Becker (1889–1964), German philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian of mathematics
• Otto Heinrich Enoch Becker (1828-1890), German ophthalmologist
• Paul Becker, U.S. bodybuilder and gay porn star
• Philip Becker (1830–1898), first German-born mayor of Buffalo, New York
• Ralph Becker (disambiguation)
• Rich Becker (born 1972), U.S. baseball player
• Ruth Elizabeth 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 (1877–1949), 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
• Vaneta Becker, U.S. politician from Indiana
• Walt Becker (born 1968), U.S. director, writer, and actor
• Walter Becker (born 1950), musician
• Wilhelm Adolf Becker (1796–1846), German archaeologist
• William D. Becker (1896–1943), 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

• Becker, Florida
• Becker, Minnesota
• Becker, Mississippi
• Becker, New Mexico
• Becker, Texas
• Becker County, Minnesota
• Becker Township, Minnesota (disambiguation)
• Mount Becker, Antarctica

Businesses

• A. G. Becker, former U.S. investment bank
• Becker Entertainment, Australian entertainment company
• Becker's Milk, Canadian convenience store chain
• Becker Automotive Systems, a subsidiary of Harman International Industries

Educational

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

Medical

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

Characters

• Captain Becker, Primeval character

Other

• Becker (TV series), a CBS sitcom starring Ted Danson
• 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