Tasker

For the automation application, see Tasker (application). For the village and commune in Niger also spelled Tasker, see Tesker.

Tasker is a surname and occasionally a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname

People

• 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, 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

See also

• Kemp & Tasker, British architectural firm of the 1930s
• Taskers of Andover, manufacturer of steam traction engines
• Task (disambiguation)