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Hacker may refer to:
* Hack (disambiguation): a hacker is one who hacks.
Innovation
* Hacker (computing), a contentious term used for several types of person:
** Hacker (computer security) or cracker, who accesses a computer system by circumventing its security system
** Hacker (programmer subculture), who shares an anti-authoritarian approach to software development now associated with the free software movement
** Hacker (hobbyist), who makes innovative customizations or combinations of retail electronic and computer equipment
Analogous meanings in other fields are:
* Media hacker, innovative user of digital media
* Wetware hacker, who experiments with biological materials
* Reality hacking, activism through legally dubious disruption of digital media
Entertainment
*Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, 1984 book by Steven Levy.
* Hacker (video game), 1985 computer game by Activision
* Hacker (card game), 1992 Steve Jackson Games release
* Hackers (film), 1995 film
People named Hacker
Real
* The Hacker (Michel Amato, b. 1972), French electroclash and techno producer
* Alan Hacker (b. 1938), English clarinetist
* Benjamin Thurman Hacker (1935-2003), U.S. Naval officer
* George Hacker (20th century), U.S. lawyer, head of the Alcohol Policies Project
* Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942), American poet, critic, and reviewer
* Peter Hacker (b. 1939), British philosopher
* Sally Hacker (1936–1988), feminist sociologist
Fictional
* J. Random Hacker, the mythical/archetypal hacker nerd
* Jim Hacker, title character in Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister
* Hacker, villain of the TV series Cyberchase
* Staff Sergeant Hacker, character on the TV series Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
* Hacker, cyborg sidekick character in The Centurions (TV series)
Other
* Hacker Brewery, since 1972 merged into Hacker-Pschorr Brewery, and its beer
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