Homer (name)
Homer is both a masculine given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Homer E. A. Dick (1884–1942), New York state senator
- Homer Gilbert (1909-1943), American football player
- Homer Hickam, aerospace engineer whose youth was depicted in the 1999 film October Sky
- Homer Jacobson, scientist
- Homer Ledford, instrument maker and bluegrass musician
- Homer Mensch, classical bassist
- Homer Plessy (1863–1925), African-American activist
- Homer Se, PBA player of the Air21 Express
- Homer Sykes, Canadian-born British photographer
- Homer Watson, Canadian landscape painter from Waterloo, Ontario
Surname
- Mark Homer, British actor
- Sidney Homer, American composer of "A Plantation Ditty"
- Winslow Homer (1836–1910), American painter
Fictional characters
- Homer Simpson, in the television series The Simpsons
- Homer Simpson, in the 1939 novel The Day of the Locust and its 1975 film adaptation
- Homer Price, in Homer Price and Centerburg Tales, children's books by Robert McCloskey
- Homer Wells, protagonist of John Irving's novel The Cider House Rules
- Homer, sidekick of Snidely Whiplash
- Homer, in the comic strip Non Sequitur
- Homer Pigeon, a cartoon character