<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Look up Becker in Wiktionary, the free dictionary . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Look up Becker in Wiktionary, the free dictionary . </Td> </Tr> <P> 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). In northern Germany it can also derive from the word Beck for Bach (" creek" or" brook") to denote origin . Notable people with the surname include: </P> <Ul> <Li> Albrecht Becker (1906--2002), German production designer, photographer, actor, imprisoned by Nazis for homosexuality </Li> <Li> Alice Becker - Ho (born 1941), French poet </Li> <Li> Annika Becker (born 1981), German pole vaulter </Li> <Li> Armando Becker (born 1966), Venezuelan basketball player </Li> <Li> August Becker (1900--1967), German chemist </Li> <Li> August Becker (1821--1887), German painter </Li> <Li> August Becker (1828--1891), German author </Li> <Li> B. Jay Becker (1904 - 1987), U.S. bridge player </Li> <Li> Ben Becker (born 1964), German film and theatre actor </Li> <Li> Benjamin Becker (born 1981), German tennis player </Li> <Li> Bernard Becker (1920--2013), U.S. ophthalmologist </Li> <Li> Bertha Becker (1920--2013), Brazilian geographer </Li> <Li> Bill Becker (1916 - 2010), U.S. journalist, writer and world traveler </Li> <Li> Bo Becker (born 1971), Swedish economist </Li> <Li> Boris Becker (born 1967), German tennis player; youngest Wimbledon champion at age 17 </Li> <Li> Britta Becker (born 1973), German field hockey player </Li> <Li> Carl Becker (disambiguation) </Li> <Li> Carl Lotus Becker (1873 - 1945), U.S. historian, author; President of American Historical Association in 1931 </Li> <Li> Chad Becker (born 1987), U.S. soccer player </Li> <Li> Charles Becker (1870--1915), first U.S. police officer executed for murder </Li> <Li> Charlotte Becker (born 1983), German professional racing cyclist </Li> <Li> Christiane Luise Amalie Becker (1778--1797), German actress </Li> <Li> Christine Becker, U.S. women's saber team member </Li> <Li> Conrad F. Becker (1905 - 1965), U.S. businessman and republican politician (Illinois Treasurer 1945 - 1947) </Li> <Li> Cornelius Becker, German theologian (see Becker Psalter) </Li> <Li> Cory Becker, U.S. guitar player (rock band: Living Things, St. Louis, MO) </Li> <Li> Craig Becker (born 1956), U.S. labor attorney and professor of law </Li> <Li> David Becker, U.S. guitarist </Li> <Li> Dietrich Becker (1620--1670), German Baroque violinist and composer </Li> <Li> Dirk Becker (born 1966), German politician (SPD) </Li> <Li> Donna Becker (born 1932), All - American Girls Professional Baseball League ballplayer </Li> <Li> Douglas Becker, U.S. / Belgian choreographer, teacher </Li> <Li> Edmund Becker (born 1957), German footballer </Li> <Li> Edward Roy Becker (1933--2006), U.S. appeals court judge </Li> <Li> Elisabeth Becker (1923--1946), German concentration camp guard, World War II </Li> <Li> Elizabeth Becker (born 1969), U.S. journalist and author </Li> <Li> Ernest Becker (1924--1974), U.S. cultural anthropologist </Li> <Li> Franz Becker (born 1918), German footballer </Li> <Li> Gary Becker (1930--2014), U.S. Nobel Prize - winning economist </Li> <Li> Gavin de Becker (born 1954), U.S. specialist: security </Li> <Li> George Ferdinand Becker (1847--1919), U.S. geologist </Li> <Li> Germán Becker (born 1980), Argentinian tango musician </Li> <Li> Gustav Becker (1819 - 1885), German world - class clockmaker and businessman; won gold medal at Silesia Clock Fair 1852 </Li> <Li> Gustavo Adolfo Becker (born 1966), Spanish high jumper </Li> <Li> Hans - Josef Becker (born 1948), German, Appointed Catholic archbishop of Paderborn, Germany 2003 </Li> <Li> Heidi Becker (born 1940), Austrian - born model </Li> <Li> Heinrich Becker (1770--1822), German actor </Li> <Li> Heinz Becker (1915--1991), German baseball player </Li> <Li> Hellmuth Becker (1902--1953), German Waffen - SS general </Li> <Li> Helmut Becker (1927--1990), German viticulturist </Li> <Li> Herbert L. Becker (born 1956), U.S. magician and founder of IPTV </Li> <Li> Howard P. Becker (1899--1960), U.S. sociologist </Li> <Li> Howard S. Becker (born 1928), U.S. sociologist and musician </Li> <Li> Hugo Becker (1863 - 1941, German cellist, teacher and composer </Li> <Li> Hugo Becker French actor from Metz </Li> <Li> Ingrid Becker (born 1942), German athlete </Li> <Li> Jacques Becker (1906--1960), French screenwriter and film director </Li> <Li> Jakob Becker (1810--1872), German genre painter </Li> <Li> Jean Becker (born 1938), French director, screenwriter, and actor </Li> <Li> Jean Becker (1833--1884), German