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