Mayer (name)

Surname

Adolf Mayer (1843–1942), a German-Dutch virologist

Albrecht Mayer (born 1965), a German classical oboist

Alfred G. Mayer (1868–1922), a German-American cnidariologist and entomologist

Alfred M. Mayer (1836-1897), a physicist

Arno J. Mayer (born 1926), a Luxembourgian historian

Arthur Mayer (1886-1981), film producer and distributor who worked with Joseph Burstyn

Auguste Étienne François Mayer (1805–1890), French naval painter

Ben Mayer (died 2000), amateur astronomer

Bernadette Mayer (born 1945), American poet and author

Brantz Mayer (1809-1879), American writer

Christian Gustav Adolph Mayer (1839–1907), German mathematician

Carl Mayer (1894–1944), Austrian-German screenwriter

Charles Mayer (disambiguation)

Christa Mayer, German mezzo-soprano

Christian Mayer (1719–1783), Czech astronomer

Christian Mayer (skier) (born 1972), Austrian skier

Christian Mayer (Wisconsin) (1827-1910), American politician

Christopher Mayer (American actor) (1954-2011), American actor

Christopher Mayer (Australian actor) (born 1961), Australian actor

Constant Mayer (1829-1911), French-born U.S. painter

Daisy von Scherler Mayer (born 1965), American film director

Daniel Mayer (1909–1996), French politician

David R. Mayer (born 1967), American 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

Erskine Mayer (1887–1957), American major league baseball player

Florian Mayer (born 1983), German tennis player

Francis Blackwell Mayer (1827-1899), United States painter

Frank H. Mayer (1850-1954), American frontiersman, primarily from Colorado

Fred Mayer (born 1933), Swiss photographer

Fred Shaw Mayer (1899–1989), Australian zoological collector and aviculturist

Frederick Mayer (1921–2006), German educational scientist

Frederick Mayer (1921–2016), American spy during World War II

Gene Mayer (born 1956), American former 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

Helene Mayer (1910–53), German and American Olympic champion foil fencer

Henry "Hy" Mayer (1868-1954), German-American animator

Jacob Erskine Mayer (1889-1957), American baseball player

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

Jean-François Mayer (born 1957), Swiss historian of religions

Jim Mayer (born 1954), Canadian ice hockey player

Jim Mayer (musician), American musician

Johann Friedrich Mayer (theologian) (1650-1712), German theologian

Johann Friedrich Mayer (agriculturist) (1719-1798), German agriculturist

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 (1915–2010), Archbishop of Bahía Blanca, Argentina

José Mayer, Brazilian actor

Joseph Edward Mayer (1904–1983), American chemist and physicist, married to Maria Goeppert Mayer

Karla Mayer (born 1918), guard at three Nazi death camps

Karoly Mayer (1908 - ?), Hungarian footballer

Lauren Etame Mayer (born 1977), Cameroonian footballer

Leonardo Mayer (born 1987), Argentine tennis player

Levy Mayer (1858–1922), American lawyer

Louis B. Mayer (1884–1957), MGM studio mogul

Marcel Mayer, a French artist whose work includes sculpture, painting and engraving

Marissa Mayer (born 1975), CEO of Yahoo!

Martin Mayer (born 1928), American nonfiction author

Mercer Mayer (born 1943), American children's book author and illustrator

Michael Mayer (volleyball) (born 1980), German volleyball player

Monica Mayer (born 1954), Mexican artist, activist and art critic

Nathaniel Mayer (1944–2008), American rhythm-and-blues singer

Norman Mayer (1916–1982), American anti-nuclear activist

Paul Avila Mayer (c. 1933-2009), American television writer and producer

Paul Augustin Mayer OSB (1911–2010), German cardinal

Peter Mayer (born 1936), American publisher

Philip Frederick Mayer (1781-1858), United States Lutheran clergyman

René Mayer (1895–1972), French politician

Richard J. Mayer (born 1939), American engineer

Robert Mayer (philanthropist) (1879–1985), German-Jewish philanthropist and businessman

Robert Mayer (Missouri) (born 1957), American politician

Robert Mayer (ice hockey) (born 1989), Czech ice hockey goaltender

Rupert Mayer (1876–1945), Jesuit priest and leading figure of the Catholic Nazi resistance

Sandy Mayer (born 1952), American former tennis player

Sarah Mayer (1896-1957), British judoka

Scott Mayer (bishop) (born 1955), American bishop

Scott Mayer (racing driver) (born 1964), American race car driver

Selma Mayer (1884-1984), known as Schwester Selma, German-Jewish head nurse at the original Shaare Zedek Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel * Sergio Mayer (born 1966) Mexican actor and singer

Sheldon Mayer (1917–1991), American cartoonist and editor

Siegmund Mayer (1842–1910), German physiologist

Stephen F. Mayer (1854-1935), American politician

Teddy Mayer (1935–2009), American racecar driver and brother of Timmy

Thomas Mayer (American economist) (1927-2015), neo-Keynsian economist

Thomas Mayer (German economist) (born 1954), Deutsche Bank executive

Tim Mayer (born 1966), son of Teddy and racecar executive

Tim Mayer (born 1980) son of Dr Peter Mayer and Coventry City Councillor.

Timmy Mayer (1938–1964), American racecar driver

Tobias Mayer (1723–1762), German astronomer

Victor Mayer (1857–1946), German jeweler

Walther Mayer (1887–1948), Austrian mathematician

Wilhelm Mayer (composer) (1831-1898), Bohemian-Austrian composer and teacher

Wilhelm Mayer (1917-1945), German Luftwaffe ace

William Mayer (born 1925), American composer

William Daniel Mayer (born 1940), American politician

Variation on surname

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 who made significant contributions to early thermodynamics

Irene Mayer Selznick (1907–1990), born Irene Gladys Mayer, an American theatrical producer and daughter of MGM studio founder Louis B. Mayer

Given or middle name

A first or second Hebrew name, an alternative spelling of Meir:

Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt

Mayer Amschel Rothschild family

Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild

Carl Mayer von Rothschild, founder of Rothschild banking family of Naples

David Mayer de Rothschild

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

Mayer Hawthorne (born 1979), stage name of American rap singer