Boyer
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Boyer is a French or Yiddish name, as well as occasionally a variant of the German name Bauer. Furthermore, it is sometimes spelled Boier.
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[edit] People
- Alexis de Boyer (1757-1833), French surgeon
- Angelique Boyer (born 1988), Mexican actress
- Carl Benjamin Boyer (1906-1976), historian of mathematics
- Charles Boyer (1897-1978), French actor
- Claudette Boyer (born 1938), Canadian politician
- Clete Boyer (born 1937), American baseball player
- Erica Boyer (born 1956), American actor
- Ernest L. Boyer (1928-1995), American educator
- Herbert Boyer (born 1936), biochemist
- Jacques Boyer (born 1955) American cyclist
- Jacqueline Boyer (born 1941), French singer
- Jean Pierre Boyer (1776-1850), Haitian politician
- Katy Boyer, American actress
- Ken Boyer (1931-1982), baseball player
- Louis Boyer (1795-1870), Canadian merchant
- Louis Boyer, French astronomer
- Lucienne Boyer (1903-1983), French singer
- Pascal Boyer, anthropologist
- Patrick Boyer (born 1945), Canadian politician
- Paul D. Boyer (born 1918), American biochemist
- Steven Boyer (born 1979), Broadway actor
- Dustin D. Boyer (born 1979), United States Marine
[edit] Places
Boyer is the name of several places:
- Boyer, Loire, in the Loire département of France
- Boyer, Saône-et-Loire, in the Saône-et-Loire département of France
- Boyer, Tasmania, in Australia
[edit] Other uses
- Boyer-Moore string search algorithm
- Boyer Gallery
- Boyer Ahmadi is a tribe in the Bakhtiar region of Iran. A popular Persian folk song is "Dokhtar-e-Boyer Ahmadi or Girl of the Boyer Ahmadi.