violinist and composer </Li> <Li> Jens Becker (born 1965), German metal bass guitarist </Li> <Li> Jurek Becker (1937--1997), German writer </Li> <Li> Jürgen Becker (born 1959), German kabarett artist </Li> <Li> Konrad Becker, (born 1959), Austrian hypermedia researcher and interdisciplinary content developer </Li> <Li> Kuno Becker (born 1978), Mexican actor </Li> <Li> Kurt Becker (born 1958), U.S. Professional football player </Li> <Li> Lawrence C. Becker (born 1939), U.S. academic, philosopher </Li> <Li> Leonard F. Becker (1920 - 1991), American politician </Li> <Li> Ludwig Becker (disambiguation), multiple people </Li> <Li> Lydia Becker (1827--1890), British suffragist and amateur scientist </Li> <Li> Marc Becker, U.S. professor of Latin American studies </Li> <Li> Marcus Becker (born 1981), German slalom canoer </Li> <Li> Margaret Becker (born 1959), U.S. award - winning composer, singer, speaker and writer </Li> <Li> Martin Becker (1916--2006), German Luftwaffe night fighter ace </Li> <Li> Martin Becker (born 1984), South African Senior Draughtsman </Li> <Li> May Lamberton Becker (1873--1958), U.S. journalist and literary critic </Li> <Li> Meret Becker (born 1969), German actress and singer </Li> <Li> Mike Becker (born 1943), U.S. bridge player </Li> <Li> Moritz Becker (1827 -?), U.S. Deputy Sheriff and Democratic politician (WI) </Li> <Li> Muriel Gustavo Becker (born 1987), Brazilian goalkeeper </Li> <Li> Murilo Becker (born 1983), Brazilian basketball player </Li> <Li> Nikolaus Becker (1809--1845), writer of the German "Rheinlied" </Li> <Li> Oskar Becker (1839--1868), German student; shot King William I of Prussia at 3 paces (2 shots - king wounded with 1 shot) </Li> <Li> Oskar Becker (1889--1964), German philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian of mathematics </Li> <Li> Otto Heinrich Enoch Becker (1828--1890), German ophthalmologist </Li> <Li> Paul Becker (born 1984), Canadian actor, director, choreographer and producer </Li> <Li> Philip Becker (1830--1898), U.S. Republican politician </Li> <Li> Ralph Elihu Becker (1907--1994), U.S. attorney and ambassador to Honduras 1976--1977 </Li> <Li> Ralph Elihu Becker (born 1952), U.S. attorney and Republican politician; 34th Mayor of Salt Lake City, UT </Li> <Li> Rich Becker (born 1972), U.S. baseball player </Li> <Li> Robert O. Becker (1923--2008), U.S. orthopedic surgeon and electrophysiology researcher </Li> <Li> Roger Becker (born 1934), British tennis player </Li> <Li> Rudolf Becker (1923--1944), German highly decorated Hauptmann in World War II; recipient of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross </Li> <Li> Rudolph Zacharias Becker (1752--1822), German educator and author </Li> <Li> Ruth Becker (1899--1990), U.S. schoolteacher (Kansas) and Titanic survivor </Li> <Li> Sally Becker, British volunteer in Bosnia and Kosovo </Li> <Li> Samuel William Becker, U.S. dermatologist who documented Becker's nevus </Li> <Li> Sandra Becker, German artist, born 1967 </Li> <Li> Sandra Lynne Becker (born 1947), U.S. Beauty Queen; Miss California 1965 </Li> <Li> Sandy Becker (1922--1996), U.S. television announcer, actor and comedian </Li> <Li> Sean Becker (born 1975), New Zealand curler </Li> <Li> Sherburn M. Becker (1876--1949), U.S. Republican politician (41st Mayor of Milwaukee, WI); elected at age 29 - known as the boy mayor </Li> <Li> Theodor Becker (1840--1928), German civil engineer and entomologist </Li> <Li> Thorsten Becker (born 1980), German footballer </Li> <Li> Tom Becker, British children's author </Li> <Li> Valentin Eduard Becker (1814--1890), German composer </Li> <Li> Vaneta Becker, U.S. Republican politician (Indiana) </Li> <Li> Walt Becker (born 1968), U.S. director, writer, and actor </Li> <Li> Walter Becker (1950--2017), U.S. musician, songwriter and record producer </Li> <Li> Wayland Becker (1910--1984), U.S. football player </Li> <Li> Wilhelm Adolf Becker (1796--1846), German archaeologist </Li> <Li> Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker (1753--1813), German archaeologist and author </Li> <Li> William D. Becker (1876--1943), U.S. attorney and Republican politician (43rd mayor of St. Louis, Missouri); died in crash of Waco CG - 4 glider's first public demonstration </Li> <Li> Wolfgang Becker (born 1954), German filmmaker </Li> <Li> Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836--1870), Spanish poet </Li> <Li> Simon Fisher - Becker (born 1961), British actor </Li> <Li> Paula Modersohn - Becker (1876--1907), German expressionist painter </Li> </Ul>

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