Beer (disambiguation)

Beer is an alcoholic beverage. It may also refer to:

Places

• Beer, Devon, coastal town in Devon, England
• Beer, Somerset, hamlet in the parish of Aller, Somerset, England

In Biblical and other Hebrew placenames, the component "Beer-" is Hebrew באר = "water well". On its own, it is the name of the place Beer mentioned in Numbers 21:16.

Science

• Beer–Lambert law (named for August Beer), an equation describing the absorption of light
• Beer (lunar crater) (named for Wilhelm Beer), lunar crater
• Beer (Martian crater) (also named for Wilhelm Beer), Martian crater

Culture

• "Beer" (Blackadder), episode of the British sitcom Blackadder II
• Beer (film), 1985 film starring Loretta Swit and Rip Torn
• "Beer", song by the third wave ska band Reel Big Fish
• "Beer!" (Psychostick song), song by metal band Psychostick
• Beer (magazine), publication from the Campaign for Real Ale
• Beer, 1999 novel by Chris Walter

People

Beer is also the surname of the following people:

• Alan Beer (born 1950), Welsh footballer
• Alexander Beer (1873–1944), architect
• Alice Beer (born 1 May 1965) a British television presenter
• Angelika Beer (born 1957), German politician (Alliance '90/The Greens)
• Anthony Stafford Beer (1926–2002), British theorist in operational research, founder of management cybernetics
• August Beer (1825–1863), German mathematician, chemist and physicist
• Carol Beer, fictional character from British comedy show Little Britain, portrayed by David Walliams
• Charles Beer (born 1941), Canadian politician
• Ferdinand P. Beer (1915–2003), a French mechanical engineer and university professor
• Sir Gavin Rylands de Beer (1899–1972) English evolutionary embryologist
• Georg Joseph Beer (1763–1821), Austrian physician, founder of the research center of ophthalmology
• George Louis Beer, American historian
• Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Yaakov Liebmann Beer), German composer, brother of Wilhelm Beer and writer Michael Beer
• Gillian Beer, British literary critic
• Jannie de Beer, South Africa rugby player
• Joseph Beer (1908–1987), operetta composer
• Joseph Beer (clarinetist) (1744–1811)
• Klaus Beer, German track & field athlete
• Oliver Beer, German footballer
• Randall Beer, computer scientist
• Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866–1945), Austrian writer
• Wilhelm Beer (1797–1850), German banker and astronomer
• William Beer English cricketer

Other

• Beer, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a Union council in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
• The Brewer's Employment and Excise Relief Act (BEER Act) of 2011

See also

• Beers (disambiguation)
• Bear (disambiguation)