Beer (disambiguation)

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Beer may refer to:

• Beer, an alcoholic beverage
• Beer, Devon, a coastal town in Devon, England
• Beer, Somerset, a hamlet in the parish of Cannington
• Beer, NWFP, a Union Council in NWFP, Pakistan.
• 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
• "Beer" (Blackadder), an episode of the British sitcom Blackadder II
• Beer (film), a 1985 film starring Loretta Swit and Rip Torn
• Beer, is a song by the third wave ska band Reel Big Fish
• "Beer!!!", a song by metal band Psychostick.

[edit] People

Beer is also the surname of the following people:

• 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
• Charles Beer (born 1941), Canadian politician
• Carol Beer, fictional character from British comedy show, Little Britain, portrayed by David Walliams
• Sir Gavin Rylands de Beer (1899-1972) English evolutionary embryologist
• Georg Joseph Beer (1763-1821), Austrian physician, founder of the research center of ophthalmology
• Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Yaakov Liebmann Beer), German composer, brother of Wilhelm Beer and writer Michael Beer (writer)
• Gillian Beer, British literary critic
• Jannie de Beer, South Africa rugby player
• Klaus Beer, German track & field athlete
• Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866–1945), Austrian writer
• Randall Beer, computer scientist
• Wilhelm Beer (1797-1850), German banker and astronomer
• William Beer English cricketer

[edit] See also

• Beers, Bear (disambiguation)