Beck (disambiguation)

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Beck is a British word meaning "brook" or "stream" (from the Old Norse bekkr), and is a fairly common English surname. Notable people or things called Beck include:

[edit] People

• Beck (Beck Hansen), an American musician, singer-songwriter and producer
• Aaron T. Beck, founder of modern cognitive therapy
• Andreas Beck, German football player
• C.C. Beck, an American cartoonist
• Christophe Beck, a Canadian composer for film and TV, most notable for his work on Buffy The Vampire Slayer
• Claude Beck (1894-1971), American cardiac surgeon who invented the defibrillator
• Franz Ignaz Beck, a Classical composer
• George Beck, artist and poet
• Glenn Beck, an American conservative radio talk show host
• Harry Beck, designer of the London Underground map
• Jakob Sigismund Beck, a German philosopher
• James M. Beck (1861 - 1936) United States Solicitor General and US Congressman from Pennsylvania
• Jeff Beck, a British electric guitarist.
• John Beck, British football manager.
• Józef Beck, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs in the interbellum
• Kent Beck, major proponent of Extreme Programming
• Kurt Beck, German politician
• Ludwig Beck, Chief of Staff of the German armed forces during the early years of the Nazi regime.
• Martin Beck, fictional Swedish police detective by Sjöwall and Wahlöö
• Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), late African American writer
• Robert Beck, alias of former D-12 rapper Karnail Pitts
• Rod Beck, former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball
• Theodore Beck, first principal of the MAO College at Aligarh, India
• Theodric Romeyn Beck, forensic scientist
• Ulrich Beck, a German sociologist

[edit] Places

• River Beck, in South London

[edit] Things

• BECK, a Japanese manga and anime
• Beck's, a beer brewery and sponsor of the Beck's Futures awards
• AH Beck Foundation, a construction company
• John and Frances Beck Foundation, sponsor of Wikijunior