Hecker (surname)

Hecker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Chris Hecker, game programmer
• Ewald Hecker (1843-1909), German psychiatrist, originator of the concept of hebephrenia
• Ewald Otto E. Hecker (1879-1954), German industrialist and Nazi SS-Brigadeführer
• Florian Hecker (1975-), German electronic musician, publishing mostly on Vienna's Mego label
• Friedrich Hecker (1811-1881), a German Forty-Eighter and veteran of the American Civil War
• Isaac Thomas Hecker (1818-1889), Roman Catholic priest, founder of the Paulist Fathers
• Johann Julius Hecker (1707-1768), a German educator who established the Berlin Realschule
• Justus Hecker (1795-1850), German medical historian
• Maximilian Hecker (1977-), German pop musician, publishing mostly on Berlin's Kitty-Yo label
• Robert Hecker (1965-) Guitarist for the Southern California punk band, Redd Kross
• Scott Hecker, sound editor
• Siegfried Hecker (born 1943), Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory, professor at Stanford University
• Tim Hecker (1974-), Canadian electronic musician, also known as Jetone