Mayer (name)

Mayer is a German surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

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 (astronomer) (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 Mayer (Colorado) (1850-1954), American frontiersman, primarily from Colorado
• Fred Mayer (photographer) (born 1933), Swiss photographer
• Fred Shaw Mayer (1899–1989), Australian zoological collector and aviculturist
• Frederick Mayer (1921–2006), German educational scientist
• Frederick Mayer (spy) (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 (ice hockey) (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
• Oscar F. Mayer (1859–1955), founder of the Oscar Mayer Company
• 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
• Sergio Mayer (born 1966) Mexican actor and singer
• Sheldon Mayer (1917–1991), American cartoonist and editor
• Siegmund Mayer (1842–1910), German physiologist
• Stepanka Mayer (born 1949), Czech and German chess player
• 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 (fighter pilot) (1917-1945), German Luftwaffe ace
• William Mayer (composer) (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), German physician and physicist who made significant contributions to early thermodynamics
• Irene Mayer Selznick (1907–1990), born Irene Gladys Mayer, 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 the Rothschild banking family of Naples
  • David Mayer de Rothschild
  • James Mayer Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking family of France
  • Mayer Alphonse James Rothschild
  • Mayer Amschel Rothschild
  • Nathan Mayer Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking family of England
  • Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
  • Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking family of Austria
• Isaac Mayer Wise
• Mayer Hawthorne (born 1979), stage name of American rap singer

See also

• Maier
• Mair (disambiguation)
• Mayr
• Meier
• Meir (disambiguation)
• Meyer (disambiguation)
• Meyers
• Meyr (disambiguation)
• Myer (disambiguation)
• Myers
• Von Meyer
• Majer