Becker
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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:
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[edit] People
- Albrecht Becker (1906–2002), German production designer, photographer, actor, imprisoned by Nazis for homosexuality
- Ansgar Becker, German software developer (see HeidiSQL)
- Barbara Becker (born 1966), ex wife of Boris Becker
- Benjamin Becker (born 1981), German tennis player (not related to Boris Becker, below)
- Benton Becker (born 1938), Attorney for President Ford and Negotiator of Nixon Pardon
- Boris Becker (born 1967), German tennis star
- Brandon Becker (born 1980), U.S. novelist
- Britta Becker (born 1973), German field hockey player
- Carl/Karl Becker (disambiguation)
- Carlos Becker Westphall, contributions on network management
- 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
- Jonathan Becker (born 1954) famous photographer for Vanity Fair
- Jurek Becker (1937–1997), German writer
- Jürgen Becker, dramatist, author
- 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
- Marie Becker (1877–?), Belgian serial poisoner
- Marshall Becker, devoted a monograph to the applications of the Health Belief Model (HBM) (mid-1970s)
- 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
- Peter Emil Becker, German doctor (see Becker's muscular dystrophy)
- Philip Becker (1830–1898), first German-born mayor of Buffalo, New York
- Pierre Becker , geologe french
- 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 Becker, Developed websites for popular video games
- 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
- Véronique Becker (born 1965), French contemporary painter
- Vincent Becker (born 1993), Famous Lacrosse player
- 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
- Carlos Becker Westphall, contributor to the field of network management
[edit] Places
- Becker, Florida
- Becker, Minnesota
- Becker, Mississippi
- Becker, New Mexico
- Becker, Texas
- Becker County, Minnesota
- Becker Township, Minnesota (disambiguation)
- Mount Becker, Antarctica
[edit] Businesses
- A. G. Becker, former U.S. investment bank
- Becker Entertainment, Australian entertainment company
- Becker's Milk, Canadian convenience store chain
[edit] Educational
- Becker College, Worcester and Leicester, Massachusetts
- Carl Becker House, residential college at Cornell University, named after Carl L. Becker
[edit] Medical
- Becker's muscular dystrophy, named after Peter Emil Becker
- Becker's nevus, skin disorder documented by Samuel William Becker
[edit] Characters
- Captain Becker, Primeval character
[edit] 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
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