Hecker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Chris Hecker, game programmer
Ewald Hecker (1843-1909), German psychiatrist, originator of the concept of hebephrenia
Ewald Otto E. Hecker (1879-1954), German industrialist and Nazi SS-Brigadeführer
Florian Hecker (1975-), German electronic musician, publishing mostly on Vienna's Mego label
Friedrich Hecker (1811-1881), a German Forty-Eighter and veteran of the American Civil War
Isaac Thomas Hecker (1818-1889), Roman Catholic priest, founder of the Paulist Fathers
Jakob Hecker (1887-1969), German painter
Johann Julius Hecker (1707-1768), a German educator who established the Berlin Realschule
Justus Hecker (1795-1850), German medical historian
Maximilian Hecker (1977-), German pop musician, publishing mostly on Berlin's Kitty-Yo label
Robert Hecker (1965-) Guitarist for the Southern California punk band, Redd Kross
Scott Hecker, sound editor
Siegfried Hecker (born 1943), Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory, professor at Stanford University
Tim Hecker (1974-), Canadian electronic musician, also known as Jetone
Hecker Brothers, publishers