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Der Hecht in German is the fish known in English as a pike. This surname came from house shield (cf. herald) from Jewish communities such as Frankfurt/Main.

Yiddish העכט der hekht means spear, arms. The meanings of Yiddish are older than modern German, like the English word "pike".

Hecht is the surname of a number of people including:

Politicians

• Chic Hecht, former U.S. Senator from Nevada and U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas
• Greg Hecht, American politician, former member of the Georgia General Assembly
• Michael Hecht, birth name of Michael Howard, British politician and leader of the Conservative Party from 2003 until 2005
• Sue Hecht, member of the Maryland House of Delegates

Academics

• Michael Hecht, researcher in human communication
• Tobias Hecht, American anthropologist, ethnographer, and translator
• Robert Hecht-Nielsen, artificial intelligence and cognition theorist
• Selig Hecht, Polish-born American biophysicist
• Werner Hecht, literary scholar

Literature

• Anthony Hecht, American poet
• Daniel Hecht, American novelist
• Jennifer Michael Hecht, American poet, historian, philosopher, and author

Entertainment

• Albie Hecht, former president of Spike TV and Nickelodeon
• Ben Hecht, prolific Hollywood screenwriter
• Erik Hecht, real name of German musician Eric Fish
• Gina Hecht, American actress
• Jessica Hecht, American actress
• Harold Hecht, film producer
• Paul Hecht, Canadian actor

Sports

• Daniel Alan Hecht, Hungarian curling champion
• Duvall Hecht, American Olympic champion row
• Gerhard Hecht, German boxer
• Jochen Hecht, German ice hockey player
• Ladislav Hecht, professional tennis player
• Raymond Hecht, German javelin throwerer

Other

• Abraham Hecht, controversial American Orthodox rabbi
• Anton Hecht, English artist and filmmaker
• Frederick Hecht, American pediatrician and geneticist
• Hans-Joachim Hecht, German chess grandmaster
• Jacob J. Hecht, American rabbi
• Joan Hecht, American writer and activist
• Kenneth Hecht, American public interest attorney, health and nutrition advocate
• Kenneth Hecht (disambiguation)
• Nathan Hecht, Texas Supreme Court Justice
• Robert Hecht Jr., American antiquities dealer
• Sam Hecht, British industrial designer

Hechter

• Iosif Hechter, known as "Mihail Sebastian" (1907, Brăila - 1945), a Jewish Romanian playwright, essayist, journalist and novelist
• Daniel Hechter (born 1938), a Jewish French fashion designer

Hechtmann

• Gideon Gechtman (1942, Cairo - 2008), an Israeli artist, sculptor
• Ken Hechtman (born ?), a Jewish Canadian freelance journalist

See also

• Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum, Haifa, Israel
• Jacob J. Hecht Sefer Torah
• 10484 Hecht, an asteroid

Hechter

• Daniel Hechter, French fashion designer

Hechtman

• Ken Hechtman, Canadian journalist

Similar names

• Thomas Hachtmann (de)
• Gächter

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