Julian Federick Hecker (1881-1938) was a Russian American Christian minister who settled in Soviet Russia in the 1920s. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia but moved to the United States. Here he attended Baldwin Wallace College, graduating in 1910. He went on to Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, New Jersey. He then stated his intention to return to Russia to serve the Methodist Episcopal Church. Hecker served as a student pastor in the USA and, speaking fluent Russian, he became assistant pastor of the Peoples' English Home Church in New York handling the needs of the 75 Russian members. He knew Warren Sturgis McCulloch when the latter was a teenager.