Becker (disambiguation)
Appearance
Look up Becker in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Becker is a German surname.
Becker may also refer to:
Places
[edit]United States
[edit]- Becker, Florida
- Becker, Minnesota
- Becker, Mississippi
- Becker, Texas
- Becker County, Minnesota
- Becker Township, Minnesota (disambiguation)
Antarctica
[edit]- Mount Becker, a prominent mountain 1 mile northeast of Mount Boyer, in the Merrick Mountains, Ellsworth Land
Businesses
[edit]- A. G. Becker, former U.S. investment bank
- Becker Entertainment, Australian entertainment company
- Becker Film Group, Australian company founded in 2008
- Becker Group, Australian independent film and television distribution company, 1965–2007
- Becker's, Canadian convenience store chain
- Château Marquis d'Alesme Becker, Bordeaux wine producer, archaically named simply Becker
- Harman Becker Automotive Systems, known as Becker, manufacturer of car audio systems and part of Harman International Industries
Taxonomy
[edit]Wikispecies has information related to Becker.
- Becker, taken as a taxonomic authority, may refer to:
- Alexander K. Becker (1818–1901), German botanist and entomologist
- Johann Becker (entomologist) (1932–2004), Brazilian entomologist
Education
[edit]- Becker College, Worcester and Leicester, Massachusetts
- Becker Professional Education, a company that offers educational resources for professionals in the areas of accounting, finance, and project management.
- Carl Becker House, residential college at Cornell University, named after Carl L. Becker
Medicine
[edit]- Becker's muscular dystrophy, named after Peter Emil Becker
- Becker disease, a neuromuscular disease
- Becker's nevus, skin disorder documented by Samuel William Becker
Fiction
[edit]- Becker (TV series), a CBS sitcom that ran from 1998 to 2004
- Captain Becker, character in the ITV sci-fi drama Primeval
Other
[edit]- Becker Psalter (1602), German metrical psalter published by Cornelius Becker
- Becker 20mm cannon, German automatic cannon developed for aircraft use during World War I
- Nightfreak and the Sons of Becker (2004), rock album by The Coral
- Pettkus v. Becker (1980), Canadian family law decision