Bekker

Bekker was first ever mentioned in the Torah in the form of the clan of the Bekkerrites. The addition of '-rite' to a surname indicates plural or a group of people. The original ancestor to South African Bekker's left Prussia in 1644 from Königsberg. A Bekker husband and wife were sent to their deaths from Trompsø, Norway to the concentration camps, WWII. Bekker is also Dutch and Low German occupational surname, bekker is a regional form of Dutch bakker ("baker"). Notable people with the surname include:

• Amore Bekker (born 1965), South African radio personality
• Andries Bekker (born 1983), South African rugby player
• Andriëtte Bekker (born 1958), South African statistician
• August Immanuel Bekker (1785–1871), German philologist and critic
• Balthasar Bekker (1634–1698), Dutch divine and author of philosophical and theological works
• Byron Bekker (born 1987), South African speedway rider
• Clarence Bekker (born 1968), Dutch Eurodance singer known as CB Milton
• Daniel Bekker (1932–2009), South African Springbox Heavyweight, Common Wealth Champion and Silver Olympic medalist.
• Elizabeth Bekker (1738–1804), Dutch writer known by her married name Betje Wolff
• Ernst Immanuel Bekker (1827–1918), German jurist and professor
• Hendrik Bekker (1661–1722), Dutch Governor of Ceylon
• Hennie Bekker (born 1934), Zambian-born musician and composer based in Canada
• Jaap Bekker Springbok Rugby Prop
• Jaco Bekker (born 1983), South African rugby player
• Jan Bekker Teerlink (1759–1832), Dutch plant/seed collector and winemaker, nephew of Betje Wolff
• Kees Bekker (1883–1964), Dutch footballer
• Kyle Bekker (born 1990), Canadian soccer player
• Marthinus Bekker (born 1980), Inventor and medical engineer
• Martiens Bekker (born 1933) Springbok rugby player
• Martynas Švėgžda von Bekker (b. 1967), Lithuanian violinist
• Matthew F. Bekker, American environmental geographer and dendrochronologist
• Mieczysław G. Bekker (1905–1989), Polish engineer and scientist
• Myfanwy Bekker, South African artist and art teacher
• Oliver Bekker (born 1984), South African golf player
• Paul Bekker (1882–1937), German music critic

De Bekker

• Piet de Bekker (1921–2013), Dutch politician
• Wilhelmus de Bekker (born 1939), Dutch bishop of Paramaribo

Bekkers

• Dennis Bekkers (born 1980), Dutch taekwondo practitioner
• Wilhelmus Bekkers (1890–1957), Dutch tug of war competitor

See also

• Bekker Port, a seaport in Estonia
• Bekker Nunataks, Antarctic peaks named after Mieczysław G. Bekker
• Bekker numbers, used to cite passages in the extant works of Aristotle, named after A. Immanuel Bekker
• Bekker v Jika, an important case in South African property law
• Daniëlle Bekkering (b. 1976), Dutch marathon speed skater
• Becker (disambiguation), German surname
• Bakker, Dutch surname