Beck (surname)
Beck is a surname of either Germanic origin or Ashkenazi Jewish, and is fairly common in English and Slavic speaking countries, Germany and Denmark. The Germanic name can mean "brook, stream" or be a variant of Becker, which is an occupational surname meaning "baker".
Notable people
Notable people with this surname include:- Aaron T. Beck, founder of cognitive therapy
- Adam Beck, Canadian politician and hydro-electricity advocate
- Adolf Beck, Norwegian immigrant wrongly convicted of fraud in England
- Adolf Beck (physiologist), Polish professor at University of Lwow
- Alexander Beck, Anglo-Argentine military aviator
- Alois Beck, Liechtenstein politician
- András Beck, Hungarian sculptor
- Andreas Beck (footballer), German football player
- Andreas Beck (tennis), German tennis player
- Andrew Beck (American football), American football player
- Andrew Beck (musician), American artist and musician, member of the band The Mellons
- Anna Beck, Swedish para-cyclist
- Audrey P. Beck, American educator and politician
- Bill Beck (coach), American college sports coach
- C. C. Beck, American cartoonist
- Carolyn Beck, American industrial and systems engineer
- Carrie Beck, American film and television executive
- Carson Beck, American football player
- Charlie Beck, Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department
- Christophe Beck, Canadian composer for Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Claude Beck, American cardiac surgeon who invented the defibrillator
- Clifford W. Beck, American politician
- Corey Beck, American basketball player
- Dave Beck, American labor leader
- David Beck (painter), Dutch portrait painter
- David Beck (musician), Australian drummer
- David B. Beck, American physician-scientist
- David L. Beck, Mormon leader
- Diana Beck, English neurosurgeon
- Doris Beck, American politician
- "Dr. Beck", name taken by the Count de Werdinsky
- Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim, German sociologist and scholar
- Ernie Beck, American basketball player
- Franz Ignaz Beck, German classical composer
- Franz Ignaz von Beecke, German classical composer
- Gad Beck, German educator, author, activist, and survivor of the Holocaust
- Geoffrey Beck (cricketer), English cricketer, minister, and centenarian
- George Beck (artist), artist and poet
- Gina Beck, English actress and singer
- Glenn Beck, American political commentator, radio host, and television producer
- Guido Beck, Argentine physicist
- Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau, German botanist
- Gunnar Beck, German politician
- Hans Beck, German inventor
- Hans Dieter Beck, German publisher
- Hans Beck (historian) German-Canadian classics scholar
- Hans Beck (mathematician) German geometer
- Hans Beck (ski jumper) Norwegian competitor at 1932 Winter Olympics
- Harry Beck, designer of the London Underground map
- Harry Beck (footballer), English footballer
- Henrik Henriksen Beck, Danish geologist, conchologist and naturalist
- Horatio Beck, American politician from Maryland
- Ivan Bek, Yugoslav footballer
- Ivo Beck, Liechtenstein politician
- Jackson Beck, American actor and announcer
- Jakob Sigismund Beck, German philosopher
- James Beck, English actor in the television series Dad's Army
- James Beck (art historian), American art historian
- James B. Beck, American congressman from Kentucky
- James M. Beck, United States Solicitor General and US Congressman from Pennsylvania
- James Murray Beck, Canadian historian
- Jan-Philipp Beck, German politician
- Jeff Beck, British electric guitarist
- Joe Beck, American jazz guitarist
- Johann Beck (politician, born 1913), Liechtenstein politician
- John Beck (actor), American actor
- John Beck (footballer), British football manager
- John Beck (gridiron football), NFL player and former BYU quarterback
- John Brodhead Beck, 19th-century United States physician
- Jonathan Mock Beck, American mathematician
- Joko Beck, an American Zen teacher
- Jordan Beck (baseball), American baseball player
- Józef Beck, Polish diplomat and military officer
- József Beck, mathematician
- Judith S. Beck, American psychologist
- Jürgen Beck (politician), Liechtenstein politician
- Justin Beck, American guitarist
- Karol Beck, Slovak tennis player
- Ken Beck, Australian Rules footballer
- Kent Beck, proponent of Extreme Programming
- Kimberly Beck, American actress
- Kristin Beck, retired American Navy SEAL
- Kurt Beck, German politician
- Laetitia Beck, Israeli golfer
- Lewis Caleb Beck, American naturalist and physician
- Ludwig Beck, German general in Hitler assassination attempt
- Ludwig Beck (politician), Liechtenstein politician
- Margit Beck, Hungarian-born American painter
- Mark Beck, footballer
- Michael Beck, American actor
- Mikkel Beck, Danish professional football player
- Nissan Beck or Nisan Bak, Hasidic leader, moderniser and printer in Jerusalem
- Noah Beck, American social medial personality
- Paul W. Beck, American military aviation pioneer
- Peter Beck (disambiguation) - various people
- Richard Beck (scholar), American literary historian
- Rick Beck, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives
- Robert Beck, alias of African American writer Iceberg Slim
- Robert Beck, alias of D-12 rapper Karnail Pitts
- Robert Nason Beck, pioneer radiologist
- Robin Beck, American singer
- Rod Beck, relief pitcher in Major League Baseball
- Rollo Beck, American bird collector
- Solomon Scott Beck, American politician from Maryland
- Stanley D. Beck, American entomologist
- Theodore Beck, first principal of the MAO College at Aligarh, India
- Theodric Romeyn Beck, forensic scientist
- Ulrich Beck, German sociologist
- W. Raymond Beck, member of Maryland House of Delegates
- Wilhelm Beck, President of the Landtag of Liechtenstein
- William E. Beck, Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court
Fictional characters
- Martin Beck, Swedish police detective in the Sjöwall and Wahlöö novels
- Beck Oliver, one of the main characters from Victorious
- Florian Beck, one of the main characters from Salt to the Sea
- Guinevere Beck, character from the television series You
- Tom Beck, a character in the 1998 American science-fiction disaster movie Deep Impact
- Finley Beck, a fictional photographer appearing in the season two episode of Charmed, "Chick Flick".
- Quentin Beck, one of Spiderman's enemies.
- Dr. Christopher "Chris" Beck, one of the main characters from The Martian (film) and The Martian (Weir novel)
- Dr. Ivan Beck, Vice Director of the fictional private research institute Async, from the YouTube webseries Backrooms.