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
• 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 GmbH & Co. KG, German audio equipment manufacturer
• The Beyer method for quinolines, an organic chemical reaction
• Beyer-Garratt, a type of steam locomotive that is articulated in three parts
• Beyer-Peacock, a former engineering firm
• 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 Chair of Applied Mathematics, an endowed professorial position at the University of Manchester