Bleecker

Bleecker is a Dutch-language occupational surname. Bleecker is an old spelling of (linnen)bleker ("linen bleacher"). Most if not all people listed below are descendants of Jan Jansen Bleecker/Bleeker, who came to New Amsterdam in 1658. In the Netherlands, only the spelling Bleeker is extant as a family name.

People

• Ann Eliza Bleecker (1752–1783), American poet
• Anthony Bleecker (1770–1827), American author and lawyer
• Anthony Lispenard Bleecker (1741–1816), American banker and merchant
• Harmanus Bleecker (1779–1849), US congressman from New York, ambassador to the Netherlands
• Jan Jansen Bleecker (1641/42–1732), Dutch settler in New Netherland, mayor of New York
• Julian Bleecker (born ca. 1967), American mobile artist and technologist
• Katherine Russell Bleecker (1893–1996), American filmmaker in silent era
• Leon Bleecker (c. 1881–1933), New York assemblyman
• Maitland B. Bleecker (1903–2002), American inventor, instrumental in modern helicopter design

Adopted as first name

• A. Bleecker Banks (1835–1910), American book publisher and mayor of Albany

Places

• Bleecker, New York, named after Barent Bleecker, 18th century landowner of the region
• Bleecker Park, Albany, New York
• Bleecker Street, New York City, named after Anthony Lispenard Bleecker
• Bleecker Stadium, Albany, New York, named after Albany businessman James Edward Bleecker
• Harmanus Bleecker Library, Albany, New York

See also

Bleecker (Bleeker), Alabama

• Bleaker
• Bleecker Street (disambiguation)
• Bleeker (disambiguation)