Acker (family name)
Acker is a German family name .
Origin and meaning
The name is derived from the word Acker (agriculturally worked soil).
variants
Variants of the name can often be found, e.g. B.
Name bearer
- Alex Acker (* 1983), American basketball player
- Amandus Acker CSSp (1848–1923), Alsatian Catholic missionary and colonial pioneer and re-founder of the German Spiritan Province
- Amparo Acker-Palmer (* 1968), Spanish neurobiologist
- Amy Acker (* 1976), American actress
- Berko Acker (1945–1978), German film and theater actor
- Charles Ernest Acker (1868–1920), American chemist, Acker process for producing sodium hydroxide
- Dieter Acker (1940–2006), German composer
- Ephraim Leister Acker (1827–1903), American politician
- Flori van Acker (1859–1940), Belgian painter
- Hans Acker (around 1380–1461), late Gothic glass painter in Ulm in the 15th century
- Hans Keller-Acker (1881–1941), Swiss agronomist and cooperative official
- Heinrich Acker (1896–1954), Prussian district administrator
- Jim Acker (* 1958), former baseball player
- Jakob Acker the Elder (14th / 15th century), German glass painter
- Jakob Acker the Younger (* before 1441 – after 1491), German painter
- Jean Acker (actress) (1893–1978), American actress
- Jean Adam Acker (1665–1745), Stadtkachler in Strasbourg
- Joan Acker (1924–2016), American sociologist
- Johann Heinrich Acker (1647–1719), German writer
- Kathy Acker (1947–1997), American writer
- Laurens van den Acker (* 1965), Dutch automobile designer
- Ludwig Acker (1913–1998), German chemist
- Paula Acker (1913–1989), SED functionary
- Shane Acker (* 1971), American film director, screenwriter, animator
- Sharon Acker (born 1935), Canadian actress
- Sherry Acker (* 1959), American tennis player
- Theodor Acker (1899–1986), President of the Mainz Federal Railway Directorate
- Werner Acker (* 1955), German guitarist
- Wilfried Acker (1908–1979), German politician (KPD)
- Wolfert Acker (1667–1753), American colonist
stage name
- Acker Bilk (1929-2014), English jazz clarinetist
Web links
Wiktionary: Acker - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
