Beer (disambiguation)

Beer is an alcoholic beverage. It may also refer to:

1 Places
2 Science
3 Culture
4 People
5 Other
6 See also

Places

Beer, Devon, coastal town in Devon, England
Beer, Somerset, hamlet in the parish of Aller, Somerset, England

In Biblical and other Hebrew placenames, the component "Beer-" is Hebrew באר = "water well". On its own, it is the name of the place Beer mentioned in Numbers 21:16.

Science

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

Culture

"Beer" (Blackadder), episode of the British sitcom Blackadder II
Beer (film), 1985 film starring Loretta Swit and Rip Torn
"Beer", song by the third wave ska band Reel Big Fish
"Beer!" (Psychostick song), song by metal band Psychostick
Beer (magazine), publication from the Campaign for Real Ale
Beer, 1999 novel by Chris Walter

People

Beer is also the surname of the following people:

Alan Beer (born 1950), Welsh footballer
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
Carol Beer, fictional character from British comedy show Little Britain, portrayed by David Walliams
Charles Beer (born 1941), Canadian politician
Ferdinand P. Beer (1915–2003), a French mechanical engineer and university professor
Sir Gavin Rylands de Beer (1899–1972) English evolutionary embryologist
Georg Joseph Beer (1763–1821), Austrian physician, founder of the research center of ophthalmology
George Louis Beer, American historian
Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Yaakov Liebmann Beer), German composer, brother of Wilhelm Beer and writer Michael Beer
Gillian Beer, British literary critic
Jannie de Beer, South Africa rugby player
Joseph Beer (1908–1987), operetta composer
Joseph Beer (clarinetist) (1744–1811)
Klaus Beer, German track & field athlete
Oliver Beer, German footballer
Randall Beer, computer scientist
Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866–1945), Austrian writer
Wilhelm Beer (1797–1850), German banker and astronomer
William Beer English cricketer

Other

Beer, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a Union council in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
The Brewer's Employment and Excise Relief Act (BEER Act) of 2011