Meyer (surname)

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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
• Birgit Meyer (born 1960), Dutch religious studies scholar
• 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
• 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 (financier) (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), Swiss founder of Roamer 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
• 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
• Jack Meyer (born 1905), Educator and Cricketer
• 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
• Klaus Meyer (1937-2014) German football player
• 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
• Léon Meyer (1868–1948), French politician
• 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
• Maud Meyer Sierra Leonean Nigerian singer
• 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
• Philipp Meyer (born 1974) American author
• 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
• Scott Meyer, American author, comedian, and artist
• Stephen C. Meyer (born 1958), U.S. philosopher of science 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
• William Meyer (diambiguation)
• Yves Meyer (born 1939), French mathematician and scientist

See also

• Meyer (disambiguation)
• Von Meyer, Myer, Meyr, Meier, Meijer, Meir, Mayer, Maier, Mayr, Mair
• Meyers, Myers
• Meyerson
• Meijer (surname)
• German family name etymology

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