Beyer

See also Bayer (surname) and buyer.

Beyer is mostly a German family name, occurring most commonly in German-speaking countries. It can be either habitational (derived from Bayer, which is the male German language demonym for Bavaria) or occupational (derived from the archaic German verb beiern, "to ring (a bell)", thus referring to individuals tasked with ringing church bells). Variants of the surname include Beier, Bayer and Baier.

Most inventions and institutions listed here with the name Beyer were named after an inventor or founder or supporter with the name Beyer.

People named Beyer[]

Absalon Pederssøn Beyer (died 1575), Norwegian clergyman
Adam Beyer (born 1976), Swedish techno producer and DJ
Albert Beyer (1859–1929), United States Navy coxswain
Alexander Beyer (born 1973), German actor
Andrew Beyer, American expert on horse race betting who designed the Beyer Speed Figure
Barbara Petzold-Beyer, former East German cross-country skier
Bero Beyer, Dutch film producer
Beyers Naudé (1915–2004), Afrikaner-South African cleric, theologian and anti-apartheid activist
Brad Beyer (born 1973), American actor
Brett Beyer (born 1966), international sailing coach
Charles Beyer (1813–1876), British locomotive engineer
Clara Beyers (1880–1950), actress
Colin Beyer (1938–2015), New Zealandlawyer and businessman
Dick Beyer (1930–2019), American retired professional wrestler best known as The Destroyer or Doctor X
Don Beyer (born 1950), US Member of Congress, former Ambassador to Switzerland
Eugen Beyer (1882–1940), 19th-century German army officer
Ferdinand Beyer (1803–1863), German composer
Frank Beyer (1932–2006), German film director
Franz Beyer (musicologist) (1922–2018), German musicologist
Friedrich Beyer (later Bayer) (1825-1880), German businessman and chemist, founder of Bayer AG
Georgina Beyer (born 1957), world's first openly transsexual Member of Parliament
H. Otley Beyer (1883–1966), American anthropologist
Jan Beyer Schmidt-Sørensen (born 1958), Danish economist and Director of Business Development at Aarhus Municipality
Jinny Beyer (born 1941), American quilt designer and quilter
John Beyer, director of mediawatch-UK
Kirsten Beyer, American science fiction writer
Lieutenant-General Leonard Beyers (1894–1959), South African military commander
Lisa Beyer, United States journalist
Mark Beyer (comics) (born 1950), comic artist
Markus Beyer (1971-2018), German boxer
Olaf Beyer (born 1957), Olympic champion
Peter Beyer (born 1952), German Golden Rice Inventor
Peter Beyer (politician) (born 1970), German politician
Ralph Beyer (1921–2008), German letter-cutter and sculptor
Richard Beyer (1925–2012), American sculptor
Robert D. Beyer, American investor and executive
Robert T. Beyer (1920–2008), American physicist
Tanya Beyer, American model and actress
Troy Beyer (born 1964), American film director and screenwriter and actress
Udo Beyer (born 1955), former German track and field athlete who represented East Germany in the shot put
Uwe Beyer (1945–1993), Olympic contestant
William Gray Beyer, American science fiction and mystery writer

Companies and institutions named with Beyer[]

Beyerdynamic German audio equipment manufacturer
The Doebner-Miller reaction, an organic chemical reaction
Garratt, also type of steam locomotive that is articulated in three parts
Beyer, Peacock & Company, a former train manufacturer in England
The Beyer Speed Figure, a system for rating the performance of Thoroughbred racehorses
The Beyer Stadium was in Illinois and was demolished in the early 1990s
The Fred C. Beyer High School is in the Modesto City Schools District of Modesto, California.
The Beyer Professor of Applied Mathematics, an endowed professorial position at the University of Manchester

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