Beyer

See also Bayer and buyer.

Beyer is mostly a German family name. 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), lawyer and businessman
• Dick Beyer (born 1930), 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
• 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
• John Beyer, director of mediawatch-UK
• Kathleen Beyer (1892–1968), British botanist
• 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 (born 1971), 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