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Boris Franz Becker is a German former world No. 1 professional tennis player. He was successful from the start of his career, winning the first of his six major singles titles at age 17. His Grand Slam singles titles included three Wimbledons, two Australian Opens and one US Open. He also won three year-end championships, 13 Masters Series titles and an Olympic gold medal in doubles. In 1989, he was voted the Player of the Year by both the ATP and the ITF.

Paula Modersohn-Becker was a German painter and one of the most important representatives of early expressionism. Her brief career was cut short when she died from postpartum embolism at the age of 31. She is recognized as the first known female painter to paint nude self-portraits. She was an important member of the artistic movement of modernism at the start of the twentieth century.

Meret Becker is a German actress and singer.

Ben Becker is a German film and theatre actor.

Walter Carl Becker was an American musician, songwriter, and record producer. He was best known as the co-founder, guitarist, bassist, and co-songwriter of the jazz rock band Steely Dan.

Rolf Becker is a German television actor and political activist. By his first wife, actress Monika Hansen, he is the father of actor Ben Becker, and actress and singer Meret Becker.

Barbara Becker is a German-American designer, former actress and model.

Hugo Becker is a French actor and director. He is known for his roles as Louis Grimaldi in the American drama television series Gossip Girl and Romain in the French thriller series Chefs.

Mariana Getrum Becker is an Brazilian sports journalist and television reporter for Rede Globo. Since being employed by Rede Globo in 1995, she has covered association football, extreme sports, water sports, the World Surf League, Formula One motor racing, the Sertões International Rally, and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro over the course of her career.

Nadja Becker is a German actress.

Elizabeth Becker is an American author and journalist who covered national and international affairs as a New York Times correspondent and was a member of the staff that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. She was the Senior Foreign Editor of National Public Radio where she received two DuPont-Columbia Awards as executive producer for reporting of South Africa's first democratic elections and the Rwanda genocide. She began her career as a war correspondent for The Washington Post covering Cambodia. She is the author of When the War Was Over, a modern history of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge, for which she won a Robert F. Kennedy book citation.

Jacques Becker was a French film director and screenwriter. His films, made during the 1940s and 1950s, encompassed a wide variety of genres, and they were admired by some of the filmmakers who led the French New Wave movement.

Jason Eli Becker is an American musician, songwriter and composer. At the age of 16, he became part of the Shrapnel Records-produced duo Cacophony with his friend Marty Friedman. They released the albums Speed Metal Symphony in 1987 and Go Off! in 1988. Cacophony broke up in 1989 and Becker began doing solo work, having released his first album Perpetual Burn in 1988, also through Shrapnel. He later joined David Lee Roth's band and recorded one album with him, A Little Ain't Enough.

Lars Becker is a German film director, screenwriter, and crime writer.

Muriel Gustavo Becker, simply known as Muriel, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Cypriot Club AEL Limassol.

Otto Becker is a former German show jumping champion, Olympic champion from 2000. Since January 2009 he is the coach of the German show jumping team.

Gavin de Becker is an American author and security specialist, primarily for governments, large corporations, and public figures. He is the founder and chairman of Gavin de Becker and Associates.

Théo Becker Oliveira is a Brazilian actor, model and singer.

Elisabeth Becker was a concentration camp guard in World War II.

Jean Becker is a French film director, screenwriter and actor. He is son of the director Jacques Becker.

Arthur P. Becker is an American investor and real estate developer. He is best known as the former CEO of NaviSite and Zinio. Becker was married to Vera Wang for 23 years and was an advisor on growing her business into a global brand. He graduated from Bennington College in 1972 and earned his MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Jurek Becker was a Polish-born German writer, film-author and GDR dissident. His most famous novel is Jacob the Liar, which has been made into two films. He lived in Łódź during World War II for about two years and survived the Holocaust.

Ingrid Mickler-Becker is a former West German athlete. Her name is sometimes written incorrectly as Ingrid Mickler in result lists. Her international career lasted from 1960 to 1972. She won the pentathlon gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 4×100 m relay gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Becker was the first German woman to clear 1.70 m in high jump (1970) and 6.50 m in the long jump (1967).

Britta Becker is a German former field hockey midfield player.

Jürgen Becker is a German comedian, kabarett artist, and actor.

Emma Becker is a French writer living in Berlin. Her pen name Becker is derived from Pannebecker, the family name of her German grandmother.