Acker
Encyclopedia
Acker is a surname
from German
or Old English, meaning "field". It is related to the word "acre
", and is the root of the surname Ackerman
.
People with the surname Acker:
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
from German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
or Old English, meaning "field". It is related to the word "acre
Acre
The acre is a unit of area in a number of different systems, including the imperial and U.S. customary systems. The most commonly used acres today are the international acre and, in the United States, the survey acre. The most common use of the acre is to measure tracts of land.The acre is related...
", and is the root of the surname Ackerman
Ackerman (surname)
Acker came from German or Old English, meaning "field", and is also related to the word "acre". Therefore, Ackermann means "fieldman". Ackerman is a common Ashkenazi Jewish surname.People named Ackerman include:...
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People with the surname Acker:
- Achille Van AckerAchille Van AckerAchille Honoré Van Acker was the 33rd Prime Minister of Belgium in four different cabinets from 1945 to 1958, for a total period of seven years. He was a member of the BSP-PSB - the then still national Belgian Socialist Party. He was nicknamed Achille Charbon.-Life:Van Acker was born in Bruges on...
(1898-1975), Prime Minister of Belgium after World War IIWorld War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis... - Alex AckerAlex AckerAlex Maurice Acker is an American professional basketball player, who currently plays for Le Mans in France....
(born 1983), American basketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
player - Amy AckerAmy AckerAmy Louise Acker is an American actress. She is best known for her roles on the television series Angel as Winifred Burkle and Illyria and on Alias as Kelly Peyton. She is also known for her role as Dr. Claire Saunders/Whiskey on Dollhouse.-Early life:Acker was born and raised in Dallas, where she...
(born 1976), American actor - Jean AckerJean AckerJean Acker was an American film actress with a career dating from the silent film era through the 1950s. She was perhaps best known as the estranged wife of silent film star Rudolph Valentino.-Early life and career:...
(1893-1978), American actor - Julia AckerJulia AckerJulia Acker was a Jewish-Polish figurative artist. Since many records from the World War II period and the German occupation of Poland are missing, the year of her birth in Lemberg and death in the Lviv Ghetto are listed in the "Exhibition Catalogue from the Collections of the Lviv Art Gallery,...
(1898–1942), a Jewish-Polish figurative artist. - Kathy AckerKathy AckerKathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. She was strongly influenced by the Black Mountain School, William S...
(1947-1997), American writer - Tom AckerTom AckerThomas James Acker is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. The right-hander was signed by the New York Giants before the 1948 season, and eventually ended up in the Cincinnati Redlegs organization before the 1954 season...
(born 1930), American baseball pitcher - William AckerWilliam AckerWilliam Marsh Acker, Jr. is a United States federal judge for the District Court for the Northern District of Alabama....
, federal district judge in Alabama - Wolfert AckerWolfert AckerWolfert Acker was a colonial-period American who is featured in Washington Irving's short story collection Wolfert's Roost. His name was recorded in all combinations of Wolfert or Wolvert as given name, and Acker, Echert, or Ecker as surname. He was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York and died at...
(1667-1753), colonial American literary subject, and father of Siber Acker, Abraham Acker and Steven Acker - Marjorie AckerMarjorie AckerMarjorie Acker was a Washington, D.C. based artist and the niece of artists Gifford and Reynolds Beal.She grew up in Ossining, New York....
(1894-1985), American painter