Tasker
# 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
