Becker

For other uses, see Becker (disambiguation).

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). Notable people with the surname include:

• Albert Ernst Anton Becker (1834–1899), German composer and conductor
• 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
• B. Jay Becker (1904-1987), American bridge player
• 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
• Bernard Becker (1920–2013), American ophthalmologist
• Bertha Becker (1920–2013), Brazilian geographer
• Bill Becker (died 2010), American journalist
• Bo Becker (born 1971), Swedish economist
• 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
• Conrad F. Becker (1905-1965), American politician
• 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
• David Becker, guitarist
• 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 (1930–2014), 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
• Gustavo Adolfo Becker (born 1966), Spanish high jumper
• 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
• (Jean Otto Eric) Hugo Becker, German cellist, teacher and composer
• 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 1969), 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
• Ludwig Becker (1808-1861), German explorer, naturalist and artist
• 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
• Matthew Becker (born 1989), American Game Developer and Software Engineer
• May Lamberton Becker (1873–1958), U.S. journalist and literary critic
• Meret Becker (born 1969), German actress and singer
• Mike Becker (born 1943), American bridge player
• Moritz Becker, American politician
• 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 Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Becker, Philip Johann" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.)
• 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), American 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

de Becker

• Alphonse de Becker, (1826-1895), Belgian lawyer, Member of parliament for the Leuven constituency
• Théophile de Becker, (1829-1908), MD, mayor of Aarschot (Belgium)
• Émile de Becker, (1830-1879), lawyer and Belgian politician
• Jules de Becker (1857-1936), theology professor at the Louvain University (1889-1928), rector of the American college
• Auguste baron de Becker-Remy, (1862-1930), member of Belgian parliament, President of the Board at the Usines Remy