Beck (surname)

Beck is a surname of Germanic origin and is fairly common in English and Slavic speaking countries. The Germanic name can mean "brook, stream" (related to Old Norse bekkr) or be a variant of Becker, which is an occupational surname meaning "baker".

Notable people with this surname include:

• Aaron T. Beck (1921–2021), founder of cognitive therapy
• Adam Beck (1857–1925), Canadian politician and hydro-electricity advocate
• Adolf Beck (1841–1909), Norwegian immigrant wrongly convicted of fraud in England
• Adolf Beck (physiologist) (1863–1942), Polish professor at University of Lwow
• Alexander Beck (1899–1989), Anglo-Argentine military aviator
• Alois Beck (born 1962), Liechtenstein politician
• András Beck (1911–1985), Hungarian sculptor
• Andreas Beck (footballer) (born 1987), German football player
• Andreas Beck (tennis) (born 1986), German tennis player
• Andrew Beck (American football) (born 1996), American football player
• Andrew Beck (musician) (born 1986), American artist and musician, member of the band The Mellons
• Anna Beck (born 1979), Swedish para-cyclist
• Audrey P. Beck (1931–1983), American educator and politician
• Bill Beck (coach) (1900–1965), American college sports coach
• C. C. Beck (1910–1989), American cartoonist
• Carolyn Beck, American industrial and systems engineer
• Carrie Beck, American film and television executive
• Carson Beck (born 2002), American football player
• Charlie Beck (born 1953), Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department
• Christoph Beck (born 1978), Liechtenstein politician
• Christophe Beck (born 1968/1969), Canadian composer for Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Claude Beck (1894–1971), American cardiac surgeon who invented the defibrillator
• Clifford W. Beck (1908–1985), American politician
• Corey Beck (born 1971), American basketball player
• Dave Beck (1894–1993), American labor leader
• David Beck (painter) (1621–1656), Dutch portrait painter
• David Beck (musician), Australian drummer
• David B. Beck (PhD 2012), American physician-scientist
• David L. Beck (born 1953), Mormon leader
• Diana Beck (1900–1956), English neurosurgeon
• Doris Beck (1929–2020), American politician
• "Dr. Beck", name taken by the Count de Werdinsky (1803–1856)
• Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim (1946–2025), German sociologist and scholar
• Ernie Beck (1931–2024), American basketball player
• Franz Ignaz Beck (1734–1809), German classical composer
• Franz Ignaz von Beecke (1733–1803), German classical composer
• Gad Beck (1923–2012), German educator, author, activist, and survivor of the Holocaust
• Geoffrey Beck (cricketer) (1918–2019), English cricketer, minister, and centenarian
• George Beck (artist) (1749–1812), artist and poet
• Gina Beck (born 1981), English actress and singer
• Glenn Beck (born 1964), American political commentator, radio host, and television producer
• Guido Beck (1903–1988), Argentine physicist
• Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau (1856–1931), German botanist
• Gunnar Beck (born 1966), German politician
• Hans Beck (1929–2009), German inventor
• Hans Dieter Beck (1932–2025), German publisher
• Hans Beck (historian) (born 1969) German-Canadian classics scholar
• Hans Beck (mathematician) (1876–1942) German geometer
• Hans Beck (ski jumper) (1911–1996) Norwegian competitor at 1932 Winter Olympics
• Harry Beck (1902–1974), designer of the London Underground map
• Harry Beck (footballer) (1901–1979), English footballer
• Henrik Henriksen Beck (1799–1863), Danish geologist, conchologist and naturalist
• Horatio Beck (1810–1872), American politician from Maryland
• Ivan Bek (1909–1963), Yugoslav footballer
• Ivo Beck (1926–1991), Liechtenstein politician
• Jackson Beck (1912–2004), American actor and announcer
• Jakob Sigismund Beck, German philosopher
• James Beck (1929–1973), English actor in the television series Dad's Army
• James Beck (art historian) (1930–2007), American art historian
• James B. Beck (1822–1890), American congressman from Kentucky
• James M. Beck (1861–1936), United States Solicitor General and US Congressman from Pennsylvania
• James Murray Beck (1914–2011), Canadian historian
• Jan-Philipp Beck (born 1990), German politician
• Jeff Beck (1944–2023), British electric guitarist
• Joe Beck (1945–2008), American jazz guitarist
• Johann Beck (politician, born 1913) (1913–1997), Liechtenstein politician
• John Beck (actor) (born 1943), American actor
• John Beck (footballer) (born 1954), British football manager
• John Beck (gridiron football) (born 1981), NFL player and former BYU quarterback
• John Brodhead Beck (1794–1851), 19th-century United States physician
• Jonathan Mock Beck (1935–2006), American mathematician
• Joko Beck (1917–2011), an American Zen teacher
• Jordan Beck (baseball) (born 2001), American baseball player
• Józef Beck (1894–1944), Polish diplomat and military officer
• József Beck (born 1952), mathematician
• Judith S. Beck (born 1954), American psychologist
• Jürgen Beck (politician) (born 1961), Liechtenstein politician
• Justin Beck, American guitarist
• Karol Beck (born 1982), Slovak tennis player
• Ken Beck (1940–2025), Australian Rules footballer
• Kent Beck (born 1961), proponent of Extreme Programming
• Kimberly Beck (born 1956), American actress
• Kristin Beck (born 1966), retired American Navy SEAL
• Kurt Beck (born 1949), German politician (SPD)
• Laetitia Beck (born 1992), Israeli golfer
• Lewis Caleb Beck (1798–1853), American naturalist and physician
• Ludwig Beck (1880–1944), German general in Hitler assassination attempt
• Ludwig Beck (politician), Liechtenstein politician
• Margit Beck (1918–1997), Hungarian-born American painter
• Mark Beck (born 1994), footballer
• Michael Beck (born 1949), American actor
• Mikkel Beck (born 1973), Danish professional football player
• Nissan Beck or Nisan Bak (1815–1889), Hasidic leader, moderniser and printer in Jerusalem
• Noah Beck (born 2001), American social medial personality
• Paul W. Beck (1876–1922), American military aviation pioneer
• Peter Beck (disambiguation) - various people
• Richard Beck (scholar) (1897–1980), American literary historian
• Rick Beck (born 1956), 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 (1928–2008), pioneer radiologist
• Robin Beck (born 1954), American singer
• Rod Beck (1968–2007), relief pitcher in Major League Baseball
• Rollo Beck (1870–1950), American bird collector
• Solomon Scott Beck (1883–1944), American politician from Maryland
• Stanley D. Beck (1919–1997), American entomologist
• Theodore Beck, first principal of the MAO College at Aligarh, India
• Theodric Romeyn Beck (1859–1899), forensic scientist
• Ulrich Beck (1944–2015), German sociologist
• W. Raymond Beck (1932–2014), member of Maryland House of Delegates
• Wilhelm Beck (1885–1936), President of the Landtag of Liechtenstein
• William E. Beck (1842–1892), Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court

• 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 (1998), "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.

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