Bleecker
# 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
