Beyer

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Contents 1 People named Beyer 2 Companies and institutions named with Beyer 3 Other

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.

[edit] People named Beyer

• Absalon Pederssøn Beyer, Norwegian clergyman
• Adam Beyer, Swedish techno producer and DJ
• Albert Beyer was a United States Navy coxswain.
• Alexander Beyer, 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, an Afrikaner-South African cleric, theologian and anti-apartheid activist
• Brad Beyer is an American actor.
• Brett Beyer, international sailing coach
• Charles Beyer, British locomotive engineer
• Clara Beyers, actress
• Colin Beyer, lawyer and businessman
• Dick Beyer, retired professional wrestler best known as The Destroyer or Doctor X
• Don Beyer, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 1990-1998
• Eugen Beyer, 19th-century German army officer
• Frank Beyer, German film director
• Franz Beyer, German musicologist
• Georgina Beyer, the world's first openly transsexual Member of Parliament
• H. Otley Beyer, American anthropologist
• John Beyer, director of mediawatch-uk
• Lieutenant-General Leonard Beyers(1894-1959) was a South African military commander.
• Lisa Beyer is a United States journalist.
• Mark Beyer, a comic artist
• Markus Beyer, German boxer
• Mickey Beyer Clausen, Danish entrepreneur and philanthropist
• Olaf Beyer, Olympic champion
• Robert D. Beyer, Prominent criminal defense attorney
• Tanya Beyer, American model and actress
• Troy Beyer, American film director and screenwriter and actress
• Udo Beyer, former German track and field athlete who represented East Germany in the shot put
• Uwe Beyer, Olympic contestant

[edit] Companies and institutions named with Beyer

• beyerdynamic GmbH & Co. KG, German audio equipment manufacturer.
• The Beyer method for quinolines is an organic chemical reaction.
• Beyer-Garratt is a type of steam locomotive that is articulated in three parts.
• Beyer-Peacock was an engineering firm.
• The Beyer Speed Figure is 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.

[edit] Other

• The Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics, an endowed professorial position at the University of Manchester