Meyer (surname)
Not to be confused with Meier.
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Meyer is a surname of English, German and Jewish origin, many branches of the Meyer(s) family trace their origins to ancient Anglo-Saxon culture. The name is derived from the Old English name maire, meaning Mayor, or an officer in charge of legal matters.[1] The surname is also of German and Jewish origin deriving from the German word "meiger", meaning Mayor, the name likely traces its origins to a wealthy landholder. Among German Jews, "Meyer" converged with the etymologically unconnected name "Meir", which means "one who shines" in Hebrew.
People
- Adolf Meyer (architect) (1881–1921), German architect
- Adolf Bernhard Meyer (1840–1911) German ornithologist
- Albert Gregory Meyer (1903–1965), Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago
- Albert Meyer (politician) (1870–1953), Swiss politician
- Alfred Meyer (1891–1945), German Nazi official
- Anita Meyer (born 1954), Dutch singer
- Anthony Meyer (1920–2004), British soldier, diplomat, and Conservative Party politician
- Antoine Meyer (1801-1857), Belgian mathematician
- Bernard F. Meyer (1898-1975), American Catholic missionary to China
- Bernard S. Meyer (1916–2005), New York judge
- Bernhard Meyer (1767–1836), German physician and naturalist
- Bertrand Meyer (born 1950), French computer scientist, designed the Eiffel programming language
- Bill Meyer (artist) (born 1942), Australian artist
- Bob Meyer (born 1939), American baseball player
- Breckin Meyer (born 1974), U.S. actor and producer
- Cameron Meyer (born 1988), Australian professional racing cyclist
- Christopher Meyer (born 1944), former British Ambassador to the U.S.
- Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825–1898), Swiss poet and writer
- Christian Meyer (disambiguation)
- Dakota Meyer (born 1988), U.S. Medal of Honor recipient
- Daniel P. Meyer (born 1965), a federal whistleblowing advocate
- Debbie Meyer (born 1952), U.S. Olympic swimmer
- Dina Meyer (born 1968), U.S. actor
- Dirk Meyer, U.S. microprocessor designer
- Don Meyer (1944–2014), American basketball coach
- Drew Meyer (born 1981), American baseball player
- Dutch Meyer (1898–1982), American college sports coach
- Edgar Meyer (born 1960), U.S. double bassist
- Eduard Meyer (1855–1930), German historian
- Edward C. Meyer (born 1928) U.S. Army General, former Army Chief of Staff
- Eric Meyer (disambiguation), various people
- Erna Meyer (1899–1999) creator of Erna Meyer dolls
- Ernest Meyer, (1865-1919), French equestrian
- Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer (1791–1858), German botanist and historian of botany
- Ernst Hermann Meyer (1905–1988), German composer, pianist, and musicologist
- Eugene Meyer (1875–1959), U.S. public official and newspaper publisher
- Florence Meyer (1911–1962), American portrait photographer
- Frank Meyer (political philosopher) (1909–1972), U.S. conservative political philosopher
- Fred Meyer (1927-2012), American politician
- Fred G. Meyer (1886–1978), U.S. retailer
- Frederick Brotherton Meyer (1847–1929), British Baptist preacher
- Fritz Meyer (1859-1926) Founder of Roamer Swiss watch company
- George Meyer (born 1956) U.S. TV comedy writer
- George Meyer (soccer), American soccer coach
- George von Lengerke Meyer (1858–1918), U.S. Secretary of the Navy
- Greg Meyer (born 1955), American long-distance runner
- Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer, Cargill heiress and equestrian
- Hajo Meyer (born 1924), German-Dutch physicist and Jewish political activist
- Hannes Meyer (1889–1954), Swiss architect and director of the Bauhaus
- Hans Meyer (1858–1929), Austrian geographer and mountaineer
- Hans Horst Meyer (1853–1939), German physician and pharmacologist
- Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer (1800–1873), German Protestant pastor and theologian
- Helga Meyer (1942–2000), German opera singer
- Henry Meyer (1840–1925), Pennsylvanian poet
- Henry Albert Meyer (1894–1968), philatelist of Indiana
- Heyneke Meyer (born 1967), South African rugby union coach
- Hubert Meyer (1913-2012), German Waffen-SS officer
- Ilan Meyer (born 1956), American psychiatric epidemiologist
- Jacob O. Meyer, Directing Elder of the Assemblies of Yahweh
- Jean Jacques Meyer (1804–1877), French locomotive designer
- Joachim Meyer, German fencer, wrote Fundamental Descriptions of the Art of Fencing (1570)
- Johan Meyer (died 1901), German-born pioneer of the Queensland Gold Coast
- Johan Meyer (born 1993), South African rugby union player
- Johannes Meyer (1884–1972), Danish film actor
- John Meyer (disambiguation)
- John C. Meyer (1919–1975), U.S. air force officer
- Joseph A. Meyer (c. 1895–1970), American college sports coach
- Joseph Meyer (publisher) (1796–1856), German industrialist and publisher
- Joseph Meyer (songwriter) (1894–1987), American songwriter
- Joyce Meyer (born 1943), U.S. Christian Charismatic speaker and writer
- Julius Lothar Meyer (1830–1895), German chemist
- Karl Meyer (activist), American pacifist, activist, Catholic worker and tax resister
- Karl E. Meyer, American journalist
- Karl Friedrich Meyer (1884-1974), Swiss-born American pathologist
- Kenneth J. Meyer, American politician
- Kirstine Meyer (1861–1941), Danish physicist
- Krzysztof Meyer (born 1943), Polish composer
- Kurt Meyer (High Commissioner), New Zealand representative in the Cook Islands
- Kurt Meyer (Lucerne) (born 1944), Swiss politician
- Kurt Meyer (Panzermeyer) (1910–1961), German officer in the Waffen-SS
- Laurenz Meyer (born 1948), German politician
- Lena Meyer-Landrut (born 1991), German singer
- Lodewijk Meyer (1629-1681), Dutch physician, classical scholar, translator, lexicographer, and playwright
- Lyndsay Meyer (born 1973), US-American ski mountaineer.
- Mark Meyer (Wisconsin politician) (born 1963), U.S. politician
- Marshall Meyer (1930–1993), U.S. rabbi and human rights activist
- Mary Meyer (1917-1994), Dutch fencer
- Matthew Robert Meyer (born 1977), U.S. Federal Psychiatrist
- Morgan Meyer (born 1974), lawyer and state representative from Dallas County, Texas
- Nathan Meyer (born 1982), South African paralympian
- Nicholas Meyer (born 1945), U.S. film-maker
- Paul Meyer (philologist) (1840–1917), French philologist
- Paul-André Meyer (1934–2003), French mathematician
- Ray Meyer (1913–2006), U.S. basketball coach
- Rémo Meyer (born 1980), Swiss football (soccer) player
- Roelf Meyer (born 1947), former South African politician
- Russ Meyer (1922–2004), U.S. filmmaker
- Sabine Meyer (born 1959), German clarinetist
- Schuyler M. Meyer (1885–1970), New York politician
- Stephen C. Meyer (born 1958), U.S. theologian and Intelligent Design proponent
- Stephenie Meyer (born 1973), American author best known as creator of the Twilight series
- Sven Meyer (footballer) (born 1970), German footballer
- Sven Meyer (figure skater)
- Ted Meyer, rugby league footballer of the 1930s for New Zealand, and Northland
- Thérèse Meyer (born 1948), Swiss politician
- Urban Meyer (born 1964), American college football coach
- Viktor Meyer (1848–1897), German chemist
- Wilhelm Meyer (physician) (1824–1895), Danish physician, discovered adenoids and invented adenoidectomy
- Yves Meyer (born 1939), French mathematician and scientist
- Jon Meyer (born 1988), Eden Prairie hockey player
See also
- Meyer (disambiguation)
- Von Meyer, Myer, Meyr, Meier, Meijer, Meir, Mayer, Maier, Mayr, Mair
- Meyers, Myers
- Meyerson
- Meijer (surname)
- German family name etymology