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Homer (name)

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Homer is both a masculine given name and a surname. The ancient Greek poet Homer is perhaps the best known person of this name.

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Other notable people with the name include:

Given name

  • Homer Burton Adkins (1892–1949), American chemist
  • Homer Martin Adkins (1890–1964), Governor of Arkansas
  • Homer D. Angell (1875–1968), American politician
  • Homer Banks (1941–2003), African-American songwriter, singer and record producer
  • Homer M. Butler (1904-1982), American newspaper editor and politician
  • Homer E. Capehart (1897-1979), American businessman and politician, longtime US senator from Illinois
  • Homer Stille Cummings (1870–1956), United States Attorney General
  • Homer Davenport (1867–1912), American political cartoonist, writer and horse breeder
  • Homer B. Dibell (1864–1934), Minnesota Supreme Court justice
  • Homer E. A. Dick (1884–1942), New York state senator
  • Homer L. Ferguson (1873–1953), American author and businessman
  • Homer S. Ferguson (1889–1982), US Senator from Michigan
  • Homer Gilbert (1909–1943), aka Knuckles Boyle, American football player
  • Homer Hickam (born 1943), American author and NASA engineer whose autobiography was the basis of the 1999 film October Sky
  • Homer A. Holt (1898–1975), American lawyer and politician, Governor of West Virginia
  • Homer Hulbert (1863–1949), American missionary, journalist and political activist
  • Homer A. Jack (1916–1993), American clergyman, pacifist and social activist
  • Homer Jacobson (fl. 1950s and '60s), American retired chemistry professor
  • Homer Jones (American football) (born 1941), American former football player
  • Homer Jones (economist) (1906–1986), American economist
  • Homer Jones (politician) (1893–1970), American politician
  • Homer Eaton Keyes (1875-1938), American author and professor
  • Homer Ledford (1927–2006), instrument maker and bluegrass musician
  • Homer L. Lyon (1879-1956), American politician
  • Homer Martin (labor leader) (1901–1968), American trade unionist and socialist
  • Homer C. Martin, American college football head coach (1923-1926, 1936)
  • Homer Dodge Martin (1836–1897), American artist
  • Homer Mensch (1914–2005), classical bassist
  • Homer V. M. Miller (1814–1896), US senator from Georgia
  • Homer Neal (born 1942), American particle physicist and professor
  • Homer Augustus Nelson (1829-1891), American politician and Civil War colonel
  • Homer Nelson (Wisconsin politician) (1826-?), American politician
  • Homer Plessy (1862–1925), African-American anti-segregationist activist, plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Homer Rice (born 1927), American football player and coach
  • Homer Elihu Royce (1820–1891), American lawyer, politician and jurist
  • Homer L. Shantz (1876–1958), American botanist and President of the University of Arizona
  • Homer Se (born 1977), former Philippine Basketball Association player
  • Homer Smith (1895–1962), American physiologist and advocate for science
  • Homer Smith (American football) (1931–2011), American college football player and head coach
  • Homer Sprague (1829–1918), American military officer, author and educator
  • Homer Sykes (born 1949), Canadian-born British photographer
  • Homer Tate (1884-1975), American artist
  • Homer Thompson (1906–2000), Canadian archaeologist
  • Homer Thompson (baseball) (1891–1957), American Major League Baseball catcher for one game
  • Homer Watson (1855–1936), Canadian landscape painter

    • Surname

  • LeRoy Homer Jr. (1965-2001), first officer of one of the 9/11 aircraft
  • Mark Homer, British actor
  • Mark S. Homer (born 1962), American politician
  • Michael Homer (1958–2009), a Netscape vice president
  • Sidney Homer (1864–1953), American composer of "A Plantation Ditty"
  • Sonny Homer (born 1936), former Canadian Football League player
  • Tom Homer (footballer) (1886-?), English footballer
  • Tom Homer (rugby union) (born 1990), English rugby union player
  • William Innes Homer 1929-2012), American academic, art historian and author
  • Winslow Homer (1836–1910), American painter

    • Fictional characters

  • Homer Simpson, in the television series The Simpsons
  • Homer Simpson, in the 1939 novel The Day of the Locust and its 1975 film adaptation
  • Homer Price, in Homer Price and Centerburg Tales, children's books by Robert McCloskey
  • Homer, a stage name/character in the American country music comedy duo Homer and Jethro
  • Homer Wells, protagonist of John Irving's novel The Cider House Rules
  • Homer, sidekick of Snidely Whiplash
  • Homer, in the comic strip Non Sequitur
  • Homer Pigeon, a cartoon character

    • References

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