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). Notable people with the surname include:
Albert Ernst Anton Becker (1834–1899), German composer and conductor
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)
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
Esther Becker (born 1934) U.S. wife of billionaire J. R. Simplot (State of Idaho)
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
George Sanford "Sandy" Becker (1922–1996), U.S. television announcer, actor and comedian; Sandy Becker show on [television] WABD WNEW from 1955-1968 (NY)
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
Ingrid Becker (born 1942), German athlete
Jacques Becker (1906–1960), French screenwriter and film director
Jakob Becker (1810–1872), German genre painter
Jason Eli Becker (born 1969), U.S. Neo-classical metal guitarist
Jason Becker) (born 1974), Canadian ice hockey player and coach
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
Joshua Becker (born 1958), U.S. Motion Picture and Television director and writer
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
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; first German-born mayor of Buffalo, NY - served as mayor twice
Philip Johann Becker (1809–1886), German revolutionary in democratic movement in Germany and Switzerland
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 researcher in electrophysiology/electromedicine
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
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 (born 1950), U.S. musician, song writer 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
