Becher is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Henry Becher, (fl. 1561), English translator and vicar of Mayfield
• Michael Becher, (1704–1758), Bristol-born English slave trader and merchant

• Andrew Cracroft Becher, CBE (1858–1929), British Army major-general
• Balthasar Bekker, Dutch minister and author of philosophical and theological works
• Bernd and Hilla Becher, German photographers
• Eduard Becher (1856–1886), Austrian entomologist
• Giora Becher, Israel’s Ambassador to Brazil from 2008 until 2011
• Hans-Jürgen Becher (born 1941), German footballer
• Heinz Manfred Becher (born 1933), West German rower
• Henry Corry Rowley Becher (1817–1895), Canadian lawyer, politician and author
• Johann Joachim Becher (1635–1682), German physician and alchemist
• John Augustus Becher, (1833–1915), American businessman and politician
• Johannes R. Becher, (1891–1958), German politician and writer
• John Thomas Becher, English clergyman and writer on social economy
• Kurt Becher, (1909–1995), German SS officer
• Mordechai Becher, author and lecturer on Jewish theology
• Rev. John Thomas Becher, (1770–1848), English clergyman, social reformer and Vicar-General of Southwell Minster
• Ricardo Becher, (1930–2011), Argentine film director, screenwriter and journalist
• Siegfried Becher, (1806–1873), Austrian political economist
• Ulrich Becher, German writer
• Verónica Becher, Argentinian computer scientist
• Walter Becher (1912–2005), German Bohemian politician, representative of the All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights (GB/BHE)