Wacker may refer to:

People

The Whacker Garry ''"The Whacker"'' Bush is an English professional poker player based in London. Bush started off as a cash game player in North London, but turned to tournaments in the late 1990s. Since then he has had numerous high finishes in limit, ...

, poker player Garry Bush's nickname *

Wacker (surname) Wacker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Charles H. Wacker (1856–1929), American businessman and philanthropist *Jimmy Wacker Charles James Wacker (December 8, 1883 – August 7, 1948) was a professional baseball pitch ...

* ''Wacker'', a colloquial term for an inhabitant of Liverpool, England; a partial synonym for "

scouse Scouse (; formally known as Liverpool English or Merseyside English) is an accent and dialect of English associated with Liverpool and the surrounding county of Merseyside. The Scouse accent is highly distinctive; having been influenced h ...

Places

Wacker (Heve) The Wacker is a small river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Bache (the upper course of the Heve). The Heve is a tributary of the Möhne. See also * List of rivers of North Rhine-Westphalia References Riv ...

, a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany *

Wacker, Illinois Wacker is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Illinois, United States. Wacker is located near a railroad line southeast of Savanna and southwest of Mount Carroll Mount Carroll is a city in Carroll County, Illinois, United States. It ...

, an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Illinois, United States *

Wacker Township, McPherson County, South Dakota Wacker Township is one of the five townships of McPherson County, South Dakota, United States. It lies in the northeastern part of the county and borders the following other townships within McPherson County: * Hoffman Township — south * Weber ...

, United States * Ward Cove, Alaska, United States, also called Wacker, an unincorporated community in Ketchikan Gateway Borough *

Wacker Drive Wacker Drive is a major multilevel street in Chicago, Illinois, running along the south side of the main branch and the east side of the south branch of the Chicago River in the Loop.Hayner, Don and Tom McNamee, ''Streetwise Chicago'', "Wacker D ...

, a street in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Companies

* Wacker Chemie, Munich, Germany * Wacker Neuson, Munich, Germany

Sports

Austria

* FC Admira Wacker Mödling, a football club from Mödling * FC Wacker Innsbruck, a defunct association football club from Innsbruck *

FC Wacker Innsbruck (2002) FC Wacker Innsbruck is an Austrian association football club from Innsbruck. The club was formed in June 2002 as ''FC Wacker Tirol'', and plays their home games at Tivoli-Neu. The club regard themselves as the spiritual continuation of the t ...

, an existing association football club from Innsbruck

Germany

* Wacker 04 Berlin, a former football club based in Berlin *

Wacker Bernburg Wacker Bernburg was a German association football club from the city of Bernburg, Saxony-Anhalt that was established in 1910 as ''Fußball Club Wacker Bernburg''. The club changed its name to ''Sportverein Wacker Bernburg'' in 1926.Grüne, Har ...

, a former association football club from Bernburg, Saxony *FC Wacker Biberach, a former association football club from Biberach an der Riß, Baden-Württemberg, that has merged with another club to FV Biberach * SV Wacker Burghausen, a football club based in Burghausen, Bavaria ** Wacker-Arena, their stadium **

SV Wacker Burghausen II The SV Wacker Burghausen II is a defunct German association football club from Burghausen, Bavaria. It was the reserve team of SV Wacker Burghausen. The team's greatest successes came in 2005 and 2012 when it qualified on both occasions for the ...

a defunct football club, reserve team of SV Wacker Burghausen * Wacker Leipzig, a defunct association football club playing in Leipzig * FC Wacker München, an association football club based in the Sendling borough of Munich *

FSV Wacker 90 Nordhausen FSV Wacker 90 Nordhausen is a German association football club from Nordhausen, Thuringia. The club's greatest success has been promotion to the Regionalliga Nordost in 1995 and 2013. It has also won the Thuringia Cup on three occasions and, ...

, an association football club from Nordhausen, Thuringia * FSV Wacker 03 Gotha, an association football club from Gotha, Thuringia

Switzerland

Wacker Thun Wacker Thun is a handball club from Thun, Switzerland. Wacker Thun competes in Nationalliga A of the Swiss Handball League. Kits Achievements *1 EHF Challenge Cup: 2005 *2 Swiss Handball League The Swiss Handball League (SHL) is the ...

, a team handball club from Thun

Other uses

Wacker process The Wacker process or the Hoechst-Wacker process (named after the chemical companies of the same name) refers to the oxidation of ethylene to acetaldehyde in the presence of palladium(II) chloride as the catalyst. This chemical reaction was one of ...

, a chemical reaction * Vibrating plate compactor, a construction tool * The Wackers, an American rock band based in Montreal, Canada. * The Wackers (TV series), 1975 British sitcom created by Vince Powell