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Becket is a play about Thomas Becket, written in French by Jean Anouilh.

Becket may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Becket (Tennyson play), an 1884 play by Alfred Tennyson
• Becket (1924 film), a silent film based on the play by Alfred Tennyson
• Becket (1964 film), based on a play by Jean Anouilh

People

• Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet
• Thomas Becket (1115–1170), martyred Archbishop of Canterbury and Catholic saint
• Welton Becket (1902–1969), American architect

Other uses

• Becket, Massachusetts, United States, a town
• The Becket School, a secondary school in Nottingham, England
• Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C.
• Becket, a U-shaped fastener used to hold up a pulley

See also

• Beckett (disambiguation)
• Becket bend, a type of knot joining another line
• Becket hitch, a type of knot connecting another object

• Disambiguation pages