Hecht (surname)
Hecht is a surname of German and Yiddish origin. In both languages, the word means "pike".
Notable people with the surname include:
Politics and law
- Burton Hecht, New York politician and judge
- Chic Hecht, former U.S. Senator from Nevada and U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas
- Christian Hecht, German politician
- Daryl Hecht, American judge
- Evelyn Hecht-Galinski, Jewish-German activist
- Greg Hecht, American politician
- Inge Hecht, German politician
- Jon Hecht, Massachusetts legislator, attorney and China law expert
- Michael Hecht, birth name of Michael Howard, British politician and leader of the Conservative Party from 2003 until 2005
- Nathan Hecht, American judge
- Sue Hecht, American politician
Academics
- Daniel Friedrich Hecht, German mathematician
- Eugene Hecht, American physicist
- Friedrich Hecht, Austrian chemist and writer
- Frederick Hecht, American pediatrician, medical geneticist and teacher
- Michael Hecht (communication scientist), researcher in human communication
- Selig Hecht, American physiologist and atomic energy expositor
- Stefan Hecht, German chemist, professor at Humboldt University of Berlin
- Tobias Hecht, American anthropologist, ethnographer, and translator
- Robert Hecht-Nielsen, artificial intelligence and cognition theorist
Literature
- Anthony Hecht, American poet
- Daniel Hecht, American novelist
- Jennifer Michael Hecht, American poet, historian, philosopher, and author
Entertainment
- Albie Hecht, former president of Spike TV and Nickelodeon
- Ben Hecht, prolific Hollywood screenwriter
- Erik Hecht, real name of German musician Eric Fish
- Gina Hecht, American actress
- Harold Hecht, film producer
- Jessica Hecht, American actress
- Larry Hecht, better known as Larry Haines, American actor
- Paul Hecht, Canadian actor
Sports
- Duvall Hecht, American Olympic champion row
- Gerhard Hecht, German boxer
- Jeff Hecht, Canadian football player
- Jochen Hecht, German ice hockey player
- Ladislav Hecht, Czech-American professional tennis player
- Michael Hecht, German soccer player
- Raymond Hecht, German javelin-thrower
Business
- Ernest Hecht, British publisher
- Lotte Irene Hecht, German-Canadian entrepreneur, founder of "The 1945 Foundation", a Canadian charity organization
- Robert E. Hecht, American antiquities dealer
- Reuben Hecht, Israeli industrialist.
- Sam Hecht, British industrial designer
- Sam Hecht, Jr., American retailer, co-founder of Hecht's
Other
- Abraham Hecht, American Orthodox rabbi, Rabbi Emeritus of Cong. Shaarei Zion.
- Anton Hecht, English artist and filmmaker
- Erwin Hecht, O.M.I., German Roman Catholic bishop
- Estelle Hecht, Canadian artist and gallery owner
- Hans-Joachim Hecht, German chess grandmaster
- Jacob J. Hecht, American rabbi
- John Rudolf Hecht, Austrian-Canadian entrepreneur and Austrian Honorary Consul in Kanada, founder of "The 1945 Foundation", a Canadian charity organization
- Joan Hecht, American writer and activist
- Józef Hecht, also known as Joseph Hecht, Polish printmaker and painter
- Kenneth Hecht, American public interest attorney, health and nutrition advocate
- Kenneth Hecht
- Lina Frank Hecht, Boston philanthropist
- Mary Hecht, American-born Canadian sculptor
- Nathan Hecht, Texas Supreme Court Justice
- Sigmund Hecht, Hungarian-born Reform rabbi in Montgomery, Alabama; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Los Angeles, California.
Hechtman
- Gideon Gechtman, an Israeli artist, sculptor
- J. F. Hechtman, American politician
- Ken Hechtman, a Jewish Canadian freelance journalist