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Mayer can refer to:

Surnames

• Adolf Mayer (1843-1942), German-Dutch virologist
• Albrecht Mayer, German classical oboist
• Arno J. Mayer (born 1926), Luxembourgian-American historian
• Auguste Étienne François Mayer (1805-1890), French naval painter
• Ben Mayer (died 2000), American amateur astronomer
• Bernadette Mayer (born 1945), American poet and author
• Bob Mayer (born 1959), American author and Green Beret
• Carl Mayer (1894-1944), Austrian-German screenwriter
• Charles Mayer (born 1936), former Canadian Minister of Agriculture
• Christian Mayer (1719-1783), Czech astronomer
• Christian Mayer (skier) (born 1972), Austrian skier
• Christopher Mayer (American actor) (born 1955), American actor
• Christopher Mayer (Australian) (born 1961), Australian actor
• Daisy von Scherler Mayer (born 1965), American film director
• Daniel Mayer (1909-1996), French politician
• Edwin Justus Mayer (1896-1960), American screenwriter
• Elizabeth Mayer (1884-1970), German-American translator and writer
• Else Mayer (1891-1962), German nun and women's liberation activist
• Fred Shaw Mayer (1899-1989), Australian zoological collector and aviculturist
• Gene Mayer (born 1956), American tennis player
• Gerhard Mayer (born 1980), Austrian discus thrower
• Hans Ferdinand Mayer (1895-1980), German mathematician and physicist, and author of the Oslo Report
• Hans-Peter Mayer (born 1944), German politician
• Helen Mayer (1932-2008), Australian politician
• Henry "Hy" Mayer (c. 1868-1954), German-American animator
• Jacquelyn Mayer (born 1942), 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 singer and songwriter
• John Mayer (composer) (1930-2004), Indian composer
• John D. Mayer, American psychologist
• Jojo Mayer (born 1963), Swiss drummer
• Jorge Mayer (born 1915), Archbishop of Bahía Blanca, Argentina
• Joseph Edward Mayer (1904-1983), American chemist and physicist, married to Maria Goeppert Mayer
• 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 (composer), Canadian composer
• Martin Mayer (writer), American nonfiction author
• Mercer Mayer (born 1943), American children's book author and illustrator
• Michael Mayer (volleyball) (born 1980), German volleyball player
• Nathaniel Mayer (born 1944), American rhythm-and-blues singer
• Norman Mayer (1916-1982), American anti-nuclear activist
• Paul Avila Mayer, American television writer and producer
• René Mayer (1895–1972), French politician
• Richard J. Mayer (1939), American engineer
• Robert Mayer (1879–1985), German-Jewish philanthropist and businessman
• Robert Mayer (Missouri) (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
• Siegmund Mayer (1842-1910), German physiologist
• Teddy Mayer (1935-2009), American racecar driver and brother of Timmy
• Tim Mayer (born 1966), son of Teddy and racecar executive
• 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 Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972), German-American physicist, married to Joseph Edward Mayer
• 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

Given names

A first or second Hebrew name

• Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt
• Mayer Amschel Rothschild family
  • Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild
  • Carl Mayer von Rothschild, founder of Rothschild banking family of Naples
  • James Mayer Rothschild, founder of Rothschild banking family of France
  • Mayer Alphonse James Rothschild
  • Mayer Amschel Rothschild
  • Nathan Mayer Rothschild, founder of Rothschild banking family of England
  • Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
  • Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, founder of Rothschild banking family of Austria
• Isaac Mayer Wise

Places

• C. Mayer (crater), named after Christian Mayer
• Mayer, Arizona, United States
• Mayer, Minnesota, United States
• Mayersville, Mississippi, United States
• Mayerthorpe, Alberta, Canada
• T. Mayer (crater), named after Tobias Mayer
• L. A. Mayer Institute for Islamic Art

Companies

• 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 expansion
• Mayer's Relation
• Mayer f-function
• Mayer-Norton theorem
• Mayer-Vietoris sequence

See also

• German family name etymology
• List of Jewish surnames

Similar names

• Maier
• Mair
• Mayr
• Meier
• Meir
• Meyer
• Meyers
• Meyerson
• Meyr
• Myer (disambiguation)
• Myers
• Myerson
• Von Meyer
• m:de:Meier

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From Wikispecies

Mayer may refer to:

• Alfred G. Mayer Cnidariologist & entomologist (1868-1922)
• Fay L. Mayer Entomologist ( - )
• Georg Mayer Biologist ( - )
• Herbert W. Meyer Paleobotanist ( - )
• Paul Mayer Malacologist
• Werner E. Mayer Biologist ( - )