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Beck is a British word meaning "brook" or "stream" (from the Old Norse bekkr), and is a fairly common English surname. Also an abbreviated sir name in Hebrew from B'nei Kiddushim, Sons of the Martyrs "BK" Notable people or things called Beck include: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... The primary meaning of stream is a body of water, confined within a bed and banks and having a detectable current. ... Butchers Creek, Omeo, Victoria A stream, brook, beck, burn or creek, is a body of water with a detectable current, confined within a bed and banks. ... Old Norse or Danish tongue is the Germanic language once spoken by the inhabitants of the Nordic countries (for instance during the Viking Age). ...

People

• Beck (Beck Hansen), an American musician, singer-songwriter and producer
• Aaron T. Beck, founder of modern cognitive therapy
• Andreas Beck, German football player
• C.C. Beck, an American cartoonist
• Christophe Beck, a Canadian composer for film and TV, most notable for his work on Buffy The Vampire Slayer
• Claude Beck (1894-1971), American cardiac surgeon who invented the defibrillator
• Edward S. Beck (1946-) Head, Susquehanna Institute, President, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East
• Franz Ignaz Beck, a Classical composer
• George Beck, artist and poet
• Glenn Beck, an American conservative radio talk show host
• Günther von Mannagetta und Lërchenau Beck, German botanist
• Harry Beck, designer of the London Underground map
• Jakob Sigismund Beck, a German philosopher
• James M. Beck (1861 - 1936) United States Solicitor General and US Congressman from Pennsylvania
• Jeff Beck, a British electric guitarist.
• John Beck (American football player), former BYU quarterback and NFL prospect.
• John Beck (footballer), British football manager.
• Józef Beck, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs in the interbellum
• Kent Beck, major proponent of Extreme Programming
• Kurt Beck, German politician
• Ludwig Beck, Chief of Staff of the German armed forces during the early years of the Nazi regime.
• Martin Beck, fictional Swedish police detective by Sjöwall and Wahlöö
• Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), late African American writer
• Robert Beck, alias of former D-12 rapper Karnail Pitts
• Rod Beck, former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball
• Theodore Beck, first principal of the MAO College at Aligarh, India
• Theodric Romeyn Beck, forensic scientist
• Ulrich Beck, a German sociologist

This article contains a trivia section. ... Aaron Temkin Beck (born July 18, 1921) is an American psychiatrist and a professor emeritus at the department of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. ... Andreas Beck (born March 3, 1987 in Kemerovo, Russia) is a German defender for VfB Stuttgart. ... Clarence Charles Beck, (June 8, 1910-November 22, 1989), was an American cartoonist. ... Christophe Beck interviewed on a Buffy The Vampire Slayer DVD featurette Christophe Beck (born 1972 in Montreal, Canada), also credited as Chris Beck, is a Canadian film and television composer. ... Dr. Claude Schaeffer Beck (1894-1971) was a pioneer American cardiac surgeon, famous for innovating various cardiac surgery techniques, and performing the first defibrillation in 1947. ... Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) is a non-profit, advocacy organization. ... Franz Ignaz Back (or Ignaz Beck) (February 20, 1734–December 31, 1809) was a German composer. ... George Beck was an artist and poet who flourished in America during the early republic era. ... Glenn Beck (born February 10, 1964) is a conservative American talk-radio and television host. ... Günther von Mannagetta und Lërchenau Beck (born 25 August, 1856 in Pressburg, modern Bratislava, died 23 June, 1931 in Prague) was a prominent German botanist He was a director of the department of botany of the Natural History Museum of Vienna and professor at the University of Vienna... Harry Beck (Henry C. Beck, 1903–1974) was a graphic designer, best known for creating the present London Underground Tube map in 1931. ... Jakob Sigismund Beck (1761-1840), German philosopher, was born at Danzig in 1761. ... Categories: Stub | 1861 births | 1936 deaths | Members of the U.S. House of Representatives ... Geoffrey Arnold (Jeff) Beck (born June 24, 1944 in Wallington, Greater London, England) is an English guitarist and songwriter. ... John Beck (born August 21, 1981 in Hayward, California) is an American football quarterback who currently plays for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. ... ... NFL logo For other uses of the abbreviation NFL, see NFL (disambiguation). ... John Alexander Beck (born Edmonton, London May 25, 1954) is a former British footballer and manager. ... Józef Beck Józef Beck (October 4, 1894 - June 5, 1944) was a Polish statesman, diplomat, military officer, and close associate of Józef Piłsudski. ... Kent Beck is the creator of Extreme Programming and is one of the founders of the Agile Manifesto. ... Kurt Beck, 2004 Kurt Beck (* 1949 in Bad Bergzabern) is a German politician and since 1994 the prime minister of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz). ... Ludwig Beck General Ludwig Beck (June 29, 1880 – July 21, 1944) was Chief of Staff of the German Armed forces during the early years of the Nazi regime in Germany before World War II. Born in Biebrich in Hesse-Nassau, he was educated in the conservative Prussian military tradition. ... Martin Beck is a fictional police detective who is the main character in ten novels by Sjöwall and Wahlöö. The stories are often seen largely from his perspective, and as head of the department he is the logical hero of the series. ... Iceberg Slim is the pen name of Robert Beck (August 4, 1918 – April 28, 1992), a successful African American writer who started out as a pimp. ... The late Karnail Pitts Karnail Paul Pitts (1979- May 21, 1999), also known by stage names Bugz and Robert Beck, was an up-and-coming rap artist, murdered at the age of 21. ... Rodney Roy Beck (born August 3, 1968 in Burbank, California) is a former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the San Francisco Giants (1991-97), Chicago Cubs (1998-99), Boston Red Sox (1999-2001) and San Diego Padres (2003-2004). ... Theodore Beck was a British educationalist working for the British Raj in India, who was invited by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan to serve as the first principal of the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College in Aligarh, which would later evolve into the Aligarh Muslim University. ... T. Romeyn Beck Theodric Romeyn Beck M.D. LL.D (April 11, 1791 - November 19, 1855) (alternatively Theodoric Romeyn Beck or T. Romeyn Beck) was an American physician in Albany, New York specializing in medical jurisprudence who authored the first significant American book on forensic medicine, Elements of Medical Jurisprudence... Ulrich Beck Dr. Ulrich Beck (b. ...

Places

• River Beck, in South London

The source of the River Beck is on the borders of the London Boroughs of Bromley & Croydon, where West Wickham & Shirley meet. ...

Things

• BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad, a Japanese manga and anime
• Beck's, a beer brewery and sponsor of the Beck's Futures awards
• AH Beck Foundation, a construction company
• John and Frances Beck Foundation, sponsor of Wikijunior
• Beck's suicide rating scale, a psychiatric measure of self-harm risk.

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