# Becher

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**Becher** (German for "[mug](/source/Mug)") is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

- [Amy Becher](/source/Amy_Becher) (born 1978), American curler
- [Andrew Cracroft Becher](/source/Andrew_Becher), CBE (1858–1929), British Army major-general
- [Balthasar Bekker](/source/Balthasar_Bekker), Dutch minister and author of philosophical and theological works
- [Bernd and Hilla Becher](/source/Bernd_and_Hilla_Becher), German photographers
- [Eduard Becher](/source/Eduard_Becher) (1856–1886), Austrian entomologist
- [Giora Becher](/source/Giora_Becher), Israel's Ambassador to Brazil from 2008 until 2011
- [Hans-Jürgen Becher](/source/Hans-J%C3%BCrgen_Becher) (1941–2026), German footballer
- [Heinz Manfred Becher](/source/Heinz_Becher) (1933–2019), West German rower
- [Henry Becher](/source/Henry_Becher) (fl. 1561), English translator and vicar of Mayfield
- [Henry Corry Rowley Becher](/source/Henry_Corry_Rowley_Becher) (1817–1895), Canadian lawyer, politician and author
- [Johann Joachim Becher](/source/Johann_Joachim_Becher) (1635–1682), German physician and alchemist
- [Johannes R. Becher](/source/Johannes_R._Becher) (1891–1958), German politician and writer
- [John A. Becher](/source/John_A._Becher) (1833–1915), American businessman and politician
- [John C. Becher](/source/John_C._Becher) (1915–1986), American stage and television actor
- [John Thomas Becher](/source/John_Thomas_Becher) (1770–1848), English clergyman, social reformer and Vicar-General of Southwell Minster
- [Kurt Becher](/source/Kurt_Becher) (1909–1995), German SS officer
- [Michael Becher](/source/Michael_Becher) (1704–1758), Bristol-born English slave trader and merchant
- [Mordechai Becher](/source/Mordechai_Becher), author and lecturer on Jewish theology
- [Ricardo Becher](/source/Ricardo_Becher) (1930–2011), Argentine film director, screenwriter and journalist
- [Ruth Becher](/source/Ruth_Becher) (born 1956), Austrian politician
- [Siegfried Becher](/source/Siegfried_Becher) (1806–1873), Austrian political economist
- [Simon Becher](/source/Simon_Becher) (born 1999), American professional soccer player
- [Ulrich Becher](/source/Ulrich_Becher), German writer
- [Verónica Becher](/source/Ver%C3%B3nica_Becher), Argentinian computer scientist
- [Walter Becher](/source/Walter_Becher) (1912–2005), German Bohemian politician, representative of the All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights (GB/BHE)

## See also

- [Becher (biblical figure)](/source/Becher_(biblical_figure)), the name of two historic personalities of the Old Testament
- [Becher Peninsula](/source/Becher_Peninsula), Nunavut, Canada
- [Becher Point Wetlands](/source/Becher_Point_Wetlands), Western Australia
- [Becher process](/source/Becher_process), a process used to convert ilmenite to synthetic rutile
- [Port Kennedy, Western Australia](/source/Port_Kennedy,_Western_Australia), formerly known as Becher
- [Becher's Brook](/source/Becher's_Brook), celebrated fence at Aintree Racecourse
- [Becher process](/source/Becher_process), an industrial process used to produce rutile, a form of titanium dioxide, from the ore ilmenite
- [Jan Becher](/source/Jan_Becher), Czech company
- [Becher (biblical figure)](/source/Becher_(biblical_figure))
- [Wrixon-Becher baronets](/source/Wrixon-Becher_baronets), a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
- [Becker (disambiguation)](/source/Becker_(disambiguation))

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