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Becker

[bek-er]

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
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
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