List of Famous people with last name Becker
Boris Becker
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.
Meret Becker
Meret Becker is a German actress and singer.
Ben Becker
Ben Becker is a German film and theatre actor.
Rolf Becker
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
Barbara Becker is a German-American designer, former actress and model.
Mariana Becker
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
Nadja Becker is a German actress.
Elizabeth Becker
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
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 Becker
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.