Tasker

Tasker is a surname and occasionally a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname

 * Alfred Tasker (born 1934), English cricketer
 * Benjamin Tasker, Sr. (1690–1768), Provincial Governor of Maryland
 * Benjamin Tasker, Jr. (1720–1760), Maryland politician, delegate to the Albany Congress, racehorse owner
 * Caleb Tasker (born 1996), Australian Music Producer
 * Bruce Tasker (born 1987), British bobsleigher and track athlete
 * Elizabeth Tasker, Australian fire ecologist
 * Elizabeth J. Tasker (born 1980), British astrophysicist
 * Glenn Tasker, Australian sports administrator
 * Homer G. Tasker (1899–1990), American sound engineer
 * Jill Tasker (born 1964), American actress
 * Joe Tasker (1948–1982), British climber
 * John Tasker (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
 * J. Wilder Tasker (1887–1974), American collegiate football, basketball, and baseball coach
 * Leo Tasker (1900–1948), Australian rules footballer
 * Luke Tasker (born 1991), American wide receiver
 * Marianne Allen Tasker (1852–1911), New Zealand domestic servant
 * Martin Tasker (born 1951), British/New Zealand journalist
 * Nathan Tasker, Australian Christian pop artist
 * Paul Tasker, English engineer
 * Peter Tasker, Australian Anglican bishop
 * Ralph Tasker, (1919–1999), American high-school basketball coach
 * Robert Tasker, (1868–1959) British architect and politician
 * Rolly Tasker (1926–2012), Australian sailor
 * Roly Tasker (1907–1972), Australian rules footballer
 * Sean Tasker (born 1968), Australian rules footballer
 * Steve Tasker (born 1962), American football player and sports broadcaster
 * William Tasker (1891–1918), Australian rugby player and World War I soldier
 * William Tasker (poet) (1740–1800), English clergyman, scholar and poet

Fictional characters

 * Harry Tasker, protagonist of the action-comedy film True Lies
 * Marissa Tasker, fictional character in the soap opera All My Children

Given name

 * Tasker H. Bliss (1853–1930), United States Army general, Army Chief of Staff, and diplomat
 * Tasker Cook (1867–1937), politician in the Dominion of Newfoundland
 * Tasker Oddie (1870–1950), American politician
 * Tasker Watkins (1918–2007), Welsh Lord Justice of Appeal and deputy Lord Chief Justice