Becker 4719097 223563499 2008-07-04T17:11:17Z Three-quarter-ten 5526855 Duplicated adjacent entry. '''Becker''' is one of the [[German language|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 Becker|Carl/Karl Becker]] (disambiguation) *[http://www.lrg.ufsc.br/~westphal 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 (violinist)|Jean Becker]] (1833-1884), German violinist and composer *[[Jean Becker (director, actor)|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 *[[Carl Becker|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]] ==Places== *[[Becker, Florida]] *[[Becker, Minnesota]] *[[Becker, Mississippi]] *[[Becker, New Mexico]] *[[Becker, Texas]] *[[Becker County, Minnesota]] *[[Becker Township, Minnesota]] (disambiguation) *[[Mount Becker]], Antarctica ==Businesses== *[[A. G. Becker]], former U.S. investment bank *[[Becker Entertainment]], Australian entertainment company *[[Becker's Milk]], Canadian convenience store chain ==Educational== *[[Becker College]], Worcester and Leicester, Massachusetts *[[Cornell West Campus#House system|Carl Becker House]], residential college at Cornell University, named after [[Carl L. Becker]] ==Medical== *[[Becker's muscular dystrophy]], named after [[Peter Emil Becker]] *[[Becker's nevus]], skin disorder documented by [[Samuel William Becker]] ==Characters== *[[Captain Becker]], ''[[Primeval]]'' character ==Other== *[[Becker (TV series)|''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. 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