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