title: Bleecker
text: # 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
  