Mayer
Mayer can refer to:
Surname
- Adolf Mayer (1843-1942), German-Dutch virologist
- Arno J. Mayer (born 1926), Luxembourgian-American historian
- Ben Mayer (died 2000), American amateur astronomer
- Bernadette Mayer (born 1945), American poet and author
- Bob Mayer (born 1959), American author and Green Beret
- Charlie Mayer (born 1936), former Canadian Minister of Agriculture
- Christian Mayer (born 1972), Austrian skier
- Christian Mayer (1719-1783), Czech astronomer
- Christopher Mayer (born 1955), American actor
- Christopher Mayer (Australian) (born 1961), Australian actor
- Daniel Mayer (1909-1996), French politician
- Edwin Justus Mayer (1896-1960), American screenwriter
- Else Mayer (1891-1962), German nun and women's liberation activist
- Gene Mayer (born 1956), American tennis player
- Hans-Peter Mayer (born 1944), German politician
- Helen Mayer (1932-2008), Australian politician
- Jacquelyn Mayer (born 1943), American beauty contest winner and motivational speaker
- Jane Mayer (born 1955), American investigative journalist
- Jean Mayer (1920–1993), French-American nutritionist and tenth president of Tufts University
- Johann Tobias Mayer (1752–1830), German physicist
- John Mayer (born 1977), American rock musician
- John D. Mayer, psychologist
- Jojo Mayer (born 1963), Swiss drummer
- Jorge Mayer (born 1915), Archbishop of Bahía Blanca, Argentina
- Karla Mayer (born 1918), guard at three Nazi death camps
- Lauren Etame Mayer (born 1977), Cameroonian footballer
- Louis B. Mayer (1884-1957), MGM studio mogul
- Marissa Mayer (born 1975), executive at Google
- Martin Mayer, American nonfiction author
- Martin Mayer, Canadian composer
- Mercer Mayer (born 1943), American children's book author and illustrator
- Michael Mayer (born 1980), German volleyball player
- Nathaniel Mayer (born 1944), American rhythm-and-blues singer
- Norman Mayer (1916-1982), American anti-nuclear activist
- René Mayer (1895–1972), French politician
- Robert Mayer (1879–1985), German-Jewish philanthropist and businessman
- Robert Mayer (born 1957), American politician
- Rupert Mayer (1876–1945), Jesuit priest and leading figure of the Catholic Nazi resistance
- Scott Mayer (driver) (born 1964), race car driver
- Scott Mayer (meteorologist), broadcast meteorologist
- Siegmund Mayer (1842-1910), German physiologist
- Teddy Mayer (born 1935), American racecar driver and brother of Timmy
- Timmy Mayer (1938-1964), American racecar driver
- Tobias Mayer (1723–1762), German astronomer
- Victor Mayer (1857-1956), German jeweler
- Walther Mayer (1887-1948), Austrian mathematician
- William Daniel Mayer (1940- ), American politician
- Nicholas De Mayer (c. 1631-1695), ninth mayor of New York City
- Maria Göppert-Mayer (1906-1972), German-American physicist
- Heidrun Mohr-Mayer (born 1942), German jeweler
- Herbert Mohr-Mayer (born 1933), German jeweler
- Julius Robert von Mayer (1814-1878), a German physician and physicist
- Irene Mayer Selznick (1907-1990), born Irene Gladys Mayer, an American theatrical producer and daughter of MGM studio mogul Louis B. Mayer
Name
A first or second Hebrew name
Place
- C. Mayer (crater), named after Christian Mayer
- Mayer, Arizona
- Mayer, Minnesota
- T. Mayer (crater), named after Tobias Mayer
- L.A. Mayer Institute for Islamic Art
Company
- Mayer Brown, an international law firm
- Mayers Murray & Phillip, an architectural firm
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, a motion picture production company
- Oscar Mayer, a meat company
Other
- Mayer Authority, European consortium (1955-1958) led by René Mayer
- Mayer f-function
- Mayer-Vietoris sequence
See also
Similar names